illinois-fighting-illini Stories - Hail to the Orange
The week in news- Scapegoats, Suspensions & Golden Tate
This whole FSU business with Bobby Bowden is ridiculous. Before Bowden the FSU claim to fame was a couple of Dixie Conference titles in the late forties. If you really want the guy to hang it up then at least have the discussion behind closed doors and send him off with some appreciation. You owe...
The week in news- Roses, Media Days and Cash Money
The special treatment for the Rose Bowl to preserve a Pac-10 vs Big Ten matchup even when a Big Ten or Pac-10 team plays in the BCS Championship Game ends in 2010. This has the potential to be interesting. The two best Rose Bowls of the decade were the two that Texas played in following the 2004...
OFD 2009 Preseason Preview- Big Ten
The Big Ten is in an interesting crossroads. The conference has a rich history and boasts a ton of tradition but has picked up a reputation in the last few years for struggling in bowl games and other "big" non-conference games during the regular season. In the last three years the Big Ten is 6-16...
Jim Tressel Press Conference Recap- September 28th, 2010
As the Big Ten season is set to open, Coach Tressel addressed the media today to discuss last week's game against Eastern Michigan and the upcoming one versus Illinois. Coach Tressel's Opening Statement: Well, the Big Ten season is finally here. I thought our guys, game four of the nonconference...
Your Hate Makes You Strong: Players Michigan Football Fans Will Learn to Hate in 2010 - Purdue's Ryan Kerrigan
Date Opponent Player to Hate Sept. 4 QB Zach Frazer Sept. 11 WR Michael Floyd Sept. 18 RB John Griffin Sept. 25 RB Willie Geter Oct. 2 WR Tandon Doss Oct. 9 LB Greg Jones Oct. 16 DT Adrian Clayborn Oct. 30 RB Evan...
Big Ten 2010 // Keeping the Enemy Close - A Northwestern Wildcat Riffs on the "Rivalry" with Illinois
Our own Northwestern Law attending, beer swilling Hmlee has graciously shared her thoughts on the joy of beating up on Illinois and facing Ron Zook on a yearly basis. The meme towards Illinois is that they should be great - fertile recruiting grounds, great college town, some football tradition,...
Big Ten 2010 // Illinois' Greatest Strength: The Backfield
When I wrote a variation of this article last year, I heaped praise on the Illini's highly recruited and monster-truck sized wide receivers whom I called the "best in the Big Ten." Extenuating circumstances made my article pretty useless (read: no offensive cohesion or a player to get those WR's...
Big Ten 2010 // Illinois Achilles' Heel - The Coaching
Ron Zook's tumultuous time at Illinois has created a couple memes about his coaching ability. The most well known meme says that Zook is just a recruiter, a hand-shaking, baby-kissing wonder when it comes to wooing 18 year old athletes, but an abject failure at developing talent. The second meme...
2009 Big Ten Coaching Grades - Hope, TimmyB, Zook
Here's part three of my coaching grades, still going in order. 2009 Big Ten Coaching Grades - BB, Fitz, Dantonio 2009 Big Ten Coaching Grades - Tres, KF, JoePa The big question here - If a coach proves over and over that he can't gameplan effectively, should the penalty be loss of job? HEY Phil...
2009 Big Ten Coaching Grades - BB, Fitz, Dantonio
Here's part two of my coaching grades, still going in order. The big question here - Should coaches be given tons of credit for formulating cohesive passing games...or was a batch of improved quarterbacks the main reason? You want to talk about improving a passing game? Joe Tiller will teach you...
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