SOC - Ohio State I feel like this SOC might be a little longer than usual. I feel like rambling. That's probably a dumb way to start this since I can't edit it. If it ends up being the standard 950 words or so, I'd then go remove
Those Were The Days - Ohio State During the podcast episode with Carey Davis this week, I had this thought that the "fullback in the flat" game at Ohio State might have been 1999 (right as I was telling him that I remember it from the 2001 game). And it turns out that it was
Let's Get It Started Three games down, nine games to go. 3-0 was the goal, 2-1 the result. We now head to Ohio State as four touchdown underdogs. I keep going back to our last drive in the Duke game and thinking about one particular moment. We're down four and
One Question Mailbag - NIL In lieu of an "other stuff" post, I'm going to answer a question from the comments from yesterday. It's in reference to this whole "instead of paying for a scoreboard, we should pay players" thing and my constant "it doesn'
Disconnect All I can say is that there's a disconnect. There are the people in the tailgating lots and in the stands, and then there are the Illinois Refuses To Pay NIL The Scoreboard Is The Reason We Aren't As Good This Year Bobby Hauck Killed My
From The Stands - SIU 2026 My plan is to upload this before I leave the stadium. And I think the Memorial Stadium staff is onto me (in a good way) because nobody has come down to check my credential the last three weeks while I'm sitting here with my laptop out uploading From
SOC - Southern Illinois Is this going to be the earliest SOC in years? It's currently 8:56 pm and I'm sitting down to write the Stream Of Consciousness. I can't remember the last time I started this earlier than 9:00 pm. Is this going to be