Green Street Journal: ?Somebody needs to get me away from the check??

Feb 4, 2004 | Andy | 17 comments

Hello again friends, I am coming to you this morning from a cold, but very happy, Champaign-Urbana. I don?t want to repeat a lot of the stuff Andy said about this game (Because, really, that?s not what I?m not getting paid anything to do here), but there were a couple things I would like to discuss with you about this game.

1. The most annoying aspect of this Illini team is its penchant for shooting threes from three feet behind the line. I counted at least four of these kind of shots last night, and that was without going back and looking at the tape. Get AT the line, not behind it, and you might make one or two more guys?

2. What was the last play Davis designed? He must have got the inspiration for the ?Bracey Wright jacks it up in front of Nick Smith? play from John Shoop. That?s how bad of a play it was?

3. If you are going to dunk, you had better make it. That?s why I stick with free throws. In a statistic that is hard to accomplish, Illinois is the team that has won the most at Indiana?s Assembly Hall since it opened. Granted, Illinois is only 10-21 (Michigan State is second with only eight wins over the years in Bloomington), but this is a great statistic considering Indiana?s success over the years.

4. Bruce Weber has had some ugly losses, but all I really want from our coach in the regular season (Well, other than to do well enough to get in the NCAA tournament) is to beat Missouri, Iowa, and Indiana as much as possible. Mr. Weber, you are 3-0 in that regard so far. I?m beginning to like this guy.

5. That may have been the ugliest important win in the history of collegiate basketball. Game 7 of the 1998 NBA Eastern Conference Finals was also really ugly for the Bulls, but they did win it. If the Illini get ugly wins like this for the rest of the season, I know I will be a happy camper. On to other stuff?

Robert Novak (University of Illinois alum) may face an assault charge for a fight he had with a heckler in New Hampshire.

I?m not an expert (yet), but I don?t think that is the modus operandi for most journalists to get back at critics.

Here?s John Kerry being arrested for being charged with stealing the Democratic Nomination. From Al Sharpton?

I guess Dan Marino doesn?t hate Jim Nantz so much after all. I wonder when Jim will start throwing stuff at him next year?

Jim Fassel joins the Ravens? And the Bears completely avoided this guy? No wonder they have sucked for years?

And, to conclude, is USC head football coach Pete Carroll high or just hungover in this picture? I will leave that up to you?

17 Comments

  1. Chris Patton
    Chris Patton on February 4, 2004 at 2:22 pm

    I hate Jim Nantz, can I be in charge of the Dolphins?

    Job 1 – Fire Wanny!
    Job 2 – Hire Ace Ventura to find Snowflake!

  2. Neal Page
    Neal Page on February 4, 2004 at 2:23 pm

    When you tell a story, have a POINT! It makes it soooo much more interesting for the reader!

  3. Del Griffith
    Del Griffith on February 4, 2004 at 2:59 pm

    Those aren’t pillows!

  4. Harris Telemacher
    Harris Telemacher on February 4, 2004 at 4:03 pm

    Well, maybe you think it’s intellectual because you were raised with a banana and an inner tube… This is an intellectual-free zone.

  5. Amaury Telemacho
    Amaury Telemacho on February 4, 2004 at 4:10 pm

    Dad?

  6. Navin Johnson
    Navin Johnson on February 4, 2004 at 4:19 pm

    HE HATES THESE CANS!!!

  7. Dean Vernon Wormer
    Dean Vernon Wormer on February 4, 2004 at 4:21 pm

    It’s time someone put their foot down.

    And that foot is me.

  8. B.C.
    B.C. on February 4, 2004 at 4:33 pm

    Nobody told me these Desipio articles needed a point…

  9. Steve Martin
    Steve Martin on February 4, 2004 at 4:41 pm

    Well, excuuuuuuuse me!

  10. Delta House
    Delta House on February 4, 2004 at 4:48 pm

    Please don’t put us on Double Secret Probation, Dean.

  11. Snowflake...
    Snowflake... on February 4, 2004 at 6:52 pm

    Can I have some of that gum?

  12. B.C.
    B.C. on February 4, 2004 at 9:21 pm

    Reports this evening say Janet Jackson has been banned from the Grammys… Just so you know.

  13. Heywood
    Heywood on February 4, 2004 at 9:30 pm

    Ugly game, GREAT WIN!
    If my teams beat the Packers, deadbirds and hoosiers I am happier than a priest going to boys camp.

  14. T-Mac
    T-Mac on February 4, 2004 at 11:37 pm

    Hey, just ask me what it feels like to be without a point..

  15. B.C.
    B.C. on February 4, 2004 at 11:47 pm

    When was the last time we beat the Packers? 1989? That’s the sad thing, I don’t remember the last time we actually beat them… I could be completely absent-minded right now, but I honestly can’t even tell you when our last win against them was.

  16. Mike D.
    Mike D. on February 5, 2004 at 7:34 am

    2000 w/Cade McNown at QB. BELIEVE IT.

    They also won in ’99 when Bryan Robinson blocked Longwell’s potential game winner.

    Ironically, BC, ’89 was the only year between ’85 and ’91 that the Bears didn’t sweep Green Bay. In fact, they got swept–the Packers won one of those games when Don Majkowski ran 30 yards past the line of scrimmage and threw the game winning TD pass. Or at least it’s 30 yards in my memory.