Welcome into the online inquire podcast. It's Monday. That means it's Jay

Lehman Day here on the Illinois choir podcast, our All-American linebacker to break down a 3-0 start for Illinois.

Take care of business against Western Michigan, 38 to nothing.

And we have a top 25 matchup to break down about Illinois and Indiana.

Jay just inspired us to look up some stats that tell us a little bit about this matchup.

But Jay, good morning.

How are you? here it is illinois

three and o after a nine conference week uh here's thing i know there's a lot to be there was a lot to be

desired in that first half right and people were kind of like what what's going on look lackluster

a couple things it just shows how far we've come guys that we have expectations like that

you know i I think it was

maybe Jeremy, one time you got to come into the box and maybe I was calling a game for Big Ten Network. It might have been that Eastern Michigan game. I can't remember which game it was. It was. You and Mike Monaco, yeah. Right. Yeah, Monica. Talk about Mike Monaco. We talk about a guy went on a a rocket ship. I mean, he's doing the U.S. Open, you know, hit him up on Instagram and they can text him every once in a while. But good for you, Mike. I'm still doing Big Ten network games sometimes. Usually just local radio and podcasts, a lot of inquires. I was there when you first got started, though.

Okay, but anyway, shout out to Mike Monaco.

We lost that game to Eastern Michigan.

I remember, was it Mike Glass or somebody, like quarterback?

It was balled out.

Many times we were close to losing the ball state when Mike knew was the coach,

now Illinois analyst, almost lost to Toledo two years ago. Of course, we lost to Western Michigan, lost to a very lany offensive coordinated team in

UTSA, not a MAC team, certainly, but are they American conference? They're American conference.

They are now. But guys, we have not historically consistently beat non-powerful teams, group of five teams.

I think if you look over the last 15 years, we'd probably have four or five losses chalked up in there, which is pretty said.

So I will take the win.

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