88 Illini

88 Illini: #88~#85

Holly Birch-Smith - IlliniBoard

"The 90 Illini returns today rebranded in its original form: 88 Illini!"

"This is basically impossible to do with House vs. NCAA still unresolved."

Those are two statements I'm making today. It's back... but this list is currently impossible to assemble. It's possible that the judge will approve the roster limit of 105 and it's possible she will approve some form of grandfathering so that rosters in 2025 can be above 105 players. It's June, there's still no resolution, and there are at least 12 players on the current roster who have no idea if they'll be on the roster this fall. Let's talk about that and then we'll get to #88 through #85.

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

The Return Of... The 88 Illini

I had a synthesizer (a Yamaha DX-7) and a drum set. The drum set was an "oh please oh please oh please" purchase that my parents caved on. See, I went to drum camp at Eastern Illinois University in June of 1988 and one of the classes at

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