PLAYERS WIN. WINNERS WIN. TOWELS TOWELLINATE.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The name of Illinois’ coach appears in the following due to artistic license. Apologies.
Textin’. Winnin’. Lovin’. Gotta bench, gotta get better, gotta compete. Can’t win without competin’. Can’t compete without work. Can’t work without arms. Can’t have arms without a body, and you can’t have a body without legs. That’s why Captain here’s doing squats during this interview right now.
LOOK AT THE FORM! AAAIIIIGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! (Pistol squats 350 pounds, texts recruit with his toes using a 1983 cell phone the size of a mailbox.)
Gotta get the students into it. Get ‘em excited. We’re all excited but we’re not excited enough. Excitement means excitement times excitement divided by excitement. Get ‘em some towels. Loving me some towels. Worked in Pittsburgh. Drunk Yinzers puking. Towels. Hurling on each other. Women punching women punching men punching mules. Punching.
Alcohol poisoning. Excited, then football, then alcohol poisoning. Clean up with the towels. Wave ‘em around and get puke all over the place. Excitement. That’s what we’re looking for here.

Excitement. Towels. Punching Mules.
GOTTA FIND A FIREHOSE OF EXCITEMENT FOR ILLINOIZE BABEE!!!! (Shoots caffeine into eyeballs with aerosol injector)
All them towels gettin’ me excited. Too excited. Don’t look. Violates human resource codes. That’s off the record and no pictures. Gotta get new pants. Too much coach for the shorts. Excited!
SOOOOOOOO ENERGETIC!!!!! JUICE WILLIAMS AAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! THE ZOOKER IS ROLLIN, BABEEEEE!!! IN THE ZOOOOOOOOK ZOOOOOOOOOOOONE!!!
(Tears phone book in half, dips it in barrel of Ben-Gay, eats it, punches hole in wall and leaves.)









1
OhioDawg says:
Is this the beginning of a rapprochement between Orson and Zook?
June 26th, 2008 at 11:29 am
2
gosouthgohard says:
#1:
Détente, even?
June 26th, 2008 at 11:32 am
3
now_a_hoo says:
As a former resident of Squirrel Hill, I’ll paraphrase Bruno Gianelli,
“I love it when the Yinzers get involved.”
June 26th, 2008 at 11:40 am
4
BennyBeav says:
Count me as disgustedly appreciative of the phrase, “Too much coach for the shorts.”
June 26th, 2008 at 11:44 am
5
Oops Pow Surprise says:
Did someone say power towel?
June 26th, 2008 at 11:49 am
6
Oops Pow Surprise says:
Ahem. I said, did someone say power towel?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-A-05wPlQQ4
June 26th, 2008 at 11:50 am
7
Allahver Fist says:
Don’t forget your towel!
June 26th, 2008 at 11:59 am
8
Darkknight says:
You UF folks sure give that dude a lot of shit even though he set Urb up pretty nicely for the 2006 MNC
June 26th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
9
Orson Swindle says:
Yes we do, and will forever.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
10
John says:
Que up the Joe Satriani, because we are rock the house tonight!
June 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
11
Spanky says:
I really think this will improve things around here, I really really do.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
12
Mackalicious says:
Oh Fox 5 reporter who fell down trying to cheat in the grape smoosh-off…you will NEVER die!
June 26th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
13
Dr. StrangeCock says:
I have no idea what’s going on.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
14
Erdinger says:
Do you think [NAME REDACTED] would of been able to win a national championship if he was still the coach of UF in 2006?
He deserves all the shit’s he’s given, he never deserved that job.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
15
carlinthemarlin says:
Every time I see teams like Illinois or KSU trying to start a new “tradition” like the power towel, I think “this is what separates real football teams from the wannabe’s.” Than I remember that Nebraska added the tunnel walk in 95, blatantly ripping off the Chicago Bull’s entrance song in the process, and I a weep a little inside.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
16
Jester says:
What the hell do yinzers have to do with this?
I don’t really care….but I LOVE IT!
June 26th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
17
kleph says:
well, it does beat jingling keys.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
18
willet says:
No MNC in 06 UF would be 8-3 but getting better all the time, working hard, good effort blah blah
June 26th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
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Oops Pow Surprise says:
Not just better, willet, but better and better.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
20
NewAZTiger says:
All 6 Home Games?
Six Home games?!?????
No wonder they suck.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
21
Allahver Fist says:
fireronzookagainandagainandagain.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
22
GamecockTony says:
@Dr. Strangecock,
Me neither.
We must not have learned this in school. *
*Five Points
June 26th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
23
willet says:
Good point OPS-like a bad Winn Dixie ad
June 26th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
24
sb says:
Like a car-wreck…those face-plants by Castro and the news babe are hard to ignore, but somehow [name redacted] makes it possible. On the contrary, [name redacted] is becoming dramatically easier to ignore now that he is someone else’s self-contained clusterfuck.
June 26th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
25
oc phil says:
Reading this it strikes me that Zook is a version of Pete Carroll with more testosterone and less brains.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
26
yoyofutbawl says:
[NAME REDACTED] at Chateau Elan?
June 26th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
27
DHC says:
#8,
Cue any Ron Zook press conference and get back to us.
Imagine Ron Zook threatening the entire Pi Kappa Phi house with personal destruction and get back to us.
Relive the drama as Ron Zook gets Croomed and get back to us.
Watch just about any fourth quarter lead get whittled away (like a wood chipper, feet first) and get back to us.
Regarding Ron Zook, never forgive, never forget.
That is all.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
28
Craig says:
How sad for you Gator fans. Maybe the rest of us should chip in for therapy. Deep breath, everything is going to be OK until Illinois embarrasses your overrated team in a bowl game. Oops! That was just a slip. Deep breath, everything is going to be OK.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
29
Illini FTW says:
I am an Illini fan who will not bate any arguments with Gator fans, because that is really counter productive
I will say that after going through an entire lifetime of Illini mediocrity and degradation, Zook, though clearly not a fit at Florida, is worth his weight in cocain at Illinois.
I’m not going to tell you that coach Zook is going to take us to the BCS every year, but I think it is reasonable to go to a minor to impressive bowl every year. Damn it I lived through Ron Turner, who couldn’t convince anyone not born in champaign county to come to Illinois. Even though he starts off some second halfs with onside kicks, and even though he accepts penaltys that give Iowa extra chances to score touchdowns, some how he gets people from Ft. Lauderdale to live through winter in Champaign, Which is a major victory I think.
We are Illini fans, we don’t ask for much, just let us have this. (although some also want a dancing Indian)
June 26th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
30
DHC says:
#28 and #29 -
Please keep the Zook hiring in context. HE FOLLOWED STEVEN ORR SPURRIER!!!!!
That’s like a Captain taking over a big, beautiful, powerful aircraft carrier … and sinking it.
June 27th, 2008 at 6:43 am
31
Craig says:
#29, if I were worried about being productive wouldn’t be reading this blog much less leaving comments.
June 27th, 2008 at 7:22 pm