Inflammatory I'm absolutely freezing right now. I'm seated where I told you I'd be seated, and the full 18-hour day is complete, and I'm absolutely freezing. Is it because it's cold? No. It's because I got a pretty
From The Stands - Purdue I need to note a moment here. It's important that I tell you this before you listen. I finished recording here in my Personal Pressbox and then I got out my laptop to immediately upload everything. As I did that, an IlliniBoard subscriber came down the stairs to
SOC - Purdue This won't mean anything to you, but I'm in this groove where I write the SOC and the postgame post in the exact same spot. Friday night, house is quiet, I write the SOC at the end of the kitchen island. And then 24 hours later,
Let's Be Frank What's the purpose of the weekly NERDstats post? To look at the forward-facing metrics and see what they might tell us. You have thoughts on what the football has looked like (and what it might look like in games to come). I then go look at the
Hauck Thoughts I gave it 24 hours. I wanted for the press conference today. And now I think I'm ready to give you my thoughts on Bobby Hauck being gone after only four games as the Illinois defensive coordinator. But first I want to tell a story that hopefully frames
We Know What We're Doing But They're Better At Doing It I don't have time to look up the study right now. I did a quick AI search and it gave me a chart so I'm just gonna go with that chart. The topic: how much college football has changed over the last few years. The specific