Ep. 664 - Luke Altmyer Named QB1 for 2023 Illini Football Season

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner break down Bret Bielema's announcement of Luke Altmyer being named the starting Illini quarterback for the 2023 season and what it means moving forward. Jeremy and Joey also dive into the latest on position battles in the secondary, on the offensive line, backup quarterback and special teams.

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1:12.4	on the podcast here, it's Jeremy Warner and Joey Wagner. We decided to go live. This was
1:16.8	kind of scheduled. We knew this was likely to happen. But Illinois has its starting quarterback.
1:22.9	And this was not, as I just wrote Joey in our what it means, this is not the most
1:26.6	suspenseful production. Luke Altmire was brought in to be the starting quarterback at Illinois, and he will be, the starting quarterback against Toledo for their season opener on September 2nd. Today on the podcast, we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the quarterback position, and we'll talk about all the position battles. But we haven't been able to see a lot of practice, Joey, but I don't know how much drama you thought there actually was in this quarterback battle, but it seemed pretty clear all along, especially with what we saw in the spring, with Luke Altmeier getting so many first team reps that he was going to be the guy. So what's your reaction to Altmeyer being named the starting quarterback? Probably about the same as yours i'm not necessarily surprised i would
2:01.8	have been florid if brett belema stood up there and said it was somebody else luke altmyre was brought in to be a starter
2:06.8	he came to illinois to be a starter now if he came and a airmailed everything for four months and
2:12.1	you'd have to look differently but it sounds like he was continuing to improve in camp i don't think
2:16.8	anything as we've seen with the announcement today,
2:19.0	happened to make us think otherwise.
2:21.5	We haven't heard anything otherwise.
2:23.3	Not the most suspenseful.
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