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QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 11:13 PM) Everyone knows that I'm a mid major guy but if they don't win the WAC tourny, there's no way in hell they deserve an at large, but they'll probably slide in like UTEP did last year but unlike last years Miners, Utah State doesn't even pass the eye test. I was looking through Utah St.'s game logs from the last few years and they play basically nothing but awful basketball teams all year long and outside of a victory against BYU last year whenever they face a real team they lose.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 06:56 PM) Deron's a good guy...compared to the other two members of the big three from Illinois (Dee and Head), he's an absolute saint. I would say this is probably a case of fame getting the best of him. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that DWill is ultra competitive and outside of Millsap and Jefferson that roster sucks.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 9, 2011 -> 10:47 PM) Can't get the spoiler tab to work, but there's some more evidence out there that Zooey might be the mother. Again, Zoey is not the mother. Go back and watch the first episode of the season. Ted tells his kids that the day he met their mother was the day of a wedding he was the best man at. That isn't how he met Zoey and if they make her the mother it is awful writing.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 9, 2011 -> 10:08 PM) No but they did lose to MSU when they were up by 9 with less than 2 minutes left. Its just hard to imagine that a team can be so much different on the road when it comes to shooting. You should look up Illinois's stats this year. Ridiculous home road split.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 9, 2011 -> 10:01 PM) Wisconsin is going to lose to Iowa. Unbelievable but they just wont get it done. Not going to change anything in terms of the season, just will make the game against OSU not as important because who cares if you beat OSU if you cant beat Iowa. This team can be so frustrating. At least your team hasn't lostevery single games this year that came down to the final minute. At Wisconsin is the only game that Illinois lost all year that they didn't have a chance to win in the final minute.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 03:59 PM) I thought it was excellent, the plot isnt really why I watch it, the parts with Jason Segel living at home were priceless. And I watched the first episode of Shameless last night, Wow. The Segal parts were funny. I am just so freaking sick of Ted and I thought the parts with Katy Perry and Barney weren't funny.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 11:44 AM) I agree with the above but after last night I started to feel like they are just going to try and smooth over those problems.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 11:17 AM) How do we know she's not the mom?

So after a run of pretty good episodes I thought HIMYM was pretty bad last night. It might be because I think the Zoey storyline is awful and pointless but I guess we will see where they go with it. She clearly is not the mother and I fail to see how Ted having yet another failed major relationship adds anything to the show.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 12:31 AM) Well Boozer just doesnt understand how to defend the pick and roll. There are only 2 options, switch or dont switch. Every time him and Rose have gone to the same guy, while Deng could rotate over the end result would be a man being wide open with the next pass. Boozer/Rose cant take the same guy on a pick and roll. So very odd. Boozer is just completely worthless on the defensive end in general. His value comes from his rebounding and offensive game but against teams with legit big men he just kills you on the defensive end.

How the f*** do people watch Glee? Wow is that show f***ing terrible.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 6, 2011 -> 08:36 PM) And I continue to say that penalties should be reviewable. Face masks sure, but most other penalties are too subjective to review.

BTW fathom I think you will like two of the recent suggestions I've seen from fans in the event Weber is fired: Jeff Capel or Craig Robinson. Robinson I can at least see the possibility of him doing really well at Illinois because him and Howard would probably do extremely well recruiting Chicago but I'm not sold on his coaching whatsoever. If Capel is hired I would riot.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 6, 2011 -> 06:14 PM) As the game is about to start, I want the Steelers to win. It will kill me to see the jagbag Roethlisberger win another ring, but after seeing all these Packers fans still rubbing the Bears loss in my face today, people mind you that I have never said a word to, I want Pitt to win. I didn't care when my alarm went off this morning, but now I am biased. I hope Roethlisberger blows out his knee (and I seriously mean that) on the first series of the game and then the Steelers win it without Roethlisberger contributing.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 6, 2011 -> 05:23 PM) Link Three times face value is a freaking joke. For fans that traveled across the country is that even going to cover their airfare and hotel room? Plus most of those fans probably paid above face value for those tickets to begin with.

Since I'm still pissed about the game earlier today, I think the most frustrating thing about this season is just how close it has been to being a great year. Illinois has not won a close game all year (I'm not counting the Maryland game where they won by 4 because Maryland never had a chance to tie or take the lead and Illinois missed 6 out of 8 Fts to even make it look close. Illinois is 0-5 in games decided by 3 or less points (or OT), and in two of their other games they were down by 3 or fewer in the last minute. Against Missouri they had the lead within the final 4 minutes and were within 1 when they didn't get back on D and the intentional foul was called. And against OSU they obviously had the ball down 3 with a chance to tie in the final minute and didn't get the shot off. The only loss where they didn't have a chance to win it late was against Wisconsin. And even more annoying is that 3 of the 8 losses are on freaking tip ins in the last 30 seconds. When it gets close this team just hasn't been able to get a bucket or stop when they need to and that was the case last year as well.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 5, 2011 -> 05:09 PM) Grant is likely not leaving the south, as he has very strong ties there. He's also a lock to take over the Florida job when Donovan leaves. And yes 99, Drew is an awful coach. He gets the least out of the most. I don't think he would either, but I would offer him a ton of money and do everything in my power to get him if I was AD. I'm having trouble even coming up with other coaches I would go after (that are realistic anyways).

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Feb 5, 2011 -> 05:05 PM) If you hire Scott Drew, you might as well just have hired Bruce Pearl. I wouldn't root for Illinois to win a game until he was gone. And he sucks as a coach which would make it even worse.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 5, 2011 -> 03:40 PM) Interesting reading that some of the big Illini boosters want to get Weber canned after this season. That would be a brilliant move by the Illini, as they could get some good candidates and recruiting will go nowhere but up as long as Howard stays. The candidates are really really underwhelming right now. Unless they were able to somehow steal a Jay Wright or Jaime Dixon (highly highly unlikely) you are left with a bunch of mediocre at best candidates. When fans are mentioning guys like Frank Martin and Scott Drew as good candidates you know the candidates just aren't very good. I would make a run at Anthony Grant personally, I think he would dominate recruiting at Illinois, he did a good job at VCU and is actually going a good job at Alabama so far.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 5, 2011 -> 03:23 PM) Definitely the winners of the "bad body language" team contest. Which is why I can't wait for the 2011 class to get to campus and why I wish Head would get a little playing time (although not a ton because he can't shoot at all, like he is freshman and sophomore year Chester Frazier bad). Abrams is a warrior (like having a Chester Frazier with talent), Shaw plays really hard at all times, Egwu has a constantly running motor. Henry doesn't play defense but he isn't going to back down from a challenge. Langford I don't know enough about but he seems to lack assertiveness at times but he has high upside and won't be counted on until he is an upperclassman anyways.

This Illinois team is unlikeable. It is incredible how lazy the players are at times. Illinois lost the game because they got beat to loose balls and didn't fight through screens and that is simply unacceptable and it starts with the SR class which is made up of a bunch of p*****s and Weber.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 5, 2011 -> 02:32 PM) There's a reason. I'm assuming it isn't something you can share?

I have never seen a player fall off the way McCamey has. He was an all-american through 19 games and has been the worst player in Illinois's rotation the last 3 and a half games.

Jim Burr is so freaking bad...that wasn't an intentional foul on NW (although that does make up for the two ridiculously bad charge calls that went against Illinois). Also how does Tim Brando have a job?

Can Jim Burr just go ahead and die. That guy gets more calls wrong than right these days. I still maintain that there isn't a profession in the world (except being an elected official) where you can suck at your job as much as college bball refs and never get reprimanded.