SOC - Minnesota 2024 This is one of those SOCs where I still don't know what my prediction will be at the end. I've gone back and forth on this game all week. It's been helpful, I think that I've been working on the basketball preview
Those Were The Days - Minnesota I didn't forget. You thought I forgot but I didn't forget. I was just wrapped up in the basketball preview (out Monday!) and I didn't get the TWTD published until late afternoon. This week, Detlef is taking us back to the season of Juice
So How Does This Compare To Other Seasons? When traveling I have a lot of time to think. And in the fall, I'm always thinking about Illini Football. Therefore, while traveling to our latest Big Ten game – a game that took place 2,135 miles from Memorial Stadium – I had a lot of time to think
Yet We’re not there yet. I think that was abundantly clear midway through the 1st quarter. The place we all want this football program to be? We’re not there yet. And “yet” is doing a lot of the work there. We’re not there yet. I want to talk
SOC - Oregon This house is very quiet right now. My wife and I are staying in Eugene with my friend Derek – UIUC Landscape Architecture Class of 1996 represent – so instead of writing this road game SOC from a hotel room, I'm writing this road game SOC from a quiet house.
So How Did We Get Here? I have so much to say in this article. I honestly think it will take me at least 10 hours to write it. I spent three hours yesterday just researching one tiny piece of this. I mean, I have an entire outline written out (I've done that maybe