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BY ALEX SWANSON STAFF WRITER

Seon Campbell, a nontradi-tional freshman at Parkland College, feels like many of his peers don’t fully under-stand the change to their health care plans brought on by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

Campbell, 28, is studying to become a licensed practi-cal nurse and works with the Wellness Center on campus.

“A lot of the students that come here are fresh out of high school, and they have not yet been educated about (Obamacare),” Campbell said.

Campbell thinks the con-fusion over their health care benefits could be a problem for students if their health suddenly declines.

A study to be published by 10 researchers from the uni-versity’s Urbana-Champaign and Chicago campuses pro-vides statistical evidence

that many community col-lege students aren’t aware of how the change in health care affects them.

The study results show around 20 percent of sur-veyed students were in favor of the ACA, 48 percent were against it and 32 percent had no opinion.

Laura Payne, co-author of the study and associate pro-fessor in sports, recreation and tourism, was surprised by the depth of confusion felt by community college stu-dents. Payne also serves as a member of Extension, an educational program within the College of ACES, which helped fund the study.

“I guess we were a little surprised at the extent of the confusion and the lack of knowledge that a lot of our survey participants expressed through their answers,” Payne said.

The survey had partici-pants from six Illinois com-

munity colleges: John Wood, Kankakee, Kaskaskia, Lake-land, Lewis & Clark and Rend Lake.

Payne said community colleges usually have a very diverse student population because they have many stu-dents entering from high school, as well as adult stu-dents returning to further their education. The sur-vey sample was 75 percent female and 88 percent white.

Payne said that the team chose to study community college students because the ACA relies on young people, under the eligible age for Medicare, to sign up.

Additionally, Payne com-mented that community col-lege students frequently take their health for granted and assume they will stay in good health.

“Young adults happen to be one of those groups who happen to have bulletproof vest syndrome,” Payne said.

Campbell agreed, adding that part of the problem is that many students do not consider health care cover-age an immediate need.

BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER

The Presidential Search Committee met on Wednes-day to continue the Universi-ty’s hunt for a new president.

“We’re looking for the best person in the country for this job,” said Douglas Beck, co-chair of the Pres-idential Search Committee. “I think we’re making good progress.”

Tom Hardy, University spokesman, said the com-mittee is still considering over 100 candidates. He said they will likely announce who will replace current President Robert Easter by Thanksgiving.

The Board of Trustees will approve the new president at its January meeting, howev-er, the new president won’t take over Easter’s role until July 1, 2015.

The committee is also dis-cussing the proposal of a raise for the position. Easter currently makes $552,375, including an annual bonus. Out of all salaries for presi-dents in the Big Ten, Easter’s falls in the bottom five.

While the average sal-ary for Big Ten presidents is $780,000, Hardy says the Board of Trustees will ulti-mately decide how much the new president will make.

Before the committee went

into executive session to dis-cuss prospective candidates for the position, Beck sum-marized the status of the search.

Since the committee met last in August, members have continued to reach out to pro-spective candidates as well as identify new prospects. Addi-tionally, the Committee has considered suggestions from leaders in higher education.

One of these leaders, Park-er Executive Search, is an executive search firm that specializes in recruiting senior executives for corpo-rate, sports, higher education

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Affordable Care Act• The Affordable Care

Act was signed into law in March of 2010.

• The Supreme Court upheld the decision in June 2012.

• Children can remain on their parents’ insurance plan until age 26.

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BY ANGELICA LAVITOSTAFF WRITER

Caterpillar Inc. celebrat-ed the 15th anniversary of its Champaign Simulation Cen-ter with plans to build a data analytics center.

The Simulation Center was established in Research Park in 1999 and has since provid-ed University students with internships and employment opportunities.

“The new lab will foster real world innovation by bringing together Universi-ty researchers and Caterpil-lar analytics professionals from engineering, computer science, statistics and eco-nomics to work on challeng-es and opportunities raised by technological and cultural change,” said Barbara Cox, spokeswoman for Caterpillar.

Research Park Director Laura Frerichs thinks Cat-erpillar’s addition of a data

analytics lab reflects Cham-paign’s growth as a hub for big data. Earlier this year, a report identified data ana-lytics as an area of potential economic development at the University.

“We think that Champaign is a great location for com-puting, but more specifically, analytics as a growing mar-ket opportunity, with many companies seeing the infor-mation they have as increas-ingly valuable in making more data-driven decisions for their business,” Frerichs said.

She added that the lab will open the Caterpillar experi-ence to a wider scope of stu-dents, like those in math-related majors.

When the Caterpillar Sim-ulation Center opened, there were three employees and

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIUniversity Provost Ilesanmi Adesida waits to be interviewed on Monday before the “Washington Journal” series which features university officials during a C-SPAN Bus tour of the universities of the Big Ten Conference.

MELISSA MCCABE THE DAILY ILLINIUniversity of Illinois Chancellor Phyllis Wise speaks with the Daily Illini Editorial Board on Wednesday.

COURTESY OF COLLEGE OF ACESPresident Robert Easter will serve his role until July 1.

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTIn an open letter, 330 Uni-

versity faculty members called on Chancellor Phyllis Wise, President Robert Eas-ter and the Board of Trust-ees to restore core princi-ples of academic freedom and faculty governance.

The letter, released on Wednesday, Sept. 10, was given to the Chancellor, the President and the Board fol-lowing the Board’s Sept. 11 decision not to appoint Ste-ven Salaita to a tenured fac-ulty position in the Ameri-can Indian Studies program. The letter also asked for a reversal of that decision.

The campus’ Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, CAFT, is currently conducting an investigation of the Salaita case, which could lead to an investiga-tion by the American Asso-ciation of University Profes-sors, AAUP.

The AAUP advised the Chancellor on Aug. 29 that her Aug. 1 action was “an

improper summary dis-missal and insisted that Salaita receive pay while the issues surrounding his appointment are investi-gated by CAFT, the cam-pus mechanism through which such issues are typi-cally resolved,” according to a press release from UIUC Faculty.

Pending the outcome of the CAFT investigation, the AAUP could eventually vote to censure the University, which is its most severe and consequential response to an investigation.

If placed on the AAUP censure list, the conse-quences could be detrimen-tal to the future of the Uni-versity as members of the AAUP are encouraged not to accept appointments at an institution that has been placed on this list.

Bryan Boccelli and Miranda Holloway contributed to this report.

Campus committee investigation of Salaita case could lead to larger probe

UI study shows community college students confused on health care law

Committee aims to appoint president by Thanksgiving

Caterpillar Inc. to build new data lab

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A 32-year-old male was arrested on the charge of domestic battery in the 2000 block of West John Street around 1:30 a.m Wednesday.

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RANDALL BENTON MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE Cal Fire strike crews battle the King fire in El Dorado County, California, on Wednesday.

GRANT JEFFERIES MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE Barack Obama talks to military personnel at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, on Wednesday.

TAMPA, Fla. — Empha-sizing the American mili-tary’s unrivaled expertise, President Barack Obama thanked service members Wednesday and repeated that U.S. forces taking on the Islamic State militant group would not serve in combat, a day after his top general repeatedly

raised that prospect.American forces “do not

and will not have a com-bat mission,” Obama told troops at the U.S. Central Command headquarters here. “They will support Iraqi forces on the ground as they fight for their own country against these terrorists.”

Obama reiterates that U.S. forces have no ‘combat mission’ in Iraq

Consumer prices fell in August for the first time in 16 months as lower gasoline costs helped keep inflation tame, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

The report should ease pressure on Federal Reserve policymakers, meeting this week, to start raising near-zero interest rates. Many

analysts and some Fed offi-cials have urged an increase to avoid a potential surge in inflation as the economy improves.

The Consumer Price Index, a closely watched infla-tion measure, decreased 0.2 percent last month after a 0.1 percent rise in July, accord-ing to the Labor Department.

Consumer prices fall for 1st time in 16 months due to lower gas costs

The fast-growing King fire in Eldorado National Forest now threatens near-ly 2,500 structures, more than half of them homes, as thousands of firefighters try to get a handle on the out-of-control blaze.

The fire is just 5 per-cent contained after burn-ing 12,780 acres, and man-datory evacuation orders are in place for a wide swath of the region as the fire burned up and over ridge after ridge, officials

reported Wednesday.Nearly 2,500 firefighters

were assigned to the blaze, which was first reported just after 6:30 p.m. Satur-day near the community of Pollock Pines east of Sac-ramento. So far, no struc-tures have been reported damaged or destroyed, but as the fire spreads east, north and west, 1,632 homes and an additional 816 structures are threat-ened, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

King !re threatens more than 1,600 homes in Northern California

NEW DELHI — Chi-nese President Xi Jinping arrived in India Wednes-day for a three-day trip aimed at boosting trade and investment between the two countries and to give a push to the resolu-tion of a decades-old bor-der dispute.

Xi, accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan and a high level delegation, land-

ed to a grand welcome at Ahmedabad, the principal city in the western state of Gujarat, which is also Indi-an Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi’s home state.

Setting aside protocol, Modi waited to greet Xi as he arrived at a local hotel, where they held brief one-on-one talks followed by the signing of three agreements.

Trade, border dispute on agenda during Xi’s 3-day visit to India

Applying 20th-century laws to 21st-century technol-ogy is not the answer to pro-tect the free Internet, anti-regulation advocates told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in a hearing on net neutrality.

The Federal Communica-tions Commission’s contro-versial net neutrality propos-al has drawn fire because it would allow companies like

Google, Netflix and Skype to pay extra for a faster pipe that would ensure speedier streaming for their content. The vast majority of the 3.7 million comments filed to the FCC by Monday’s deadline urged the agency to reclas-sify the Internet as a public utility, like telephone servic-es, to prevent big Internet companies from charging extra for such “fast lanes.”

Advocates discuss future of FCC’s controversial net neutrality law

Fed cuts stimulus another $10 billion, holds steady on interest rates

Federal Reserve poli-cymakers on Wednesday cut their monthly bond-buying stimulus program by another $10 billion and held interest rates steady at near zero, offering no suggestions that they will raise them any time soon as the economic recovery improves.

In a statement after a two-day meeting, the Fed-eral Open Market Commit-tee said it expected that interest rates would remain

at their rock-bottom level for “a considerable time” after the bond-buying pro-gram ends. The program is on track to conclude in October.

The Fed also downgrad-ed its economic projections for this year and 2015 from estimates made in June. The Fed now forecasts the economy will grow between 2 percent and 2.2 percent this year compared with a June forecast of 2.1 percent to 2.3 percent.

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and academic health science positions.

Beck explained that Park-er has continued to provide the Presidential Search Com-mittee with lists of univer-sity presidents, chancellors, provosts, vice presidents and vice chancellors that could potentially be recruit-ed as the University’s new president. Parker Executive Search also provided the committee with candidate lists from academia, govern-ment, businesses and NGOs.

Beck said that the next step in the search was to reach out to qualified candi-dates by establishing phone

contacts. Parker Executive Search, Beck and Pamela Strobel, co-chair of the com-mittee, have already reached out to several prospects who remain nameless. Beck said he believes phone contacts are instrumental in helping develop candidacies.

“The key thing, I think, for this process is to find a good fit, and that means hav-ing candidates think through the position and where they are in their careers,” Beck said. “Similarly on our side, we have to learn about the candidates and what their capabilities are and ... decide for ourselves whether it’s a good fit.”

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“They really don’t see their health declining,” Campbell said. “They look at that as someone being old.”

Campbell feels more could be done on a federal level, as well as on his cam-pus, to help students under-stand the ACA.

“I think the govern-ment could do more as far as making teenagers and young adults aware,” he said.

Additionally, he com-mented that the Wellness Center at Parkland could find methods to distribute information about health care to students in more effective ways.

Payne added that com-munity colleges typically do not offer their students health insurance in the same capacity as tradition-al four-year universities.

While the Parkland Col-lege Wellness Center is a center for health-relat-ed information and refer-rals, it does not administer health services, as the Uni-versity’s McKinley Health Center does.

Researchers found that about 18 percent of the sur-veyed students did not have health care, while 50 per-cent of students had not seen or heard any messag-es about health care reform.

Julian Reif, co-author of the study and assistant pro-

fessor of finance and eco-nomics, feels this problem extends beyond community college students.

“The confusion is not lim-ited to community college students,” Reif said. “It’s a general statement one could say about the public at large.”

This year, the team is planning to investigate how to provide students with information about health care.

The team will use differ-ent forms of communica-tion for different campus-es and compare the success rates. The communication forms include face-to-face communication, tradition-al media and social media.

Payne testified to the importance of the imple-mentation of the ACA, as it is indicative of a shift in the theory behind the country’s health care system. Instead of focusing on immediate care for the sick, the coun-try will be working on gen-eral wellness and sickness prevention.

“The general public does not understand this bigger step, this bigger paradigm shift that the government is taking the lead on — you know shifting our health care system to this preven-tion and wellness model,” Payne said. “So, it is really important; we’ve needed to do this for a long time.”

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four students working in conjunction with the Nation-al Center for Supercomput-ing Applications, according to Cox.

Since then, they have worked with over 350 stu-dents, of which approximate-ly 100 are now employees.

One of those employees is Ann Peedikayil, alumna, who received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engi-neering in 2003 and a bach-elor’s degree in engineer-ing mechanics in 2006. She started as an intern with Caterpillar and is now senior engineer at the Champaign Simulation Center.

“I think it’s an exciting time for everybody involved at Caterpillar, just to be part of something that is evolv-ing,” Peedikayil said. “To me, it’s going to be really exciting to see the change.”

