Ep. 1165 - Most intriguing Illini football players after spring ball
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss former Illinois basketball stars Terrence Shannon Jr. and Ayo Dosunmu helping lead the Minnesota Timberwolves past the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the NBA Playoffs. The guys then discuss Illinois football's early recruiting struggles in the Class of 2027 and the most intriguing Illini football players at each position following the conclusion of spring practice.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the Alainanai Choir podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | Happy Friday. |
| 0:15.8 | We're recording this on Friday, May 1st. |
| 0:17.9 | It's Jeremy Warner and Joey Wagner. |
| 0:20.4 | We are going to dive into some |
| 0:21.8 | Malina football. We wanted to talk a little on this podcast, just about guys that intrigue us |
| 0:27.1 | after spring ball. It's a very wide open category, but just kind of guys that we've been |
| 0:31.9 | talking about that maybe you're just on our mind as Illinois wraps up spring ball and |
| 0:36.5 | heads into the summer. We've also got some basketball things we need to talk about. But the weekend's almost here, Joey. How are you? I am good. Jeremy, I didn't know if I could pop me. I'm starting to pack up my face here a little bit. But things are good. Things are finally both slowing down and speeding up, so we're good. |
| 0:54.9 | May is moving month for Joy Wagner. |
| 0:57.7 | Homeowner, Joy Wagner, very soon. |
| 1:01.3 | I am very excited for that. |
| 1:03.3 | I got my, I don't think I told you maybe I did. |
| 1:04.9 | I got my nach cheese dispenser, like from the gas stations. |
| 1:08.0 | You push the button and it dispenses your cheese. I think it's half cheese, half chili. I don't have it in the person or in the flesh yet. And get next to the hot dog roller. We'll do like a Circle K themed housewarming party. I was going to say, is your like dream kitchen? Like just put a Circle K like a gas station that kind of kitchen hot dog roller nach |
| 1:27.8 | nach cheese fried i probably need an air fryer just because i'm not particularly skilled at most |
| 1:32.5 | things uh but yeah that's i would say that's mostly it joey and teenagers just that that that |
| 1:38.2 | that diet is just right in that people like in the mailbag where like what's your favorite food |
| 1:44.1 | i'm like do you have plain cheeseburgers? |
| 2:02.8 | Like, if you've got that, I'm good. No condiments. I mean, you say that. You're the one who gets like chicken fingers everywhere we go. Freaking love chicken fingers. What's wrong with the chicken finger? Nothing, but that is also a very teenage diet, if we're being honest. Yeah, I agree. I agree. All right, three Illinois basketball players invited to the combine. |
| 2:01.3 | Before we get to the NFL talk, one hit a little at basketball. No |
| 2:06.6 | surprise here. There's only 71 players that declared for the NBA draft. That is the lowest since |
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