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VIDEO: Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman is still a pro on the jugs machine
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They say that age is just a number.
Josh Whitman is a 37-year-old former tight end-turned Illinois athletic director. And apparently, he hasn’t lost his soft hands.
Whitman, who enters his first full season as Illinois AD, was on hand for the Illini’s first fall practice of the Lovie Smith era. Naturally, he tested out the jugs machine.
He’s still plenty capable of catching the quick-hitters.
.@IlliniAD has still got it ????????#Illini#WeWillWinpic.twitter.com/yoXQcKbkES
— Illini Football (@IlliniFootball) August 4, 2016
For the record, jugs machines are harder than they look. Catching several in a row from that close of a distance isn’t easy, but Whitman made it look like it was.
It’s too bad that he doesn’t have any eligibility left.
Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Tradition. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.