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This is the first one where I had that "wonder if I'll regret this ranking?" feeling. I had Jaheim Clarke at #82 last year and then he played in all 12 games as a true freshman. Woodward could conceivably follow that same path this fall. But

It's my age-old debate with The 90 Illini. How many specialists go on? When it was Blake Hayes, there was no need to put any other punter on the list. He had the starting punting job locked up. But if there's a chance that a younger

If there's one thing that's changed significantly over the years I've been doing this breakdown of every Illini football player, it's seeing multiple high schools on their resume. This isn't a bad thing. This is not "these kids need

If your first reaction is "I don't recall a player with a hyphenated last name in the recruiting class", that's because most of Carlos Orr-Gillespie's recruiting profiles just say Carlos Orr. But when he was added to the official roster in June,

I forgot my yearly "stole this" disclaimer. I often put it in the intro for the very first 90 Illini post but #87 will have to do this year. In the summer of 2009, with the blog only six months old and a 36 year-old Robert desperate for