Welcome in to the online inquire podcast. It is Jeremy Warner, joined again by Derek Piper,

our second basketball off-season podcast of the week.

And we're going to have a little bit of fun with this one.

We do want to say, like we've got to put the disclaimer out there that this is conversation.

Okay, not everything means something.

We're not speaking in code.

There are some things we've learned this week, but there's a lot that's still to be determined that we don't know. But we know you guys are itching for some basketball talk and what is happening in the transfer portal, what's happening with retention. So we're going to talk about it. We're going to play a little game of buyer's sell. But Derek Piper, we've been home for a few days. Not like we haven't been working. Like you haven't been

working the phones, texting people, whatever, trying to figure out all this stuff. We've been

busy, but it's nice to get home for a little bit. It is, no doubt. Yeah, my son and I played a little

wiffle ball and got him swinging the bat, which excited, you know, had to line that up. I think

some opening day baseball on the TV got him in the mindset for that.

So enjoying being home.

It is busy.

It is a reminder of, oh, yeah, this is what the portal is like.

And we got a long way to go here.

But it's been nice to settle back in at home base and look forward. Things will get rolling here probably pretty hot and heavy soon. There will be the dead period going into the final four weekend as always. But yeah, I think things will pick up for Illinois side. And it sounds like maybe they already have in a little bit. We'll talk about that. Yeah, Eric Bossy said stuff. You've had stuff on the website. If you're not a VIP member, sign up now, 50% off for a VIP membership for the next year. It's more than $60 in savings. Now it's a great time to do that. We're going to be a football practice today. A lot of football recruiting stuff coming up as well. So we got all of that covered here at alina inquire.com. but the first bit of news before we get into our buyer sell segment, Derek, is we have one

Alina that has entered the transfer portal and no surprise here.

It is Carrie Booth, the Notre Dame transfer, did not hardly play at Illinois, 33 Big 10 minutes

in 10 big 10 games.

It just was a miss.

And I like Carrie. I like talking to him,

but it just didn't translate on the court this year. And I heard Illinois because they needed

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