Ep. 981 - Altmyer stays true to Orange & Blue; Spring ball recap; NFL Draft preview

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss the latest on Illinois football, starting with Luke Altmyer sticking with Illinois despite interest from Tennessee, transfer portal departures and additions, Victor Singleton's decommitment and Tony Balanganayi's commitment. Then the guys discuss spring ball stock risers, Pat Bryant's NFL Draft stock and the Illini most likely to be drafted in 2026.

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0:00.0	Welcome into the Alainanacquire podcast.
0:15.0	It's Jeremy Warner.
0:16.0	It's Joey Wagner.
0:17.0	Yes, we're doing a football podcast.
0:19.0	We will dive into basketball and we'll talk about Doyakovich.
0:23.4	We will talk about Petrovich.
0:25.7	We'll talk about Yvesich, all the itches that Illinois is scratching in this offseason as they get Petrovich on board in this class.
0:34.3	Derek Piper will join me to break that down.
0:35.8	We'll see if there's any other news later this week with Illinois basketball that we can dive into.
0:54.4	But Joey, we got a lot to talk about with football since the last time we were on this podcast. Josh McCrae found a landing spot in the SEC going to Georgia. Alex Bray, who started some games last year for Illinois, enters the transfer portal. Illinois lands a transfer in Tyler McMillan,
1:00.5	Victor Singleton, the headliner in this class 2026 flips to Texas A&M. They also had an in-state prospect and Tony Belongnai, good lineman who's going to play defense for Illinois. We got to
1:06.1	wrap up spring practice. We've got to talk about the NFL draft. And of course, we've got to talk
1:10.0	about QB1. So there's a lot to
1:11.8	hit on in this one. So try to be efficient with our time on all of this. What a lead. Well, you got Tony B's name right on the first time. That's probably been the biggest development for us since the last pod. I believe in knowing your rules too, right? Like I know right now I am placeholder for Derek Piper's next podcast, and I am all aboard. Yeah, I understand that. And basketball offseason is the basketball off season. So you can rename my little like thing down there, placeholder for Piper. That'll do. But yeah, we got to talk about the NFL draft. Pat Bryant is going to go at some point this weekend.
1:44.8	I don't know if anybody else is going to go.
1:46.6	We're also got to look forward to next year's draft because that could be a great one for Illinois football and Brett B.
1:51.6	almost program because the lobby players he recruited brought in the program, all of that.
1:55.7	So we'll dive into all of that.
1:59.3	I got to be honest with you on this podcast, though, like speaking of all the Balkan
2:03.9	guys that have been adding, I have been doubting and self-doubting myself with pronunciation.
2:08.4	So Belongnai, the fact that I got that out correctly, because I asked him, you asked
2:13.8	his coach, I know how to pronounce it, because we want to make sure we get those right.
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