I feel like I got it all out. My frustrations with the “unique negativity” in Memorial Stadium.  My frustrations with a head coach that doesn’t instill confidence in the crowd.  My frustrations with our special teams.  My frustrations with our nerdstats.  It’s been a tough week personally due to some things you don’t need to [...]

I pulled out my Illini Football Vault book this week.  Approaching a home game against Ohio State where we could go to 3-0 in the Big Ten and they could go to 0-3 was a little too much for my brain.  I needed a foothold, so I decided to look back through our history. It [...]

I had the normal nerves about this trap game last night, but today, especially after typing out the “anything that could go wrong, did go wrong” Northwestern game review in the final mailbag post, I feel better. Against the Fightin’ Fitzees, we threw the interception in the endzone. We had a phantom offensive pass interference [...]

In case you’re new here – and you might be, given that ALionEye.com received more hits today than any other day in its 2.5 year existence (who knew Northwestern stirred our blood this much?) – Friday nights are Stream Of Consciousness nights.  That means I sit down at this computer at some point between 6 [...]

My dog is driving me insane right now.   I let her out to use the restroom – no go.  Instead, she eats some grass that she then comes in and deposits on my office floor.  Then more “I need to go out” behavior that was simply a ruse to get me to let her out [...]