Ep. 1175 - Illini football mailbag with Joey Wagner

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner answer listener-submitted Illinois football questions on Bobby Hauck's 3-3-5 defense, expectations for the program moving forward, the offensive line, 2026 personnel, recruiting and much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome into the O'Hanquire our podcast.
0:14.6	And it's Jeremy Warner and Joey Wagner in a new setting.
0:18.4	Look at that backdrop for Joey Wagner. That's different, buddy. What's going on there?
0:25.0	Well, we finally got moved and we are in the final. There's like four or five more totes left to unpack.
0:31.2	And otherwise, we are finally settled in, got the new backdrop set up so that one guy on YouTube can quit telling me how terrible my backdrop was for years and years and years and frankly it was.
0:42.8	So I can't really fault him too much, but we're settled in.
0:45.9	I appreciate the time mostly away.
0:48.8	Moving is a lot.
0:50.5	Even though you think you are planned as well as you can possibly be you never are and that sucks
0:56.9	in those final like that final 48 hours that is not fun but it went pretty smooth happy to be
1:03.0	back on the pod back working again for not really doing a ton for a couple weeks that's all right
1:09.7	though because uh i mean moving sucks
1:12.0	like anybody that's moved and i moved a lot early in my life moved my wife around the state of
1:17.2	illinois very many times joey but uh once you're in feels a little different right you're starting
1:22.6	to make it home a little bit your cup of coffee in your office starting to pod feels. Feels a little different. How are you feeling? It does feel different. It feels really good. It truly feels really good. I finally got like the blink. The house came with like blink cams. So I finally got those set up like the other day. And now I'm like, oh, man, this is cool. I can I can, I can see the birds. Now, I just watch those sometimes. This is, honestly, it's not that exciting for me. It's exciting to be here. But I very much have leaned into like, I'm going to watch the birds a little bit. Or like squirrels. I enjoy watching squirrels, either on the camera, out the window. So, yeah, man, things are pretty busy here.
2:02.4	I feel like since you've joined Illinois Enquirer, you have age to like 40 years.
2:06.2	Just the domestication, the watching animals.
2:09.5	And watching birds is a big moment for you because you are not a fan of birds.
2:13.6	No, but the window is really key to have some separation.
2:18.0	I think I don't like birds.
2:20.4	The geese are really worried my issues.
2:22.3	Don't get with a heartbeat of a goose and Joey.
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