SOC - Northwestern Everything feels wrong today. Don't get me wrong – I'm still very much looking forward to a snow game tomorrow – but it doesn't feel like a Friday before a football game right now. Not at all. Not in any way. First off, there's
Those Were The Days - Northwestern If your question was "will Robert forget to post the Northwestern Those Were The Days for the third time in the last six years?", the answer is NO. I have not forgotten. I am posting it now. It is me, Robert, remembering to post the Northwestern TWTD. Here&
How To Talk To Your Kids About 7-4 Illini Football I've been splitting the NERDstat posts into two this year. Last year I was writing "the thing I want to say and the stats I want to evaluate" into one big, long post (sometimes 5,000 words). This year I've done a lot of
Ideal Opponent First off, let me get this out of the way. Yes, there's a blue checkmark next to my name on Twitter now. I paid to upgrade to Premium today. I did this because I wanted to tweet the entire video of my question and Bret Bielema's
The Road No, I'm not gonna get all Cormac McCarthy on you. I planned out this article when I decided to try to watch both the basketball game in Champaign and the football game in Madison today. After this game tonight, I no longer want to write it, but this
From The Stands - Wisconsin 2025 Not sure what to say. This loss is more confusing to me than Indiana or Washington. I understand getting beat but it's been a long time since we beat ourselves while playing a 3-7 team. So after the loss, I went outside to the stands – wearing a short
SOC - Wisconsin 2025 I totally forgot I had that photo on my phone. That's from the Wisconsin game in 2022. There had been some kind of ice display with a Wisconsin logo – I think it was for where the people in the field-level suites would go get food? – and as I