In a refreshing change of pace, it looks like the University of Illinois is finally ready to embrace its football team.
Shortly after interim AD Paul Kowalcyzk gave then-interim football coach Bill Cubit the stupidest contract extension in all of college football, I wrote a very angry missive towards the University of Illinois accusing the school of not caring about football. I still stand by what I wrote in November because at that time the school had an administration that more or less did not care. The athletic department was in complete shambles and it showed.