Welcome in to the Lionanquire podcast.

Kick it off another week and it is game week as Illinois takes on Eastern Illinois.

Late kickoff on Thursday night, 8 p.m. on Big Ten Network. And our guy, Jay, layman, all-American linebacker, will be on the call for Big Ten Network. So, Jay, I figured we'd have you on preview the game. We're going to get some questions from the fans as well. But here we are. We're in Game Week. How's it feel for you now? because even as someone in the media, this is an exciting time.

She finally gets to see football. But here we are. We're in Game Week. How's it feel for you now? Because even as someone in the media, this is an exciting time.

She finally gets to see football again. I mean, especially if you cover college sports.

I mean, there's really a dead time from how good your baseball and spring sports are.

There's really a dead time from into Maine and now where not a lot of stuff's going on.

If you're creative like you guys at Atlanta Inquirerire you guys create a ton of content no matter what but man it's a lot easier where you can create content around games and around people that are playing and so it's game time it's game week I don't care who you are if you're a college football fan or play college football this week is always a special week to you going into Labor

Day weekend because you have football starting Thursday through Monday. And there's just nothing

like college football. I mean, NFL is the NFL, but there's something unique still about

college football. And you got to love it. It's as American as it gets. What are vibes as a player?

And I know I think you had Missouri every time. So it might have felt a little bit different.

But what were your vibes as a player going from end of camp week to game week?

What is the vibe shift there?

Oh, it's a total shift because you go from just pounding on each other and pounded on the same plays,

the same kind of thing drills over and over again.

It's a real grind from even spring ball, winter workouts, and all the way into camp,

you're really competing for that spot, right?

So if you're on the ones list coming into this game week,

which the game week actually started probably Friday for both of these teams because they back it up like

Fridays and Monday because they're playing two days prior to when they would usually play.

So they back it up and Friday's like a, excuse me, Friday's like a Sunday, but you're in that

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