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Music Today on the Illinois Enquirer podcast, one of my favorite conversations of the year,

it's my signing day sit down with Illinois, general manager of the football program, Pat Emilton.

Pat has been here since the Tim Beckman era has stayed through Bill Cubit,

has stayed through Lovie Smith.

Brett Bielma kept in mind, is now risen to general manager of the recruiting department

and talk to him about an historic Illinois signing class number 21 in the country.

That is the highest ranked

recruiting class Illinois football has ever had. Just narrowly edging out a few

Ron Zook classes. Some signing day surprises. Champ Smith and Javari Burnett both commit to

Illinois on signing day, giving them 30 commits. And one of the best quality recruiting classes, Illinois, has

obviously ever had. So talk to Pat about how that came together. We talk about some of the

highlights of this class. We talk about the four stars, Nick Hankins, Jacob Bieberhart,

Nas Rank, and Micah Smith, Michael Clayton, the quarterback as well. Talk about the Juco

editions, what they're looking for there,

but also talk to him about the setup of the Illinois Recruiting Department, how it more resembles

an NFL personnel department. He dives into why Illinois has gone that way, how it's helped

them, and the money aspect as well. We dive into the money that is now involved in college football, how Illinois stacks up

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