Disgruntled Illini Fans, Have We Got News For You!

(Guest posted by JamesCraven from The O Files)

FireRonZook.com is finally available.

Yup, the domain that struck fear into the hearts of Florida Gator fans everywhere between The Ol' Ball Coach and Urban Meyer's arrival is finally up for sale. The original web site was started by a bunch of disgruntled Gators fans in a fraternity with a few clicks and $35 in the kitty after a subpar, lackluster 2001 season under the current Illinois coach, and was even featured on PTI and The New York Times a lot. But now, Zook's at Illinois, one the creators has a blog up (on Blogspot coincidentally), Tim Tebow is still Thom Brennaman's man-love crush with Meyer (but not Steve Spurrier), and the domain that started it all is now for sale. It can be yours for a few bucks...but only if The Price is Right

JFein: The website, FireRonZook.com, has been down since April 2008 and while I don't know much about how that kind of stuff works, wouldn't the domain name have been available and/or for sale since then? Sources? Links to a source that this is somehow current news? If not, then this gets taken down. You gotta help me here, JC, I can't find anything.....And the blog that you linked to is NOT the same guy who started FireRonZook.com, hence his username "Not Baghead", meaning he's not "Baghead", the guy who started FireRonZook.com. Here's all of the information that you will ever need to know about the new blog (however, it is from 2006, 2 years before FRZ got taken down; I had mistakenly first thought that FRZ was first taken down in 2006 without reading the whole post as that was the gap in the archives of FRZ.blogspot between his posting of the old FRZ posts from Baghead and the start of NB's blog).

Update from JFein Version 2.0 Either JC channeled his inner me and hallucinated seeing something or his pitch worked.

Illinois--Penn State 2 Was A Tad Bit More Interesting

I joked during the live blog about the boringness of this game and that I would not watch it, and man, am I kicking myself for not watching it. What a game in Happy Valley. Better yet, what an ending in Happy Valley. It was not, I repeat, it was NOT a 37-34 snoozefest (or whatever the score of that clusterfuck was). Instead it was, in all likelihood, the clincher for Penn State's first trip to the Big Dance since 2001. And boy, did it occur in dramatic fashion. Down by 10 at one point, the Nittany Lions rallied to give us this You Gotta See It To Believe It ending. Remember this is historically bad Penn State basketball at home against the #23 in the country. The video starts with the Illini up 1 with 8.4 seconds left and their forward, Mike Davis, shooting the front end of a 1-and-1.



Woot! Nova and Penn State are (most likely) going to the Big Dance! Now Penn State can't blow it in the Big 10 tourney. I'm not sure they need to win it, but in order to secure the bid, they should have a fairly impressive showing. Damn my stubborn refusal to watch boring Big 10 basketball at 9:00 at night!