Ep. 891 - J Leman on how Illini finish season strong
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
All-American linebacker and Illini Inquirer football analyst J Leman discusses Illini football's self-scout during the off week, the impact of injuries, how the team finishes strong and Saturday's matchup against Michigan State. Leman also discusses the landscape of the Big Ten, the Illini's best NFL Draft prospects and how he'd grade the season depending on the final three games.
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| 0:50.6 | Music Today on the Ilanaguara podcast, our All-American linebacker, Jay Lehman joins me to break down how does Illinois football finish strong? |
| 0:56.0 | How do they overcome a huge injury to Dylan Roziak at the linebacker position? And what does he think about this Michigan State matchup? And we dive into a lot of topics with Jay. |
| 1:00.0 | We go around the Big Ten after the Illinois's off week, kind of survey what's going on in the conference. |
| 1:06.0 | A lot of parity towards the after the top tier of it, but also a huge game coming up in two weeks |
| 1:12.4 | with Indiana heading to Ohio State. Yeah, Indiana, huge game in late November. So we'll talk |
| 1:18.1 | about all of that with Jay Lehman here coming up. But before we dive into that, I do want to hit on |
| 1:22.4 | Illinois football, getting a significant commitment to start off the class of 2026. |
| 1:28.1 | If you're following along on the VIP side of things, |
| 1:30.2 | I had put a crystal ball pick in for Illinois to land Michael Clayton, |
| 1:34.9 | the three-star quarterback out of Florida, |
| 1:37.6 | and he's a four-star on rivals, |
| 1:39.8 | but he's a top 45 prospect and whatever ranking you kind of look at here, |
| 1:49.0 | and he had 30 scholarship offers, about two dozen power four offers. And this is the guy that Illinois wanted to start this class. |
| 1:53.0 | They really probably could have pushed for some other targets, maybe some guys with a few power four offers. |
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