The 90 Illini

I've been working on nicknames for Eddie Tuerk but I just haven't landed on one. I almost went with Tuerkmenistan – like, "good luck running up the gut on us because you'd be entering the republic of Tuerkmenistan" – but I don't

I'm on a four hour flight right now. So I'm gonna try to write five of these while on the flight. Ambitious, yes, especially with airplane wifi, but why not give it a shot? What else am I gonna do? My wife is watching a movie

Ah yes, I can finally do one of my "when a player commits to Illinois super early, there's no chance he will be rated and evaluated properly" rants. Hansen committed during the fall of his junior year. And no one (besides Illinois fans) pays attention to

Just a quick reminder that not all of these 90 Illini articles will show up at the top of the page. So far, I've put about half of them up top but the rest just publish down below. If you scroll down below the list of "most

This is the first one where I had that "wonder if I'll regret this ranking?" feeling. I had Jaheim Clarke at #82 last year and then he played in all 12 games as a true freshman. Woodward could conceivably follow that same path this fall. But

It's my age-old debate with The 90 Illini. How many specialists go on? When it was Blake Hayes, there was no need to put any other punter on the list. He had the starting punting job locked up. But if there's a chance that a younger