Peedikayil said the Sim-ulation Center is a place to develop new technology and as the name suggests, cre-ate simulations that will help engineers test their designs. Interns work with employees like Peedikayil on real proj-

ects, giving them hands-on experience.

Peedikayil said working with student interns from the University is a learning opportunity for her too. She said they bring fresh per-spectives and often ask ques-tions that help her improve her own skills.

“It’s really refreshing,” Peedikayil said. “The last time I finished a degree here was 8 years ago, so what’s exciting is all the different perspectives they have. They help keep my skill set fresh.”

This is Peedikayil’s 10th year at Caterpillar and said she has seen the company evolve greatly over the years. She is excited to see how it continues to evolve after the expansion.

Caterpillar and the Uni-versity will begin planning for the new data analytics lab later this year, according to a press release.

“We’ve seen a fantastic response from the local com-munity, and our Champaign team is very engaged with our business partners at the University to move forward with the project,” Cox said.

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STIRLING, Scotland — Seven hundred years ago, Robert the Bruce reclaimed Scottish independence here with the help of a two-hand-ed sword. Thursday, Scot-land’s current first minis-ter, Alex Salmond, hopes to repeat that success with the help of 16-year-old voters.

The cynical view is that Salmond’s Scottish Nation-al Party, which supports a lower voting age in general, demanded that 16-year-olds be enfranchised because it thought that younger vot-ers were more likely to vote with their hearts and would therefore back the romantic option of independence and change.

The reality, said Thom-as C. Lundberg, a political scientist at the University of Glasgow, is that it’s been hard to effectively poll vot-ers so young, and what polls there have been suggesting is that these youngest of vot-

ers are likely to vote “no” on independence.

Such speculations color predictions about the out-come of Thursday’s refer-endum more than two years after Salmond kicked off the effort for independence, and more than a year after Scots learned that they would be asked to decide just a sin-gle, simple question when they go to the polls: “Should Scotland be an independent country?”

But however the question is answered — results are expected early Friday morn-ing — it’s become clear that complications will be great, whether it is “yes” or “no.”

The notion of unentwin-ing these lands has con-vinced experts and politi-cians that the ramifications of this election will extend far beyond Scotland’s south-ern border, no matter which side wins.

Politicians from the south, led by British Prime Minister David Cameron,

in recent weeks have clear-ly sensed that their initial views — that independence was a sure-fire loser — were wrong.

In recent weeks, how-ever, polls have shown the race is neck and neck. In a last-ditch effort to head off support for independence, Cameron and other power brokers in the United King-dom Parliament have made wide-ranging promises of new powers for Scotland in hopes that they will per-suade voters to stay.

Those promises are almost certain to prove controversial, especially one that would let Scotland set its own income tax lev-els. The British Parliament in London would have to approve the change.

“Nothing will be more divisive,” said Iain Begg, a U.K. policy expert at Lon-don’s Chatham House think tank. The problem, Begg noted, is that if Scots set their own taxes, residents

in the rest of the United Kingdom will wonder exact-ly why the Scots will have any say on financing outside of Scotland. Still, there’s no going back for Cameron and his supporters.

There’s been some head scratching among British experts as well about other deals Cameron struck that led to this point. For one, he apparently rejected a pro-posal Salmond had offered of adding a third option to the ballot, beyond the yes or no to independence.

That third option was called “maximum devolu-tion,” and it is essentially what Cameron is now offer-ing Scots if they’ll vote no. Cameron initially rejected it because the prime minis-ter thought that faced with independence or the status quo, Scots would choose the status quo.

Now Scotland and the rest of Great Britain are just hours away from knowing if that was correct.

Complications lay ahead for Scotland

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If you’re from a small suburb in Illi-nois like many of

my fellow freshmen, you likely understand how difficult it can be to find fun things to do while at home. Sure, you could watch some corn grow or ride a four wheeler, but that gets dull after a while.

In an effort to find something interesting to do at home, I joined the swim team. Try to imagine having fun by moving back and forth through a pool for two hours while staring at a black line on the floor — hey, it’s bet-ter than watching corn grow.

As a result of my interest in swimming, I quickly signed up on Quad Day for all water-related sports and numerous other clubs that interested me, because I like to try new things. I don’t go to every meeting, and I delete tons of

emails, but through this process of choos-ing which meetings to attend, I discovered my new love: underwa-ter hockey.

Underwater hock-ey is more difficult to visualize than it is to play. Initially, I pic-tured a member of the Chicago Blackhawks fully dressed in hock-ey gear jumping into a pool and frantically flailing his arms just to stay alive. Sounds like fun, I thought.

My friend and I went to the first practice quite unsure of what we were diving into.

We arrived at the ARC indoor pool one hour late for practice, yet the members of the underwater hockey team were extremely enthusiastic to help us prepare our gear and teach us the game. The gear includes a water polo cap, a mask and snorkel, fins, a foot-long hockey stick and a silicone glove to pro-tect your hand from scraping the bottom of the pool.

Gameplay is rela-tively simple. Six play-ers on a team take the

positions of left, cen-ter, right forwards and backs. The forwards are always ahead of the puck while the backs are behind it. The three-pound puck is placed in the center of the pool. When the game starts, forwards rush to snag the puck and pass it to their teammates. A point is scored by shooting the puck into the opposing team’s goal.

Sounds simple, but it’s not.

Right when you’re on a fast break to score the winning goal, you realize that you’re under eight feet of water and that neglecting to grab some oxygen will make the lifeguard earn his paycheck.

You rush to the sur-face and gasp for air, but instead take in a huge gulp of water because you forgot to clear your snor-kel. Then you struggle to float for five min-utes as your team-mates fight to regain the puck that you gracefully gave up for “more important things.”

The game is a strug-gle, but I realize that as I play more and more, my five-minute breathers might short-en to four minutes. Despite the difficulty, I am drawn to return to practices because of the sport’s unique characteristics.

As you watch the game from above, players thrash to steal the puck only to be met by a fin to the face. Defenders col-lide with offenders, and tempers flare. Even though there is much chaos to be seen, there is no sound; only the soft whooshing of water can be heard.

Players cannot express anger with one another, and violent sounds are extinct. I guess I appreciate this so much because I always used to get yelled at for day-dreaming in the out-field. Either way, the singular facets of this game keep me coming back for more.

I never would have thought that I’d be playing hockey in a pool as I prepared to leave for college

this summer. I never thought that I would be able to write for a paper available to over 40,000 students, along with countless alum-ni, faculty members, parents and commu-nity members, but I’ve accomplished all this in my first few weeks on campus.

As students, we have endless opportunities, and we should be tak-ing full advantage of them.

I’m eager for what’s next, and other stu-dents should be eager too.

Continue to nur-ture the talents that you have and discov-er new ones. We’re here to learn facts and skills, but I think it’s important that we learn about ourselves as well by trying new things. So join the debate team or maybe even the space society, because one thing’s for sure: It’s better than watching corn grow.

Luke is a freshman in Engineering. He can be reached at [email protected].

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EDITORIALYou get

what you pay for

LUKE VEST

Opinions columnist

I am a newbie to American culture, to American life. As an international stu-

dent, life in the United States manages to give me both a hard time and teach me hard lessons. For a student who has come from across the Pacific, everything is different.

My world, as I knew it, was filled with Koreans, Koreans, Koreans. It was my Earth, except for when I was in Can-ada from 2006 to 2008, but I was too young to know any-thing then. My experience with the United States was through vacations, when I’d travel around the coasts of the country with my family.

From the smallest things, such as the food, to the larg-est things, like the culture, what must be natural for most of the U.S.-born stu-dents at the University is refreshingly foreign for most international students. And there are many things a new-bie like me sees in his new world.

Back in Korea, I’d read books about the United States, so I had a preestab-lished belief that freedom was important to Americans. And I wasn’t wrong; for the

short time I’ve been here, I’ve seen the little aspects of life that show Americans’ love for liberty. Every person has the right to do what he or she wants, although of course within the parameters of the law. Meaning, people don’t seem to worry as much about others watching them, quite unlike back in my home coun-try, where people are always aware of one another.

To me, this principle of freedom seems to be the foundation of American cul-ture, with peoples’ mindsets also focused on freedom. Even University life is freer than I had expected. Class attendance isn’t as strictly mandated as in high school. Although such characteris-tics may not be the domain of only universities in the U.S., I couldn’t help but notice the vastly liberated yet con-trolled environment here that students in South Korea could not experience.

These weren’t the only dif-ferences I noticed.

Unlike where I’m from, people with disabilities find it much easier to move around on this campus, with automat-ic doors and kneeling buses. Unlike where I’m from, bike paths are much more orga-nized here. And unlike where I’m from, people do not need to rely on traffic lights at every single junction to pre-vent car accidents.

So I was impressed with

American culture. With an emphasis on was.

Now, I am not so sure. I’m beginning to think what had impressed me so much was actually just what is natural in the culture. Maybe there is nothing to be impressed by here in the United States; this is essentially just another culture in just another part of the world. Feeling so awe-struck at what is normal for the more than 300 million people living in the United States is more characteristic of a tourist than a student.

Up until now, I’d been liv-ing in a country where only a small portion of public trans-portation was equipped with facilities for people with dis-abilities, and where peo-ple worried more about how they might look to others. And I was perfectly happy, completely ignorant to how such a system could limit freedom.

I had failed to see the deep-er meaning of the shirtless joggers and automatic doors on virtually every build-ing on campus. It was some-thing unseen in South Korea. Everybody there is expect-ed to walk easily and wear a shirt when going outside, and I’d never thought those things could be the shackles limiting our own freedom.

These things are different from laws; laws are meant to keep people’s freedom from stretching too far and hin-

dering others’ freedom. But the culture of South Korea is such that citizens limit their own freedom in a way, but not necessarily in a bad way. It is just different.

My experience in the U.S. is no longer all about being impressed by the new cul-ture; it’s more about learn-ing lessons from everyday aspects of life.

Of course, I’m not saying that my country is a land of boring idiots. I’m proud of my country, and there are many things the U.S. could learn from South Korea. But I am here to learn, and I am learning from the everyday, humdrum lives of Americans.

I’ll get used to this life of what I saw to be based on freedom and respect, of caring for the minorities. But stop signs, buses and bike paths are not all that touch my perspectives. I could go on and on about the differences.

Yes, I think of myself as a newbie. Everything I’d con-sidered natural isn’t neces-sarily natural in this place, and I’m learning over again what people here consider obvious. And though the dif-ferences are overwhelming, I could get used to them.

Yunjo is a freshman in Engineering. He can be reached at opinions @dailyillini.com.

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YUNJO JEONG

Opinions columnist

It’s about time the pres-ident gets a raise.

We sure don’t pay current University presi-dent Robert Easter like he heads the University with first place national rank-ing in civil engineering, undergraduate engineering science and physics. We don’t pay him like he ad-ministers the number 11th public school in the nation either.

Bob Easter currently has a base salary of $462,375, but with a bonus, a total of $552,375 a year.

That puts him as the fifth worst-paid president in the Big Ten.

The highest paid presi-dent in the Big Ten, Eric J. Barron of Penn State, makes a total salary of $1,200,000.

Easter’s replacement likely won’t get that much, but he will see a well-de-served raise from the sal-ary of his predecessor. The presidential search com-mittee continues to search for Easter’s replacement and will likely reach a fi-nal decision by its Nov. 14 Board of Trustees meeting.

A president’s job is not easy, and we believe a good job is worth the mon-ey, especially since we don’t skimp on our athletic department salaries. Our head football and basket-ball coaches make roughly three times the amount of our president.

Now don’t get us wrong, we love our Illini athletics. We’d be nothing without our Saturday tailgates and that sea of orange and blue on game days. However, we don’t believe the presi-dent who heads those ath-letics should bring in about a million dollars less than Tim Beckman and John Groce.

A president’s job is the face and foundation of our universities principles.

With over 40,000 stu-dents, 17 colleges and thousands of faculty mem-bers to budget for, we don’t want just anybody taking the reins.

We hope that the search committee will take into account our past mistakes in choosing the person who will guide our Universi-ty. Easter has served as president since 2012, join-ing the University after a bad streak of ousted presi-dents.

His predecessors, Joseph White and Michael Hogan, were both removed within two years of employment due to ethical scandals on campus.

As the presidential search committee contin-ues to find our match and adjust the position’s salary, we hope they keep our Uni-versity principles in mind.

What we want is a pres-ident with integrity — someone who cares about the students who are tal-ented enough to step onto our campus and excel in their fields. We want a president who integrates, diversifies, recruits, and continues to build upon the Illinois tradition.

We want a president who is up to the task, and the University should be will-ing to pay for it.

Making ‘impressive’ seem normal

During the semester, the classes at the Meat Lab cycle through the differ-ent types of meat — beef, pork and lamb — that dic-tates what is butchered and processed.

According to Stites, pigs are butchered and pro-cessed in the highest quan-tities, and the staff can sell between 10 and 20 pigs worth of product a week during the school year. When cattle is butchered and processed, it is any-where from five to ten in a day. That product can last for three to four weeks.

On special occasions, though, Stites said they pre-pare to slaughter more than they typically handle on a weekly basis.

“In October, we have got one week where we are kill-ing 96 pigs that week, we will do that in two days and then we will be off a week. Then we will do another 96 that fol-lowing week later,” he said. “That is quite a bit of prod-uct for us because we really aren’t set up to handle that type of volume regularly.”

The character behind the cuts

The money that is gained

from the Meat Lab’s prof-its from the salesroom are directly put back into the program, according to Stites.

With the excess revenue brought in over the past few years, Stites said he has plans to do some remodel-ing of the facility this fall and winter, including new air conditioning units and a new refrigeration unit in the salesroom.

