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Illinois Fighting Illini (you'll see)

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Illini Dylan said:


Saw this yesterday and brought back some painful memories. We don't talk enough about how the 2011 Ohio State team, easily the weakest OSU team of this millennium, absolutely BROKE the Illinois football program. We still haven't recovered from that awful October afternoon almost 11 years ago.

Illini were 6-0, ranked 16th in the country, and a 3-3 OSU team was coming to town, Illinois was a rare favorite against the Buckeyes, 16 year old me was excited, the Illini are gonna win back the turtle and we were gonna have a special year. We were just waiting and we thought we were seeing.

And then we weren't. Illinois lays an egg, OSU wins 17-7, then came the nose dive to hell, losing our next 5, Zook is fired putting us on the road to Tim Beckman/Bill Cubit/Lovie Smith.

Illinois wins that game, maybe we don't lose the next 5, Zook holds on another year, maybe we never end up with Beckman, who the hell knows? I just remember being so pissed after that game if I'd have known just how deep the fallout was going to be from that loss, I would've cried.
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And that tOSU team somehow beat Russel Wilson-led Wisconsin. Who was the coach who managed to screw that up? 8D
 
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colobuck79 said:
I was at that USC game. Took my oldest son there from Denver for a great father/son bonding experience. Told him the loss was his fault, disowned him, and banished him to upstate NY. No regrets.
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I got married the day before that 2008 game...and almost got divorced after that game. Apparently I told her she was bad luck and this type of thing never happened when I was single...and that loss sucked, too.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
@BB73
Such great seats ruined by such a shitty result. There was also a fumble for an osu touch back after the first carry of the game for Illinois. Had review looked at the play, it would have been 7 points off the board and ohio state football at the 20.

Anyway.... went to USC 2008 with bb73 ... and.. we agreed to part ways, when it came to games. Not really. But we haven't been to a game together since. Lol
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Well, I figured why spend another miserable 3 and a half hours at a game sitting next to you?

And not only that, the Buckeyes lost those games!

:sneaky:
 
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cincibuck said:
Are you talking about the kid who came to tell us that Maryland was going to be dominating the Big Ten within a year of joining?
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No, the Illinois fan poster "ThaKid" who came here predicting that Illinois was going to begin dominating the B1G and winning national championships (plural) following the 2007 season. He famously said Illinois was about to become "very Miami-esque" referring to how da U won all those NCs and became an NFL factory in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.
 
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