Today on the On Enquirer podcast, Michael Tua plays in on Illinois's 9381 loss at Penn State and Jalen Pickett's epic performance. What did Illinois do wrong

against Jalen Pickett or what did Jailen Pickett do so right against Illinois? Michael

Tuitt breaks that down. Also talks about a few positives that came out of that game, especially on

offense, including one Ty Rogers and how that impacts Illinois moving forward, not just in the short term,

but the long term for this program.

So we get into that conversation.

We get a little big picture as well.

I did that yesterday with Derek Piper towards the end of the podcast.

I kind of did something similar here with Illinois basketball because I think it's a good

team, not a great team.

But we talk about that in the scope of the Big Ten of the country and the NCAA tournament.

So we have a little bit of a discussion on that because it feels like every game,

whether it's William Gloss, it's deciding what Illinois will do in the NCAA tournament

when I think the last couple years have probably shown us that whatever you do in

the regular season doesn't always have a natural impact on what you do in the NCAA tournament.

But this obviously has a team that has a high variance, I think we can say, and Michael Tuup

and I get into that.

Before we do that, I just want to weigh in on a few quick things with Illinois football.

They've made official the hire of Robbie Disher as their newest assistant coach.

He'll be the special teams coordinator and tight ends coach.

Illinois made that official yesterday.

He has spent time at Tulane, which had their best season ever basically last year,

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