88 Illini

88 Illini: #72-#69

Holly Birch-Smith - IlliniBoard

That's it, I'm calling it. This is the hardest 90 Illini list (er, 88 Illini list) I've ever assembled. 22 freshmen + 19 transfers added to a team that only lost nine scholarship seniors? Absolutely impossible to rank the players from 1 to 88.

I'll just use tight end as an example. And I think I've already used this position as an example but it's worth repeating since there's a tight end listed below.

88 Illini: #76-#73

Here's how my brain works: I pull up the 88 Illini document to see the next four names. I make some adjustments (I will adjust the list at least 30 times before we get to #1). I settle on the four names for 76 through 73 – each time

88 Illini: #80-#77

88 Illini: #84-#81

I love informative comments. In the last article, CMI2PHX (can we get that flight added?) pointed out that he had never seen a tilde (the ~ symbol) used between two numbers to mean "through." And he's right. The dash means "84 through 81" but the

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