The Fighting Illini have plenty of meeting room space just steps away from their locker room. The Squad Room (right) has permanently installed seats in a theater-style arrangement for full team meetings. It can be divided in half with a temporary wall for offensive and defensive unit meetings. The Squad Room is also used for post-game press conferences. Down the hall there are seven position-group meeting rooms (below) which, like the Squad Room, are equipped with computer-driven video monitors which greatly aid in what used to be called "film study." The players and coaches can not only review fundamentals by analyzing videotape from practices and games, but they can also study their opponents' strengths, weaknesses and tendencies.
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