88 Illini: #60-#57 I get on an elevator this morning. Actually, I didn't get on the elevator at first. There were six people getting on the elevator in front of my wife and I, and they were spread out pretty good, and I gave them the "we'll just
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
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
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&
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
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