Comments on: Youtube of Daily Show skit on Chief Illiniwek

by: Josh

Fri, 04 May 2007 21:19:30 +0000

I’m getting the impression that the skit will be a mockery of the Illiniwek tradition from their perspective of what it amounts to.

by: Al

Thu, 03 May 2007 01:29:04 +0000

How many times over the past 30 years has the NCAA imposed sanctions against the university for systemic recruiting violations. Is this an effort by the NCAA to show the trustees a lesson about morality and money ? The chief keeps the sports program under the microscope. Is academics a factor in the scrutiny of Uof I. ? I can’t tell where the alumni’s priorities exist.

by: CB

Thu, 03 May 2007 00:40:35 +0000

I fail to see the relationship between faking a drunk at a local bar and the situation of Chief Illiniwek. I’m not sure how this could pass as “comedy”. It was made very clear by the U of I Board of Trustees and their actions over the last 30 years that the Chief was recently “dropped” for financial reasons, that their “loyalty” is now to the dollars of the NCAA. If it was anything else, the Chief would have been removed as representative of the U of I decades ago. And, yes, I do know — I was there 30 years ago, and there was appropriate discussion going back at least that far, discussion unchanged from the most recent…except for the influence of the NCAA dollars. The recent actions of the U of I Board of Trustees were disgusting, and they should all, as a group, be replaced, for such mercenary attitudes and action. It is repulsive that they should stoop so low. The U of I can have their NCAA dollars, but have mine no more.
So, now that I think about it, if you were instead running a parody of a Board of Trustee member drunk at a local bar….nah, not worth it…and still not funny.
Craig Bartos, LAS ‘77