Robert

This is a blog entry. It has very little to do with Illini athletics and everything to do with my personal experience covering these teams. If these are the types of articles that make you say "Robert, why would I care?", take this as a flashing sign at

Bye week thought I was pondering this morning: what if we had an afternoon or evening game scheduled yesterday? It basically hasn't rained in Champaign since July. A few spot showers here and there (and by "here and there" I mean "rain a few weeks

I took a little bye week vacation on Monday and Tuesday. Instead of poring over NERDstats all day (the next NERDstats post won't go up until next week so that I can add this weekend's data), I went and watched some golf in Ohio. Even though

I'm in a weird place, man. I got to my seats to find four Ohio State fans had snatched up the tickets across the aisle. Then I watched my team make mistake after mistake – the complete opposite of footballing – in a 34-16 loss while the Ohio State fans

This was a “not like this” game for me. I spend the last few years explaining to people what I mean by “footballing”… and then we hand over what could have been an even game by doing the exact opposite of footballing. An absolute silver platter game. I always From