The 90 Illini

The 90 Illini #27: Ezekiel Holmes

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The preview is about 3-4 hours away. Really happy with it this year. Saying all I've wanted to say, I think. Grange and Seventeen Club subscribers will get it in their email inboxes this afternoon. And then I'm going to try to figure out how to set it up with the website new platform to allow people to buy it if they want to read it.

I need to break my brain out of Preview Writing Mode for a bit before I make this final push so I'm gonna write a quick 90 Illini article. I had hoped to get to the starting 22 this final week (last year I wrote the final 22 the week of the game) but it looks like I'll have 26 to write this week.

I'll forever be me, I guess.

The 90 Illini #28: Aidan Laughery

It's so interesting that we have several players from central Illinois (let's just roughly call it south of I-80, north of I-70 for this exercise) but there hasn't been a Big Ten football player from Champaign or Urbana in a long time. Aidan Laughery

The 90 Illini #29: David Olano

The 90 Illini #30: Malik Elzy

I feel like some people get lost when delineating between high-end recruits. I was having a conversation with someone last winter, and they just casually mentioned how they thought Elzy, with all of his recruiting hype, was going to have an Arrelious Benn-like freshman year last year. I get it.

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