Ep. 1124 - First impressions of Illini DC Bobby Hauck

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss Sunday's Illinois basketball game against Indiana and their initial impressions of Illinois defensive coordinator Bobby Hauck. The guys discuss his path to Illinois, the change to his 3-3-5 defense and how Bielema will fill out the rest of the staff. The guys also talk about Kaden Feagin's position switch to tight end.

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0:42.5	Welcome here, in, Tadier. Welcome in to the Lionine Quire podcast.
0:45.4	It is Jeremy Warner and Joey Wagner with you.
0:47.7	We got a lot of football to talk about.
0:51.4	We've got a bevy of information, some questions answered.
0:56.6	As Brett Beelman met with us media on Thursday, along with his new defensive coordinator Bobby Halk and his new tight ends coach, Jared Elliott.
1:00.2	We got to learn a lot of new information.
1:02.0	One big position change that I feel like trumped the entire press conference for most of the
1:06.3	fans.
1:06.6	We'll dive into that with Caden Fagan, moving from running back to tight end. We'll talk about this defense, what we thought about Bobby Halk, the rest of the coaching staff that's got to get filled out. Joy Wagner, good Friday morning. How are you? I'm good, man. It's been a busy week. Nice to have, like, this is like a small basketball break compared to what it had been for a while.
1:27.9	So it's good to catch up on football and women's basketball. And oh, hey, by the way, big game on Sunday for the men's team against Indiana. Speaking of, before we dive into the football topics, Joey, we have to let you talk basketball a while in this podcast. We got you. I'm sorry. Call Kyle. Call Kyle. Call the Tulip, call Trotter. I was going to say we've got three pretty good ones there.
1:45.9	But some basketball news this morning is... podcast. I'm sorry. Call Kyle. Call Kyle. Call the Tulip, call Trotter. It's going to say.
1:45.7	We've got three pretty good ones there.
2:01.2	But some basketball news this morning is National Reporter Pete Tamill of ESPN, hit up Brad Underwood. Did you text him this morning? Brad, asking for an update. We do that every morning, don't we? Yeah, I always try to say, hey, good luck. How are you from the injury front?
2:03.2	And he says, lose this number.
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