“Basically we have a revolving account that all the student labor is paid out of, all the equipment, all the supplies that I pur-chase or use comes out of my account,” he said.

The student labor is a direct driving force of the Meat Lab. With the excep-tion of Stites, all the other employees of the facility are students.

“The Meat Lab is a great place to work just because of the fact that the staff is very interconnected and we are all friends,” said Emily Matlak, a student employee who works the salesroom and senior in LAS. “You learn a lot through this program because you are learning about all the cuts of meat, learning how to cut, how to process and all the standards that go along with it from the state and the government.”

Matlak, who has worked at the Meat Lab for three

years now, said she never anticipated working at the facility for as long as she has, especially as a histo-ry education major. But for Matlak, the experience of working there was much different from any of her incoming expectations.

“I mean it is one of those things… you walk in and you don’t really know what to expect at first, and then you realize it is not as bad as maybe people assume it’s going to be,” she said. “It is going to be better quality than anything you are going to get in the store, we only do choice or higher.”

For Stites, the Meat Lab allows a venue to not only conduct research and teach University students what he grew up doing, but it also allows him to serve the community.

“It is about as local as you can get,” he said. “Once people do come here and they try our products, and especially once they do build a relationship with us, they trust us full-hearted-ly with giving them prod-ucts that are going to be satisfactory to them, they are going to be safe, they are going to taste good and going to be a good value and a good variety.”

Declan can be reached at dharty2@ dailyillini.com.

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MEAT LABFROM 6A

MARK HARRISON MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNERecovery Cafe founder Killian Noe, left, is hugged by member Shelley Hawthorne. The cafe serves those battling drug and alcohol addiction.

BY NICOLE BRODEURMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

SEATTLE — It may be wedged into a busy inter-section in downtown Seat-tle, but the Recovery Cafe remains a mystery to most.

The Recovery Cafe is a community, built from the heart of a woman named Killian Noe.

For 10 years, Noe, 56, has been the center of this place, which serves those battling drug and alcohol addiction. She greets, she listens, she hugs, she shares, she remembers every name. And she believes in people who have all but stopped believing in themselves.

“You walk in the door and you’re broken,” she explained to me recent-ly. “You’ve been told that you’re not worth loving or knowing. But everyone longs to be known and loved and part of a community. Your life matters.”

On Sept. 24, the Recovery Cafe will mark its 10th anni-versary at its annual Stand-ing in the Gap Breakfast, where Noe is unofficial star, the one people are eager to connect with, be it a confes-sional chat or a wave from across the room.

Noe’s specialty is stand-ing on the dais and explain-ing the cafe’s community to those who have never set foot inside.

“I always feel exposed, but in a good way,” she said of her speeches. “I look out and I see people hungry for a deep connection.

“When we claim our con-nection with those who are suffering and being left out, then we will want to work for justice on their behalf. But it’s really on our behalf as well, because in reality we belong to each other.”

Noe learned about com-munity at an early age. Her father was a preacher in North Carolina, where everyone knew her and she knew everyone.

“Community has always been central for me,” she said. “I’ve always had a passion for learning from different communities and nurturing community. It’s one of the deepest things in me.”

At 21, she went to the Middle East to do volunteer work with teenagers there. When she returned to the

U.S. three years later, she was stunned at the number of homeless people on the streets.

Her mentor, the late social-justice pastor Gor-don Cosby, who founded Church of Our Saviour in Washington D.C., told her that instead of tourists see-ing homeless when they visit a city, they should see a rebuilt community “Where those who have fall-en through the cracks can rebuild their lives.”

As Noe recalled this, she looked out of her window at the people in the cafe’s main room. Some ate lunch in ani-mated groups, others sat alone with a cup of coffee.

“What I see in every per-son who walks through this door is someone who has suffered with not just one trauma, but one after anoth-er and another,” she said. “There’s so many layers of hurt and pain that for us, it’s like triage.”

Noe has spent most of her life honing practical and pastoral skills and search-ing for just the right formu-la to heal hearts and lives.

In 1999, she moved to Seat-tle with her hus-band, Ber-nie Noe, who had accepted a job as the head of The L akeside School.

She visited with nonprof-its, and learned that 50 to 70 percent of the people in Seattle’s shelters were addicted or mentally ill.

In 2004, she launched the Recovery Cafe to offer those people the recovery support that some housing programs can’t. (It moved to a new location in 2009).

“They can’t look you in the eye when they come in the door because the pain is so heavy,” she said “But when they plant themselves in the soil of an authentic community, we literally see them come back to life.”

Anyone can come to the Recovery Cafe for one day, as long as they are clean and sober. If they want to

return, they have to attend an orientation, where the rules of the place are made clear:

You must attend a week-ly recovery, or “loving accountability circle,” as Noe prefers to call it; and contribute to the running of the place, be it cleaning or cooking, and aid in the heal-ing of others.

“Everyone has to work,” Noe said. “The services are given freely, but one of the requirements is to operate the facility.”

Members may also take classes in meditation, yoga, dance, as well as resume writing and conflict resolu-tion. (“From the practical to the sublime,” Noe said).

Once they stabilize in their recovery and sobriety, the Recovery Cafe helps them find housing.

She and her husband have been married for 32 years and have two grown daugh-ters, Kietrie, 25 and Phoe-be, 23. The girls live togeth-er in New York City, where Kietrie works in the fash-ion industry and Phoebe

works for a nonprofit that helps victims of sex traf-ficking and domestic violence.

E v e r y year for the past 15 years, the family has traveled to Nicaragua, where they

have “nurtured” a school in a slum outside of Managua.

At home, Noe refuels by walking her dogs. “I find just being with them and walking them is restful,” she said.

She is working on a book about the cafe: “Whatev-er we’ve learned about the commitments and ingredi-ents that guide this commu-nity, I’d like to put in writ-ing, in case they can be helpful to others.”

But it will not be her story alone. It belongs to everyone who ever wondered enough about this place to become part of it.

“There is a magic here,” Noe said, “that is greater than what any one individ-ual brings.”

Cafe helps addicts recover, find hope

“... Everyone longs to be known and

loved and part of a community. Your life

matters.”KILLIAN NOE

OWNER OF THE RECOVERY CAFE

BY DECLAN HARTYASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR

Despite a name like the Meat Science Laborato-ry, or better known as the “Meat Lab,” there are no mutated cows, experi-mental rats in small iron

cages nor any two-snouted pigs.The small brown brick building sits at

1503 S. Maryland Ave. in Urbana, nes-tled on a small patch of land between Alpha Tau Omega’s fraternity house and Mount Hope Cemetery. Typically, it remains unnoticed in most students’ daily routines.

But inside, the Meat Lab is an agent for research, a thriving meat process-ing facility and a learning experience for College of ACES students according to Chuck Stites, manager of the Meat Science Laboratory and an academic professional for the College of ACES.

“Our mission is to service the research teaching extension activities that the college needs,” Stites said. “We are a federally inspected meat process-ing facility that allows us to go ahead and sell the meat to the general public, or we could market it wholesale.”

The facility sells choice or higher cuts of meat through its salesroom, which is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Outside of business hours, ACES stu-dents learn and participant in the facil-ity’s operations along with the Meat Lab’s own staff. The class, Animal Sci-ence 219: Meat Technology, is an intro-ductory course for students to better understand the process behind the meat processing.

The facility’s selection of approxi-mately 70 items is also offered to various different organizations throughout cam-pus. Its partnerships include The Bevi-er Café, certain Campus Dining events and the concession stand at Memorial Stadium, State Fare.

“We are very attuned to our clientele that come in, and there are certain cuts of meat that we offer that we didn’t used to,” Stites said.

The menu items range from 16 differ-ent kinds of sausages to ribs and New York Strips, and many other beef, lamb and pork cuts. Still, many internation-al customers go beyond the traditional selections of pork and beef.

“On Tuesday, the day that we slaugh-ter when we open at 1 p.m., we have generally got a line of 10 to 15 (inter-national students) there,” Stites said.

“We now (sell) ears, tails and snouts and cheek meat as well as the livers, hearts and kidneys ... neck bones, pork bones — anything that has got skin or bone.”

For many customers, the draw to the Meat Lab over other grocers lies in the process of how the meats get to the salesroom.

“It isn’t a grocery store, it isn’t a meat market kind of thing,” said Michael Sul-livan, a weekly customer and resident of Champaign. “I think the quality of the meat is great ... it is local-grain fed, all that kind of good organic stuff that I think is just better to eat all the way around.”

With the rise of media and marketing exposure in recent years, Stites said the program has seen tremendous gains.

“Here in the last four to five years, we have been a net-revenue, positive rev-enue generating (facility),” Stites said.

Getting to the meat of it

The Meat Lab gets its livestock from farms located in the Central Illinois area. Stites said the swine farm is locat-ed south of Windsor Road in Cham-paign, while the beef facility is located in Urbana.

For lamb, Stites said the livestock used for the Meat Lab programs are brought down from a farm in Lexington, Ill., as part of an agreement the Univer-sity has with Illinois State University.

When needed, the sheep are typical-ly kept on the beef farm until they are ready to go to the Meat Lab or other Uni-versity research facilities. The livestock is then slaughtered at the Meat Lab, as part of the program, and is processed into meat following an inspection.

“Livestock is brought up from the farms generally the afternoon before. The meat inspector comes in first thing in the morning and looks at the ani-mals,” Stites said.

Stites said the meat inspector veri-fies that the livestock and carcasses are clean and healthy to be processed and eaten when the meat is slaughtered. On other days, the meat inspector does what Stites referred to as “patrolling assign-ments,” in which the inspector checks anything from cooler temperatures to looking at the facilities records.

The number of animals that Stites and his team slaughter varies upon many factors, including time of year, the pub-lic demand and the College’s demands for research purposes

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LIFE CULTURE

Grilling the Competition:Measuring the Meat Science Lab

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From the Farm to the Freezer

The Meat Science Laboratory is known for its local products. Here is a map depicting the distance between the facility and

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5 to 10 cattle are butchered at a time, which can supply product for three to

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The Meat Science Lab sells 10 to 20 pigs worth of product a week.

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PHOTOS BY ZOE GRANT THE DAILY ILLINIRIGHT: Ben Peterson, graduate student and assistant manager at the University of Illinois Meat Science Laboratory, helps a customer with their order.

meet themeat labPart classroom, part butcher: Linking students and community

The current Meat Science Laboratory is just part of a long history ACES and the University has had within the food industry and meat processing.The meats program began in 1911 when Professor Sleeter Bull was hired and later went on to teach and conduct meat research. The program, which was based in Davenport Hall at this time, began to blossom and a slaughter facility was built near the Stock Pavilion on the South Quad in 1955, according to Chuck Stites, manager of the Meat Science Laboratory and an academic professional for the College of ACES. It was in 1982 that the current

building became the home of the Meat Lab, just one year before Stites would begin to work there as a student in the fall of his undergraduate senior year. After a few years and promotions, Stites was named manager of the Meat Lab in 1985 while he was a graduate student. He has been working there ever since.“I grew up on (a) farm, hunting and fishing,” he said. “We butchered our own livestock at home, and deer and things. So I kind of had some interest in it anyway.”After being the program and facility’s leader for three decades, he has seen the Meat Lab transition through various stages.“When I came here, we made a breakfast sausage, we made

bratwurst and we made smoke sausage and summer sausage, and that’s the only four types of ground pork type of sausages that we did,” he said.Over the past 30 years, Stites said he has been able expand the list of products, as well as the facility’s marketing and advertising. In the past, with a lack of foot traffic nearby, the facility has struggled with sales.“Historically, we have been a losing or break-even proposition at best,” Stites said.After years of remaining low-key on the campus and community radar, Stites decided to make a change.Stites said after a 2007 News-Gazette article was published about the facility, business rose

at a noticeable rate. It was then that Stites saw an opportunity to continue to get the business in the public eye. “I was approached by one of the local radio stations about advertising on the radio. ... I went ahead and talked to our departmental business office manager and the department head what they thought about it, and they said to go for it,” Stites said.Over 2008, the Meat Lab began advertising through local radio stations to compete with local businesses. The increased exposure gave the facility the push it needed to change from a losing or break-even business to a profitable revenue business, Stites said.

A fresh start

SPORTS1BTHURSDAY

HEAD FAMILYBY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

Smiling, Bill Cubit remembers a time in high school when he slid

into third base.He had just slapped a triple into

the outfi eld and when he stood up on the bag, he locked eyes with his father on the other side of the fence. Bill Cubit Sr. wasn’t sup-posed to be there — he had a meet-ing two and a half hours away that night. But what the teenage Cubit had learned growing up was that his father was always there.

“It didn’t make a difference

where I was, he was always there for me,” said Cubit, now Illinois football’s offensive coordinator. “That’s why with these kids, you want to be around them because some of them don’t have their family here after every game and I always had that. It was always com-forting for them to be there.”

Cubit’s father died before the 2013 season, his fi rst with Illinois — a large part of the reason why minutes after receiver Justin Hardee’s mother passed away, Cubit was one of his fi rst calls.

“I still remember that call,” Cubit said. “I was outside of a high school in Florida. He called me and he was

bawling his eyes out. I said, ‘What’s the matter?’ He says, ‘Coach, I just lost my mom.’ And you sit there and go, ‘Holy smokes, this kid’s calling me fi ve min-utes after his mother dies?’

“When you step back and you go, ‘Why did he call me?’ ”

Why Cubit? For Geronimo Allison — a wide

receiver from Tampa, Florida — it’s about having a father fi gure when many players lack one as a college student.

“He strives for perfection and he has his set ways that he wants it. If

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A busy basketball week-end on campus just got even busier.

