Personally I’m fine with it. Spring games are boring.* Archived Message Posted by bjl63 on March 9, 2025, 19:11:48, in reply to "Bielema yesterday on Saturday Sportsline said no Spring game due to stadium improvements" Previous Message They'll be on the practice fields and their practice field camera angles stink. Didn't understand why other schools are not having public spring games. Sounds like we would have if they could use Memorial Stadium, but they can't. He also said they'd open some practices up to the public. https://www.news-gazette.com/podcasts/illini-pella-saturday-sportstalk/ Previous Message Football Message Thread: | This response ↓ College Football Offseason Thread* - biclops February 28, 2025, 17:02:36 CBS Sports and ESPN both have a "spring questions" feature for top teams. Illinois question is the - ATL March 11, 2025, 13:57:22 Terrance Brooks has left the building * - jdl March 11, 2025, 12:53:17 Re: Terrance Brooks has left the building - Phytynlini March 11, 2025, 14:30:51 Magnus Moller has given up football - jdl March 11, 2025, 12:57:34 The Great Dane OL Moeller also left the building a while ago evidently* - UofIL6 March 11, 2025, 12:57:22 Bummer. Was rooting for him to make it* - bjl63 March 11, 2025, 13:01:16 I was going to say 'what took so long?' but evidently it happened a while ago* - UofIL6 March 11, 2025, 12:54:09 No spring game - jdl March 11, 2025, 12:49:50 Good to see nothing has changed since Sunday (Saturday).* - Dilbert March 11, 2025, 12:50:46 Just checked again - jdl March 11, 2025, 12:52:47 For those hard of hearing... - osklister March 11, 2025, 13:13:50 Injury update - jdl March 11, 2025, 12:48:48 FB friend just posted a video of Gabe Jacas paying for ~40 boxes of his daughters Girl Scout cookies - illini21 March 9, 2025, 15:55:21 video - illini21 March 10, 2025, 11:10:28 Bielema yesterday on Saturday Sportsline said no Spring game due to stadium improvements - ATL March 9, 2025, 11:01:10 Personally I’m fine with it. Spring games are boring.* - bjl63 March 9, 2025, 19:11:48 What improvements? - tvillini March 9, 2025, 11:28:36 bringing the east side into the 21st century? hi ollie!* - Ari Gold March 9, 2025, 16:00:05 wifi?* - Poldark March 9, 2025, 12:14:21 They told the fan council not until next year* - Taz March 9, 2025, 19:44:40 Just curious: They=... who? Bret? Whitman? Someone else? TIA. * - osklister March 11, 2025, 14:05:20 WiFi? Why not? :-) - osklister March 9, 2025, 15:58:53 Bowling Green hiring Eddie George - biclops March 9, 2025, 10:39:07 Another super smart hire... grab a guy with inroads to one of the best... - uofi1998 March 7, 2025, 10:10:37 Have some old coaches left? Or is the staff just getting bigger?* - Illini Guy March 7, 2025, 12:51:37 Roughy had a great explainer on this for his site members - reggiedunlop March 7, 2025, 13:42:30 Yep yep. Suddenly, all sorts of "GM" positions, etc. - osklister March 7, 2025, 13:59:57 Recruiters remain capped, but no cap on the actual coaching staff this year* - Dilbert March 7, 2025, 13:30:10 I’ve never seen an interview with Art Sitkowski before - biclops March 6, 2025, 20:48:37 he's starting to sound like a mini Bielema* - ECEIllinois March 7, 2025, 11:45:02 I was going to post that too, he’s picked up a lot of his language/mannerisms* - OB25 March 7, 2025, 12:09:58 That guy will be a head coach in 10 years or less... and hopefully,... - uofi1998 March 7, 2025, 9:44:28 Never forget that Pat Bryant bailed him out at Rutgers - Blazer March 9, 2025, 19:20:26 Why hopefully