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I think a horseshoe is ham & melted cheese on French toast and that is a Springfield thing. The place in Champaign that had the haystack was Home Stretch Diner or something like that. I used to get them at the Whitehorse Inn but that place is gone. a horseshoe is a springfield thing but it's not that disgusting thing you described. it's this disgusting(ly awesome) thing: toast with a hamburger patty on top covered with fries covered with cheese sauce. almost any place you go will offer it with a variety of meat options. i had a really good buffalo chicken one once. Yes. There was a place on Springfield Ave in Champaign called Rocks that had really good horseshoes. I believe they piled everything on a couple slices of Texas toast. And yeah, White Horse is still open, or at least it was the last time I was down in Champaign. It moved to John Street though, into a spot that I believe was Bar Louie when I was in school.
When did they have promise? When they lost to NF to start the season? Oh never mind it must have been when they barely beat Yale to get to .500. Again, they were down three starters in both those games. They have some talent, but no depth to overcome being down 3 starters. Of course the complexion of any team is going to change if 60% of the expected starting lineup is missing for nearly the entire season. Enough to go from "had some promise" to "train wreck." Of course Groce being in over his head plays a part as well, but there was certainly some talent to hope on, at least. Not that any of this matters in the least, just didn't get why that was such an outrageous claim.
It's not like "had some promise" is some kind of over the top optimism. Before they lost three starters, they had a chance to be interesting. I don't get why that's controversial.
This is pretty silly, but I just stumbled on this on Facebook and it made me laugh so I thought I'd share it:
I took Broadcast Journalism at U of I with the host of the video. He was a really good dude and now his job basically seems like doing fun stuff like this with athletes and celebrities, so good for him.