CHAMPAIGN — A typical Saturday night on the University of Illinois campus will find students walking through the Quad, with various destinations on their mind.
Dre Brown and Jimmy Fitzgerald ventured out to the Quad last year on a Saturday night. But a house party or Campustown establishment wasn’t on the agenda.
“We were just hanging out, and he goes, ‘Hey, man, do you want to run through zone steps on the Quad?’” Fitzgerald said of Brown, with a laugh, more than a year later. “I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’”
But out they went, two early enrollees who had signed with Illinois in the Class of 2015, trying to perfect their football skills even more.