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Journal and courier lafayette11/9/2023 To quote the greatest band of all time, “Sad but true.” Alex Martin/Journal and Courier / USA TODAY NETWORK Altmyer going on long runs when things break down is legitimately the best option that the Illini have to gain big chunks. It’s not great, by any stretch of the imagination. I promised myself that I wouldn’t dig into the situation too much, for fear of what the discovery of facts may lead to, but here we are. Let’s simply look what has gone wrong for Bielema, and his two coordinators - Barry Lunney, Jr. It’s lascivious, salacious, outrageous.Īn apology won’t do. My wrongness on the Illinois football team this season is so egregious, preposterous and outrageous, even the great litigator Jackie Chiles would be stunned. There is no logical reason to print a retraction on a column, because it is based about 75%, or more, on personal opinion and subjective prognostication. Publications will print retractions when they are factually wrong about a story, or recognize that the information they passed along was either wholly inaccurate, or a name was used incorrectly. Pleas: Quick takeaways from Illinois’ blowout loss to Purdue Here is my colleague, Pleas Honeywood, with a rapid-fire reaction to the debacle in West Lafayette yesterday. The heroic fourth down conversion in Week 1 at home against Toledo is the ONLY THING keeping this team from a 1-4 start to the season. Through five games, Illinois is now 2-3, and essentially is two plays away from being winless. More times than not, I do pretty well predicting what is coming down the pipeline. I see things on the field, or court, and try to give an honest assessment of what we’ve seen so far, and provide educated hypotheses on what is to come in the future. If you’ve been reading my writing over the past couple of seasons, you’ll notice a pattern. Illinois handed Purdue a minimum of 17 points, objectively in the embarrassing blowout loss, 44-19. Illinois QB Luke Altmyer fumbles the first six points into the endzone in the first quarter of Week 5. Not only was I wrong about the 2023 Illinois football team, and maybe more importantly, HBC Bret Bielema, this is the most wrong I’ve ever been about an Illini team in the 35+ years actively watching the university compete. 500 record and misery on the couch come Saturday. Some think pumpkin spice lattes and falling leaves signal the beginning of fall.įor me, it’s a below. Illinois being dreadful at football and getting trounced is homeostasis for my soul. I chose this particular song for a particular reason. At the very least, you’re familiar with the lyrics, and the overall message of positivity and/or the advantageous mourning perspective. You’ve probably sang “It Is Well” at some point in your life. Illinois football is back to being the same ole Illinois football, and maybe even worse than it was before it was temporarily not Illinois football in 2022. From 1920 to the present day, the building has adapted to the needs of the town's newspaper company, an important and significant business for the community.Dammit. The Journal Courier Building is also significant because the construction, growth and additions of the building reflect the growth and prosperity of Lafayette through its town development as a transportation and commerce center. Therefore, the Journal Courier Building is also significant as the work of a master. His work was often commended for its excellence and many buildings in Indiana exemplify his particular skill as an architect of school and hospital construction. Having served as the former president of the Indiana Society of Architects and a member of the American Institute of Architects he has designed over 16 buildings in Lafayette and the surrounding area, 12 of which consist of educational buildings on Purdue University. Scholer was an Indiana architect who is best known for designing the National Fowler Bank of Lafayette, the Tippecanoe Loan & Trust Company Bank, and the Mars theatre, the latter of which was built in 1902 the same year as the Journal and Courier Building. The Journal and Courier Building is significant because it is an example of the work of architect, Walter Scholer. They have since come to be known collectively as The Journal Courier Building through popular use over the past 50 years. History: The Journal Courier Building The Journal Courier Building originated as two buildings - The Painters and Decorators Building, and the Journal Courier.
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