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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 837 - Illini coach Bret Bielema previews the 2024 season

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C

Football, Sports

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Illinois football coach Bret Bielema joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner to discuss the offseason and preview the start of training camp. Bielema discusses the next steps for the offense and defense, players fans should know about, position battles he's excited to watch and how rule changes impact the game. Werner and Wagner then react to Bielema's thoughts and discuss what they learned at Big Ten Media Days.

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0:47.9

enough Illinois football during our Big Ten Media Days podcast with Josh Whitman, Seth Coleman,

0:53.0

Gabe Ackis and Pat Bryant.

0:54.6

Well, today we got Brett Bielma on the podcast, Joey, and it's always great to get the Illinois

0:58.8

football coach on, and we just chatted with him.

1:02.0

And as always, he's always interesting, and we're happy he gave us a little bit of time,

1:06.3

heading into a huge fourth season for the program and where the trajectory is.

1:10.7

So it was great catching up

1:12.0

with him. Yeah. He's always really transparent with us, which is appreciated. We wanted to get

1:18.6

it like honestly at media days and the schedule was tough. And I'm glad we did it like this,

1:22.5

gave us some time to digest kind of what we heard, what we saw media days, just gave a little bit, I feel like

1:28.0

you were less up against the clock time with him. So it's fun. I appreciate Brett. Yeah,

1:32.4

it's a big year. It's the big year for this program and to return to that postseason.

1:36.3

All right. So without further ado, let's get into it. Here's Brett Biauma, Alinaai head coach on

1:40.4

the O'Ina Inquirer podcast. Always great to have O'Ina football coach, Brett Bielma, join us here on the podcast.

1:47.0

Brett, how are you?

1:48.0

Getting all your media responsibilities out of the way, man.

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