Elijah Thomas, one of the best forwards in the coun-try in the Class of 2015, was already set to visit campus this weekend. Now Jalen

Coleman, another highly-ranked prospect, is sched-uled to join him. Coleman is ranked as an elite combo guard in the 2015 class and is one of the best players in Indiana. It was reported by hoops247.com that Coleman will move his offi cial visit to Illinois up a week, from Sept. 26 to this weekend.

Illinois has been recruit-ing Coleman hard as of late, and head coach John Groce watched Coleman work out

at his high school in Indi-ana on Tuesday. Coleman was long thought to be a Notre Dame lean, but one Notre Dame recruiting out-let (@NDHoopsRecruits) has claimed on Twitter that the Irish have given up on Coleman altogether as of this week. He is also considering UNLV, but has already taken an offi cial visit to the Las Vegas cam-pus. With only two schools realistically still in play

— Illinois and UNLV — it would be reasonable to expect a Coleman decision soon after his Illinois visit.

While Coleman has kept his recruitment close to the vest so far, Thomas is somewhat of a different sto-ry. He regularly teases fans on Twitter with shoutouts and retweets, with most feedback coming from Illi-ni fans. Thomas also has a monthly blog published on USA Today’s website,

which provides insight into his ongoing recruitment. He last updated his blog Wednesday and shed some light on what he enjoys most about each school.

Similar to other Illini recruits, Thomas sang the praises of Groce, crediting him with establishing a strong relationship between the two. Thomas had a lot of other positive thoughts about Illinois in his post, highlighted by anointing

the Illini faithful “the best fan base (he’s) ever seen.”

Some Illinois fans worry that Thomas, the original star of the weekend, might feel overshadowed by the presence of Coleman on his visit. The reality is, sched-uling these two visits at the same time is potentially a good move by Groce.

Much of Thomas’ blog outlined his desire to play

Twice the fun with 2 top recruits on campusALEX ROUX

Basketball columnist

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Volleyball looks to bring renewed energy to Creighton gameBY STEPHEN BOURBONSENIOR WRITER

Kevin Hambly isn’t one for making dramatic speeches.

The head coach for the Illinois vol-leyball team says they don’t necessar-ily work in motivating a team. The Illi-ni (5-3) are still searching for answers on how to bring consistent energy to the court heading into this weekend’s Creighton Classic.

“I could give them a ‘Win one for the Gipper’ speech and try and get them fi red up, but I think that’s hollow,” Ham-bly said. “I think it’s more of them decid-ing of when they’re going to come out with energy.”

Hambly cited a lack of energy in a loss last weekend to Virginia Tech. The team’s record has been directly tied to its willingness to bring energy to the court, regardless of what team is across the net.

“We talk about how it has to happen all the time, not just a match day thing,” middle blocker Anna Dorn said. “What we really focus on is reminding each oth-er all the time during practice is to bring energy to drills or when we’re compet-ing in practice. It has to become a habit, it’s not quite there yet .”

The Illini will face Creighton (6-4 ) on Friday night before a doubleheader against Colorado (8-1) and South Dakota (4-5) on Saturday.

Colorado rolls into the weekend on a blistering hot streak — the Buffaloes have won eight matches in a row after dropping their season opener to North-western in fi ve sets. Opposite side hitter Ali Stark admitted there is an added dan-ger to facing a team on a winning streak.

“I think it’s defi nitely going to be a challenge for us,” Stark, a junior, said. “They’re going to be hot. We can’t get sucked into playing the way they play, we need to make them

play the way we want them to play.”Creighton opened the season ranked

at No. 23 but is 0-3 against ranked teams this season. The Bluejays are led by mid-dle blocker Kelli Browning, who leads the team in both kills and hitting per-centage on the season. The Illini have already faced one of the nation’s top mid-dles in the country: Stanford’s Inky Aja-naku. When the teams faced off on Sept. 7, the junior got loose for 16 kills with a .500 hitting percentage on the match.

Hambly said the strategy for shutting down a premier middle comes down to

KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Ali Stark (13) and Katie Stadick (12) attempt to block a hit . The team will try to boost its energy level on Friday.

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BY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER

After fi ve straight match-es on the road, No. 22 Illinois (6-2-0) will return home this weekend for a pair of con-tests against Big Ten rivals Indiana (4-4-0) and Purdue (5-2-1).

Posting a 4-1-0 road record away from home this season hasn’t been a prob-lem for the Illini, but being around familiar surround-ings makes matches easier.

“We’re excited just to be on our home turf and be in our locker room,” junior defender Aliina Weykamp said. “It’s just nice to be home for a little bit.”

The Illini’s only road loss came last weekend against Iowa in Illinois’ Big Ten

opener. Head coach Janet Rayfield attributed the rough start in conference play to the older players worrying too much about helping the younger play-ers along.

“They spent their energy on that instead of doing what they’re supposed to do and what they’re good at,” Ray-fi eld said. “I don’t think we could have had a much big-ger gap between our per-formance on Sunday and our performance on Thurs-day, it was a night and day difference.”

The Illini will try to car-ry the momentum from Sun-day’s victory against last year’s Big Ten champion, Nebraska, into this week-end’s games.

First up is Thursday’s bout with Indiana, the team that knocked Illinois out of last season’s Big Ten tour-nament. The Hoosiers lost each of their fi rst two con-ference matches to Ohio State and No. 8 Penn State, which has them at the bot-tom of the Big Ten.

Rayfi eld isn’t overlooking them, however.

“I think it was a tough weekend in terms of results, but if you look at the games, they did some great things in those games,” Rayfi eld said. “It’s an athletic team that has some dangerous threats. (They’re) hard to break down, they’ll get numbers behind the ball, and they don’t give up goals easily.”

Illinois has a 10-5-3 all-time series lead over Indi-ana, including a 6-2-1 record in games played in Cham-paign and three straight victories over the Hoosiers before last season. With fi ve goals and 23 shots this sea-son, junior midfi elder Jessie Bujouves will be the Hoosier to keep an eye on.

After two days of rest, Illinois will take on Purdue at home for the fi rst time since 2011. The Boilermak-ers split their fi rst two Big Ten matches, with a narrow 1-0 defeat to a tough Penn State team and a rebound win over Ohio State.

Illinois is 10-6-3 all-time against Purdue, but has owned the matches in Champaign, posting an 8-0-

0 record in which the Illini have outscored the Boiler-makers 19-5 and only let one goal in the last fi ve matches.

Regardless of past results, the Illini are going to focus on themselves to achieve the

results they want.“Certainly now we know

what we’re capable of at the Big Ten level and we’re going to hold ourselves to that stan-

Illinois vs. Indiana, Illinois vs. PurdueWhen: 2:30 p.m., Thursday, 1:00 p.m., Sunday Where: Illinois Soccer Stadium TV/Radio: Illinois vs. Indiana — Big Ten Network Illinois vs. Purdue — WDWS AM 1400Quick notes: The Illini

did not have a win against Indiana or Purdue last season, losing two matches against the Hoosiers, and one against the Boilermakers. Hidden stat: Illinois is 14-2-1 combined all-time in games against Indiana or Purdue at home.

No. 22 Illini host SoccerFest after road trip

Creighton Classic — No. 16 Illinois vs. Creighton, Colorado vs. No. 16 Illinois, South Dakota vs. No. 16 IllinoisWhen: 7:00 p.m., Friday, 10:00 a.m., Saturday, 5:30 p.m., Saturday. Where: D.J. Sokol Arena, Omaha, Neb.Radio: WDWS 1400 AMQuick notes: In the fi nal

nonconference matches of the season, the Illini take on a trio of opponents at the Creighton Classic. Senior Liz McMahon has been named to three consecutive All-Tournament teams. Hidden stat: Illinois is 2-3 on the season away from Huff Hall. This is the third consecutive tournament on the road for the Illini.

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‘You’ve got to be there for them every second of the day’

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alongside the other talent-ed players at each school that is recruiting him, most notably stud prospect Ben Simmons at LSU. Since Thomas seems to want to surround himself with oth-er top-fl ight talent, it is safe to assume he won’t mind sharing the weekend with Coleman. Having Coleman alongside him may even help Thomas visualize a brighter future and bet-ter situation if he were to pick Illinois. Thomas has also seriously entertained the idea of playing with fel-low Illini recruit and friend Jawun Evans. So the more surrounding talent the Illini can offer, the better.

It’s not like Thomas should worry about being overshadowed, anyway. The forward from Lancast-er High in Texas is ranked No. 29 on ESPN’s top 100 and features a smooth touch around the basket to complement his bruis-ing rebounding and interi-or skills.

Thomas has a big person-ality to match his 6-foot-9, 255 pound frame. Aside from his constant fan inter-action on social media, he comes off as bright and per-sonable in interviews with

the media. Look for Thomas to bask in the fan hysteria during his time on campus.

Coleman will be the third elite guard to visit campus this fall, with Evans and Jalen Brunson before him. Unlike the other two, Cole-man is more of a shooting guard rather than a pure point. At 6-foot-3, he is com-parable to a Brandon Paul-type player, but Coleman already possesses a quick-er and more accurate jump shot than Paul.

Having both Coleman and Thomas on campus makes this one of the big-gest recruiting weekends in recent memory for Illi-nois basketball. With Evans still in limbo in regard to his decision, Illini fans will once again be aching for a commitment during the weekend. You can be sure that Groce will push both Coleman and Thomas to commit this weekend, but whether they do is anyone’s guess.

We’ve seen the frenzy when one top-30 recruit vis-its campus. But two?

Prepare for twice the hype, twice the speculation and twice the fun.

Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @aroux94.

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dard going forward,” Ray-fi eld said.

Sunday’s match is expect-ed to draw one of the largest crowds of the year because of Illinois’ ninth-annual Soc-cerFest. This year’s fan perks include free Jimmy John’s for the fi rst 1,000 attendees, post-game autographs and a fan zone comprising of games, prizes, face painting and even a bounce house.

“I think the freshman being in an atmosphere like that will really enjoy it just as much as our upperclassmen do,” Jannelle Flaws said. ”It’s a great chance to get more fans out, and it’s defi nitely a more high-energy fan base. It’s exciting and always fun to play in a crowd like that.”

Home-fi eld advantage will be at full tilt for the Illini this weekend.

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the Illini’s serving. “Middles are tough or they

can be really easy, depend-ing on how the team passes,” Hambly said. “If you can serve the way you want to, you can take them out of the game. If you can’t, you’re in trouble .”

These are the last match-es before Big Ten play opens up for the Illini. One of the reasons Hambly perenni-ally schedules one of the toughest slates in the coun-try is to learn lessons each week before the grind

of Big Ten play.“Every week, you’re add-

ing pieces and learning les-sons,” he said. “Sometimes you don’t know what the lessons are, but you’re just looking for the opportunity to teach.”

Last week’s lesson centered on energy. This week’s lesson is to be determined.

“I don’t know what Colora-do is going to teach us, I don’t know what Creighton is going to teach us, but they’re going to teach us something.”

Stephen can be reached at [email protected] and @steve_bourbon.

BY BRETT LERNERSTAFF WRITER

The Illini hockey team continued its roller coast-er start to the season in its opening weekend of play. Illinois lost a scrimmage to the Springfi eld Jr Blues on Friday, then came back to rout Northern Illinois in the regular season opener, 7-2.

The up and down trajec-tory to the beginning of the Illini’s season has been mainly caused by the clos-ing of the Illinois ice rink. Head coach Nick Fabbrini has been holding practices 45 minutes from campus in Danville, to which players are driving themselves.

September 18 will end the Illini’s wait to return home, as that is the date the arena reopens.

Between fi nally being able to practice at home again and getting into the regu-lar season routine, the Illini are hoping to settle in.

“Our guys are starting to gel after playing togeth-er for more than a couple of weeks now and coming home for our fi rst practice back in our rink. It will give

us an extra little boost this weekend,” Fabbrini said.

The reopening of the Big Pond seems to have come at a perfect time, considering the way the Illini’s sched-ule looks. Illinois will play two games almost every weekend from now through November, and will be on the road for the remaining two weekends in Septem-ber. With the heavy travel for the next few weeks, it seems that eliminating the travel back and forth from practice should benefi t the Illini at the beginning of the season.

This weekend, Illinois will continue to go up against in-state teams by hitting the road to face Illinois State. The teams will face off on both Friday and Satur-day night, something that is usual for the program. Most every weekend that the Illini hit the ice, they play the same team twice in order to make the most of travel costs. Because of this normality, Fabbrini said the game plan doesn’t often change between the fi rst and second games. He did add,

however, that adjustments were key in the Illini’s open-ing weekend.

“For it just being our sec-ond game I liked how well we were able to make some adjustments and to come back and respond after a tough game on Friday night and play a pretty good game overall on Saturday,” Fab-brini said.

One of the team’s main fl aws last season was goal scoring, which seemed to have been addressed in the opener. Not only did Illinois net seven goals, but they also put up 48 shots. Captain John Olen was the leader of the offensive attack, netting two goals against Northern Illinois.

“I like to position myself well and try to spread the ice open to fi nd myself open areas,” Olen said. “On both of those goals I really just got good passes and I was kind of in the right area.”

The problem that Fabbri-ni wants to address mov-ing forward is discipline, something many teams have issues with to begin seasons. The Illini commit-

ted six penalties against the Huskies, with fi ve of them coming in the fi rst period.

“(Discipline) is something that’s easy to control,” Fab-brini said. “I think we saw that when we do control our emotions and stay out of the box to play teams fi ve-on-fi ve that we’re a pretty good hockey team. I’m hoping that’s one of the bigger les-sons we learned Saturday.”

Brett can be reached at [email protected] and @Blerner10.

