Wow at Dave selling his collection.Archived Message
Posted by Illiniphil on January 18, 2024, 14:52:53, in reply to "dots"
It's pretty extensive.....and expensive. He built a room to hold it.
MT pissed him off, then JW wouldn't kiss his ass the way he thought it should be kissed, so he swore off Illini athletics. Quite a few of us knew Dave from the old AOL Illini board, and when he was an "insider", he was all in. I'm still FB friends with his wife. Dave has pretty much dropped off the face of the earth as far as fandom has gone.....he even quit posting to a small Yahoo board we had for former AOL board members.
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Bloomington (Ill.) lawyer/former University of Illinois board of trustees member Dave Dorris reportedly selling his Fighting Illini memorabilia collection.....Dorris long time athletic department jock sniffer/AD Ron Guenther's spy....you knew if you were at a practice/Illini event Dorris attended...anything seen/he heard was reported back to the AD.....Dorris close to the basketball program....He and his cronies rode the team plane to away games for years till Mike Thomas was hired as athletic director....Dorris loved Self, really loved Bruce Weber/access head coach gave him to the basketball program when Weber head coach....Thomas came in/fired Weber/hired John Groce...cut off the boosters access/seat on the plane....Dorris fell out of love with Illini athletics shortly after 2013...hasn't been back for a game/event since...has a shit ton of Illini stuff though 'collected' over many years he was around.