The second half of my conversation with Tim Beckman, which marks the end of this summer series. And it isn’t even summer yet. Who is the best recruiter you’ve ever been around? I don’t know if there’s just one guy. Coach (Jim) Tressel did an outstanding job in certain areas. Coach (Urban) Meyer, he does [...]

The first thing I said to Tim Beckman was that I was the world’s biggest Illini football fan. I couldn’t help myself. That’s how I self-identify. I shook his hand, I told him I might ask some off the wall questions because I’m a blogger, and then I gushed about Illini Football being my life’s [...]

I’m going through these conversations in the order in which they took place 11 days ago (11 days and I’ve only posted the Groce interview? Lazy bloggers are lazy.) So after I sat down with the ridiculously impressive John Groce before the St. Louis Illini Caravan event, I sat and chatted with his boss. Mike [...]

Part II of my conversation with the ridiculously impressive John Groce. Over the weekend I’ll transcribe the Mike Thomas conversation and I’ll post that on Monday. Wednesday and Friday will be my talk with Tim Beckman. And then on Saturday I’ll talk to my uncle Paul and get his opinions on kids these days. The [...]

I talked to John Groce for 20 minutes on Friday. And then I chatted with Mike Thomas for 10 minutes. Then I sat down with Tim Beckman for 20 minutes. And then I spent the next 4 hours thinking about my conversation with John Groce. He’s ridiculously impressive. This is not to disparage Mike Thomas [...]