Illinois at Illinois StateWhen: 7 p.m. Friday and SaturdayWhere: US Cellular ColiseumQuick notes: Both teams come into the game undefeated, Illinois (1-0), ISU (2-0). Both teams have fi rst year starters in net, Zev Grumet-Morris for Illinois and Joey Garapolo for ISU.

Hockey takes on in-state rival ISU

BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDYSTAFF WRITER

Illinois tennis player Aleks Vukic, from Sydney, said he loved his fi rst taste of college tennis.

“I enjoyed it a lot. I played a Georgia guy at Georgia with the whole of his team watching, cheer-ing him on, but I loved it,” Vukic said. “Even though they weren’t cheering for me, I loved it.”

After a semi-finals appearance at last week-end’s Southern Intercolle-giate Championships, Vukic get another experience of NCAA tennis in his second tournament at the Fight-ing Illini Invitational this weekend in Olympia Fields, Illinois. Four of the six teams competing fi nished in the ITA Top 25 last sea-son: Notre Dame, Memphis, Kentucky and the host, Illi-ni. Memphis knocked off the Illini in the Sweet 16 of last year’s NCAA tourna-ment, while the Illini beat Notre Dame and Kentucky in dual meets last year. NC State and Miami (FL) will round out the fi eld.

While some sports start the season with smaller events to get athletes back in the swing of things, this weekend, the men’s tennis

team will jump straight in against big-name competition.

“That’s what our pro-gram is,” head coach Brad Dancer said. “I think that’s what people come here for. They want to be exposed to playing against good play-ers. That’s why we do it.”

This will be the Illini’s eighth year playing at Olympia Fields Country Club just outside of Chica-go. Dancer said he’s grate-ful for the chance to co-host the event and play at such a prestigious club. Dancer also said hosting an invite near Chicago helps recruit-ing, as several Illini come from the area.

Illinois will have four players competing at Olym-pia Fields: Vukic, fellow freshman Toshiki Matsuya, ITA preseason No. 6 Jar-ed Hiltzik and No. 44 Tim Kopinski. Kopinski says the more matches he gets to play, the better he per-forms, so playing in the ear-ly season invite provides a chance to get his match count up against quality opponents.

The OFCC/Fighting Illi-ni Invite is also one of the few collegiate meets in the country played on clay courts. Kopinski said it

helps that the Illini have prepared for the unusu-al surface by practicing on the Champaign Coun-try Club’s clay courts, but Vukic will feel be right in his element.

“I went to Spain in Jan-uary (and) February, and basically for six months, I played on clay, so this feels like home right now,” Vukic said. “I’m looking forward to playing some Americans on clay, that’s for sure.”

While it’s an early sea-son meet, Dancer knows what he wants to see from the Illini.

“I want them to compete their tails off,” Dancer said. “I want them to rep-

resent their school with class, dignity, toughness (and) sportsmanship.”

Christopher can be reached at [email protected].

Olympia Fields Country Club/Fighting Illini InviteWhen: Friday through Sunday in Olympia Fields, Ill.Quick notes: Four Illini will compete in this loaded early-season tournament. Freshman Aleks Vukic is coming off of a semi-fi nal appearance last weekend, and preseason No. 6 Jared Hiltzik last

played in the inaugural American Collegiate Invite at the US Open. The Illini will face Memphis, who outed them in last year’s NCAA tournament.Hidden stat: Kopinski is a part of the nation’s preseason No. 2 doubles team. He went 4-0 at this tournament last year and was named Most Outstanding Player.

Illini Invite has loaded fi eld

BY ROCHELLE OLSON AND MATT VENSELMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

If Adrian Peterson won’t play for the Vikings until his legal case comes to a conclusion, he might not play again this season.

After the Vikings placed the star running back on the exempt/commissioner’s permission list early Wednesday, his lawyer hint-ed a trial for Peterson in Texas wouldn’t happen until 2015.

Rusty Hardin said no plea nego-tiations were occurring and that he has “no reason to believe” the case, in which Peterson is charged with a felony for injur-ing one of his children during discipline, won’t go to trial in about nine months as Montgom-ery County (Texas) prosecutors previously indicated.

Hardin said he will know more about the schedule after Peter-son’s fi rst hearing Oct. 8 in front of District Judge Kelly Case.

In a written statement, Hardin said Peterson wants to “continue his work in the NFL and contrib-ute to his team and community. In order to do so, he is prepared to resolve this matter in the appro-priate legal forum rather than the court of public opinion.”

The Vikings benched Peterson in the face of public pressure, two days after reinstating him.

“We made a mistake,” said co-owner Zygi Wilf at a morning news conference, “and we need-ed to get this right.”

The move will keep him away from the team, but he will be paid.

General Manager Rick Spiel-man said the Vikings initiated talks with the NFL to determine a course of action.

“Only the commissioner can grant that exemption,” Spielman said. “We worked very hard with Adrian and his agent, Ben Dogra, to work through this.

“This can only be granted in unique cases.”

Minneapolis-based Target told its stores on Wednesday to remove all Peterson-related merchandise from its sales fl oors.

“Taking into account the feed-back from our guests, and in light of team’s most recent actions, we are opting to remove Peter-son merchandise from our stores and Target.com,” Molly Snyder, a Target spokeswoman, said in an email.

Wednesday’s actions appeared to satisfy one large corporate sponsor—US Bank.

US Bank spokesman Dana Rip-ley said the company “agrees with the Minnesota Vikings’ decision to place Adrian Peterson on the NFL’s exempt list until the legal proceedings are completed. We have been in close communica-tion with the Vikings organization for the past couple of days fi rmly expressing our perspective.”

The NFL released a statement saying, “This is a good decision that will allow Adrian Peterson to resolve his personal situation and the Vikings to return the focus to the football fi eld.”

The 2012 NFL MVP issued a statement on Monday defending his discipline of children while also regretting the extent of the

use of a switch on the 4-year-old.The NFL Players Association

also released a statement Wednes-day morning saying, “Adri-an Peterson made a decision to take a voluntary leave with pay to take care of his personal and legal issues. The NFLPA and NFL worked with Adrian and the Minnesota Vikings to resolve this unique situation. We support this decision and hope the best for him and his family.”

Nike suspended its contract with Peterson, and a spokes-person for Radisson, which on Monday was the fi rst corporate sponsor to at least temporarily sever ties with the Vikings, said Wednesday the company would not change its stance in light of the team deciding not to play Peterson.

“We’re standing fi rm on the suspension, for right now,” said Molly Biwer, vice president for communications and public rela-tions for Carlson and Carlson Hotels, the corporate umbrella for Minnesota-based Radisson. “Obviously, as you’ll see from [today’s] news conference, our banner will not be displayed.”

Peterson was deactivated by the Vikings on Friday, after a warrant was issued in his home state. Peterson was not at TCF Bank Stadium on Sunday as the Vikings lost their home opener 30-7 to the New England Patriots.

The team’s top decision makers decided a day later to welcome Peterson back.

By early Wednesday morning, however, the Vikings had recon-sidered and issued a statement

from the Wilfs, which read in part:

“This has been an ongoing and deliberate process since last Fri-day’s news. In conversations with the NFL over the last two days, the Vikings advised the League of the team’s decision to revisit the situation regarding Adrian Peterson. In response, the League informed the team of the option to place Adrian on the Exempt/Commissioner’s Permission list, which will require that Adrian remain away from all team activ-ities while allowing him to take care of his personal situation until the legal proceedings are resolved. After giving the situa-tion additional thought, we have decided this is the appropriate course of action for the organi-zation and for Adrian.”

Peterson faces uncertain future after deactivation

ELIZABETH FLORES MCCLATCHY TRIBUNEVikings running back Adrian Peterson makes his way to the bench in Cincinnati on Dec. 22. Peters has been charged with a felony for injuring one of his children during discipline, but his lawyers hinted that he wouldn’t go to trial until 2015.

VOLLEYBALLFROM 1B “That’s what people

come here for. They want to be exposed to good

players.”BRAD DANCER

HEAD COACH

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Quick start is the key for IlliniA! er a tough loss on the road last weekend, Illinois looks to bounce back against Texas State

BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER

Head coach Tim Beckman was the fi rst through airport security after the Washing-ton loss.

Instead of rushing through the gates, he stopped and asked each team member the score of the second half as they walked past him. This is the message he will try to car-ry over to Saturday as the Illinois football team takes on Texas State (1-1) at home after a tough 44-19 road loss.

“To show them that we have to play four quarters — there’s no question about it — but we did come out of the locker room and play the way we can play (in the sec-ond half),” Beckman said. “Not everybody did realize that we won 7-6 in the sec-ond half. But a majority of

our players realized that we did make strides. And they realize that if you take 21 points off that scoreboard — that’s a long touchdown pass and then the two turn-overs — and it’s a 23-19 foot-ball game.”

Saturday will be a ques-tion of whether Illinois (2-1) can overcome the embar-rassing national TV loss and pick up one more win before Big Ten play begins. More importantly, it will be a test to see if Illinois can start fast and keep playing that way to avoid falling behind early.

Against Washington, Illi-nois gave up 464 total yards and 11 penalties that cost the Illini 110 yards. The Illi-ni gave 38 of those points up in the fi rst half.

Quarterback Wes Lunt is looking to get back to

his record-breaking game two weeks ago after strug-gling this past week against Washington: he had only 230 yards, recorded one inter-ception and was sacked four times.

“With him, I thought he was moving around a little too much,” offensive coor-dinator Bill Cubit said. “His pocket presence wasn’t as good, wasn’t as clean ... didn’t handle it as well. I thought last year was the same way with Nate. Speed became so fast for us that we didn’t handle it well.”

But Cubit praised Lunt’s ability to gather the team after the loss.

“The great thing about him is that he owns up to it,” Cubit said. “He comes over and says ‘It’s my fault.’ He rallies the troops. In the locker room, he’s one of

the fi rst guys in there. He doesn’t hide, goes in says ‘I screwed up, I apologize and it won’t happen again.’ Got to love a leader like that.”

Illinois will look to its leader this Saturday against Texas State. According to Beckman and Cubit, the offense will focus on start-ing fast and putting points on the board early to avoid falling into a hole.

The Bobcats are com-ing off a 35-21 loss to Navy. Linebacker David Mayo leads the Texas State defense with 25 tackles, but has recorded 10 or more in four straight games, extend-ing back to last season. He racked up a season-high 15 tackles against Navy.

But it’s the dual threat of a running and passing game that will the concern the Illi-nois defense this weekend.

Illinois ranks last in the Big Ten in rushing defense.

Running back Robert Lowe leads the Bobcats in rushing with 242 yards and 62 passing yards.

Quarterback Tyler Jones has 509 passing yards and 133 rushing yards, com-pared to Lunt’s -40 rushing yards.

“The quarterback is pret-ty dynamic with the ball in his hand,” Banks said. “They run a lot of what we call ‘run adjust’ plays, where it looks like he’s running the draw but all of a sudden, he’ll pull that thing out and throw it. So I haven’t quite seen it the way they do it, but it’s going to present some chal-lenges for us, but hopefully if we work on it enough this week, we’ll be up for that challenge.”

Texas State is under the

direction of head coach Dennis Franchione, who is in his fi fth year with the program. With 204 career wins, he is one of only four NCAA Division I FBS active coaches with 200 career victories.

Illinois is hoping to keep that win total at 204 this week, and are looking to start the game with a strong fi rst half.

“It’s getting back to where we need to be,” junior line-backer Mason Monheim said.

“It’s a matter of few hours, maybe a day at most. You can’t dwell on the past, it’s moving forward and get-ting better.”

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ILLINI SCHEDULE

STANDINGS SCHEDULE

OFFENSEQB Wes Lunt 12RB Josh Ferguson 6WR Geronimo Allison 8WR Martize Barr 9WR Justin Hardee 19TE Matt LaCosse 11TE Jon Davis 3LT Simon Cvijanovic 68LG Alex Hill 52C Joe Spencer 71RG Ted Karras 69RT Michael Heitz 74

PASSINGTyler Jones 45-for-61, 509

yards 5 TD

RUSHINGRobert Lowe

30 carries 242 yards 2 TDTyler Jones

25 carries 133 yards 1 TD

RECEIVINGJafus Gaines

8 catches, 174 yards, 2 TDBradley Miller

8 catches, 70 yardsRobert Lowe

6 catches, 62 yardsBen Ijah

5 catches, 34 yards

EYE ON THE ILLINI: RUNNING BACKSJosh Ferguson and Donovonn Young have been

lousy so far this season. Ferguson was expected to be a game-changer for Illinois, and so far he has only averaged 3.5 yards per carry. Young has been equally

unimpressive, totaling just 106 yards through three games. When coverage down the fi eld is good, Wes

Lunt needs to rely on these two out of the backfi eld. So far they have not been able to deliver. This week will be a test for this group, as they go up against a Texas State

front seven that was rattled last week by Navy.

EYE ON THE ENEMY: LINEBACKERSTexas State boasts a formidable crew of backers, including David Mayo and Michael Orakpo, both

preseason All-Sun Belt Conference fi rst team selections. Orakpo is also on the Butkus Award watchlist for the

best linebacker in the NCAA. He is the younger brother of former Texas All-American Brian Orakpo, who plays for the Redskins. This group is defi nitely the cream of

the Bobcats defense and will clog up the Illini’s running lanes.

LAST WEEK FOR TEXAS STATEThe Bobcats lost 35-21 to Navy in San Marcos, Texas.

The Midshipmen ran the ball 57 times for 352 yards against the Texas State defense and added two passing touchdowns. Texas State quarterback Tyler Jones threw

for 231 yards and ran for 82 more. The Bobcats were penalized 11 times for 124 yards, which is more yards than Navy gained through the air. The Bobcats trailed 28-0 with about seven minutes to go in the fi rst half.

