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Real Time Back & Forth

Real Time Back & Forth

Here's the background. As I was heading out of Breslin, I saw a tweet from Tyler. He had just finished watching the game on tape delay and was reacting in real-time to what he had just seen. How he felt about the game and how I felt about

Five Years

Five Years

January 1, 2030 is closer to today than January 1, 2020. It seems impossible that this is true, but it is. The whole "The 20's Belong To The Illini" thing we've been going on about? The 20's are now more than half

Yoyo

Yoyo

If the plan for this season is "struggle at the beginning of the season, yoyo back and forth between solid performances and shaky performances in the middle of the season, and then really get on a roll at the end of the season", we're right on

The Should vs. Did Crisis

The Should vs. Did Crisis

That's it - I'm calling it a crisis. It's a crisis. We're at a pivot point and it cannot pivot in the direction it's been trending. Logic must be applied. Understanding must be reached. (Yes, it's fully basketball

What Can You Say?

What Can You Say?

We hosted a dinner party tonight. So I got home from the game, shoveled snow, helped clean the house, and then we had people here from 6:00 to 11:00. My wife went to bed, I grabbed my laptop, I sat down here at the end of the kitchen

Where Do We Stand? January 10th

Where Do We Stand? January 10th

Back-to-back NERDstat posts. The final football one and now the second basketball one. I haven't updated the basketball I-N-I since I left for Florida but now that I'm back in snowy Illinois, let's take a look at Where We Stand. Spoiler: we stand in

So Maybe Just One More

So Maybe Just One More

I said that I was done NERDstatting for football. But then we won the Citrus Bowl. And I'll I've done for the last week is look at the NERDstats as they updated to see where we'd land after beating South Carolina. It's