Like every other Junior Reporter we've sent to Memorial Stadium to cover Illinois football, Austin Brown's name was randomly selected. What's different is no one knows who put his name in the hopper in the first place. Like every other Junior Reporter we've sent to Memorial Stadium to cover Illinois football, AUSTIN BROWN's name was randomly selected. What's different is no one knows who put his name in the hopper in the first place. The fifth-grader from Danville was anonymously nominated — for us, that's a first — and to this day, he doesn't have a clue who did it. read more