Justified concerns for Underwood and Illinois post-Spain

Greetings and salutations, Illinois Land!

What a long, strange trip its been.

The previous sentence could describe the entirety of my Illinois fandom experience of the previous four decades, and explicate Brad Underwood’s program after the recent overseas trip to Spain.

Not so much long, as strange, as it were. Not so much strange, as expected. Here’s a better way to put it.

“They are who we thought they were.”

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While the first part of that quote continues to be debated, one thing that is not called to question is the second part. There is no way in hell that anyone is letting the Illinois men’s basketball, or its head coach, off the hook for anything…ever.

Quite the…