There is no in-between with me when watching a basketball game.  When the internet feed finally came on tonight, our 8 point lead dropped to four.  I think we pushed it back to 6 and then they hit a layup to knock it back down to four – at that point, I was imagining another [...]

I’m a bit distracted tonight. As many of you know, I grew up in the metro-east, 29 miles from the Arch.  And I now live in the St. Louis area.  As such, I am a St. Louis Cardinals fan.  I’ve mostly kept that on the down low on here because of the stomach turn that [...]

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 [...]