The 90 Illini #82: Declan Duley

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 punter beats out an older punter, they need to be on the list, right? What if the longsnapper job was split between longs (punt snaps) and shorts (field goals and extra points) the previous season? Then I probably need to include two longsnappers on the next 90 Illini.

This year, I felt like I needed two punters (just like last year). Hugh Robertson won the job over true freshman Declan Duley last year and Duley ended up redshirting. And I swear to God if this new auto-correct spellcheck thingy doesn't stop replacing "Duley" with "Daley" I'm going to lose my mind.

That's part of the new platform we use and I've come to like it – it's not as annoying as the iPhone autocorrect – but when it won't learn a name I type frequently I get very annoyed. Duley. Duley. Duley Duley Duley. It eventually learns words that I type frequently and stops autocorrecting them but I don't know how many times I need to do it to make it realize that I really do mean to type Duley and not Daley.

(Maybe the autocorrect is part of the Chicago Political Machine? Same methodology.)