<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Yeah, this soft early schedule is probably our only hope for postseason play -- if we can build confidence early beating up on the weak teams in the conference, perhaps that will allow us to compete against some of the better teams. Confidence can be a powerful thing, but it has to be paired with desire, something this team still hasn't consistently demonstrated at any point this season (and by that I mean as a team, not isolated individual performances). But still, had we had a tough early schedule this could have been a truly ugly season. It still may be in the end, but I'm going to hold on to that slim thread of hope until it snaps :-).<br><br>-- robert<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new
york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Todd Sweet <trsweet@ilstu.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Fighting Illini Sports Enthusiasts List <oskee@heins.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, January 11, 2010 8:24:58 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Oskee] Still feels nice to beat the Loosiers<br></font><br>
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better off just spotting the opposing team 15 points at tip off. At least that
would give us more time to catch up! :-P</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Oh well, a road win in the big ten is like
gold so I’ll take it. But our margin for error is pretty much nil at
this point. We cannont afford to lose any of our games to Indiana ,
Penn St., Iowa ,
or Northwestern. And the way Michigan
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
oskee-bounces@heins.net [mailto:oskee-bounces@heins.net] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Larry Roller<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, January 09, 2010
10:14 PM<br>
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Illini Sports Enthusiasts List<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Yup, Kevin, good week for those of us living in enemy
territory. Had me a little worried for a while tonight, though.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:22:49
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From: kemna@hughes.net<br>
To: oskee@heins.net<br>
Subject: [Oskee] Still feels nice to beat the Loosiers</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well I've been rather quiet this season but I can
still get the blood pressure going in beating
Indiana ! Why do we have to suck
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">McCamey took over the game in the second half and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tonight. Larry R. And I should be happy in
beating pur nemsis this week.</span></font></p>
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