IlliniKrush

I like how you used my away message as the title for this thread

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 10:11 PM) Call it morbid curiosity. I once was a big fan but now I've become an anti-fan. Then stay out, no one cares.

I sure didn't hear it

Listened to it as well. Khabibulin stood on his head it sounded like. Way to finally get one in OT.

UNC trails SLU by 1 with 13 mins left on espn2

Yeah, how about contributing to a win for once instead of making the defense pull miracles.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 09:21 PM) "the alphabet" About a second. Someone ban this kid

I got down to 4.875, that's probly decent but nothing special.

http://frenzy.morpheme.co.uk/frenzy/index.jsp For those of you at work, this will make it sound like you are being super productive.

Dan patrick said right as they were going off the air, but yeah i haven't seen anything else on it thus far.

Thing is, just because they bears aren't losing doesn't mean Orton should continue to start. I don't buy the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' motto because they are not winning because of Orton. They are winning despite him. I'd throw Grossman in there either this week or next and figure out if he has anything so you know who to start in the playoffs. Better now than later. Orton is just absolutely brutal.

Roethlisberger's out for the season with thumb surgery. Heard this on the tale end of SC

Please do a 180 Joey...keep praying...

It's well worth it, especially if you can figure out a way to display all of them instead of keeping them in the box. Mine arrived with no ship confirmation email before hand- i found that kind of interesting.

Start him. Start him now.

Sportscenter is reporting that Barnett is on his way out at Colorado

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 12:55 PM) MSU will be a tough team as the season progresses. As of right now it looks like their defense still needs some work. Neitzel is playing pretty well, which helps them considerably. He needs to be hitting the open shots when the ball goes into Davis or on penetration by their wing players. One thing that would really put them over the top is if Sutton or Gray turns into a real PF toward the end of the season. They need someone that can help with their post defense and rebounding. They don't need their PF to score that much because of their other options, so it's possible. From what I've seen, Illinois isn't there yet. Dee and Augustine are their only two players that they can consistently rely on, and if Dee isn't shooting well (like most of this year), things can get ugly. They should have handled UNC and Xavier fairly easily, but they struggled. I'll admit both teams have some talent, but they are also flawed teams, and a team like Illinois that has two senior leaders that were part of a Final Four run probably should have handled them more easily. They need someone else to develop into a reliable third scoring option (I'm not counting Smith because although he scores, he's been very inconsistent. That 23 point game is propping up his average). I'll be very interested to see the Illinois-Georgetown game. Georgetown is a big, atheletic team that could give Illinois problems, although their best two players (Bowman and Green) have struggled a bit early. Illinois is going to need a decent game to get by the Hoyas. I agree with a lot of your sentiments. The one thing i will say is that while Smith's average is propping his average, he hasn't gotten many minutes thus far. Given minutes, he could become a good scoring option and open up the court for everyone else. You can only base a scoring average off of how many minutes you play. The guy can shoot the ball, and has all year. I think Randle will eventually become our '3rd' scoring option, but only time will tell. If he has a respectable outside and inside game (shoots well) he'll be tough to stop.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 12:36 PM) I look forward to it as well. We open the Big 10 schedule with Illinois on the road. Yeah, i'll be at that game, bought single tickets for it since they aren't covered through our student tickets. It won't be rocking as much because of the lack of students there, but it should be a great game.

The Box Card Set that you can order off the sox website is pretty good. There are 55 cards in it, half are highlight cards and the other half are player cards, with one giant team card. I just have to figure out a way to put these in a frame. They are a great snap shot of the post season highlights. Very nice buy.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 11:17 AM) Davis was outcoached by Eastern Michigan? No one can defend Davis last night; there's no explaining why Ben wasn't in at the end of the game, with what he did earlier in the night. With that being said, a lot of people think they can have and eat their cake on the issue of Mike Davis. I don't think he's ever received credit for one good thing this team's done while he was here, but he's certainly the only one to ever receive credit for a loss. I know, I know Krush you've said it 9 times in the last 24 hours, but you're glad Davis is still here. Have a cookie. Hey, when you back Davis like you do you're going to hear about it that's for sure. You may have a cookie as well.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 10:40 AM) From Katz's article today on MSU: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/stor...andy&id=2250617 Damn good article by Andy talking about how they shouldn't have dropped so far in the polls. I'd be hard pressed to find 4 teams in the land better than MSU yet they are ranked No. 14. Just goes to show how much the voters overreact to a couple of early season losses in Hawaii. I watched a lot of that game last night and i still think highly of MSU. But Aboz that's just the nature of the polls - you lose, you drop down. They'll be back up there eventually. I mean Illinois shouldn't be ahead of them...but we haven't lost yet, that's why we are. I mean i think MSU is the better team but pollsters can only look at what you've done so far, you know? MSU will be fine. I was most impressed by their free throws at the end of the game last night. That's very Izzo esque. I look forward to facing off with you guys.

Great to hear some good progression thus far, very nice.

All this Iowa talk is making me want to throw up. So i'll interrupt this thread with

The injury could be worse than everyone originally thought it was. This obviously isn't good news, as he's the only one i have confidence running the point with Dee on the bench.

Just a great day all around