Ep. 995 - J Leman's thoughts on Illini football's offseason
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
All-American linebacker J Leman joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to break down his thoughts on Illinois football's offseason and expectations for the 2025 season. The guys discuss the Illini's strong retention of its star players, transfer portal additions, strengths and concerns, the schedule and continuity at the coordinator positions.
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| 0:27.3 | Thank you. Today on the Online Inquirer podcast, the great Jay Lehman joins me to talk all about Illinois football. |
| 0:49.0 | Their offseason that has been, what they've added, what they return, the coaching staff that returns. |
| 0:55.4 | And we talk about a monster season ahead for this program and what it means for the program. |
| 1:01.1 | So it was great catching up with our Alina Inquirer football analysts, our All-American linebacker, Jay Lehman. |
| 1:06.4 | You hear them on the Big Ten Network. |
| 1:07.4 | You hear them here throughout the season at Alana Inquirer and on the |
| 1:10.9 | Alana Inquirer podcast. And we're happy Jay will be back for another year. So we get another |
| 1:15.4 | year of Jay Lehman here on the podcast. Always great insight and he gave us great insight yet |
| 1:21.3 | again. We will talk to Malina basketball on this podcast later on this week, probably post it on Friday for you guys |
| 1:29.4 | that are keeping refreshing. We appreciate you. We are going to have Michael Tuop and Isaac Trotter on |
| 1:35.4 | for our Big Ten basketball offseason roundtable. I'm really looking forward to this, but if you're |
| 1:41.2 | coming here to think about the Yukon game, to think about the Texas |
| 1:45.6 | Tech game that Illinois is scheduled, I'll hit on that with Isaac and Michael Tewap. So we've got a |
| 1:50.3 | big podcast week here, and I'm really excited about it. Next week, Derek Piper is going to join |
| 1:54.6 | me. We'll break down his thoughts on these two games, and we're going to talk a lot about summer |
| 1:59.4 | workouts coming up. So we've got plenty of basketball talk coming up on the podcast, but I wanted to talk a lot |
| 2:05.2 | about Illinois football and the season ahead. |
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