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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 458 - Illini football add two more to Class of 2023

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C

Football, Sports

4.9577 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss Illinois adding two commitments to the Class of 2023: K David Olano and DB Jaheim Clarke. Then the guys discuss what's next in the Class of 2023 and how they sit with their top targets.

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Price and participation may vary. Subjects availability. Welcome into the online inquire podcast, Jeremy Warner, Joey Wagner,

0:37.2

and today on the podcast we're going to talk about new commitments for Illinois football.

0:41.2

Two of them, one from kicker David Alano out of Naperville North and the other out of three-star Florida D.B.

0:48.6

Jeheme Clark.

0:49.5

So we'll talk about the reaction of those guys getting added to the class, the reaction of other official

0:55.6

visitors from this weekend, and what's left to address with 10 commitments now on the board,

1:01.4

Joey Wagner.

1:02.6

It's been a healthy month for Illinois football recruiting so far, adding this many commitments.

1:08.3

Just what do you think overall of the class right now, Joey, before we dive into the newest commitments? I mean, overall, we have to acknowledge it's pretty close. I mean, it's more than halfway to the end of what they're doing here, what we think they're going to do, which is kind of weird. It feels like to say on June 20th, but we knew it was going to be a smaller class. And we've just seen the process.

1:28.6

I think we talked about that a lot last year with how they go about things. And we've seen that

1:32.9

come to fruition again. And official visitor month is, I mean, this isn't unique to Illinois.

1:38.5

It's a really big month. They go in. They try to close down and they have closed down.

1:42.8

Last year, obviously, a little bit different

1:44.5

because you wanted to close some of those down early, and they brought in a good group of

1:50.2

commitments in that first weekend. But you just, you see the process is sound, maybe refining it a little

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