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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, In 2005, Coach Bob Spoo led the Eastern Illinois |
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| University Panthers football team to their third Ohio Valley |
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| Conference championship in the last five years with a perfect |
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| conference record of eight wins and no losses; and
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| WHEREAS, With an overall record of nine wins and three |
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| losses, the Panthers were ranked fifteenth by USA Today/ESPN |
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| and earned the school's tenth NCAA I-AA playoff berth; and
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| WHEREAS, Following the Panthers' ninth winning season in |
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| the last 12 years, Coach Spoo was honored as the Ohio Valley |
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| Conference's Coach of the Year, his third time being named |
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| conference coach of the year; junior linebacker Clint Sellers |
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| was named Ohio Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Year |
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| as well as being named All-American; safety Tristan Burge and |
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| linebacker Lucius Seymour, both juniors, also were named |
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| All-Americans; and
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| WHEREAS, Coach Spoo is the winningest football coach in EIU |
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| history, with a record 119 wins; he has twice been the American |
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| Football Coaches Association's Region Coach of the Year; in |
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| 1995, he was named Co-Coach of the Year for Division I-AA by |
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| the Football Gazette; and in 2000, he was the runner-up for the |
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| Eddie Robinson I-AA National Coach of the Year award; and
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| WHEREAS, Coach Spoo and his staff also place a great |
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| emphasis on academics, a stance that has been publicly |
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| commended by the EIU faculty Senate; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we congratulate Coach Bob Spoo and the Eastern Illinois |
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| University Panthers football team on an outstanding season and |
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| on winning their third Ohio Valley Conference championship in |