Welcome into the Y-9 Quarer podcast. It is Jeremy Werner, old Illinois graduate, and it is now Kyle Toss, new University of Illinois graduate. Congratulations,

Kyle. How was the weekend? It was great. I appreciate it. Doesn't really feel real yet.

I hasn't totally set in that I actually have to join the real world now. I'm no longer a college student.

So that probably will hit me at some point but yeah it was a

great weekend my family was down great ceremonies and uh here we go adulthood now i'm not

not looking forward to it but also i am looking forward to it so we'll see well well we're happy

you're looking forward to it with us uh Kyle will join us here full-time officially in June, so we are excited to have him on board,

and I can tell you this beats a real job, Kyle.

So it's got its ups and downs, but it certainly beats a real job, and we get to talk

basketball for a living here, football as well.

So appreciate you joining us full time here starting in June,

but we wanted to get to a little bit of just a grab bag, a mailbag of questions for a lot

inquire listeners here. That's what we're doing today, our Hoops Mailbag. But did you do both

ceremonies? Did you do the big one in Memorial Stadium? Because I did not do that. I did the

college of media back in the day.

And that was kind of the one where I knew the people.

I was with my friends that I graduated with.

I didn't do the big one in here.

I didn't know who the speaker was in 2009.

Yeah, I only did the College of Media one, too.

I did watch the other one, but my family wasn't down for that one because

the university-wide commencement at Memorial Stadium was Saturday morning, and then the

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