Imagine where Illinois would be in the NIL game if it had been invented in 1983-84 Archived Message
Posted by LWillhite on October 9, 2023, 11:40:33, in reply to "Chicken/Egg issue, and when football has generally been awful for 28 years of graduating..."
Jamming 70,000-plus into Memorial Stadium every week...so many people that the overflow would pay money to watch on TV in Assembly Hall...Illinois would be in the tier just below Ohio State and Michigan. Previous Message ...classes, and you go through 7 years where both basketball and football are putrid, giving suffers... ...yet without giving, there is no fix. The 90s did not belong to the Illini...
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- Maryland football game week - illiniranger October 9, 2023, 9:18:51
- Wtf shotgun. Lucky it worked* - Illini Guy October 14, 2023, 16:03:22
- Is this game on TV in Chicago?* - gullit October 14, 2023, 13:24:10
- 31-7 MD * - illini thunder October 14, 2023, 13:12:52
- This is a lot of contributors out or questionable - illiniranger October 14, 2023, 13:01:30
- Revising my score below: MD 34, Illini 24* - CubsWonWorldSeries October 14, 2023, 11:53:26
- going to be sloppy conditions* - memyselfandillini October 14, 2023, 6:56:07
- Feels like tomorrow is either a surprise win or a complete and embarrassing beat down - OB25 October 13, 2023, 20:25:26
- Friday night football sidejack. Tulane might have the best uniforms in college football. - Toonces October 13, 2023, 18:04:34
- Hard to believe the day before a B1G game on major network TV that this thread dropped to bottom pg3 - RSMBob October 13, 2023, 17:46:39
- Partial analogy to Weber after 2004-5 of failure to take advantage recruiting on a positive upswing - RSMBob October 9, 2023, 15:44:39
- Jesus, even Brian Barnhart was getting snarky on MMQB about the 4th down call on drive 1 - opossum jenkins October 9, 2023, 13:32:37
- Love likely out - jdl October 9, 2023, 13:07:40
- Best news in about a month: - opossum jenkins October 9, 2023, 11:51:27
- DWWH? - IlliniSax05 October 9, 2023, 12:37:31
- Maryland 49 Fighting Bert's 10* - WhitmansFolly October 9, 2023, 10:32:44
- Can we talk about ICON and NIL? - opossum jenkins October 9, 2023, 10:30:56
- Here's the real fun rant: - ijustkrushalot October 9, 2023, 11:19:01
- That shit is so opaque, I have no idea. * - illiniranger October 9, 2023, 11:02:54
- Thing is, we don't operate in a vacuum... everybody else has high NW donors paying for... - uofi1998 October 9, 2023, 10:38:04
- I'm sure there is some money there, but I doubt that it is sitting in a bank unused. - larue33 October 9, 2023, 10:36:33
- This. I think we have enough resources to support a winning program - UofIL6 October 9, 2023, 10:33:28
- I keep going back to that Avery Jones recruitment. - opossum jenkins October 9, 2023, 10:39:55
- Yep, and what a huge loss that was. Need to be able to bring the resources - UofIL6 October 9, 2023, 11:08:12
- Exactly. - opossum jenkins October 9, 2023, 11:13:31
- This aspect and portal scare me the most * - illini thunder October 9, 2023, 10:46:58
- I don't know enough to know, but Bret isn't coming out of pocket for that stuff. - uofi1998 October 9, 2023, 10:42:45
- We are probably going to get shit pumped* - Mrap24 October 9, 2023, 10:23:29
- I’m so completely crestfallen that I’m ready to fast forward to the inevitable…. - opossum jenkins October 9, 2023, 10:10:05
- Maryland 45, Illini 31 as our offense shows some life but has 3 turnovers* - CubsWonWorldSeries October 9, 2023, 10:09:55
- 2-10 on the table.* - Warrin'_Illini October 9, 2023, 9:44:40
- Going to be real grim after these next two games* - illini21 October 9, 2023, 9:20:35
- 55-17* - bjl63 October 9, 2023, 9:19:44
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