An Opportunity This will be very short. I'm working on a project at home (hanging curtain rods) and then at 1:00 pm I'm getting in the car and heading to Iowa City. I'm charging the cordless drill so I have about a half hour here
We Love No Other 7.16 - Will Leitch A quick note about the audio in this one. We both recorded our audio on each end of the call, but when he sent me his audio file, I couldn't get it to load. Thankfully, I recorded a backup of his audio, so we have it. The audio
Catching The Game Tuesday night, I noted on Twitter that my son was trying to find the Illinois-Purdue game in St. Louis and struggling to find a sports bar that had it on. The responses went in several different directions, so I wanted to write about what I was trying to say. It
Didn't We Almost Have It All I probably have 75 pictures just like that one on my phone. Maybe 100 such pictures of Memorial Stadium after a game. One of my favorite things on earth is the warm glow of a stadium or arena after all the fans have gone home, so I take a lot
Where Do We Stand? March 5th My very first thought this week: when is the last time that the only two ranked Big Ten teams met during the final week of the season? Now that I type that out, I'm realizing that it's probably been a very long time since the Big
2017 Coaching Hires This is one of those "one question mailbag" posts. It wasn't submitted as a mailbag question – it was a text on Saturday evening from a former Illini football player asking about Underwood compared to other coaching hires – but the more I dug into the numbers, the
Don’t Disturb This Groove There has been a lot of talk about the Illinois offense over the past few weeks. So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to talk a lot about the Illinois offense.