Illinois Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:23:01 PDT

In the wake of the NFL draft, there are two ways to view the way the league's 32 teams all but ignored the available talent from Illinois' Rose Bowl squad.

Running back Rashard Mendenhall, who went No. 23 overall to the Pittsburgh Steelers, was the only Illini who heard his name called. Considering 10 seniors started the Rose Bowl for Illinois—and Mendenhall was an early-entry junior—that suggests the Big Ten's Offensive Player of the Year was far more important to the team than anyone can measure. That's one theory.

The other? Illinois welcomes back quite a bit more talent than it's being given credit for having.

Though fourth-year coach Ron Zook constantly expresses his gratitude to his players who have moved on, consider him firmly in the "quite a...

Tuesday stadium gallery (Rivals.com)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:46:00 PDT

Construction continues along on Memorial Stadium as crews work towards finishing the west side of the stadium...

Mackovic talks football (Rivals.com)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:34:00 PDT

Former Illini head football coach John Mackovic appeared on WDWS radio in Champaign on Saturday morning to talk...