Team And Town I walked home. I don't know why I always tell you when I walk home. Actually, I do know why. I think it's really cool that I can walk home from the State Farm Center (or Memorial Stadium). It's some kind of "this
Second Bye Week Tradition - 2026 Depth Chart You know the traditions by now. First off, if Illinois football has a bye week, I'm probably going somewhere with my wife and you won't hear from me for a bit. Since I travel to every home and away football game, the only Saturdays we get
So What If... There's a part of all of this I don't think I explained very well last week. And by "all of this" I mean this season-long "how I use these NERDstats to evaluate where we are/where we might be going" topic I&
One Question Mailbag: Then & Now With the bye week, the weekly NERDstats article is delayed. And now I'm delaying it an extra day because I'm taking a question sent to me on Twitter and using it as a One Question Mailbag question. I'll try to not get too long-winded
Debuts It's funny how Will Riley's game tonight snuck up on everyone. With maybe 12 minutes to go in the game, the story was still "DGL can be instant offense for this team - he has 21 points already." And then maybe 15 minutes later
Commiserating This is gonna be one of those "stay with me" articles. So stay with me here. It might not make sense at first, but... stay with me. There have been six absolutely gorgeous fall Saturdays for our six home games. I can hardly believe our luck. The gales
From The Stands - Minnesota 2024 I realized today that my uploading problems for From The Stands aren't related to the cell phone signal issues in Champaign on gameday. It's that I can't upload from my phone. I did that for the first two games, but this latest iPhone update