Mike Cagley's Heat Checks and Hail Marys - Win When Supposed To
Mike Cagley October 3, 2021 Charlotte arrived at Memorial […]
Mike Cagley's Heat Checks and Hail Marys - Win When Supposed To
Mike Cagley October 3, 2021 Charlotte arrived at Memorial […]
Bret Bielema’s Indifference of win over Charlotte is what Illini need
Illinois first-year head coach Bret Bielema set a tone Saturday with his emotional indifference toward what Illini accomplished.
Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer
October 2, 2021
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- So, let’s be honest, Bret Bielema has been wounded from his own fan base in the past two weeks.
Illinois 24, Charlotte 14
Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer
October 2, 2021
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Illinois rolled out its version of the welcome wagon for several key players returning from injuries in a much-needed victory.
IlliniGuys Beat Writer Q&A - Week 5
IlliniGuys beat writer/analyst Matthew Stevens had a lengthy list of subscriber questions to answer following the Illini’s fourth straight loss this season.
Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer
October 2, 2021
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- So, Illinois was 1-0 to start the 2021 football season and immediately followed that 30-22 victory over Nebraska with four straight losses. Needless to say, several IlliniGuys.com subscribers had questions for the beat writer and lots of them.
Preview: Tolson & Barnes Leading Illini LBs Future Into the Present
Illinois may need another excellent effort from its inside linebackers Saturday as they look to end a four-game losing streak against Charlotte’s aggressive passing attack
Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer
October 1, 2021
Preview Box: Charlotte at Illinois
Date/Time/Place: Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021: 11 a.m. CST, Memorial Stadium.
IlliniGuys - Illinois vs Charlotte Predictions
The Illini are coming off of two heartbreaking losses […]
“I thought I tore my ACL”: Randolph Details Grateful Feeling His Injury Wasn’t Season-Ending
In the moments he was helped off the field in the first quarter against Texas-San Antonio, Keith Randolph thought his 2021 season. Now, he’s hoping to make the most of his medical good fortune.
Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer
September 30, 2021
Keith Randolph courtesy Illini Athletics
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Keith Randolph Jr. freely admits his personality is not much of a crier.
Recruiting: “It was so much better than I expected”: IMG Academy 2023 QB Mason McHugh Excited About Illini Interest
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Notes From Bret Bielema's Thursday Zoom Media Conference
Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer
September 30, 2021
Bielema announces former Illini football player/current NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins will be the honorary captain for the game Saturday vs. Charlotte.
Illini Film Review - Game 5 at Purdue
Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer
September 30, 2021
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Several weeks ago, Illinois offensive coordinator Tony Petersen expressed how his team’s offensive line was a bit physically undersized but that wouldn’t completely compromise his intent to the running game.
Recruiting: 2023 Power Forward Owen Freeman updates his recruitment
Owen Freeman is a 6-foot-9, 220-pound power forward from Bradley, Illinois, who picked up an Illinois offer early this spring. The rising star big man has already visited the Illinois campus in early June. Freeman is a very important recruit for a lot of schools, not just Illinois. But the Illini are looking to add some more size to the program and Freeman would help fulfill that need.
The State Farm Redemption
By now, most know the tale told in the classic movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'. Banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and endures 20 years of torture behind the walls of a Maine prison for a crime he vows he didn't commit. All the while, he's patiently tunneling through the wall, literally scooping out handfuls of rock at night and gradually dumping them bit by bit in the prison yard by day, right under the watchful eye of the prison's guards.
The final leg of Dufresne's genius escape is told wonderfully by fellow prisoner Ellis "Red" Boyd and it's a line as popular as the movie itself: "Andy crawled through 500 yards of (deleted) smelling foulness I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want to!" Illini basketball coach Brad Underwood certainly wasn't in prison, but he had to have spent many a moment in the spring and summer months thinking that things around him didn't smell right. It was a 90-day period that was the foulest in program history and, as its leader, Underwood was stuck in the middle of it and there was no escape plan. Angry parents, a shocking transfer, a fleeing staff, an indecisive superstar, a restless and critical fan base...
Recruiting: Q & A with 2024 SG Tre Johnson
The class of 2022 is not complete and the Fighting Illini have started to work the class of 2023 very hard to stay ahead of the game. Now it is time to work on several of the 2024s. Tre Johnson is a 6-foot-5, 180-pound shooting guard from Dallas.
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