The 90 Illini

The 90 Illini #53: Dez Schuster

I'd like to note that it's at this very moment when I realized how many players on this roster are from Louisiana and Mississippi. I should have noticed this before now. I think because many of them went to junior college somewhere else (like Schuster, who went to junior college in Kansas), I don't think of them as being from Louisiana. But here's the list of Louisiana/Mississippi players:

Luke Altmyer
Chase Canada
Zy Crisler
Ashton Hollins
Kaleb Patterson
Trey Petty
Dezmond Schuster
Enyce Sledge

10% of your scholarship players come from Louisiana/Mississippi? Feels like a lot. This is something I should have noticed before now.

The 90 Illini #27: Ezekiel Holmes

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

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

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