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Music Welcome in to the online choir podcast.

Happy new week.

It's Jeremy Warner and Joy Wagner with you today.

We're going to talk about some of the X factors for Illinois football going into the 2025 season. We got a big week of podcast this week. Jay Lehman's going to join us late in the week. We're going to talk about the off-season with Jay. We're going to talk about some scheme with Jay. I'm excited about that. And then we're going to do our Big Ten basketball off-season roundtable. We can do it a month early this year because it seems like everything's wrapped up. Michael 2 of Isaac Trotter lined up to join us later in the week, so that should be out by Friday as well. But Joey, you're leading us off, man, and you got away for the weekend, right? You feel rested or relaxed? I don't feel rested yet. I will eventually feel rested. Yeah, I got away, went down to Nashville for the weekend. We'll call up some, I'll send you some receipts for a little bit of South, some arena scouting for Bridgestone ahead of the December game down there. It was good to get away and enjoy Nashville. Did Broadway for an afternoon, and that was more than enough for me and hit up some, maybe a little quieter bars around Nashville. I was going to say what's your scene when you get down to Nashville because

you got you got the scout for us if we all get down there in December. I'm still like we got

to think is there an actual big 10 football championship game we have to cover. We just got to

think about that.

But yeah, Tennessee, Illinois, men's basketball in Nashville. What's the scout? Where do we go? I found a couple places. I'm going to tell you I'm going to have to really revisit some of the names. But you give me a table and a beard. We'll go from there. So we're going to probably eliminate Broadway. We're going to be the only people to stay downtown and Uber away from Broadway when we go down to cover that. But yeah, so a couple of places in East Nashville, we popped into a good brewery called Tenfold. Just kind of hit a little bit here and there. Give me a table, man. Just do that and have some conversation. No, I say that. Broadway's fun, right? It is, if you're going, you've got to do it, but it is, it's a lot. There's a lot going on. Yeah, you and I kind of agree on the scenes we like. Dive bars best. That's where I like to find. Especially in Nashville when you get some live music at some of those places, man, it's, it's fantastic. But speaking of Illinois basketball, before we get into the X-Factors, we're going to talk a little Illinois football

recruiting. There's one baseball note I want to hit on before we dive into these X-Factors.

It came out, John Rothstein on it today. Illinois will play Yukon on November 28th. That's Black

Friday at Madison Square Garden. I thought the first thing

it came to mind for me was like, man, Brad Underwood loves playing there. He loves playing at Madison

Square Garden. Fourth straight year, the Illini will play there. They obviously beat Texas, beat

FAU, and got really just driven off the floor last year by Duke.

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