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Illini Football Coaching Candidate A: Mike Leach
With the recent firing of Ron Zook, Fighting Illini football is on the hunt for a new coach. This is an important inflection point for the football team; the Fighting Illini have finished with a .500…Read More
Zook Gets the Hook – Who will Be Mike Thomas’s Choice as the new Fighting Illini Football Coach?
In a move that surprised absolutely no one, new Illinois athletic director Mike Thomas fired Ron Zook today. This move came after the Illini football team became the first team to start 6-0 Read | Share
Wisconsin Badgers vs Illinois Fighting Illini – Football – a poor man’s preview.
Illinois and Wisconsin find themselves in similar places this Saturday. Note, I did not say comparable. I’m thinking similar in the geometric sense-Wisconsin is a large triangle, say a 30-40-50,…Read More
11/15/11 Morning Dump- a quick rundown of Illini – related stories from around the media landscape
The Dump is back after a long hiatus with all of your Fighting Illini news. Er… at least some of the Illinois news out there this morning. We start with Read | Share
Michigan at Illinois: A Football Preview
Michigan and Illinois have a rich shared football history. Red Grange inaugurated Memorial Stadium with his six scores against Michigan to lead the Fighting Illini to victory. That win ended a 20-game…Read More
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11/10/11 Morning Dump- a quick rundown of Illini-related stories from around the media landscape
No riots here: Yesterday was signing day for the Fighting Illini. The basketball team picked up one…Read More
11/9/11 Morning Dump- a quick rundown of Illini-related stories from around the media landscape
A chill is preparing to descend over the Midwest, as we finally begin the inevitable slide towards winter.…Read More
10/27/11 Morning Dump- a quick rundown of Illini related stories from around the media landscape
On this, the 300th day of the year, we’ve got the first injury of the Illini basketball season,…Read More
Three takeways from the surrender in West Lafayette: Boilermakers 21, Fighting Illini 14
Well, that was a wretched experience. The Fighting Illini have now lost back-to-back games in the B1G,…Read More
Three Keys to the Second Half for the Fighting Illini-Purdue-Illinois
So, our offense is sputtering, our defense has finally tightened up only to hamstring itself with a really…Read More
Homecoming? We INVENTED Homecoming. An Illini-Purdue preview.
On Every Day Should Be Saturday, the seminal college football blog over at SBNation, each school has a meme attached to it in the comments section. Ron Zook is, pretty obviously, the fulcrum for Fighting…Read More
Go for it on 4th and 2? A statistical perspective.
After a tough loss, it is common practice to examine coaching decisions in search of culpability. Nowhere is this tendency more prevalent than amongst fans of the Fighting Illini. Perhaps this is with…Read More
The Five Most Important ILL-OSU football games (from an Illini perspective)
As a relatively young Illini fan, I enjoyed a long stretch of football success against Ohio State. The Fighting Illini won 5 straight against the Buckeyes from 1988-1992. Those were some fairly weak…Read More
Writing Illini is back!
Hello, fellow Illini fans! I’m pleased to announce that I’ve taken over the editing duties here at Writing Illini. I’m hoping to keep this blog a little more active than it’s…Read More
Martez Wilson, Mikel Leshoure & Corey Liuget Leaving Illinois for NFL Draft
Although it was not unexpected, the official announcements that three Illinois juniors from this year’s 7-6 squad will be leaving school early to enter the NFL Draft certainly stings. Mikel…Read More
Illinois-Baylor Gameday Binoculars: Live Play-by-Play & Analysis
Illinois wins 38-14 to finish the season with a winning record and get its first bowl win since 1999. Several Illini players had huge days, perhaps none more so than Mikel Leshoure. The junior had 184…Read More
Football Field Forecast: Predicting Illinois vs. Baylor, 2010 Texas Bowl
Tomorrow afternoon in the Texas Bowl, Illinois will take the field in the program’s first bowl game since 2007 and the first non-BCS bowl since 1999. The Illini are facing a Baylor team that has…Read More
Writing Illini’s Football Conversation with ESPNChicago.com’s Scott Powers
Earlier this morning, Writing Illini’s lead football blogger Nick Houska spent some time chatting with Scott Powers of ESPNChicago.com about the upcoming Texas Bowl game against Baylor and the 2010…Read More
Illinois Fighting Illini Football to Play Baylor in Texas Bowl on December 29
After finishing the season with a .500 record (6-6 overall, 4-4 in the Big Ten), Illinois accepted a bid to play in the appropriately-named Texas Bowl in Houston, Texas on December 29th. The Illini will…Read More
Dissecting Fresno State (25) – Illinois (23): Game Balls, Catcalls & Downfalls
This is Illinois football. Two weeks after a dominant win against Northwestern in Chicago made the team bowl-eligible for the first time in three years, Illinois flat lined out of the bye week against…Read More
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