be our OC? - bjl63 March 7, 2025, 10:40:14 Seems like the logical progression, and if you have the right guys... - uofi1998 March 7, 2025, 11:37:53 Not 98, but constantly replacing promoted coordinators is a good problem to have* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes March 7, 2025, 10:50:44 I am jealous of the stability Iowa has at DC with the Parkers for the past 25 years* - ECEIllinois March 7, 2025, 11:47:18 Parker is a unicorn. Has no desire to go beyond what he's doing. - tvillini March 7, 2025, 13:33:17 So darn impressive. Easy to see why he connects with everyone* - UofIL6 March 6, 2025, 20:51:23 Giants re-signing Tommy DeVito* - ECEIllinois March 6, 2025, 17:28:28 Cool. * - harb March 6, 2025, 17:47:06 ooo - biclops March 6, 2025, 17:30:33 nm - KingTalkyTiki March 7, 2025, 10:47:24 Ehhhh!!!* - SurfTheBoneyard March 6, 2025, 17:29:56 What, you tinks dat's funny? Funny how? - osklister March 7, 2025, 9:48:49 Shoehorns in a tired reference to a 35 year old movie. - KingTalkyTiki March 7, 2025, 10:48:52 ACC settlement - biclops March 5, 2025, 7:26:33 Sitkowski named co-QB coach. Love it. Future coaching star* - UofIL6 March 4, 2025, 11:26:22 James White, former UW and Pats RB, new Asst. RB coach* - uofi1998 March 6, 2025, 10:20:31 He averaged 6 ypc in college....such a 'legit program' move* - UofIL6 March 6, 2025, 13:38:20 That's pretty great.* - ATL March 6, 2025, 10:32:22 Former Illini - Antonio James named Assistant DL coach - Jersey March 6, 2025, 10:26:34 I wonder how BB's staff construction compares with peers. - uofi1998 March 6, 2025, 10:41:57 Thats pretty sweet* - illini21 March 6, 2025, 10:24:25 Bret signal... - uofi1998 March 4, 2025, 10:02:15 OL from Olney - Jersey March 4, 2025, 10:18:13 Home of the white squirrels!!!!* - Jackie March 4, 2025, 12:45:40 seems like type of player that usually ends up at Iowa* - ECEIllinois March 4, 2025, 12:15:13 Fantastic. Now get JC Anderson.* - LovetheChief March 4, 2025, 11:25:58 OLney.* - Warrin'_Illini March 4, 2025, 10:41:26 Just an ideal recruit for Illinois. The type of kid we need to land annually* - uofi1998 March 4, 2025, 10:38:53 Hear hear. Totally shut out Dome, Meechigan, all the rest. Control the state. - osklister March 4, 2025, 16:43:52 Good. Need to get kids like him.* - EffinIllini March 4, 2025, 10:25:18 Hell yeah* - illini21 March 4, 2025, 10:24:42 6'7" 300. Big kid* - CanHartlebHireSnider March 4, 2025, 10:23:28 Top 500 composite kid. This will be best class in nearly 20 years* - UofIL6 March 4, 2025, 10:23:00 Yep, the Zooker era. - osklister March 4, 2025, 16:17:52 Per 247 composite, 10 commits, all in top 850 nationally* - UofIL6 March 4, 2025, 11:03:46 Another nice in-state pull. Great class so far* - UofIL6 March 4, 2025, 10:19:33 Whitman's testimony - jdl March 3, 2025, 21:23:05 Lots of Title IX questions for Josh * - jdl March 4, 2025, 14:30:32 not wearing an orange and blue tie??* - ECEIllinois March 4, 2025, 12:14:34 I'm colorblind but I thought he was. Congressman from Idaho complimented it - CanHartlebHireSnider March 4, 2025, 12:19:20 oh I saw some poor quality video on twitter where it looked red and black* - ECEIllinois March 4, 2025, 12:38:37 Whitman is testifying right next to Shane Beamer lol* - CanHartlebHireSnider March 4, 2025, 9:56:10 All these southern congressman praising Beamer on SC football - CanHartlebHireSnider March 4, 2025, 10:52:49 ooo - IlliniSax05 March 4, 2025, 7:01:29 Tom Fornelli on Bielema’s confidence about next season - biclops March 3, 2025, 16:52:06 Jackie fail - jdl March 3, 2025, 17:28:14 Wait what’d I do now?