"Wha? Oh, Mel Kiper here dudes. The Illini will win seven. No, eight. No, seven. Hey, man, no fair. Stop bogarting the Doritos." The Goat checked in with an assessment of the 2007 Illini: I think the people who are picking Illinois to win 7 games are completely stoned. Not that our non-conference schedule is anything tough but for the first time I can remember, we play Michigan, Ohio St., Penn St, Wisconsin and Iowa in the same season. The two conference teams not on our schedule this season are Michigan St. and Purdue. We've had two fantastic recruiting classes but that also means we're young in a couple of areas so I think it's much more fair to expect 7 wins out of the team next season. We do return 9 starters from a defense that was much improved last season and watch out for incoming Freshmen (Martez Wilson - linebacker and D'Angelo McCray - defensive line). Our offense should be better. Keys are obviously Juice Williams and Rashard Mendenhall. Mend...
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