You think Kip wants it?
I’m not going to sit here and act like I’m best friends with Kipper Nichols (I’m not, but I was in an elevator with him once), but I interviewed him a bunch of times when I was covering the Illini. Plus, I’m an Illini fan who has been through a lot of pain and heartbreak and suffering (in my short 23 years).
So while you might say Ayo or Kofi or Dee or Deron or Deon or Kendall or Brandon or someone else embodies you’re Illini fandom, mine might be Kipper Nichols.