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Connor Cagley, IlliniGuys Basketball Writer January 14, 2022 Game […]

Steve Sturm, IlliniGuys Football Analyst

January 13, 2022

While fans of major college teams around the country wouldn't have been surprised by Illinois' sudden replacement of Tony Petersen with Barry Lunney, Jr

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

January 13, 2022

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Cornell graduate transfer offensive lineman Hunter Nourzad has narrowed his list of suitors to five schools

Nearly a decade ago, Bret Bielema gave Barry Lunney […]

By Brad Sturdy -- IlliniGuys Insider/Analyst

January 12, 2022

The Illini weren’t sharp on Tuesday night in Lincoln, but a late surge allowed them to pull away and get the Big Ten road win over Nebraska 81-71. Trent Frazier led the way with 29 points and Kofi Cockburn added 16 and 13, but the Illini got huge minutes down the stretch from Omar Payne and Coleman Hawkins on a night when Alfonso Plummer and Cockburn weren’t at their best to move to 5-0 in league play for the first time since 2005.

Here’s what we saw.

Instead of playing a third straight game inside Penn […]

January 12, 2022 CHICAGO, Ill. -- The multi-media website […]

Mike Cagley, IlliniGuy January 12, 2022 The Illini struggled […]

IlliniGuys Staff January 11, 2022 (Cover photo courtesy Illinois […]

Essentials Fighting Illini (11-3, 4-0) at Nebraska Cornhuskers (6-10, […]

By Matt Stevens -- IlliniGuys Football Writer/Analyst

January 10, 2022

(Cover photo courtesy Ron Johnson/USA Today)

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The hope in the hiring of Barry Lunney Jr. the program’s 12th offensive coordinator in the last 13 years, is the program will finally be able to make good on a promise.  

Since 2009, when then-Illini offensive coordinator Mike Locksley agreed to become the next head coach at New Mexico, Illinois has gone through 11 different offensive coordinators. All of them have pledged, in one way or another, to heavily involve the tight end position in the pass game of the Illini offense. 

In those 13 years, Illinois has never had a tight end be among the top 30 targets in the Big Ten Conference despite having spotty consistency at the position. In 2020, Daniel Barker, who announced earlier this winter he was intending to investigate his options with the upcoming National Football League draft process, was the team’s second-leading receiver...

Steve Sturm, IlliniGuys Football Analyst

January 10, 2022

Illinois added a couple of notable preferred walk-ons Saturday

Kedric Prince, IlliniGuys.com Director of Recruiting

January 9, 2022

Illinois assistant football coach George McDonald may have found a gem in the class of 2022

Fabrizio Pinton, a 6-foot-3, 215-lb combo kicker-punter from the Air Force Academy and The Woodlands (TX) High School, verbally committed to Bret Bielema and Illinois football on January 8, 2022.

Illinois head coach Bret Bielema goes with a comfortable choice in selecting UTSA offensive coordinator Barry Lunney Jr. as the Illini’s new offensive coordinator

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

January x, 2022

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Bret Bielema is much more familiar with his second offensive coordinator hire at Illinois.