Illinois Athletics visits Rockford on Summer tailgate tour

ROCKFORD, Sick. (WIFR) – The College of Illinois paid a go to to the Stateline Tuesday because the athletics division had a cease in Rockford for the athletic division’s tailgate tour throughout Illinois.

Illinois Athletic Director Josh Whitman sees the Summer time tour as a option to have fun with Illinois followers and be taught from them.

“I believe it’s actually essential to sort of attain out and see us in particular person, a whole lot of instances we’re simply figures on tv and on social media and so for them to have the chance to work together with us and for us to listen to from them and see how excited they’re about our program and for me to get suggestions about issues they like, issues they don’t like,” Whitman mentioned, “whether or not it’s how they attend our video games, the expertise they get in our venues, but it surely’s only a nice probability for everyone, the in-person connection clearly we misplaced for the final couple of years and so the chance to reestablish and to satisfy individuals reside and in residing colour is significant for everyone.”

Whitman was joined by Illinois Males’s Basketball Assistant Coaches Chester Frazier and Geoff Alexander.

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