Before you continue reading, please realize this is not a hot take. It’s September 2017, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has the best fanbase in college athletics.
Illinois football running backs coach Thaddaeus Ward sells the program and school to recruits as Littyville — and he’s right. There is no place in college athletics quite like the University of Illinois. It’s, as the kids would say, “litty.”
To gain an appreciation for why this statement is true, just look at the past three days. It is a small sample size, but it should do this argument justice.