The 88 Illini: #60-#57
Now we are reaching the numbers I think you'll see on the field. Maybe it's only some lineman you'll see on extra points and field goals, but I'm pretty sure these sixty Illini will see action at some point.
I always say
The 88 Illini
The 88 Illini: #64-#61
If you're sitting there and you're like "Robert, where are #68 through #65 because I keep a chart of the entire 88 Illini with individual magnets on my refrigerator and just this morning my six year-old son swapped out Michael McDonough and Connor Sullivan
The 88 Illini: #68-#65
I just did it again. I looked up the next four players on my list, I thought "there's no way all four of these players are in the 60's", I went back through the entire list from 1 to 68 and... I couldn'
The 88 Illini: #72-#69
I mean, just look at that picture. It's from the Ohio State game last October. Some may look at it and say "so what? The seats near the 50 are full even when there are only 32,000 fans in the stands." But that's
The 88 Illini: #76-#73
I can write whatever I want in these intros and I'm choosing to write about Keaton Wagler being drafted 5th overall last night. Yes, this is a football post, and I'll eventually get the next four players on the list. But first, let's talk
The 88 Illini: #80-#77
For whatever reason, I have a very strong "now it begins" feeling this morning. Perhaps it was all of the photos on social media of the first basketball practice yesterday. Perhaps it's the knowledge that the football players (including the summer enrollees) are on campus and
The 88 Illini: #84-#81
I'm just a boy, standing in front of a reader, asking them to understand just how hard it has been to assemble this list in 2026. I could start every one of these posts with some form of "this is impossible" but I still wouldn'