Symbolic of the Football Guy´s Ineptitude

A water pipe burst at Memorial Stadium, flooding the Colonnades Club. Great job, Football Guy!

Loren Tate-Unoffical Mouthpiece for Ron Guenther

Loren Tate is off his rocker again. Read this piece of fishwrap, and you can only conclude that Loren Tate & Ron Guenther think making money is more important than winning football games and going to bowl games. Gee Loren, you don't think stupid scheduling under Ron Guenther is one reason why Illinois has never gone to consecutive bowl games under his "leadership", do you?

How Far has Illinois Basketball Fallen?

Guess how long it's been since the men's basketball team was ranked in the AP Top 25: 33 months & 11 days. Considering how highly ranked the program was when our mid-major coach took over, that is pathetic.

Great job Ron Guenther & Bruce Weber!

An AD as bad as Ron Guenther?

I give you Jay Jacobs of Auburn, who just hired Gene Chizik away from Iowa State. You know, Gene Chizik, who was 5-19 at Iowa State. Fire Jay Jacobs!!!

Illinois spends big money on recruiting

too bad it didn't pay off this season in football or last year in men's basketball, the two revenue sports. As the commentator in the article notes, Guenther will spend money for recruiting but won't spend money to bring a cupcake team to Champaign for a seventh home game!

Can We Get a Code of Conduct for Student-Athletes?

As if the shenanigans of Jamar Smith weren't enough, now we have football player Martez Wilson being stabbed at a Champaign bar. Get well soon Tez! Why is a student-athlete out at 2am during finals week? Hey Ron, if you're not busy giving away home games, how about a curfew for student-athletes?

Coach Guenther=Ca$h Money $killz

So Saint Guenther accepts $300K to play Western Michigan in freaking Detroit, with MAC officials jobbing Illinois and costing Illinois a bowl game and more money.

Now he is paying Northern Illinois $650K to play in Champaign in 2010. Hey Ron, doesn't that mean you are LOSING money? Doesn't that go against the "Family Dollar" approach of the UI athletic department? When will UI have 7 home games? Ron, YOU IDIOT!

Sad Facts of Life Under the Football Guy

Bowl game appearance since 1993 for Big Ten teams:

Illinois-4 Indiana-2 Minnesota-8 Purdue-10 Wisconsin-14 Iowa-12
Michigan State-9 Northwestern-6

Number of losing seasons in football:

1960-1992 (Before Football Guy) 18 losing seasons
1993-2008 (Football Guy) 11 losing seasons

Please end the United Center game for hoops

unless the Fighting Illini are playing a good team. Georgia is a bad team. Further, the fickle Chicago fan base (who can hardly hear the games on WIND Radio-LIBERALS HATE IT!) isn't going to attend a game against a bad opponent, especially when Illinois is not good. A whopping crowd of 12,139 attended today's beating of Georgia (for the Football Guy, Georgia is a football school.) Heck, you could have had your own seating section!!!!!

This basketball team, while not good, is trying hard and deserves better. Great job of marketing Chicagoland, Coach Guenther!

Missing Fans

Where are the Loyalty Circle dopes and East Central Illinois zealots who blindly support Saint Guenther? Plenty of empty seats in A Section.

Attendance was 14,741, well short of a sellout. Pathetic. Remember when a ticket to Illinois men's basketball was gold?

Did Loren Tate claim that Clemson is the best team Illinois will play all year? Good grief. Hey Loren, keep on telling us that Ron Guenther is the greatest athletic director in the history of the University of Illinois!