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I've been intentionally avoiding all football talk. As the guy who spent most Octobers the last 15 years screaming "where is everyone going? There are still six more football games! You can pay attention to basketball after Thanksgiving!", I can't in good conscience then

Throughout the Illinois men's basketball team's recent three-game skid, which has been as dark a period of the Underwood era since he was losing exhibition games at EIU (in case you forgot just how dark it truly was at the beginning), I've found myself

I was a hyperactive kid. My brain really never turned off. And when I was around other people, I cranked it up a notch. I was often trying to impress the entire world. Can you believe it? Yes, you can believe it. Because of this, my mom developed a signal.

I feel like I need to provide some context here. I'm not sure everyone fully appreciates this win by Brian Campbell on the PGA Tour. I get that not everyone follows Illini Golf like I do, but even some casual fans seem to be missing what was accomplished

...and I was at Iowa 63, Illinois 0. Look at all of those people wearing orange. I zoomed in to just get a picture of two sections in the lower bowl from the Illinois end but there were many more Illini fans there, both in the lower and upper decks.