[Oskee] wtf?

[Arbuckle, Jeanne]

I was watching TV early Saturday morning. I think it was Big Ten
Network, and the analyst who was talking predicted that Illinois had a
chance to beat Michigan. He said that because of Michigan's freshmen
quarterbacks, Illinois might be able to limit them defensively.  Just
hearing him say that made me go to the game with a slightly more
positive attitude. The first half felt like it has all season. But the
second half felt like some of the best games I've been to, like Howard
Griffith's game against SIU and some of Kurt Kittner's comebacks. I kind
of had a feeling when Terry Hawthorne made that play that it might be
big. Then when we had the goal line stand, and proceeded to take it 99+
yards and score, I felt like I was seeing something better than what
we'd seen all year. It was absolutely awesome. There was a guy in a
Forcier jersey sitting about 8 rows in front of us. He did a lot of
yelling and cheering the first half. In the second half, he put a
sweatshirt over the jersey and put the hood up. Lots of Illini fans from
around me kept going down and giving him a hard time. So I didn't talk
smack to him, but lots of other people did. 

 

From: oskee-bounces at heins.net [mailto:oskee-bounces at heins.net] On Behalf
Of gtillini95 at aol.com
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:26 PM
To: danaq at pobox.com; oskee at heins.net
Subject: Re: [Oskee] wtf?

 

I watched the first half and didn't see it coming.  

 

Terry Hawthorne made a huge, huge play to save a TD and lead to a great
goal-line stand.  Right now, I'm thinking of all the Saturday's when
better Illini teams lined up against UM in front of a home crowd and
couldn't do what these beleaguered kids did this afternoon.  The whole
thing was sparked by a freshman from East St. Louis.  No clue how this
will all turn out, but the college football junkie in me dreams of a
moment long in the future when this one play will be remembered as the
moment when a program, maybe a season, turned the corner.  At least for
one more week, that's how I'll view it.  

 

My first game in the stands at Memorial Stadium pretty much ended with
Michigan stuffing us on four straight running plays when one pass from
Tony Eason to Tim Brewster probably would have done the trick.   

 

If anybody was there today, please report what it felt like.  And even
if it didn't happen, lie and tell me you talked smack to some squirrely
Michigan fans outside of COs tonight.

 

M GO BLOW!  OWW!

 

Geoff


-----Original Message-----
From: Dana Quinn <dquinn at gmail.com>
To: Fighting Illini Sports Enthusiasts List <oskee at heins.net>
Sent: Sat, Oct 31, 2009 6:38 pm
Subject: [Oskee] wtf?

just reading the box score...  did anyone see this coming?
 
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Dana Quinn
danaq at pobox.com
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