IlliniKrush

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 25, 2006 -> 01:27 AM) I'd feel dirty if I was you, the inferior team won both games and your lucky.... (unless that wins you money, then laugh at me and roll in your dough). Ugh, at least next year is an odd year, I'm a lock to kick ass. You need a beer or something...i know we all want our brackets to do well, but chill out a bit. We don't want you to die. BTW, neither bc nor villanova deserved to win that game, bc with turnovers, nova with poor shooting.

I'm gonna say Uconn actually turns it around right now, stops sleepwalking, and wins it.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 25, 2006 -> 01:13 AM) But isn't steve one of the people you hate? Sometimes, yes. Steve has some certain qualities that annoy me to no end, but he's still my lover.

QUOTE(SnB @ Mar 24, 2006 -> 09:42 PM) LCR, you should come into some of the business classes I'm in. Completely full of greeks that think they're all going to be a CEO of some company. Here's one of my theories: If you're wearing a north face jacket, there's a 95% chance I hate you. You're right, there is an absolutely huge part of campus I dislike.....greatly. But the place is so big, you can't help but find your own niche, and that's what I love about it. It took me about 3 semesters to find it here, but I did and I've been loving it in champaign ever since. I agree with a lot of what LCR said, as i hate a lot of people here too. SnB and i rant about some of these people all the time, it's fun. But with so many people and so many things to do, you can find the things that you like and hopefully avoid the things you don't like (frats, s***ty bars, etc). God that paragraph about kams and co's was priceless, just priceless.

Ah ah ah ah stayin alive, stayin alive

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 24, 2006 -> 09:30 PM) Gus is a complete and total f***, but at the same time I forgot about that one. It was a game that meant nothing, no matter how much Illini fans say otherwise. If we win that game and lose to UNC in the title games, it makes no difference how I look back at last year. All that mattered at that point since we had the #1 overall and bus tour locked up was winning the 6 in the big tournament. Incorrect. Because you didn't know how a team would respond to the loss the rest of the way, i would have rather kept the momentum going. That's why it mattered. Luckily, they rebounded nicely in the BTT and kept going from there. But initially, i think people had a reason to worry a bit, you know.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Mar 24, 2006 -> 01:49 PM) What I was saying is that being up the whole game and being up big and right at the end losing it has to be one of the worst feelings in sports. I'm not saying this was the worst outcome because it's not, there have been worse, lol not many but there have been. I was just trying to come up with something comparable, since you asked for it. To stay more along the line of leading the whole game...Illinois/OSU, last year. Undefeated season gone after leading entire game as well. And snb and i were there.

The next big movie

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Mar 24, 2006 -> 11:32 AM) Both are great pictures imo. Afflalo did a very classy thing going over to Morrison like that. In the end, that's what sports is all about, competing for fun, and then congratulating each other afterwords. All of us sports nuts usually think that winning is the only option and quite frankly in a competitive environment it is. I guess I just need to remember that it's only a game and 64 out of the 65 teams are going to lose. The second picture that has Morrison on it shows how much he really wanted it. I'm trying to think of a scenario that's worse than controlling the game and being up the whole game and then to lose it in the last 10 seconds, I probably need some help thinking about a worse scenario since all I can still think about is last night. Being up 15 with 4 minutes left and 8 with a minute left? But yeah, a brutal loss, i'm glad Afflalo did what he did. That's some good good stuff, that's what sports is all about. Similar to handshakes after a stanley cup playoff series.

