Ep. 1122 - Illini hire Bobby Hauck as defensive coordinator

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner react to Illinois hiring long-time Wyoming coach Bobby Hauck as defensive coordinator and discuss how he will change Bret Bielema's defense. Then Werner catches up with coaching expert Mat Pistole about Hauck's 3-3-5 defensive scheme and what it means for the Illini's style of play and personnel.

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0:00.0	Welcome in to an emergency podcast here on the Ilana Inquirer podcast.
0:16.5	It is Jeremy Warner, Joy Wagner.
0:18.4	We will have a special guest to break down Illinois football's
0:22.2	new defensive coordinator. And it's Bobby Halk, a name that is known in the football industry
0:28.4	pretty well because he's the longtime head coach of Montana, spent about 15 years as the head
0:34.6	coach there, the winningest coach in Big Sky, is that right?
0:39.0	Big Sky Conference history.
0:40.7	And he's led the Grizzlies to four FCS championship games, never won the big one.
0:46.6	But a lot of success as a head coach.
0:49.2	He just resigned last week as the head coach of the Montana Grizzlies.
0:54.2	This happened on Wednesday, a day after?
0:56.4	Or was it the same day?
0:57.3	It was the same day.
0:58.6	Brett Beilman met with us to talk about signing day.
1:01.6	Correct?
1:02.7	Or was that Thursday?
1:04.1	I'm going to go ahead of days now.
1:05.1	He met with us prior to the men's basketball game.
1:09.3	Thursday.
1:11.6	Oh, shoot. Keep talking. I'll look that up. to the men's basketball game Thursday. Shoot.
1:13.5	Keep talking.
1:14.4	I'll look that up.
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