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Two Question Mailbag - Media Roundtable

I’ve done a lot of One Question Mailbag posts here. Those are where I’ll take a question from Twitter (or from our IlliniBoard Slack channel) and answer the question with a full article. This one will be a Two Question Mailbag. There are two questions that were asked

88 Illini: #64-#61

I just went through the folder of the photos Holly took at the Purdue game. I don't use those photos as much as the other games because when people see photos of the Purdue game they have this unavoidable "we almost lost to Purdue!" reaction and

PMP25: Downstate Basketball

I can't tell you how big that photo was at the time. For you youngins, this photo elicited similar feelings to, say, that video of Ayo and Kofi walking off the court after a postgame interview where we beat some team during the Covid season. It meant that

88 Illini: #68~#65

I took a little trip over the weekend (well, extended weekend). So for the first time, I'm officially behind on the 88 Illini by two days. But one post today and one post on Thursday and I'll be caught back up. This format makes for easy

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

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

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

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

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

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

One Question Mailbag: The House vs. NCAA Settlement

A "One Question Mailbag" post is really just "I started to respond to someone on Twitter and then I realized it was way too long for a social media response so I just decided to write an article on the topic." It can even be a

88 Illini: #84-#81

I love informative comments. In the last article, CMI2PHX (can we get that flight added?) pointed out that he had never seen a tilde (the ~ symbol) used between two numbers to mean "through." And he's right. The dash means "84 through 81" but the

PMP25: The T-Bar Thing

I had several "dealer's choice - you choose what article to write for my donation" responses this year. Especially the first few people to donate. So I'm knocking a few of those out and then I'll get to some of the questions