A look back: http://espn.go.com/recruiting/s/2001/1003/1258909.html 4 years, 1 Final Four, 0 championship games for the "best recruiting class ever." I salute you JJ Redick, Sheldon Williams, Sean Dockery, Shavlick Randolph, Mike Thompson and Lee Melchioni. 4 McDonald's All-Americans. 0 title shots. JJ in Dukie elmination games: 2003, Kansas, 2-16, 5 pts 2004, UConn, 4-12, 15 pts 2005, MSU, 4-14, 13 pts 2006, LSU, 3-19, 11 pts Totals, 13-61, 11 ppg

This "aboz" guy is a hack.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Mar 24, 2006 -> 12:12 AM) Well I should apologize to you, your's wasn't even bad, like I said it was just the last. And I know that there will always be lovers and haters for a certain team. When they win, the lovers are out, when they lose the haters are out, that's just normal. I was just so angry and I'm sure you and any other sports fan can understand, we've all been through that kind of stuff. Didn't know you were a full blown zags fan either. Anyway, i know how you feel, losing blows, especially in the tournament or in ridiculous fashion. No harm no foul, no big deal man. I had my post to rip on morrison AND redick, i'm done with the zags. When my teams lose big games, i try to distance myself from all forms of communication for a while. Especially since i know some of it will piss me off even more.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Mar 24, 2006 -> 12:05 AM) I'm not only pointing you out, it was the last post at the time when I quoted it, so if you don't like it, sorry dude. I'm just saying I'd prefere not to hear any of this f*** Gonzaga s***, but obviously since I said that there will be more of it from some immature people or people that just want to piss me off. But that's ok I'm starting to get over it now. I just had to vent some. That's fine, i just didn't know why you quoted me when i had 2 posts, and only one concerning gonzaga, and it was humor and redick and morrison. I wasn't trying to pour it on, just make a nice joke about it because i don't like morrison or redick. But when you throw everyone into a group, it's not fair. Honestly, i'd just avoid the thread if you know it's coming, that's what i do when illinois loses.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 11:56 PM) I love it how some of you guys like to say, oh Gonzaga sucks, f*** Gonzaga, I hate Gonzaga. Let's show a little class here, I never went over and said, hahaha f*** Illinois. I'm pissed off just as much as you people were pissed off about Illinois but I'd never go over and try to rub it in. First off, all i said was redick and morrison can go play halo now. If you don't like it, too bad. Second of all, i'd like to know what is classless about that post? There was no "f*** gonzaga/morrison/gonzaga sucks" in any of it. Then you bring up an irrelevant point to counter what i said about halo. Just because you feel bad doesn't mean i/we have to. Sorry we disagree on teams we root for. If you don't like it, stay out of the thread.

Absolutely, positively saved, as i have Texas and UCLA in my final four.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 11:40 PM) They can also worry about making more money than all of us when they get drafted. LOL, like that has to do with anything right now.

Now Redick and Morrison can concentrate on their Halo games all weekend, nothing else to worry about.

Holy crap. I feel bad for those people that went to sleep on these two games. Wow.

Yeah he did. The rest of the players had a look on their face like "when do we break this up?"

"You saw what happened out there. Write it down. Why try to get me in trouble? You were there. Just write it."

Let's do this Illini. Let's get this one, Dee let's pick it up tonight shooting wise. Randle on Roy should be fun to watch. He really, really needs to stay out of foul trouble, or Roy could go nuts.

Check out Fox News or MSNBC right now. I'm not quite sure what's going on because i just turned it on at halftime of the Duke game, but apparently there are students and union workers rioting during a job protest in Paris. It's crazy. Cars are being torched and stuff.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Mar 18, 2006 -> 01:50 AM) Or at least until the Illini lose. :rolly Hey Jimbo, tell us again how much you love Self and his losses to the 13th round seeds again. See there's a huge difference though, i don't think any of us were saying "ILLINOIS IS THE BESTEST TEAM EVER IN THE WORLD (and jimbo adding AND BILL SELF IS AWESOME)" So illinois can lose all they want, it won't make up for kansas losing in the first round (for the 2nd year in a row), especially because he talked and talked and talked beforehand.

"I'm mad," said Chalmers, one of three freshmen starting for Kansas. "We should've been better prepared for this game."

ROCK, CHOKE, JAYHAWKS, SEEEE YOOOUUUUUUUU