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Music Today on the Alina Inquirer podcast, it is my becoming annual chat with, let me get his long title, correct here.

Illinois, executive director of personnel and recruiting Pat Embleton. He is basically the right-hand man for Brett B.Lumo when it comes to recruiting.

And Pat has been in the Illinois football office for a long time now. He came here right after

his playing career at the Division 3 level. And and he came in here with Tim Beckman,

and he came, stayed here through Bill Cupid, stayed here through Lovie Smith.

And right after Lovie Smith got fired, he kind of helped Brett Bealum with through the

transition and everything with recruiting.

And Brett was so impressed with Pat, his knowledge of the not only University of Illinois, but the state of Illinois.

Everything good, bad, indifferent about Illinois football.

Pat has been a great resource, and he's really good at his job.

And they just got wrapped up mostly with the class of 2023 for Illinois.

And I had my chat with Pat Umleton about where Illinois football

recruiting is right now, how this class came together. We didn't really dive into the intricacies

of each player per se and what they bring to the program because I thought Brett Bielma handled

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