Ep. 991 - Illini land Chicago stars Nasir Rankin & King Liggins
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner react to Illinois football's big day in Chicago, landing four-star Morgan Park WR Nasir Rankin and three-star Brother Rice DL King Liggins, and what it says about the program. 247Sports national recruiting analyst Allen Trieu also joins the guys to discuss what each prospect brings and what's next for the Illini.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome into the online inquiry podcast live here on our YouTube channel. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Jeremy Warner. That's Joey Wagner. 24-7 sports national recruiting analyst. |
| 0:21.7 | Alan True is with us. |
| 0:22.8 | You're going to join us very shortly. |
| 0:24.4 | Recording this on Thursday after one of the best recruiting days of the Brett Bielma era is within |
| 0:30.4 | an hour and five miles of each other. |
| 0:33.3 | Three-star Chicago Brother Rice defensive lineman King Liggins and four-star Chicago Morgan Park wide |
| 0:38.6 | receiver slash defensive back. Nassir rank and commit to the Alana. Oh, and the Alina |
| 0:44.0 | added a Juko defensive back and Donovan Turner just about an hour later. Joey, you were at |
| 0:48.9 | Brother Rice yesterday. I was at Morgan Park. So we got you fully covered at Alanaanquire.com with insight from Liggins, Rankin, their parents, coaches, got full-blown analysis there, all on one site, which you can get access to, for just $1 for your first month. We know most of you are VIP members. We appreciate you. But if you're not, try it all out for $1 for your first month. Joey, a big day for Illinois football. |
| 1:12.6 | And you have certain moments, days that we look back on on recruiting. |
| 1:17.0 | I remember driving down to St. Louis for Isaiah Williams, you know, Luke Altmeyer when we were in Tampa. |
| 1:22.5 | There's certain moments where you feel like this could change a program. |
| 1:26.4 | Wednesday certainly felt like a big moment, right? |
| 1:28.7 | Our moment for Brett Belema's program and getting not one but two of Chicago's best |
| 1:34.5 | prospects within an hour of each other and both announcing live on 24-7 sports. |
| 1:39.3 | So what would you think of that day? |
| 1:41.8 | Yeah, it was a really big day for Brett Bealman, the Illinois program. It showed that Illinois is, we've seen it in spurts, right? And Illinois certainly got top talent during Brett Beelma's tenure with Malik Elzee, Caden, Fagan, Aden, Lafferie, but to go in and within an hour of each other, get two top 20 kids in the state of Illinois from Chicago who were heavy battles, |
| 2:02.9 | right? I mean, they were heavy recruiting battles to get those guys. Illinois is turning into, |
| 2:07.7 | or it's become a viable place that you can win football games and you can go to the NFL. |
| 2:13.0 | And that hasn't been the case. There's been NFL players, but Illinois hasn't won. |
| 2:16.9 | So you're combining |
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