I guess we’ll just have to disagree, lol. Your citing of colors seems to ignore than a little less than half of Illini fans seemed to be wearing navy around me. Lower bowl might have been 65/35 if you count the students but zero chance for non-student fans. And even if the math worked out for more NU fans overall, saying Illinois didn’t have a majority in the upper bowl is pure madness. Again, it was no less than 75%, dude. Either way, who cares? You earned the important thing - the W.
As for the person saying the chants toward Shannon were fair game at the time … seriously? The lesson learned is that you shouldn’t lazily assume someone’s guilt without a shred of evidence, not that you can immediately assume guilt until he can officially clear his name months later and privately apologize to yourself, lol. That kid endured incredibly classless treatment based on what turned out to be a ludicrous allegation with zero evidence, and he handled it with dignity and maturity all while being asked to carry his team on the court … as most who followed the case were saying from the start and were simply accused of being biased Illini fans. I’ll admit this forced me to reconsider how I now view these things when it will inevitably come to a rival team’s player, but those chants simply weren’t justified. Period. Your students chanted “Lock Him Up!” at an innocent college kid without even circumstantial evidence. 🤣 It’s an understandable thing to do at the time, sure, but if anything it highlighted an alarming number of Americans who IMMEDIATELY assume someone’s guilt based on an allegation … to double down on it after the exoneration is nuts.