* - Jackie March 3, 2025, 18:33:34 It's what you didn't do! - jdl March 3, 2025, 21:06:38 You are now the poster woman for all editors everywhere* - ATL March 3, 2025, 18:34:27 At last!* - Jackie March 3, 2025, 19:33:08 #goldstandard* - DocWalk20 March 3, 2025, 18:38:37 Yeah I saw that too..WTF?* - Desert March 3, 2025, 17:55:51 And Fornelli's an Illinois guy* - ATL March 3, 2025, 17:57:54 Heres his response - illini21 March 3, 2025, 18:07:11 That really doesn't make any more sense than is original statement. * - larue33 March 3, 2025, 19:14:38 Maybe he should have said, “…and that was before the Big Ten even had ten teams” but I’m not sure - ATL March 3, 2025, 20:57:05 It had 10 teams and was known as the Big Ten for decades. And MSU joined in 1949. * - larue33 March 4, 2025, 9:26:45 Ok but what a bizarre way to say what he intended to say * - ATL March 3, 2025, 18:10:07 Haha no doubt* - illini21 March 3, 2025, 18:50:21 He majored in CYA, ya know. * - osklister March 4, 2025, 8:28:55 This seems like a really smart hire by Illinois. - uofi1998 March 3, 2025, 10:10:55 Using martial arts techniques sounds a bit hokey imo.* - ECEIllinois March 3, 2025, 15:49:43 You won't feel that way when our entire DL lines up in the Stork like Ralph Macchio in Karate Kid* - ATL March 3, 2025, 17:49:52 Stork?! Somebody going to deliver a baby on the field?* - DocWalk20 March 3, 2025, 18:23:23 It's the Crane, man. Please deposit your Gen X card in the nearest receptacle. - Sammich March 3, 2025, 17:54:03 In all seriousness, Brad's hit-to-miss ratio is pretty dam good. - osklister March 3, 2025, 10:56:01 pat bryant coming up in the 40* - snipes824 March 1, 2025, 14:38:55 4.63 on the second attempt* - illini21 March 1, 2025, 14:58:27 4.62* - illini21 March 1, 2025, 14:42:41 not great* - snipes824 March 1, 2025, 14:43:16 Has Bielema said what we are doing for spring? - biclops March 1, 2025, 14:13:10 I heard no spring game* - Taz March 1, 2025, 15:52:38 I assume we're having a spring game. He did not mention format on the 247 Pod. - ATL March 1, 2025, 14:40:46 Playfly Sports to pay $515,000,000 to TAMU over 15 years to be its multimedia partner - bbonb February 28, 2025, 19:42:56 per some guy on Reddit, it looks like the deal includes the standard ad & marketing stuff - biclops February 28, 2025, 20:57:39 Playfly is now the middleman for virtually all Aggie stuff (except TV rights). You want to be the - bbonb February 28, 2025, 21:24:12 Hugh Freeze has prostate cancer - assassin February 28, 2025, 19:02:44 Bielema gets another rule change - biclops February 28, 2025, 17:57:38 So that’s four rule changes across football and basketball directly related to Illinois games* - ATL February 28, 2025, 18:12:11 Pretty sure Bret got a rule change while he was at Wisconsin too. - osklister February 28, 2025, 18:47:49 Poor uofi1998* - ATL February 28, 2025, 18:12:45 LOL* - DocWalk20 February 28, 2025, 19:25:01 Poor uofi1998 - DocWalk20 February 28, 2025, 18:02:52 This is me not paying attention * - biclops February 28, 2025, 18:09:53 I wonder if these guys will have a side discussion about any new rules? - jdl February 28, 2025, 17:07:33 Coaches can’t go by “Mr.” apparently?* - DocWalk20 February 28, 2025, 17:52:33 says the doctor - assassin February 28, 2025, 17:54:14 ;-). Actually I’m not opposed to going by “Mr.” - DocWalk20 February 28, 2025, 17:56:11 Werner had Bielema on the II podcast today - biclops February 28, 2025, 17:03:20   Searching