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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
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
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
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. But, Illini basketball season Read | Share
10/26/11 Morning Dump- a quick rundown of Illini related stories from around the media landscape
And now fall sets in for real….talking about frigid temperatures for the Fighting Illini’s game in Happy Valley! JoPa, though, has warm thoughts for the Zook led Illini. Fighting Illini stagger…Read More
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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
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…Read More
Big Ten Media Days Recap
This past weekend, the Big Ten held its annual Media Days event where coaches and players from every…Read More
College Football Zealots Q&A
Recently, the folks at the website College Football Zealots, an excellent football blog, contacted Writing…Read More
Illinois Football Adds Recruit to 2012 Class
This article comes courtesy of Writing Illini’s new blogger, Jonah Puls. Jonah has written for…Read More
Illinois Signs 27 Football Recruits for Class of 2011
Illinois wraps up its football recruiting after signing the biggest class in the Big Ten. Illinois’ class has players from 11 different states and has several players who will likely see extended…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
Dissecting Illinois (38) – Baylor (14): Game Balls, Catcalls & Downfalls
What a day to be an Illinois fan. The Illini won both their football bowl game and their conference opener in basketball on Wednesday, and did so in style. The victory against Baylor was the first bowl…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
Illini-Bulldogs Gameday Binoculars, Part 2: Tape Review & Play-by-Play
As I couldn’t do the play-by-play of the Illinois-Fresno State game on Friday night, here it is, along with some analysis, following my review of the tape earlier this morning. Illinois falls to…Read More
Football Field Forecast: Predicting Illinois at Fresno State, Game Twelve
With Illinois playing a rare Friday game tomorrow night, the Football Field Forecast has been moved up a day. With Illinois and Fresno State already assured of a bowl birth, and likely locked into the…Read More
Fighting the Illinois Fighting Illini: Previewing the Fresno State Bulldogs
With the rest of the Big Ten done for the regular season and either preparing for bowl games or looking for a new coach (two of the three programs that did not make the postseason have fired their head…Read More
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