Welcome in to the O'Iquire podcast.

It is Jeremy Warner going solo today as Joey Wagner is doing great work in Indianapolis covering the

line-I women's basketball team and they're running the Big Ten tournament.

You may hear this after they play number two seed aisle, but it's been a nice run.

And Joey has been covering them really well.

We'll talk about that here in a second.

But I owed you a football podcast. And it was kind of just waiting

for the media availability and getting some insight a little bit more about Aligni

football. Well, we got a commitment to talk about in the class of 2027 is four-star composite.

Evanston defensive back. Justin Johnson joins the Aligni class of 2027, the first in-state

commit, the second commit, the first in eight months since Camelopati committed. We'll talk

about that here in a minute. And we're able to catch up with some new staff members, Roger

Cooper and Ronnie Bradford, joining Bobby Hauk's defensive staff, both with experience with

Halk back from Montana and Tyrone Wheatley, Big Ten legend at Michigan, one of the best

running backs in their proud programs history. He's joining his running backs coach as well.

You'll hear a little bit from them and Brett Bielma about their joining the staff.

And we get to learn a little bit more about this defense, a little bit more about these staff members.

And today, we're recording this on Friday.

We're able to catch up with some of the new players that Illinois has brought in.

We talked with the offensive line and defensive line transfers.

I'll give you a few clips from the offensive linemen today.

Caught up with Jake Renfro, who's in O'I Legacy, and Christian Martin, who Illinois really

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