Ep. 1003 - Takeaways from Illini AD Josh Whitman's annual media roundtable
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss Kasparas Jakucionis and Will Riley going back-to-back in the 2025 NBA Draft and then discuss some news items and their top takeaways from Illinois athletics director Josh Whitman's annual media roundtable, including a change to the Mizzou football series and the impact of the House settlement on Illinois and college athletics.
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| 0:28.5 | UK for more information. Welcome in to the online inquiry podcast. It is Jeremy Warner and Joy Wagner. |
| 0:46.7 | What a 24 hours we've had with Illinois athletics as Will Riley and Casper Sack has shown us |
| 0:51.9 | go back to back in the NBA draft, the first one in Duns in Illinois basketball history and the first time in 20 years that to O'I and I have gone in the same first round of an NBA draft. We're going to dive deeper into that on a later podcast. I'm going to try and get Derek Piper, who is in Brooklyn, to give us insight on that. He's got three stories up on the website already from that night at Barclays Center. But Joy Wagner, we just met with |
| 1:15.7 | Josh Whitman for a long time. This was a three-hour-plus conversation that we had with Josh |
| 1:21.1 | Whitman. An hour and 47-minute opening statement. We got a lot to break down. |
| 1:28.0 | We're going to break down our biggest takeaways. |
| 1:30.0 | We don't want to try and get too lost in the weeds of some of this stuff of college |
| 1:34.5 | athletics that might bore or confuse some people, but we are going to address some of the big |
| 1:39.4 | picture topics in college athletics and Illinois as well. |
| 1:43.0 | But, Joey, how are you feeling? |
| 1:45.8 | I am good. |
| 1:46.5 | That was, like, we always kind of joke, like, oh, what a long opening statement. |
| 1:50.1 | But the opening statement does answer a lot of questions, and it helps us frame what we're |
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