August 28th, 2015 at 2:41 PM ^
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August 28th, 2015 at 2:37 PM ^
That whole university is in total chaos. In the past month, the chancellor and provost have resigned/been fired. Earlier in the summer, they were censured for violations of academic freedom by the AAUP. And now they've fired the football coach. There are also some pretty ugly allegations out there about the women's basketball coach.
August 28th, 2015 at 2:48 PM ^
Oh come on... Just when I was about to submit my secondary to their medical school...
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August 28th, 2015 at 3:08 PM ^
And the football stuff on their main campus in Champaign-Urbana?
So don't worry. Won't reflect on you come match day.
August 28th, 2015 at 3:19 PM ^
The med school is in Chicago, but...
Part of the deal with the Chancellor resigning had to do with the effort to create a new, downstate medical school and her efforts to conceal the emails related to the new med school from public records laws by using a personal email address (while doing the same thing for the emails related to the decision to fire the professor that led to the AAUP's academic freedom censure... the details of which quickly violate the 'no politics' rule).
August 28th, 2015 at 4:15 PM ^
Yeah I heard that Illinois was trying to build a main campus medical school... doubt that happens now.
August 28th, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^
As someone who was born and raised in Illinois, the level of corruption at so many different levels blows my mind. You would think we'd be the model of midwestern humility and honest hard work. Instead, we're a bunch of short cut takers and self-promoting liars. Well, I'm not, I'm just talking about everyone else.
August 28th, 2015 at 2:51 PM ^
How can someone born and raised in Illinois be surprised by corruption occuring in state institutions?
August 28th, 2015 at 3:03 PM ^
This is the state that stole the 1960 presidential race, after all.
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August 28th, 2015 at 3:11 PM ^
The one I liked best was "The only state where governors personally make license plates".
Don't forget about our esteemed elected representatives in the federal system, or the upstanding folks running counties and cities or in other statewide positions.
August 28th, 2015 at 11:03 PM ^
Just the governors? Add to that list mayors, comptrollers, aldermen and women, husbands and wives of elected officals (particularly congresspeople), cops, and the guy who was driving the street cleaner who killed a pedestrian because he was drunk.
August 28th, 2015 at 3:17 PM ^
For the record, they actually rejected the resignation of Chancellor Phyllis Wise and have started proceedings to dismiss her. Accepting her resignation would have meant agreeing to a $400k severance package, but they didn't want her to get off that easy.
Apparently, they actually have it in writing where she urged others to use personal email accounts to conduct sensitive university business so that it would not be subject to open records requests (basically, the state version of FOIA at the federal level).
then you have accusations of being threatened with scholarship loss by men's and women's b-ball players. The football scandal.
And in recent years, they were also nailed for that pretty major "clout" scandal, wherein they basically accepted children with sub-par credentials because their parents were prominent politicians and business leaders.
Real mess downstate.
August 28th, 2015 at 3:51 PM ^
"What's wrong with using personal emails to conduct sensitive government business?" - HC
/I know, no politics, but that softball was hangin' in the strikezone
August 28th, 2015 at 4:02 PM ^
(Best Jim Nantz voice) Illinois has a tradition of corruption like no other.
The Land of Lincoln is nothing like the man.
August 28th, 2015 at 4:53 PM ^
Fun (probably only for me) fact: My wife graduated (decades apart) from the same high school HC attended for her freshman-junior years, before being redistricted to a different school.
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August 28th, 2015 at 2:41 PM ^
Beckman posted a 12-25 mark in three seasons at the school, peaking with a 6-7 2014 campaign that ended in a Heart of Dallas Bowl loss to Louisiana Tech.
Great success!
August 28th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
Man, Illinois football is going to be a grim death march this year. Well, at least there's basketball season. Oh...right. They haven't done anything in basketball for years. Is there any more dismal athletic program in the Big Ten? Purdue and Indiana stink at football but have generally put out quality on the hardwood--Indiana is Indiana as far as basketball. Ditto Maryland--they ball on hardwood. Iowa has a killer wrestling program. Northwestern does the world-class academic thing so what do they care about their lack of success(with all due respect to xtramelanin)? Only Rutgers and Illinois seemingly have nothing sportswise in the conference, little in the way of tradition and no sense of hope for better.
August 28th, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
Hey Iowa has been putting out some respectable basketball teams with Fran.
NW always had a respectable football program and this is the year Collins Jr. gets his players going at basketball.
August 28th, 2015 at 5:07 PM ^
I hope so. They have never made the big dance. I keep hoping for them to make it. It would be cool to see.
August 28th, 2015 at 3:03 PM ^
regular season Big Ten championships in mens golf, tennis, baseball and track and field. One less than Michigan.
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They had a nice year in Baseball.
Michigan still beat them and won the B1G Tournament, though.
August 28th, 2015 at 3:40 PM ^
Northwestern's women's lacrosse team is one of the very best programs every year.
August 28th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
Thanks for the memory
August 28th, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
JMFR was a beast in this game, and Denard's run at the beginning of the third quarter was one of his signature plays.
August 28th, 2015 at 3:15 PM ^
I remember laughing after leaving the game about how different it was than the last time Illinois came here-
August 28th, 2015 at 3:23 PM ^
Missed that game... was at my Gf's place and she wouldn't let me watch
=(
Yeah we broke up soon after.
August 28th, 2015 at 4:49 PM ^
You were both a terrible judge of character and a complete wuss. I'm glad you have reformed yourself since then. I don't know you, i'm just assuming this is the case.
Alternative theory: you were dating the hottest chick / best cook on the planet in which case i apologize.
Hell I apologize either way cuz who the hell am I to judge. Here is some HARBAUGH for you! You can't open it til Thursday, but the wait will be worth it.
August 28th, 2015 at 5:32 PM ^
She was very hot .... and also crazy, but hot. I was young and stupid.
Now am older and well.... still stupid.
August 28th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
But could the timing possilby be worse?
August 28th, 2015 at 2:43 PM ^
Thomas said he learned of efforts to deter injury reporting and influence medical decisions that pressured players to avoid or postpone medical treatment and continue playing despite injuries. He also said in some instances student-athletes were treated inappropriately with respect to whether they could remain on scholarship during the spring semester of their senior year if they weren’t on the team.
Yikes. If nothing else, at least Bill Cubit is apparently playing with a full deck.
Actually, Illinois probably traded up a smidge just by promoting Cubit - Cubit can beat MAC teams.
August 28th, 2015 at 2:43 PM ^
The University of Illinois has not been the same since Joel Goodsen got into Princeton.
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August 28th, 2015 at 2:44 PM ^
Just so Harbaugh can smack him around once in a while.
Although I think Hoke would be a good fit there.
August 28th, 2015 at 3:02 PM ^
DB should take the job after he receives a nice golden parachute for tanking Toys R Us.
August 28th, 2015 at 3:08 PM ^
Hoke as the AD and Brandon as the HC.
August 28th, 2015 at 2:46 PM ^
Shout out to TheScore app! Miss that channel ...
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Wow. Let's all take a minute to think about how lucky we are to have old Jimmy H back at the helm.
August 28th, 2015 at 2:52 PM ^
in the weight room.....
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