![]() Maybe once the talent is on the field in August I'll see it. That, combined with Rejus and Tez, allowed for the typical "maybe this is the year" spring/summer optimism. A 2-10 finish (and those awful back-to-back losses to Ohio and Indiana in October) didn't leave the fans feeling positive going into 2007 - even though 93% of all Illini fans will now tell you they could see 2007 coming, trust me, they couldn't - but there wasn't a 63-0 hanging over the program. The November before the 2019 season, we surprised no one by losing to 6-4 Iowa 63-0. ![]() The biggest difference between that and this, of course: the November before the 2007 season, we surprised everyone by hanging with top-ranked Ohio State, losing 17-10. Nobody expected nine wins, but I think most people went into that season with some "maybe if everything comes together we can win six!" summertime optimism. ![]() Remember the summer of 2007? We were coming of a maddening 2-10 season (the Ohio loss that October just about broke me), but we were pretty excited with Arrelious Benn and Martez Wilson arriving on campus. So it's weird for me to be so filled with dread when Isaiah Williams, Marquez Beason, and Shammond Cooper arrive on campus in a few weeks. This is the offseason where the head coach hired his son and our best recruiter left for Temple. This is a season that means something and here we are watching everything go wrong. The whole point was to kick-start the program with experienced players running the same system year after year.Īnd so as each bad thing happens - the starting QB transfers, the best player on the team is in the hospital with a "several spinal injury", the players transferring in decide to not transfer in - I'm filled with more and more dread. You play 22 of the true freshmen from your very first recruiting class in 2017 so that in 2019, you have 22 juniors with more experience than 90% of the juniors in the Big Ten. You play Tymir Oliver and Stanley Green before their ready in 2016 so that they're anchors to your defense in 2019. This year, well, this year (and next year) are why we rebuilt the way we rebuilt. This is a full-fledged rebuild, we're the youngest team in the country, Vegas thinks we'll win three games, I'm gonna watch the backup corners. It's a lame way to sports - "I totally don't care if we win or not" - but that's been my mode since we started playing the freshmen midway through 2016. I was in "learn" mode where I wouldn't really watch the games to watch the games - I wanted to learn if we had capable backup cornerbacks for the 20 seasons. There was no dread the past few years because the team had very little chance of winning. Mostly because this season means something. Normally this tweet fills me with anticipation each year. Just saw a tweet come across saying "100 days until Illini football". I think I'll just do a slapdash post to rid my brain of the things its thinking about. ![]() My record (for fewest posts during this month where I unplug my brain from Illini athletics as best I can) is 11 I think. If you can't use the Slapdash desktop app, this extension will also give you a Command Bar that will work on any page you have open in Chrome.I think this is post number nine in May. Installing the extension will also make connecting applications easier: providing better recommendations and cutting down the manual steps required to connect certain apps. When opening something from Slapdash, the extension will prevent the loading of a new tab, opting to re-use an already-open one instead. This extension also makes the overall Slapdash experience faster, with tab recycling. When opening the Command Bar while looking at a page in Chrome, the Command Bar will recommend contextual commands based on the page you are on. For both features, no data gets sent to Slapdash servers. You'll also get access to the "Chrome History" command to quickly search through what you've seen. Your open tabs will be searchable directly from the Slapdash desktop app. This extension adds Chrome superpowers to Slapdash while enhancing the overall Slapdash experience. Slapdash is a rethink of how we work with our cloud apps, with a focus on speed.
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