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You know me like that.

Oklahoma was number three. I should have picked LSU as an apt comparison, at least according to bleacher report.

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Damn Purdue.... Rick won't like this.

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That is a list no one should be proud to be on.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Northwestern: Chicago's Best Big Ten Team that has never been to the NCAA Tournament.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

NIU Chicago's BCS Bowl Team.

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I'm starting to think you really are Barry Rozner.

I had to laugh at Larry repeatedly stating that "they beat two Big Ten teams", as if they regularly take out Michigan and Ohio State. They beat Iowa by a fucking field goal and beat the worst Purdue team in my lifetime. Let 'em play for the championship!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Thats his father there?


When I first saw this, I imagined it was a member of his posse


What a douchebag

Cory, are you saying dont hold anyone under 18 accountable for anything?


It was a dick move. When a 14 year old tells her parents she hates them, its part of being a teen, growing up etc, but its still a fucked up thing to say

I was on the 05 Illini bandwagon and I never thought they had a chance watching the title game. In the back of my mind I thought they might have another Arizona style comeback in them, but then Id remember that UNC is not as bad as AZ

Also, no one could stop May. Maybe it was because of Augustine foul trouble, but the fact remains, May was not being stopped.

he was also not going to be stopped when it came time to eat

We could probably have an hour long debate about worst Jordan draft pick. There's so many to choose from, but May might be the worst. Guy was only in the league like 2 seasons it seemed. At least Kwame and Adam Morrison hung around for a bit.

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I wonder what Adam Morrison is doing now besides smoking weed?

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#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

Crying?

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I thought it was one half of the Ying Yang Twins. Kept expecting him to serenade us with "Wait 'Til You See My Dick (Vitale)."

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I'm with you, I was more reacting to how people were acting like he did some heinous crime against the state of Illinois. He made a tasteless joke. Hopefully he will learn a more appropriate way to act though I suspect not.

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The Illini are a second- or third-tier program whose fans ardently believe the school is a top-tier program (as your comments indicate). No one thinks as highly of the Illini as Illini fans do. It's precisely this hardwood Napoleonic complex--although it probably applies to Illini boosters on many levels--that makes me root against the school.

If Groce achieves the success you predict for him as Illini coach, you can pretty much kiss him goodbye within two or three years. He'll treat the school precisely as the stepping stone it is. Illini Basketball is a means to an end, not an end in itself. That's the very definition of a B-grade program.

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You're psyched because Illinois landed a couple top-50 and top-75 guys? Well, at least you're the rare Illini fan who knows he shouldn't expect too much from a B-grade program. You are aware that it's OK for schools to sign recruits in the top 10 or top 20, right? Oh wait, I forgot, Groce doesn't need those guys because he can coach up inferior talent--just like Richard Semrau was going to be the centerpiece of Bruce Weber's basketball dynasty (that is, after Illini fans realized Weber didn't know how to recruit either).

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Illinois' B-grade basketball team beats the hell out if it's S-grade football team. Quite the clusterfuck we have down here. A clusterfuck school for a clusterfuck state, how fitting.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

The truth hurts the deluded. It is a 70-75th percentile program at best. Lets examine.

No national titles. (Not even the NIT)
No big name coach. (Even NU understands this...)
No real history or tradition. (Like Loyola or DePaul)
No "important" boosters/friends of the program.
A school with no real national presence, even in the classroom. (In just the B1G - UW, UM & NU are nationally perceived as more attractive locales/schools)
Alums who don't have a presence on any national platform.
Average to below average arena. (The concrete pimple just doesn't do it)
An average at best midwestern (and therefore midwestern winter) campus.
Did I mention that it's in a almost rural town in a part of a rural state hostile to the only major/important market in the state.
Or that they don't market to the only market in IL that really matters on a national level.
Agricultural supply firms heavily sponsor the programs/broadcasts and not the flashy shoe companies
The biggest enduring national presence for the campus is either the occasional "Chief" garbage, or a throwaway line at the end of Risky Business.
The smell of the campus if the wind blows the wrong way.
A comparatively unattractive coed population. (SEC, ACC & PAC-12 coeds are much, much more attractive)

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Watch out, Reader, Dr. Ken and his Insane Illini Clown Posse are about to come heavy for you! I predict there will be a mention of Illinois' engineering program in 5,4,3,2,1....

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The TwinCities are glad you left us. I know this to be fact. I took a survey.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Yeah, MIT, Cal, CalTech, five-ten-fifteen other schools, UIUC.

Now if you want to talk the glamour of the farm school, that's another thing.

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Dr. Ken isn't going to like this. But then again he went to the U of C for grad school.

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Well "Cities" is a bit off imo, leaving the rest of your "fact(s)" in serious question.

And given your belief in surveys sponsored by Karl Rove, Frank Luntz & Rasmussen , "question" would be the key word with the rest of that post.

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The Crop Sciences Department has done more harm to humanity than Obama.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Please show where I've ever had a good word to say about any of the aforementioned. For your sake, I hope the ACA qualifies batshit crazy as a pre-existing condition.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Hey, I said 70-75th percentile overall & even gave credit for being a top 25ish E school. That's objectively fair, and even effusive praise coming from me.

And sincerely doubt he'll argue on behalf of the corn fed heifers heavily influencing that campus.

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In all seriousness, this is a terrible time for public research institutions. Budget cuts and salary freezes are causing star faculty members to move to private institutions with much greater frequency than they have in the past. Even a truly great public university like Berkeley isn't what it was a couple decades ago.

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