Mark Grody

Defensive back Matthew Bailey and defensive lineman Joe Barta join us in studio next.

Ah, yes, the Music City Bowl against Tennessee that the Illini came away victorious.

We actually have two key members of the team that helped in that.

Joe Barna and Matthew Bailey joining us here on Rahimi, Harris, and Grody.

That call courtesy of ESPN.

Joe and Matthew are part of Illini Night, which I joke is just fun to say.

Illini Night is a great thing to say.

It's joyful, Marshall.

It's joyful to be around.

How many of there are you singing?

And then, Joe, you get to throw out the first pitch, so we'll come back to you in a second.

But the singing thing, Coach has done his solo, and he has a great singing voice.

I was so surprised.

How many of you guys are singing with him?

it you say that now but marshall and i did it last year really you do have to maintain focus i can see that that that i think you will do so you're a moline native and we were asking you uh a little bit of questions off microphone in our in our commercial break your grandfather was a cubs fan and the quad cities that's kind of a place where you get a little bit of everything there baseball wise like what made you make your decision

Okay.

So how many people are you bringing?

Who's coming to support you?

So I think you guys get to go on the field at Wrigley.

You get to kind of get the pregame experience.