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'A historic day for our athletics program': Three takeaways on Larry Gies' $100 million donation to Illini

'A historic day for our athletics program': Three takeaways on Larry Gies' $100 million donation to Illini
sports • 9/10/2025

Illini Inquirer has three takeaways from Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman's press conference about the naming rights to Gies Memorial Stadium.

CHAMPAIGN — When Josh Whitman was first hired at Illinois, he often talked about cracking a boulder in the athletics program, that every investment from ticket to sweatshirt to donation was a swing at the boulder. The boulder, Whitman said on Tuesday... [1238 chars]