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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 914 - Luke Altmyer returns, but who will join him?

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss QB Luke Altmyer's return to Illinois football and the transfer portal. The guys discuss what Altmyer's return means for Illinois football in 2025 and for Altmyer's legacy in Champaign as well as where he stacks up among Big Ten quarterbacks. The guys then discuss the Illini's retention efforts and transfer portal pursuits, including their attempts to fill needs at wide receiver, offensive tackle, defensive line and tight end. The guys end discussing Bill Belichick at UNC and Barry Odom at Purdue.

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Music Welcome in to the Lionine Enquirer podcast. It is Jeremy Warner and Joy Wagner, and we got a lot to talk about with Illinois football. We'll catch up with Michael Toeup and Derek Piper later this week for Illinois basketball. But Illinois football enters the second week of the transfer portal.

0:59.4

No commitments yet, but a lot of targets here.

1:04.3

But the biggest news, of course, and Derek and I hit on it a little bit on Saturday night is Illinois is getting its quarterback back.

1:06.8

Luke Altmire returning for his final season of eligibility.

1:10.2

He does not enter the transfer portal,

1:12.2

the All-Big Ten, I don't know, mention quarterback, who led so many comeback victories to Illinois,

1:16.6

let Illinois to a nine and three season, is returning for a third season of eligibility. So we will

1:21.5

talk about the transfer portal. We will talk about who is going to surround Luke Altmire,

1:25.7

but Joey Wagner, this is the biggest win of the offseason.

1:28.8

This was like number one on the offseason to do list was get your quarterback to back and Illinois

1:34.7

gets it done. So what are your initial thoughts? Yeah, it changes the floor. I guess you should say

1:40.0

it sets the floor of the program, right? Like you know with a third year quarterback, presumably

1:44.7

with the same coordinator for three years, I can't imagine Luke Altmeyer came back under the

1:49.1

assumption that he might have a different one. Even though Barry Lundy is a guy who we know

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