Why Illinois Basketball is Rolling to the Final Four
[I wrote this before the Elite Eight game and I’m posting it here the day after.]
Yesterday morning, for some strange reason, I kept hearing one song over and over in my head.
“Roll with the Changes” by REO Speedwagon.
REO Speedwagon, who formed in Champaign, Illinois, in 1967, and who named themselves after a flatbed truck they learned about in a University of Illinois history class, wrote one of my favorite songs. It has one of the best keyboard/guitar solos ever recorded. God bless, Gary Richrath.
All I kept hearing was the chorus: “(Keep on rollin’) Ooh roll with the changes / Keep on rollin’ (Keep on rollin’, keep on rollin’).” I’m not sure why it got stuck in my head, but it probably has something to do with what I want this Illinois basketball team to do.
Keep on rolling. Don’t stop. There’s more road ahead.
Of course, if you’d ask me six weeks ago, I’d have a different story to tell. Six weeks ago, I was a bad fan.
I had made a deal with myself somewhere in that foggy stretch between the Michigan State overtime loss and the early exit at the Big Ten Tournament. I decided that nothing this…
