What’s the one thing that can startle me from a sound sleep in the middle of the night?
University of Illinois football is that kind of haunting nightmare.
Illini football is the riddle no one has been able to solve. It’s the most confounding issue in the Illini sports universe, and hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on coaches, recruiting, facilities and marketing trying to find an answer that seems more elusive than a cure for hiccups.
Unless you go back to coach Bob Zuppke, whose 29-year coaching career ended 11 years before I was born, just three coaches seem to be remembered as successful.