Ep. 885 - Tomislav Ivisic cleared to play, Illini tip off season vs. EIU
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner discuss Tomislav Ivisic getting cleared by the NCAA to play the 2024-25 season and what it means for the Illini. The guys also discuss what they want to see from Illinois in its season opener against Eastern Illinois on Monday, the Illini's international recruiting and Piper's Big Ten outlook.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the online inquire podcast. It's Jeremy Warner. It's Derek Piper. We appreciate Michael Tup filling in as Joey and I were heading back from Oregon, but Pipes |
| 0:22.1 | you and he did a great job breaking down. |
| 0:24.4 | It was disappointing showing for Illinois against Ole Miss. |
| 0:27.8 | We'll dive in a little bit of that. |
| 0:29.1 | We'll dive into the opener against Eastern Illinois, and we'll dive into the big news that |
| 0:32.5 | Tomislav Avic is eligible to start the season. |
| 0:37.4 | It seemed like there were good vibes with him playing at Ole Miss. |
| 0:39.9 | Before we go there, how was the Grove, man? |
| 0:43.6 | It was pretty cool. Yeah, I got to walk around, and I was going on a solo mission, so |
| 0:49.2 | I didn't have a crew to live it up with, and of course, we had a game the next day, so you've got to keep that in mind, too. And I wasn't overly aggressive. I didn't have a crew to live it up with and of course we had a game the next day so you got to keep |
| 0:55.0 | that in mind too and i wasn't overly aggressive i didn't butt my way into anybody's tailgate getting a |
| 1:00.5 | food line as tempting as it was because uh there were a lot of really nice setups you know they do it fancy |
| 1:05.5 | there uh for some of them and some bring like a chandelier and whatnot so So it's high class on some of those. I don't need |
| 1:12.0 | all that. Just need something good to eat, something good to drink. But it was a different world |
| 1:17.4 | when you see the attire for those games and certainly appreciate the high level football that's |
| 1:23.7 | down there and the buy-in and whatnot. So I enjoyed it. I enjoyed a little |
| 1:27.5 | pre-game type of day before enjoyment of the football scene. Wish I had a better |
| 1:35.2 | Illinois and Oregon game to lock into. I will say I went to a sports bar and there's like |
| 1:40.2 | 20 TVs in the main bar area and 15 are on Bama, Missouri, and only one in the corner |
| 1:47.1 | is on Illinois and Oregon. So I'm like, aren't you guys used to flipping it to CBS at 230, |
| 1:52.2 | but obviously a different TV agreement now. But I didn't have to pay a ton of attention to that |
| 1:57.1 | after the first half. Thankfully, on my flight home, I actually got to lock in. |
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