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PASSINGWes Lunt

75-for-114, 971 yards, 9 TD

RUSHINGJosh Ferguson

36 carries, 125 yards, 1 TDDonovonn Young

23 carries, 91 yards, 1 TD

RECEIVINGGeronimo Allison

16 catches, 300 yards, 2 TDMike Dudek

12 catches, 159 yards, 2 TDMalik Turner

10 catches, 98 yards, 0 TDJustin Hardee

9 catches, 131 yards, 1 TD

DEFENSEDE Jihad Ward 17

NT Austin Teitsma 44DT Teko Powell 93

LEO DeJazz Woods 90WLB Mason Monheim 43

MLB T.J. Neal, Jr. 52STAR Earnest Thomas III 9

CB V’Angelo Bentley 2CB Eaton Spence 27

SS Zane Petty 21FS Taylor Barton 3

K Taylor Zalewski 17P Justin DuVernois 18

DEFENSE DE Michael Odiari 55

DT Dallas McClarty 63DT Mershad Dillon 42

DE Kris Petersen 82LB David Mayo 3

LB Michael Orakpo 1LB Stephen Smith 40

WS Aaron Shaw 9SS Colby Targun 27CB Craig Mager 25CB David Mims 22

K Jason Dann 48

OFFENSEQB Tyler Jones 2RB Robert Lowe 28WR Brandon Smith 5WR Ben Ijah 1WR C.J. Best 9TE Bradley Miller 84LT Adrian Bellard 64LG Brandon Sarabia 62C Matt Freeman 56RG Charlie Will Tuttle 72RT Ryan Melton 76P Will Johnson 38

ILLINOIS

ILLINOIS LEADERS

TEXAS STATE

TEXAS STATE LEADERS

QB TYLER JONES STATS OVER 2 GAMESThe sophomore is 45-for-61 passing this season, gaining 8.3 yards per completion.Jones has thrown for 509 yards in his fi rst two games.The quarterback has thrown fi ve touchdowns to three different receivers.Jones has connected with 13 receivers throughout the fi rst two games.

Of note: Texas State’s offense lit up Arkansas Pine-Bluff in their season opener, shutting them out 65-0. But 11 penalties held back the Bobcats’ booming offense last week in a 35-21 loss to Navy.

ILLINOIS TEXAS STATEILLINI DEFENSE STATS OVER 3 GAMESThe Illini defense has forced four fumbles.Illinois returned an interception for a 77-yard touchdown against Western Kentucky.The defense has 18 tackles for a loss, led by Earnest Thomas III with three.Illinois has six sacks, dropping opposing QBs for a total loss of 41 yards.

Of note: Illinois ranks 11th total defense in the Big Ten (and last in rushing defense), an Illini victory will depend on how they handle Texas State’s offense.

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SATURDAYSOUTHERN ILLINOIS AT PURDUE - 11 a.m.IOWA AT PITTSBURGH - 11 a.m.WESTERN ILLINOIS AT NORTHWESTERN - 11 a.m.BOWLING GREEN AT NO. 19 WISCONSIN - 11 a.m.EASTERN MICHIGAN AT NO. 11 MICHIGAN STATE - 11 a.m.MARYLAND AT SYRACUSE - 11:30 a.m.

RUTGERS AT NAVY - 2:30 p.m.UTAH AT MICHIGAN - 2:30 p.m.SAN JOSE STATE AT MINNESOTA - 3 p.m.TEXAS STATE AT ILLINOIS - 3 p.m.MASSACHUSETTS AT PENN STATE - 3 p.m.INDIANA AT NO. 18 MISSOURI - 3 p.m.MIAMI (FL) AT NO. 24 NEBRASKA - 7 p.m.

AUG. 30 VS. YOUNGSTOWN STATE (W: 28 -17)SEPT. 6 VS. WESTERN KENTUCKY (W: 42-34) SEPT. 13 AT WASHINGTON (L: 44-19)SEPT. 20 VS. TEXAS STATE — 3 p.m.

SEPT. 27 AT NEBRASKA — 8 p.m.OCT. 4 VS. PURDUE — TBAOCT. 11 AT WISCONSIN — TBAOCT. 25 VS. MINNESOTA — 11 a.m.

NOV. 1 AT OHIO STATE — 7 p.m.NOV. 15 VS. IOWA — TBANOV. 22 VS. PENN STATE — TBANOV. 29 AT NORTHWESTERN — TBA

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it’s not that way, he’s going to make sure he puts you in the position to get it right,” Allison said. “That’s basi-cally what a dad does: He’s going to steer you in the right direction and make sure you get there.”

Cubit’s coaching style echoes the similarities of his own father’s lessons.

“There were certain guidelines,” Cubit said. “I never went to a party in high school because he didn’t want me there. I nev-er wanted to disappoint him. I remember plenty of talks where he’d go, ‘This is what I expect,’ and that’s what I did.”

For starting quarterback Wes Lunt, it was the coach’s ability to remain personable during a tough quarterback battle in training camp and through exhausting team meetings that made him

realize he was a part of a family at Illinois — not just another football team.

“He’s not afraid to talk and just ask you how you’re doing,” Lunt said. “With those long meetings and that grind of camp, just to take time out of your day just to ask how everybody is doing, I think that means a lot.

“He just really cares. It’s way more than football.”

And for Cubit, it’s always been about something more than football. Sports were always a way to connect with his father.

Cubit Sr. attended nearly every game his son was ever a part of — from high school football, basketball and baseball, to college football at Delaware, to a coaching career that has taken him from the likes of Sharon Hill High School in Pennsylvania to Illinois.

“Before our fi rst game last year, I had his mass card and I was tearing up a little,” Cubit said, recall-

ing the fi rst game after his father’s death. “Somebody asked me what’s the mat-ter and I said this is my fi rst game my dad hasn’t seen me or been there or watched on TV. And then somebody said, ‘Well, he’s got the best seat in the house.’”

If Cubit Sr. was watching, he would’ve seen his son make an immediate impact with a troubled football program.

In the coach’s fi rst year with Illinois, the team improved offensively. The Illini scored 156 more points in Cubit’s fi rst season, while the team’s total offensive yards went up from 296.7 yards per game to 426.7 yards per game.

“You want them to win, because they put so much time and effort into it and you see it everyday,” Cubit said. “You see the work eth-ic that they put into it. At the end, you’re responsible. But at the same time, you’ve got to work with those kids who

put in all that time and it didn’t work for them. That, to me, drives you more as a coach, you know? What can you do more so that they don’t have that feeling?”

The Illini have been slowly raising their numbers in the win column, too. The team went 2-10 the year before Cubit arrived, then went 4-8 in his fi rst season. Now, Illi-nois is off to a 2-1 start and is looking to qualify for a bowl game.

It’s Cubit’s outlook that drew a slew of junior col-lege transfers to Illinois last season, including Alli-son and even defensive end Jihad Ward — a player who spends his time on the oppo-site side of the ball but con-nects with the coach, having grown up without a father.

“In JUCO and in high school, you don’t really get a lot of positive things,” Ward said. “You get tired of that and you don’t want to be around negativity all the time.”

Without the student-ath-letes being able to clear their heads, they wouldn’t be able to focus on football, accord-ing to the coach.

“These kids have got issues too,” Cubit said. “You’re in there almost every single day dealing with it. I mean, it’s never ending. Everybody looks at (being a college foot-ball player) and thinks it’s just one big happy utopia, but it’s not. These kids have got some real-life issues like everybody else does. Then you’ve got to go out there in front of everybody and perform.”

In his year and a half with the Illini, Cubit has erased what he calls a “victim mentality” in many players’ minds — thinking the coach was picking on them in prac-tice or being harsh. Cubit’s been able to easily connect with the Illini roster and said there’s always different ways to push each player for them to reach their potential on and off the fi eld.

“I told them a few weeks ago: ‘Who are you playing for? When you walk off the fi eld, will the person you’re playing for be disappointed in your effort?’” Cubit said.

When his players are on the fi eld, Cubit is their No. 1 fan. And it’s clear he’s not just pulling for results on the scoreboard, but also in the players’ personal growth — whether it’s maturing their personality or learning to fi ght through the battles life throws at them.

“You’ve got to be there for them every second of the day,” Cubit said, echoing the same mantra his father took with him.

Now in Hardee’s fi rst sea-son after losing a parent of his own, he goes up to Cubit before every game to remind him: “Hey Coach, two angels are looking down on us.”

Sean can be reached at spneuma2 @dailyillini.com and on Twitter @neumannthehuman.

Raise your hand if before the season you thought Illinois would beat Washington in

Seattle. If you’re now reading this with your hand held high, you’re probably in the minority.

Illinois fans might have freaked out a little bit watching the fi rst half of the Illini’s game at Washington. The 35-5 score at one point didn’t look good. But Illini fans shouldn’t be up in arms after that loss.

I know I chalked that one up for a loss long ago. But I’ll agree — the fi rst half was unexpect-edly terrible, almost to a comi-

cal extent. It was a ‘here we go again’ moment for Illinois fans everywhere.

After last week, Illini fans need someone to calm them down. They certainly don’t want to listen to me. So I’ll let line-backer Mason Monheim take the stage.

When I want a calm and hon-est answer about Illinois foot-ball, Monheim is the go-to source. Even with his long hair and scruffy beard, Monheim is soft-spoken and always has well though-out answers for the media.

I asked Monheim where this team is through one quarter of the season compared to where it was hoping to be.

“We’re defi nitely not close to where we want to be and where we need to be,” Monheim said.

“We need to get on track, espe-cially before the start of the Big Ten. We need a great week.”

OK, that’s not really a surpris-ing answer. It sounds simple, but sometimes that’s the way it is. Coaches and athletes so often give answers riddled with sports cliches. Defensive coordinator Tim Banks is brimming with them.

In answer to the same question he said: “Every game is going to be judged on what you do that particular week. We didn’t get it done. Hopefully we get it done this week, and then we move on to the next. And I know that sounds really cliche, but there’s a reason why coaches stand by it. At least for me, because it’s the truth.”

So, Banks wants to talk about this week, let’s talk about this

week. I asked Monheim what he knew about Texas State.

I asked him this mostly because I don’t know anything about Texas State football. Who outside of central Texas does? After a pause, Monheim said, “I mean, I’ve heard their quarter-back’s pretty athletic, running back’s pretty good.”

But what he was really say-ing — in my words — was, I don’t know anything about Texas State, and I don’t care.

“We need to focus on us,” Mon-heim continued, “on getting back to where we need to be, being consistent on every down and we’ll be fi ne.”

Granted, I was talking to Mon-heim on Monday and he undoubt-edly knows much more about the Bobcats now than he did earlier this week.

But this game is not about Texas State. This game is about Illinois.

You could substitute any sub-par FBS school in for Texas State. The opponent doesn’t mat-ter — the Illini should win Sat-urday. This game is about seeing continued improvement on both sides of the ball.

Illinois struggled through two early games against subpar opponents — Youngstown State and Western Kentucky. Now it’s time to see what the Illini learned in Seattle. It’s time to see the improvement the team keeps talking about.

Sean is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @sean_hammond.

This game is about Illinois, not Texas StateSEAN HAMMOND

Sports editor

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WES LUNT VS. QB TYLER JONES

Illinois quarterback Wes Lunt might as well be called “Mr. Fourth Quarter,” for his performances late in games so far this season. He put up a historical passing game against Youngstown State in week two, tallying a remark-able 456 yards. However, against Washington this past weekend, he threw 16-for-26 for 230 yards, but fi ve sacks, a fumble and a costly interception resulted in a perfor-mance he wasn’t happy with. Another emerging sophomore quarterback, Tyler Jones, recorded 329 of Texas State’s school-record of 697 yards in the team’s 65-0 shutout of Arkansas-Pine Bluff. He came up short in week two against Navy, but had a career-high 82 rushing yards.

ILLINOIS VS. 3RD-DOWN CONVERSIONS

The Illini were 1-for-10 on third-down conversions against a Washington defense that struggled against the pass in its fi rst two games of the season. It’s diffi cult for Lunt to continue his resilience in the fourth quarter when the linemen are fatigued and missing assignments. On a positive note, the Illinois defense showed great signs in the second half, allowing the Huskies to put only six points up on the scoreboard. Illinois head coach Tim Beckman continues to preach “having faster starts” for his football team. This is essential against a Texas State offense that’s just as sharp as Illinois’.

ILLINI AND BOBCATS VS. PENALTIES

This game might be a shootout in most fans’ eyes, but perhaps not the way they expect it to be. Both teams com-mitted 11 penalties against their last opponent. Illinois’ penalties resulted in 110 yards, while the Bobcats gave up 124 yards. Whether that’s a face mask or a delay of game, these penalties can take one team out of rhythm. One thing for sure is that it all depends on how the refs call the game and how disciplined both teams can be.

Torrence is a senior in Media and can be reached at [email protected] and @TheRealTS4.

BY TORRENCE SORRELLON-AIR SPORTS EDITOR

RUTGERS AT NAVY - 2:30 p.m.UTAH AT MICHIGAN - 2:30 p.m.SAN JOSE STATE AT MINNESOTA - 3 p.m.TEXAS STATE AT ILLINOIS - 3 p.m.MASSACHUSETTS AT PENN STATE - 3 p.m.INDIANA AT NO. 18 MISSOURI - 3 p.m.MIAMI (FL) AT NO. 24 NEBRASKA - 7 p.m.


alongside the other talent-ed players at each school that is recruiting him, most notably stud prospect Ben Simmons at LSU. Since Thomas seems to want to surround himself with oth-er top-fl ight talent, it is safe to assume he won’t mind sharing the weekend with Coleman. Having Coleman alongside him may even help Thomas visualize a brighter future and bet-ter situation if he were to pick Illinois. Thomas has also seriously entertained the idea of playing with fel-low Illini recruit and friend Jawun Evans. So the more surrounding talent the Illini can offer, the better.

