We are going to talk basketball tomorrow on the Atlanta Choir podcast.

Derek Piper and I are going to get together. Talk some O'Lano hoops, talk some O'Lano recruiting.

But today, we're going to talk some Illinois football. Joey Wagner and I, we get a little big picture again. We also talk about what's happening this week with Illinois football, the trip to Maryland. We give our picks to click as well. But we get some insight on the Maryland program, both football and basketball from Jeff Erman. He covers Maryland for inside-mdports.com.

And Maryland seems like they're in their best spot yet since entering the Big Ten.

I really like Kevin Willard.

What he's doing there is recruiting for basketball, his style play. He's a really funny dude. He's kind of brash, but I like it. It's a confidence to him. It's kind of East Coast. I like it. And then Michael Oxley, obviously, is recruiting really well at Maryland, and he has had a lot of success relatively for Maryland. And if you look at the schedule, Maryland's got a path to 10 wins this year

because they still got Penn State, they still got Michigan, but they got a pretty nice

schedule the rest of the way, including this weekend against a very, very struggling Illinois team.

So we'll dive into that with Jeff Irman. We'll talk more Illinois football side of things with

Joy Wagner. That's coming up next on the Atlanta Enquirer podcast. But first, you've heard us talk about home field apparel since the

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Jeff, five-and-one start for Mike Loxley. Take me through. What's the, what's kind of the

vibe about this program right now? I think this is kind of a culmination season of a rebuild.

You know how it goes when a program is down for a while and you're steadily making

improvements in recruiting in terms of the culture. And then you kind of hit that benchmark year where

you have maybe your best team in a while. Obviously, it helps to have Tiliuaylao

their best quarterback in decades. You know, that's probably the biggest facet of the whole

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