SOC - Northwestern
Everything feels wrong today. Don't get me wrong – I'm still very much looking forward to a snow game tomorrow – but it doesn't feel like a Friday before a football game right now. Not at all. Not in any way.
First off, there's
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Ice House
Every basketball game tells its own tale with its own unique ebb and flow. Each team comes armed with scouting reports and game plans, but the outcome is rarely incumbent upon those best laid plans. Game plans require adaptation and counter planning based on every possible variable - score, situation,
Those Were The Days - Northwestern
If your question was "will Robert forget to post the Northwestern Those Were The Days for the third time in the last six years?", the answer is NO. I have not forgotten. I am posting it now. It is me, Robert, remembering to post the Northwestern TWTD.
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Craig Has The Scout - Northwestern 2025
Coming Up
Who: Northwestern Wildcats
When: 6:30 pm – Saturday, November 29, 2025
Where: Home Sweet Home
How: Fox
Battle for the Land of Lincoln Trophy
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Head Coach: David Braun
The story of David Braun is less a smooth, upward trajectory and more the itinerary of a greyhound
How To Talk To Your Kids About 7-4 Illini Football
I've been splitting the NERDstat posts into two this year. Last year I was writing "the thing I want to say and the stats I want to evaluate" into one big, long post (sometimes 5,000 words). This year I've done a lot of
Ideal Opponent
First off, let me get this out of the way. Yes, there's a blue checkmark next to my name on Twitter now. I paid to upgrade to Premium today. I did this because I wanted to tweet the entire video of my question and Bret Bielema's
Postscript, Wisconsin
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
(Hey, Robert’s not the only one who can reference great novels.)
Camp Randall is now the site of two of the more memorable games, at least for me, of Bret Bielema’s tenure at Illinois. And they’