Watched the game today. They really are bad at college football.

Im pretty hammered right now.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

I hate this man.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

You burn Bailey's redshirt in the 4th quarter of a loss in the 2nd half of a bullshit year with a lame-duck coaching staff? Go to hell.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Thomas must go too. Its a shame what this program has become.

Why the fuck is he even dressed? They should bounce this clown immediately.

Bailey will play in all of the remaining games.

He will be the back up or starter next season. Might as well see if he can play.

I love how you kill the Cubs for keeping their prospects from playing but now kill the Illini for doing the opposite.

Well, Kris Bryant isnt limited to four seasons in five years. And redshirting QB as a freshman is pretty standard.

He will be the back up or starter next season. Might as well see if he can play.

I love how you kill the Cubs for keeping their prospects from playing but now kill the Illini for doing the opposite.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Wes Lunt and ROT didn't redshirt. Bailey is not the savior of Illinois football. No one should care about his eligibility. Unless there are major changes, Illinois isnt competing for anything anytime soon.

Wes Lunt and ROT didn't redshirt. Bailey is not the savior of Illinois football. No one should care about his eligibility. Unless there are major changes, Illinois isnt competing for anything anytime soon.

I care about it.

I agree Beckman has to go. I'm not sure what is gained by launching him now as opposed to the end of the season. .

Aaron Rodgers wanted to play for Illini, they didn't offer

Aaron Rodgers in orange and blue? If the quarterback would have got his way, that's exactly what would've happened.

Now considered one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, Rodgers wasn't so hot a commodity coming out of high school. After as couple years in community college, he ended up playing at Cal and blossoming into a first-round draft pick, a Super Bowl champion and a league MVP.

But, as a high schooler, he wanted to play at Illinois, or so he told Dan Patrick on Tuesday's "Dan Patrick Show."

While discussing the national anthem, he dropped the nugget that he wanted to play for the Illini.

"I can remember the first time I started a game in college and I heard the anthem, it was an absolute thrill," Rodgers said. "We were in Champaign, playing the University of Illinois, who I wanted to go to out of high school. I was playing for Cal, and I just always thinking about that moment."

Oh really? Rodgers wanted to be an Illini?

"I went out to their team camp, and they didn't offer me. They didn't offer me a scholarship," he explained to Patrick, remembering getting spurned by the Ron Turner administration. "Ron Zook, who was at Illinois, too, we've talked about it. He's with us now (as a special teams assistant in Green Bay). We've talked about it a little bit. I have no ill will toward Illinois. We beat them that day."

That they did. Cal won that game, 31-24, with Rodgers throwing for 263 yards and a touchdown in his first collegiate start.

But Rodgers doing that for the Illini would have been something.

In two seasons with the Golden Bears, 2003 and 2004, Rodgers passed for 5,469 yards and 43 touchdowns in 25 games.

Turner's Illini started Jon Beutjer in those two seasons. The Wheaton native passed for 2,679 yards and 18 touchdowns in 15 games.

Turner was obviously not the only head coach to pass on Rodgers. He wasn't highly coveted coming out of high school and ended up at a community college in California before joining up with the Golden Bears.

And the rest is history.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

I've heard that story before. Illinois was the only D1 school to offer him anything, I think. They said he could be a preferred walk-on or something.

It sounds horrible now but I remember him saying he was 5'10" and 165 pounds at the time so I can't say it was an unbelievable oversight.