Ep. 759 - Illini football's staff shakeup
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss Illinois football's staff shakeup, including Charlie Bullen's departure, the hiring of WRs coach Justin Stepp, the expected hiring of LBs coach Archie McDaniel and initial impressions of DBs coach David Gibbs. The guys also discuss the addition of three-star Kansas DB Tanner Heckel and review the 2024 recruiting class.
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| 0:52.8 | Good Friday morning. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome into the online inquire podcast. It's Jeremy Warner and Joey Wagner. |
| 0:58.6 | Hello to our live YouTube listeners and everybody listening on the podcast as well. We appreciate you. |
| 1:04.6 | And Joey, I want to share with people. We were kind of planning on doing this yesterday, but you gave me the good advice. |
| 1:11.4 | Hey, let's wait until they announced somebody to hire. |
| 1:13.8 | We thought yesterday could be the day. |
| 1:15.7 | And you were correct. |
| 1:16.5 | We were going to do it in the afternoon, but didn't get any news in the morning. |
| 1:20.2 | But yesterday we get two pieces of news. |
| 1:22.3 | One that has become official. |
| 1:23.9 | Justin Stepp is the new Illinois wide receivers coach. |
| 1:26.7 | We will dive into that hire. And our own Matt Zenitz of 24-7 sports reporting that |
| 1:32.6 | Archie McDaniel is the expected higher as linebackers coach. |
| 1:36.0 | But we got a lot of football to catch up on. |
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