Wisch: Illini AD Shouldn't Be Investing Time In Debating Zook
Things Illini Nation learned this past week: 1) Ron Zook now works for a bank, and 2) Mike Thomas is willing to invest time in rebutting him.
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Things Illini Nation learned this past week: 1) Ron Zook now works for a bank, and 2) Mike Thomas is willing to invest time in rebutting him.
If Beckman can't get things turned around soon – both on the field and with the state's best athletes – he won't be worrying about recruiting rankings for long.
Sports Illustrated's Stewart Mandel compiled a ranking of the best and worst college football coaches in the country - and it's not good for the University of Illinois.
With Lunt now officially an Illini, however, Beckman has in his program a quarterback who's probably Illinois' best – on paper, at least – since former pro Kurt Kittner. But the looming question hanging above Lunt's transfer is will Beckman ever get a chance to actually coach the QB in a real game?
It's a bright day for the University of Illinois football program.
Remarkably, for the third year in a row, the Windy City is home to the No. 1 high school basketball player in America, with rising Whitney Young senior Jahlil Okafor following in the large footsteps of prior Public League phenoms Jabari Parker (2013) and Anthony Davis (2012).
The Ghost hasn't galloped in Champaign since 1925. But come August, Red Grange will be back. In spirit, at least.
In the entire country, there is no nonconference college basketball rivalry better than Illinois-Missouri. But in all of America, there was no nonconference college football rivalry worse than Illinois-Missouri.
In light of those issues, what might be the wisest thing for MLB to do is to work with the NCAA to help college baseball secure a legitimate television contract to broadcast the sport on a national level.
The Big Ten today announced its conference football schedule for the 2015 season.
The signs around campus still read "University of Illinois," but right now the place is going by a different name: Transfer Central.
Now that 670 The Score will be the new home for University of Illinois basketball and football, The Boers and Bernstein Show hosted an Illini roundtable in studio on Wednesday afternoon.
Banished from athletic events at the University of Illinois six years ago, Chief Illiniwek is now standing on the hypothetical sidelines in Champaign, holding a new proposal for his return.
Growing up, I always believed that besides the Sears Tower, Assembly Hall's spaceship-shaped silhouette is the most recognizable of any building in Illinois. And now, just like how the Sears Tower has become the Willis Tower, the Assembly Hall has a new name as well.
The University of Illinois' home for basketball has a new name.
Former Illinois Mr. Basketball, Jereme Richmond, has been arrested again.
Over the weekend, the Big Ten pulled off a heady play when the league leaked word that it's mercifully dumping the much-maligned Legends and Leaders divisional monikers in favor of geographical names.
Illinois basketball has added Seton Hall's Aaron Cosby and Illinois State's Jon Ekey, the school announced Wednesday.
Kansas State rewarded basketball coach Bruce Weber for winning a share of the school's first conference championship in 36 years with a raise and a one-year contract extension Wednesday.
In a fascinating twist of fandom, this year's NCAA Basketball Tournament has turned the rooting interests for many Midwestern hoops followers on its head as Big Ten pride has outweighed school pride.
Three Illinois basketball players have been granted permission to transfer and will do so when the spring semester ends.
Collins' Blue Devil blood alone is probably enough to get most Illini fans' own boiling, but he may also elevate the rivalry in other ways both on and off the court in Evanston.
A long-discussed plan to renovate 50-year-old Assembly Hall at the University of Illinois should start next year and, while cutting seating capacity, include adding air conditioning and suites, Athletic Director Mike Thomas said Thursday.
An Illinois State Police trooper helped save a University of Illinois student's life during the snowstorm in central Illinois on Monday, when he and two other men lifted a car off the young man after he'd been hit by a car along I-57.
It turned out that the Illini – and, most significantly, athletic director Mike Thomas – were indeed lucky. And in the end, that was good.
