Ep. 940 - Illini pluck two four-stars out of the Buckeye State
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner welcome 247Sports' Allen Trieu and Ryan Easterling to react to Illinois football landing two Composite four-star prospects out of Ohio during the last week: DB Victor Singleton and LB Cam Thomas. The guys break down what each brings to the Illini, how they landed them, what it means for the Class of 2026 and who could be next.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the O'anai Guire podcast. We are live on our YouTube channel. Good morning everybody. And it's a good morning for Illinois football, brightening up |
| 0:21.7 | some Illinois spirits after a difficult Illinois basketball loss. But Joy Wagner joining me. |
| 0:26.2 | We'll have a special guest here in just a minute. But Illinois football recruiting so hot right now. |
| 0:31.2 | Joy Wagner, four-star Ohio linebacker Cam Thomas, four-star in the composite, three-star 24-7 sports. |
| 0:37.2 | He commits this morning to Illinois just five days, four-star in the composite, three-star 24-7 sports. |
| 0:42.0 | He commits this morning to Illinois just five days after four-star Ohio cornerback, |
| 0:46.4 | Victor Singleton, one of the top 50 prospects in the country commits to Illinois as well. |
| 0:47.7 | So let's talk about it, Joey. We'll also hit on three-star 20-25 linebacker, Jack Paris, signing weak sleeper this year, Clint Sentum, leaving Illinois |
| 0:56.0 | after one year and some other Illinois football things. |
| 0:58.7 | But Joey, initial reaction to four-star composite prospects out of Ohio for Illinois. |
| 1:04.8 | Illinois football saving the mood in February around Illinois athletics. |
| 1:09.8 | This was one I remember talking to him when he was on a |
| 1:11.7 | game day visit and I thought, man, this guy's got a lot of offers. We'll see, right? That's kind of |
| 1:16.6 | what it was. Like, I don't, I don't know here. It's hard to get a read on that. The list was really |
| 1:21.1 | impressive and Illinois has done a good job of getting into Ohio and obviously getting Grant |
| 1:25.9 | Beerman and Grant Beerman selling what Illinois |
| 1:28.2 | is in real time. It's been a pretty good week for Illinois football. And Camp Thomas just adds |
| 1:34.3 | to a linebacker room that, again, like I want to erase from the internet all the pods we had back |
| 1:39.6 | in October wondering about what this was because this thing is totally reformed right now. |
| 1:44.1 | Yeah, we'll dive into all of that. The intricacies here locally, but I wanted to get the |
| 1:48.2 | really Midwest regional national perspective on this. And as always, Alan Trues, kind enough to |
| 1:54.1 | join us 24-7 sports recruiting analysts nationally. Alan, quite a week for Illinois to go into Ohio |
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