Took my 90 year old mother along to our first Purple & Gold Gala. Was contending bidder on three items. Really had a good time. Enjoyed talking to Kirk Dillard afterwards about the future direction of Western.

If I understood correctly Brad is the new Executive Director of the Foundation, but not as an employee of WIU.

Been a while since I've been on here. Don't know this Rives guy but his comments about not wanting to live in Macomb with all the animals and as alum of the Ag Dept it is enough for me to form an opentioned theinion on him! As was previously m Ag Dept is one of a handful of departments that is holdi...

I agree 100%. We need to find out how EIU did it. Did they hire a marketing team or PR agency. If can be done in Charleston it sure as hell can be done at The Harvard on the La Moine!!

Denver's HC is Chauncey Billups brother. I just got done watching Colorado beat Arizona. Chauncey was interviewed during the game. He said his brother is the HC and UD and his coach at CO, Ricardo Patton was his asst. I think Patton was the HC at NIU after he was fired at CO.

Thanks Scott for all of your hard work to make the site a success. This is especially valuable for me being four hours from Macomb in the shadows of the UNI -Dome in Cedar Falls, IA

I was at the NDSU game. Five minutes before tip I counted the number of people on the players benches side. Grand total of 53 people. There may have been 100 - 150 on my side. About 25 - 30 under the basket and the band on the other end. They must have counted sold season tickets because there wasn'...

Let's not forget what TVA did to Coach P. State of IL ruled in Coach P's favor, which the state should have done, No retribution for TVA since the Pres and VP TVA reported to were retiring. I quit donating the day Coach P was pushed out and resumed the day TVA was fired. I was in school when Gil was...

Under the astute leadership of Jackie Thomas downhill!! Same direction it's been going since he moved into Sherman Hall! Hopefully with all the vacancies on the BOT we'll have some trustees that will do what should have been done years ago and show Jackie the door ASAP!!

Good friends daughter who was on the WIU Golf team is graduating today. She went through the Honers ceremony last night and regular ceremonies today. Dad texted me pictures of Jackie Thomas as the speaker. Are we so hard up we can't find an outside speaker?? Today he quoted Australian Rapper Iggy Az...