It took a little over a year, but I'm not complaining. Given that we have had to wade through the worst year in terms of Illini athletic performance in several years, I am proud to say we have grown every single month and have finally reached the magic number of 100,000.

It has been a crazy ride so far. Starting from a small blogspot to making the jump to SBN to getting real honest to God credentials to cover the teams I have followed since I was a kid. You could not have convinced me this was on the horizon. 

I hope that I have been able to deliver you mostly timely, mostly insightful and mostly humorous Illini coverage over the last year, and hope to do so for years to come.

I also want to thank all of you have followed me and helped this site grow, joking around in the comments section is what makes this blog so much cooler than it ever could have been on blogspot. Thanks for being interested with what I have to say and looking past (for the most part) all of my journalistic shortcomings. You guys rock.

Now maybe we can make a damn bowl while I am still young enough to blog about it.