Illinois Fighting Illini 2012

Illinois 2011 Statistics (Big Ten) The Fighting Illini play on artificial (FieldTurf) at Memorial Stadium (seats 62,670) Tim Beckman is in his 1st year as head coach at Illinois. He takes over after Ron Zook was fired following another mediocre regular season (the team finished 7-6 afer winning the bowl game without Zook). The Illini […]

Illinois 2011

Illinois 2010 Statistics (Big Ten) The Fighting Illini play on artificial (FieldTurf) at Memorial Stadium (seats 62,870) Ron Zook enters his 7th year as head coach and barely squeaked out a winning season last year (7-6) to have only his second winning season for Illinois. The highlight of his Illinois career thus far was getting […]

Illinois 2010

Illinois (2009 Statistics) This team has had exactly one winning season under Ron Zook (now in his 6th year as head coach).  In 2007 the Fighting Illini went 9-4 and found themselves in the ROSE BOWL, where they struggled against USC and lost 49-17.  But at least they were there (and I was there) with […]