Ep. 1025 - Our "Sign Guys" for the 2025 Illini football season
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss the latest from Illini football training camp and the release of the Illini basketball nonconference schedule. The guys then choose their "Sign Guys" for the 2025 Illinois football season, players they're particularly excited about or buying into for now and the future.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the Olaan Inquirer podcast. It is a special edition of the O'Anne Inquirer podcast. |
| 0:17.8 | It is our Sign Guys podcast. And credit credits Joey Wagner for starting this last year. |
| 0:23.8 | His excitement for Joe Barna, the freshman outside linebacker, boiled over to where he made the sign. |
| 0:29.9 | Is it sitting there on your desk? |
| 0:31.4 | It is. |
| 0:32.0 | Yep, it is. |
| 0:32.8 | This is the original sign. |
| 0:34.5 | The original sign. |
| 0:36.7 | So, Joey, take us in. What does sign. So Joey, |
| 0:37.7 | take us in. |
| 0:38.2 | What does sign guy mean? |
| 0:40.3 | I have no idea. |
| 0:45.0 | It's just kind of our guys, right? |
| 0:47.3 | But it's not, |
| 0:49.1 | you know, |
| 0:49.3 | I think of it like if you go back to how we did picks to click in 2022, |
| 0:53.7 | like you don't want to always be like, oh, Luke Altmeier's sign or, well, I don't want to get too far, Gayback is sign or Xavier Scott or Matthew Bailey, because of course, that's not unique, that's not creative, that's not really that fun. Like, we know those guys are really good football players. |
| 1:12.0 | They're going to have a lot of impact on the team. |
| 1:14.6 | It's just guys that are kind of fun, right? |
| 1:17.5 | Maybe the impact is going to range from, |
| 1:20.1 | we have six total each for each of us. |
| 1:22.8 | So maybe those are going to range a little bit in productivity, |
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