It’s fitting that the Illinois Football Spring Game takes place on April 20, aka 420.
The date is fitting because I am high on my irrational optimism and giddiness about watching.
Illinois is coming off an unexpected 8-5 campaign. Blowout wins over Wisconsin and Northwestern almost make it easy to forget gutting losses to both Big Ten teams from Michigan.
But that was all last season. Complacency doesn’t seem to be in this coaching staff’s vocabulary.
And it can’t be.
So much has changed.
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- Ryan Walters left Illinois for Purdue.