It’s not like Thomas should worry about being overshadowed, anyway. The forward from Lancast-er High in Texas is ranked No. 29 on ESPN’s top 100 and features a smooth touch around the basket to complement his bruis-ing rebounding and interi-or skills.

Thomas has a big person-ality to match his 6-foot-9, 255 pound frame. Aside from his constant fan inter-action on social media, he comes off as bright and per-sonable in interviews with

the media. Look for Thomas to bask in the fan hysteria during his time on campus.

Coleman will be the third elite guard to visit campus this fall, with Evans and Jalen Brunson before him. Unlike the other two, Cole-man is more of a shooting guard rather than a pure point. At 6-foot-3, he is com-parable to a Brandon Paul-type player, but Coleman already possesses a quick-er and more accurate jump shot than Paul.

Having both Coleman and Thomas on campus makes this one of the big-gest recruiting weekends in recent memory for Illi-nois basketball. With Evans still in limbo in regard to his decision, Illini fans will once again be aching for a commitment during the weekend. You can be sure that Groce will push both Coleman and Thomas to commit this weekend, but whether they do is anyone’s guess.

We’ve seen the frenzy when one top-30 recruit vis-its campus. But two?

Prepare for twice the hype, twice the speculation and twice the fun.

Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @aroux94.

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dard going forward,” Ray-fi eld said.

Sunday’s match is expect-ed to draw one of the largest crowds of the year because of Illinois’ ninth-annual Soc-cerFest. This year’s fan perks include free Jimmy John’s for the fi rst 1,000 attendees, post-game autographs and a fan zone comprising of games, prizes, face painting and even a bounce house.

“I think the freshman being in an atmosphere like that will really enjoy it just as much as our upperclassmen do,” Jannelle Flaws said. ”It’s a great chance to get more fans out, and it’s defi nitely a more high-energy fan base. It’s exciting and always fun to play in a crowd like that.”

Home-fi eld advantage will be at full tilt for the Illini this weekend.

Joey can be reached at jfi [email protected] and on Twitter @joeyfi gueroa3.

the Illini’s serving. “Middles are tough or they

can be really easy, depend-ing on how the team passes,” Hambly said. “If you can serve the way you want to, you can take them out of the game. If you can’t, you’re in trouble .”

These are the last match-es before Big Ten play opens up for the Illini. One of the reasons Hambly perenni-ally schedules one of the toughest slates in the coun-try is to learn lessons each week before the grind

of Big Ten play.“Every week, you’re add-

ing pieces and learning les-sons,” he said. “Sometimes you don’t know what the lessons are, but you’re just looking for the opportunity to teach.”

Last week’s lesson centered on energy. This week’s lesson is to be determined.

“I don’t know what Colora-do is going to teach us, I don’t know what Creighton is going to teach us, but they’re going to teach us something.”

Stephen can be reached at [email protected] and @steve_bourbon.

BY BRETT LERNERSTAFF WRITER

The Illini hockey team continued its roller coast-er start to the season in its opening weekend of play. Illinois lost a scrimmage to the Springfi eld Jr Blues on Friday, then came back to rout Northern Illinois in the regular season opener, 7-2.

The up and down trajec-tory to the beginning of the Illini’s season has been mainly caused by the clos-ing of the Illinois ice rink. Head coach Nick Fabbrini has been holding practices 45 minutes from campus in Danville, to which players are driving themselves.

September 18 will end the Illini’s wait to return home, as that is the date the arena reopens.

Between fi nally being able to practice at home again and getting into the regu-lar season routine, the Illini are hoping to settle in.

“Our guys are starting to gel after playing togeth-er for more than a couple of weeks now and coming home for our fi rst practice back in our rink. It will give

us an extra little boost this weekend,” Fabbrini said.

The reopening of the Big Pond seems to have come at a perfect time, considering the way the Illini’s sched-ule looks. Illinois will play two games almost every weekend from now through November, and will be on the road for the remaining two weekends in Septem-ber. With the heavy travel for the next few weeks, it seems that eliminating the travel back and forth from practice should benefi t the Illini at the beginning of the season.

This weekend, Illinois will continue to go up against in-state teams by hitting the road to face Illinois State. The teams will face off on both Friday and Satur-day night, something that is usual for the program. Most every weekend that the Illini hit the ice, they play the same team twice in order to make the most of travel costs. Because of this normality, Fabbrini said the game plan doesn’t often change between the fi rst and second games. He did add,

however, that adjustments were key in the Illini’s open-ing weekend.

“For it just being our sec-ond game I liked how well we were able to make some adjustments and to come back and respond after a tough game on Friday night and play a pretty good game overall on Saturday,” Fab-brini said.

One of the team’s main fl aws last season was goal scoring, which seemed to have been addressed in the opener. Not only did Illinois net seven goals, but they also put up 48 shots. Captain John Olen was the leader of the offensive attack, netting two goals against Northern Illinois.

“I like to position myself well and try to spread the ice open to fi nd myself open areas,” Olen said. “On both of those goals I really just got good passes and I was kind of in the right area.”

The problem that Fabbri-ni wants to address mov-ing forward is discipline, something many teams have issues with to begin seasons. The Illini commit-

ted six penalties against the Huskies, with fi ve of them coming in the fi rst period.

“(Discipline) is something that’s easy to control,” Fab-brini said. “I think we saw that when we do control our emotions and stay out of the box to play teams fi ve-on-fi ve that we’re a pretty good hockey team. I’m hoping that’s one of the bigger les-sons we learned Saturday.”

Brett can be reached at [email protected] and @Blerner10.

Illinois at Illinois StateWhen: 7 p.m. Friday and SaturdayWhere: US Cellular ColiseumQuick notes: Both teams come into the game undefeated, Illinois (1-0), ISU (2-0). Both teams have fi rst year starters in net, Zev Grumet-Morris for Illinois and Joey Garapolo for ISU.

Hockey takes on in-state rival ISU

BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDYSTAFF WRITER

Illinois tennis player Aleks Vukic, from Sydney, said he loved his fi rst taste of college tennis.

“I enjoyed it a lot. I played a Georgia guy at Georgia with the whole of his team watching, cheer-ing him on, but I loved it,” Vukic said. “Even though they weren’t cheering for me, I loved it.”

After a semi-finals appearance at last week-end’s Southern Intercolle-giate Championships, Vukic get another experience of NCAA tennis in his second tournament at the Fight-ing Illini Invitational this weekend in Olympia Fields, Illinois. Four of the six teams competing fi nished in the ITA Top 25 last sea-son: Notre Dame, Memphis, Kentucky and the host, Illi-ni. Memphis knocked off the Illini in the Sweet 16 of last year’s NCAA tourna-ment, while the Illini beat Notre Dame and Kentucky in dual meets last year. NC State and Miami (FL) will round out the fi eld.

While some sports start the season with smaller events to get athletes back in the swing of things, this weekend, the men’s tennis

team will jump straight in against big-name competition.

“That’s what our pro-gram is,” head coach Brad Dancer said. “I think that’s what people come here for. They want to be exposed to playing against good play-ers. That’s why we do it.”

This will be the Illini’s eighth year playing at Olympia Fields Country Club just outside of Chica-go. Dancer said he’s grate-ful for the chance to co-host the event and play at such a prestigious club. Dancer also said hosting an invite near Chicago helps recruit-ing, as several Illini come from the area.

Illinois will have four players competing at Olym-pia Fields: Vukic, fellow freshman Toshiki Matsuya, ITA preseason No. 6 Jar-ed Hiltzik and No. 44 Tim Kopinski. Kopinski says the more matches he gets to play, the better he per-forms, so playing in the ear-ly season invite provides a chance to get his match count up against quality opponents.

The OFCC/Fighting Illi-ni Invite is also one of the few collegiate meets in the country played on clay courts. Kopinski said it

helps that the Illini have prepared for the unusu-al surface by practicing on the Champaign Coun-try Club’s clay courts, but Vukic will feel be right in his element.

“I went to Spain in Jan-uary (and) February, and basically for six months, I played on clay, so this feels like home right now,” Vukic said. “I’m looking forward to playing some Americans on clay, that’s for sure.”

While it’s an early sea-son meet, Dancer knows what he wants to see from the Illini.

“I want them to compete their tails off,” Dancer said. “I want them to rep-

resent their school with class, dignity, toughness (and) sportsmanship.”

Christopher can be reached at [email protected].

Olympia Fields Country Club/Fighting Illini InviteWhen: Friday through Sunday in Olympia Fields, Ill.Quick notes: Four Illini will compete in this loaded early-season tournament. Freshman Aleks Vukic is coming off of a semi-fi nal appearance last weekend, and preseason No. 6 Jared Hiltzik last

played in the inaugural American Collegiate Invite at the US Open. The Illini will face Memphis, who outed them in last year’s NCAA tournament.Hidden stat: Kopinski is a part of the nation’s preseason No. 2 doubles team. He went 4-0 at this tournament last year and was named Most Outstanding Player.

Illini Invite has loaded fi eld

BY ROCHELLE OLSON AND MATT VENSELMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

If Adrian Peterson won’t play for the Vikings until his legal case comes to a conclusion, he might not play again this season.

After the Vikings placed the star running back on the exempt/commissioner’s permission list early Wednesday, his lawyer hint-ed a trial for Peterson in Texas wouldn’t happen until 2015.

Rusty Hardin said no plea nego-tiations were occurring and that he has “no reason to believe” the case, in which Peterson is charged with a felony for injur-ing one of his children during discipline, won’t go to trial in about nine months as Montgom-ery County (Texas) prosecutors previously indicated.

Hardin said he will know more about the schedule after Peter-son’s fi rst hearing Oct. 8 in front of District Judge Kelly Case.

In a written statement, Hardin said Peterson wants to “continue his work in the NFL and contrib-ute to his team and community. In order to do so, he is prepared to resolve this matter in the appro-priate legal forum rather than the court of public opinion.”

The Vikings benched Peterson in the face of public pressure, two days after reinstating him.

“We made a mistake,” said co-owner Zygi Wilf at a morning news conference, “and we need-ed to get this right.”

The move will keep him away from the team, but he will be paid.

General Manager Rick Spiel-man said the Vikings initiated talks with the NFL to determine a course of action.

“Only the commissioner can grant that exemption,” Spielman said. “We worked very hard with Adrian and his agent, Ben Dogra, to work through this.

“This can only be granted in unique cases.”

Minneapolis-based Target told its stores on Wednesday to remove all Peterson-related merchandise from its sales fl oors.

“Taking into account the feed-back from our guests, and in light of team’s most recent actions, we are opting to remove Peter-son merchandise from our stores and Target.com,” Molly Snyder, a Target spokeswoman, said in an email.

Wednesday’s actions appeared to satisfy one large corporate sponsor—US Bank.

US Bank spokesman Dana Rip-ley said the company “agrees with the Minnesota Vikings’ decision to place Adrian Peterson on the NFL’s exempt list until the legal proceedings are completed. We have been in close communica-tion with the Vikings organization for the past couple of days fi rmly expressing our perspective.”

The NFL released a statement saying, “This is a good decision that will allow Adrian Peterson to resolve his personal situation and the Vikings to return the focus to the football fi eld.”

The 2012 NFL MVP issued a statement on Monday defending his discipline of children while also regretting the extent of the

use of a switch on the 4-year-old.The NFL Players Association

also released a statement Wednes-day morning saying, “Adri-an Peterson made a decision to take a voluntary leave with pay to take care of his personal and legal issues. The NFLPA and NFL worked with Adrian and the Minnesota Vikings to resolve this unique situation. We support this decision and hope the best for him and his family.”

Nike suspended its contract with Peterson, and a spokes-person for Radisson, which on Monday was the fi rst corporate sponsor to at least temporarily sever ties with the Vikings, said Wednesday the company would not change its stance in light of the team deciding not to play Peterson.

“We’re standing fi rm on the suspension, for right now,” said Molly Biwer, vice president for communications and public rela-tions for Carlson and Carlson Hotels, the corporate umbrella for Minnesota-based Radisson. “Obviously, as you’ll see from [today’s] news conference, our banner will not be displayed.”

Peterson was deactivated by the Vikings on Friday, after a warrant was issued in his home state. Peterson was not at TCF Bank Stadium on Sunday as the Vikings lost their home opener 30-7 to the New England Patriots.

The team’s top decision makers decided a day later to welcome Peterson back.

By early Wednesday morning, however, the Vikings had recon-sidered and issued a statement

from the Wilfs, which read in part:

“This has been an ongoing and deliberate process since last Fri-day’s news. In conversations with the NFL over the last two days, the Vikings advised the League of the team’s decision to revisit the situation regarding Adrian Peterson. In response, the League informed the team of the option to place Adrian on the Exempt/Commissioner’s Permission list, which will require that Adrian remain away from all team activ-ities while allowing him to take care of his personal situation until the legal proceedings are resolved. After giving the situa-tion additional thought, we have decided this is the appropriate course of action for the organi-zation and for Adrian.”

Peterson faces uncertain future after deactivation

ELIZABETH FLORES MCCLATCHY TRIBUNEVikings running back Adrian Peterson makes his way to the bench in Cincinnati on Dec. 22. Peters has been charged with a felony for injuring one of his children during discipline, but his lawyers hinted that he wouldn’t go to trial until 2015.

