Nasty Rumor About Fresno State Football Game

First, we keep hearing that ESPN is offering big cash money to move the game at Cincinnati (6 home games) to Turkey Friday. Now we are hearing that Illinois may move its home game (6 home games!) vs. Fresno State to December 5....which would create a conflict with the United Center home game vs. Gonzaga.

The DIA is forcing loyal fans to choose between hoops and football. Even if the DIA moves the basketball game to another date, who the heck is going to sit in Memorial Stadium in December? Ron Guenther, YOU IDIOT!

Fire Up the One Man Search Committee!

Wrestling Coach Mark Johnson retired. Good luck Coach!

No Spring Football Practice in Chicagoland?

That is what it looks like, there is no mention of a practice in Chicago on fightingillini.com. So what is the reasoning for this?



1) Coach Guenther wants to save money by not spending cash to transport the team and equipment to Chicagoland?



2) Coach Guenther, as usual, doesn't want to market Chicagoland? Great job DIA!



3) The DIA doesn't want Ron Zook and the coaching staff to be booed by fans angry from last season's disaster?



Good job Football Guy!

Is the DIA Really "Sensitive" to Fans & the Economy?

post below references how some DIA dude thinks Guenther is sensitive to the fans and the economy because the DIA didn't raise prices on football tickets. Never mind that the team went 5-7 and grossly underachieved last season....

1) I Fund has already sent out letters for donations & renewals. In years past, we thought the I Fund didn't send renewals until April.

2) What is with this "You Decide" parking system for football in 2009? A source got a letter about this...sounds like an excuse to charge more money for the same parking spot as last season. Pretty soon the Blue Lot will be on St. Mary's Road...

3) We've had an Orange Lot pass for the past several years...sometimes the parking attendant (old hag with orange & blue hair) makes us go to the Blue Lot because jerks in Orange Lot have taken up multiple spaces for tailgates.

Post-Mortem on men's basketball season

1) Team played hard

2) Limited talent

3) Why does Weber insist on running motion offense all the time even against smaller teams?

4) How does a Big 10 coach get owned by a rookie head coach from a mid-major school?

5) Congrats to Weber and Guenther for dialing down expectations so low that most UI fans think losing in the first round of the tournament to a midmajor school is a good season.

Ron Guenther Shows His "Sensitive" Side

Chris Hanna, YOU IDIOT!!! "I think Ron Guenther has shown a lot of sensitivity toward fans both in pricing horseshoe and student tickets and in not raising prices," Illinois assistant athletic director Chris Hanna said. "He's got a strong record of pricing in a way that's fan friendly." How about some fan-friendly scheduling, Chris?

Hey, the basketball team is in the NCAAs. Where is Coach Guenther gonna sit for the gane?

Football Guy and Crocodile Tears

Ron, you ain't fooling us!

As for a schedule that finds Illinois playing Cincinnati and Fresno State in
late November at the conclusion of the conference race, Guenther shook his head:
"I'm not happy about it, but there isn't much I can do when we're presented with
an open date at the end. Somebody had to be there, and I hope the conference
changes that in the future. We really got stuck with few options after electing
to keep the open date in September."