Ep. 1094 - On Illini's opt-outs & prep for Music City Bowl; Illini WBB off to 10-1 start
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss Illinois football's prep for the Music City Bowl; the impact of Gabe Jacas, J.C. Davis and Matthew Bailey missing the game; QB Luke Altmyer playing in the game; the transfer portal and more. Then the guys discuss Illini women's basketball's 10-1 start, what's encouraging and what more they will learn in Big Ten play.
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| 0:45.0 | It is Jeremy Warner, Joey Wagner. |
| 0:47.5 | We're here to talk a little Illinois football on a slow week. |
| 0:51.2 | We'll also talk about women's basketball. |
| 0:53.5 | It's time to weigh in on a 10-1 start. |
| 0:56.8 | Best start in program history, basically, for Illinois women's basketball. So Joey covers |
| 1:01.7 | this team really well. I've been watching them, and right now I'm a little bit as well. So |
| 1:05.5 | we'll weigh in on Shauna Green's red-hot start for a retooling season, already to 10 wins. |
| 1:12.5 | We got some football to chat about, but Joey Wagner, how are you, buddy? |
| 1:15.1 | Good to see you. |
| 1:16.2 | It's a slow week for us, which is kind of nice. |
| 1:19.4 | Also for how you and I are wired, it's kind of annoying. |
| 1:22.9 | But a long time after a long break for Illinois basketball after a loss, which is always difficult |
| 1:29.3 | on the message boards or on social media and football gearing up for the bowl game, but we |
| 1:35.0 | probably won't chat with them again until Nashville. So a little bit of a downtime here. |
| 1:39.4 | I hope we get a little more time because I do not do well with nine days off, I say, after |
| 1:43.9 | driving from |
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