| "I read in an article, can't seem to find it now, that ISU (Illinois State) might change sports conferences and that the president of the university wants to strengthen their academics to a degree that it will no longer be considered a "directional" school but to be considered on the same level as UIUC. If this is possible then that's a plus for me."
You must mean the plan to expand the stadium to 25,000. That would allow them to meet the requirements of Division 1A (or Football Bowl Subdivision), the same category as Illinois. However, they would be competing with the likes of Northern Illinois not Illinois for many decades. |