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2025 Four-Deep

2025 Four-Deep

I want to show you something. I want to show you what depth looks like. I want to show you the result of a team that has 18 bowl starters returning + balanced recruiting at every position + filling out the new "roster limit" well above the old scholarship limit.

88 Illini: #72-#69

88 Illini: #72-#69

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&

The Vibes Are High

The Vibes Are High

Yes, I sometimes flip through a folder on my laptop that's just photos of Engine 77. You'd do it, too, if you were one-sixth owner of an Illini fire truck. This is the latest photo in the collection. That's 77 at the Quarterback Club

88 Illini: #76-#73

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

From The Highway - Summer Edition

From The Highway - Summer Edition

My wife's flight from Champaign to Dallas was delayed 3 hours due to thunderstorms at DFW. That meant that she would miss her connection in Dallas by more than an hour and then miss her 8:00 meeting this morning. It was early afternoon at this point, and

Illini Night Contest 2025

Illini Night Contest 2025

Year 11! Well, it would be year 12, but there was no Illini Night in 2020 during the pandemic. But for 11 of the last 12 years, I've partnered with the Cardinals to do a giveaway for their Illini Night at Busch Stadium. I hold a contest and

88 Illini: #80-#77

88 Illini: #80-#77