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Jameis Winston has been suspended for the fi rst half of No. 1 FSU’s game Satur-day after making a sexually lewd comment on the Florida State campus Tuesday.

Florida State interim presi-dent Garnett Stokes and ath-letic director Stan Wilcox, in a joint statement, announced the suspension of the Heis-man Trophy winner follow-ing “offensive and vulgar” comments he made on cam-pus Tuesday.

“Student-athletes are expected to act in a way that refl ects dignity and respect for other,” the statement read.

Winston also will “undergo internal discipline” and the athletic department will have no further comment, accord-ing to the statement.

As a result, Winston will

miss the fi rst half of a key ACC home game against No. 22 Clemson Saturday. Sean Maguire, a redshirt sopho-more, is expected to start in place of Winston.

During an ACC telecon-ference Wednesday morn-ing dominated by questions about Winston, FSU coach Jimbo Fisher said he was dis-appointed in the star quarter-back’s conduct.

The Heisman winner was the subject of tweets from Florida State students on Tuesday. The FSU quarter-back reportedly stood up on a table on campus and yelled a sexually obscene remark that is supposed to be a ref-erence from a popular online video-turned meme. Dead-spin reported the tweets fi rst.

Fisher said he spoke with Winston about the incident. At the time, Fisher was still mulling whether to suspend Winston.

“We’re deciding and talk-ing as things go on right now,” Fisher said.

When the coach was asked if he was frustrated, Fisher responded, “You don’t ever want any kind of instances, but we have to keep learning and educating. But we have to make better decisions, we have to make good decisions on things. And we’ll try to continue to do that. And try to educate.”

Winston has been praised for his on-fi eld accolades dur-ing the past year. But for all the goodwill he’s accumu-lated on the gridiron, he is struggling to stay out of the spotlight off the fi eld.

It’s unclear whether the student tweets are accurate. The Orlando Sentinel asked FSU offi cials for comment repeatedly Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, but the school opted not to address the issue.

MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEIOWA CITY — The

other half of Jordan Lomax’s targeting penalty kicks in this week.

The junior free safety, ejected in the fourth quarter of last week’s loss to Iowa State, will have to sit out the fi rst half when the Hawkeyes (2-1) travel to Pitt (3-0) on Saturday.

The suddenness of Lomax’s ejection threw Iowa’s defense. Sophomore Anthony Gair replaced him and in his fi rst series was called for an offsides penalty. Iowa State quarterback Sam Richardson was in the process of putting kicker Cole Netten in position to boot the

game-winning 42-yard fi eld goal and probably would’ve no matter who the free safety was. The ejection just hurried Iowa’s demise.

“I knew it right away,” Lomax said of the fi rst-half suspension this week. “I knew the rules for it. I just have to stay in the fi lm room and be there for the guys who will be playing in the fi rst half.”

That guy is Gair, a 6-2, 200-pounder from Plano, Texas. Other than the offsides, Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz thought he was OK against the Cyclones. It was a small sample size, less than a quarter, and Iowa’s defense was crumbling in a contain mode, so it’s diffi cult to draw any conclusions.

“He’s going to have to do well this week because he’s going to be out there the fi rst half,” Ferentz said. “He stepped in and did a competent job. Hopefully, now he can build on that.”

Tackling and getting defenders to the ball will be front and

center this week. Pitt is a multithreat offense, but its main cog is 250-pound running back James Conner, who’s fourth in the country with 181.0 yards a game. Running up and meeting Conner in a violent manner will be one of Gair’s main jobs Saturday.

“I think I’ll be OK,” Gair said. “I got some of the nerves out last game. I’ll just focus on what I have to do and just get my mind right.”

Targeting remains a touchy subject. No one will question the rule’s intent, which is player safety. The “intent” part of the rule is probably the most difficult element to swallow for coaches, players.

Straight from the NCAA rule book: Rule 9-1-3 — Targeting and initiating contact with the crown of the helmet. No player shall target and initiate contact against an opponent with the crown (top) of his helmet. When in question, it is a foul.

Rule 9-1-4: Targeting and initiating contact to

head or neck area of a defenseless player. No player shall target and initiate contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent with the helmet, forearm, fist, elbow or shoulder. When in question, it is a foul.

Ninety-eight percent of targeting calls come from hits on receivers, roughing the passer penalties, hits to the ball carrier, either the quarterback or a runner, in one of two positions, upright or going to the ground or blindside blocks.

The rule specifi cally defi nes a “target” this way, “to take aim at an opponent for purposes of attacking with an apparent intent that goes beyond making a legal tackle or a legal block or playing the ball.”

Another key element is where the contact is initiated (high on the player’s body or head) and it goes beyond contact with the helmet. In this case, Lomax hit ISU wide receiver Jarvis West in the head

with his shoulder. West left the game and didn’t return. He’s expected to be OK this week.

This was the first time since the rule was enacted in 2013 that the Hawkeyes have had a player ejected. Last season at Ohio State, OSU cornerback Bradley Roby was ejected for a high hit on tight end C.J. Fiedorowicz.

“Most people would agree, it’s a hard rule to offi ciate,” Ferentz said. “There are going to be a lot of mixed opinions. My feeling when it all started was

when everybody in the stadium says, ‘whoa,’ that’s when a guy should get tossed out. That’s my personal feeling, personal commentary. A tough rule to offi ciate.”

What does Iowa defensive coordinator and secondary coach Phil Parker tell his players in regard to this rule?

“He tells us to aim low,” Lomax said. “If we do get into a situation like that, make sure to keep your head up. That makes it a harder call for the refs. If you have your head up, they usually won’t call it.”

The fl ag came out. The play was reviewed, and that’s the change for this season. If a player is deemed not to have committed the targeting penalty, the fl ag is picked up. In this case, Lomax was called for a personal foul (15 yards) and targeting was upheld in review (ejection).

“I thought he was trying to avoid targeting. That was my view of it,” Ferentz said,

“but it’s easier said than done.”

“ . . . It’s one of those things, like a lot of bang-bang plays. It’s open to interpretation. I think the intent of the rule is outstanding. To me, when everybody in the stadium says, ‘Whoa, look at that, that’s targeting.’ That’s how I look at it. We saw one of those last year, helmet to helmet on a guy that didn’t have a chance to defend himself. I get that.

“It’s a tough thing. It’s the way it goes. You still have to play aggressively.”

The teaching moment from this is . . .

“All you can do is know when to lay off,” cornerback Greg Mabin said. “Don’t duck your head and don’t lean your shoulder into it. (But) you really can’t even think about it. You can’t go out there and play scared. You can’t think about it, you have to react. You try your best to avoid it, but if it happens, there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Iowa defense struggling to lay off

FSU’s Winston suspended for lewd comments

“All you can do is know when to

lay off. Don’t duck your head and don’t lean your shoulder in.”

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STEPHEN M. DOWELL ORLANDO SENTINELFSU quarterback Jameis Winston reportedly stood up on a table on campus and yelled a sexually obscene remark, which students then tweeted about. The remarks led to his suspension from the fi rst half of FSU’s game on Saturday.

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Irish coach Brian Kel-ly, whose team is 3-0 and ranked No. 9 nationally, said Sunday that, as of Friday, none of the five had gone through a hear-ing process before an hon-esty committee.

UNIVERSITY PARK —Get ready to rumble.

The Penn State wres-tling team will host Iowa at 2 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Bryce Jordan Center, the athlet-ic department announced Wednesday.

Penn State set an NCAA attendance record last sea-son when the Nittany Lions

beat Pittsburgh 28-9 in front of 15,996 fans at the Bryce Jordan Center. They’ll try to break that mark against bitter rival Iowa.

Since taking over the Penn State program before the 2009-10 season, coach Cael Sanderson went 2-3 against Tom Brands’ Hawk-eyes. The two programs have combined to win the past seven NCAA team championships, with Penn State winning the past four.

NEWS FROM AROUND THE SPORTING WORLDMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

BY ERIK PRADOSTAFF WRITER

If presented with the option to watch only one football game

Thursday night, what will you choose? Will you watch No. 5 Auburn travel to No. 20 Kansas State, or will you watch the 0-2 Bucca-neers face off against the 1-1 Atlanta Falcons?

Clearly the answer is the college game, and this discus-sion isn’t even close. Though the c a l e n d a r only reads S eptemb er 18, this game will resemble a high-stakes N o v e m b e r m a t c h u p . Teams ranked fifth in the nation usually do not play these huge, non-confer-ence games this early in the season, let alone on a Thursday.

Auburn is coming off of a berth in the national

title game, and will face its first serious test, and first road game, as it attempts to defend its SEC title. K-State took a downturn last season after a Fiesta Bowl appearance. By all accounts, the Wildcats look better than last year’s 8-5 squad.

Tonight’s matchup also provides some history, as this will be the first time Kansas State has hosted a top-five opponent in 46 years, since No. 2 Penn State visited in 1969. It is also only the fourth meet-ing between the two, and

A u b u r n e m e r g e d v i c t o r i -ous in the p r e v i o u s three.

It’s still early in both sea-sons, but ever yone knows that one loss carries a

lot more weight for a col-lege team than an NFL team. A win for Auburn boosts its playoff resume, should the Tigers remain unscathed in the brutal SEC West division.

A win for Kansas State

pushes the Wildcats near the top of the Big 12, ranked behind Oklahoma and Baylor. The Big 12 as a whole desperately needs this win to boost the con-ference’s national profile.

That last paragraph sounds pretty odd. The Big 12 is home to Oklaho-ma and Texas, two peren-nial powerhouses, and Bay-lor, an emerging program. Former-BCS buster TCU joined the conference a few years back and Okla-homa State always has a puncher’s chance to win the conference. But alas, such is the life for a confer-ence that isn’t the SEC or the PAC-12, who dominate their competition and the college news cycles.

The NFL has surely been dominating the news cycle the last week, but there is minimal excitement for tonight’s game. It is a divisional matchup, but the Buccaneers are just plain bad and Atlanta’s offense has no protection for Matt Ryan. Neither of these teams are serious Super Bowl contenders.

Last week’s Steelers-Ravens matchup had a spike in viewership, which can be attributed to the ongoing Ray Rice story-

line. Even without contro-versy, the NFL will have more viewers than the NCAA on Thursday night, simply because it’s the NFL.

It’s a shame though, because I do believe col-lege games played on Thursdays are truly spec-tacular. Who can forget

when No. 15 Rutgers upset No. 3 Louisville, and a sea of red swarmed the field? Or when Oregon State upset No. 1 USC in 2008?

These games become borderline insane when the regular season is nearing the end. Any upsets that occur on Thursdays set the tone for the rest of the

weekend. College football is a

wacky sport, and Thurs-day games serve as that reminder.

Erik is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @e_prada.

College football: A no-brainer on a ThursdayERIK PRADO

Sports columnist

JOSE CARLOS FAJARDO MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNETy Isaac of Southern California scores a 4-yard touchdown as Chad Whitener of Cal tackles from behind on Nov. 9. Isaac will not be on the Wolverines roster this season.

JOE RIMKUS JR. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEWide receiver DaVaris Daniels of Notre Dame catches a pass. An ongoing academic fraud investigation at Notre Dame involves five Irish football players. As of Friday, none have gone through a hearing process.

ABBY DREY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEOklahoma State’s Chris Perry hangs on to Penn State’s Matt Brown on Feb. 16. Penn State hopes to break an NCAA attendance record when it faces Iowa on Feb. 8.Wavier denied:

Michigan’s Ty Isaac leaves !eld until 2015

Rivals Penn State, Iowa to take "oor

Notre Dame responds to fraud investigation

ROBERT GAUTHIER THE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNETigers defensive end Dee Ford sacks Seminoles quarterback Jameis Winston in the BCS National Championship game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 6.

Clearly the answer is the

college game, and this discussion isn’t even close.

BY DAN WIEDERERMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

The kid’s athleticism was obvious.

Go ahead and review Kyle Fuller’s first career NFL interception from Sunday night, the one he made in the fourth quarter against the 49ers, breaking on a pass toward receiver Michael Crabtree, swat-ting at the ball and some-how clawing it right into

his belly.Then, in a blur, Fuller

was off on a 20-yard return.His instincts pack plenty

of promise too. Fuller’s sec-ond career pick came only 4 minutes after the first, a result of his vision and feel. On that play, he felt secure enough to drop off his pri-mary coverage responsi-bility on Crabtree in order to cut off a Colin Kaeper-nick pass deeper down the

field toward tight end Derek Carrier.

“Just in the right place at the right time,” Fuller said.

In a blink, two takeaways led to two crucial Bears touchdowns with both requiring a combination of poise and aggressiveness. From a rookie.

But go deeper than that with Fuller. That’s what veteran receiver Brandon Marshall suggested. When

asked in the postgame rev-elry after the Bears’ 28-20 win at Levi’s Stadium what specifically has impressed him about the 22-year-old’s skill set, Marshall thought it through.

Sure, there’s the quick-ness, the toughness and the intelligence. But then there’s the rookie’s almost preternatural composure.

“He has no fear,” Mar-shall said. “There’s no wide

receiver and there’s no moment that’s bigger than him. He has a great skill set. But better yet, his atti-tude is amazing.”

The Bears suddenly will need all of that and more from their first-round pick. With the news Monday that 33-year-old cornerback Charles Tillman is headed for injured reserve and lost for the season with anoth-er injury to his right tri-

ceps, Fuller’s workload and responsibilities are about to spike significantly.

Rookie mistakes will be inevitable.

But with seemingly no moment too big for him, Fuller delivered in a big way Sunday, providing what could become two of the biggest moments in the season to steer the Bears from the 0-2 cliff they were headed toward.

Bears’ rookie CB Fuller wows with 1st career interception against 49ers

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