Good morning, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Happy Tuesday, everybody.

It is Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025.

This is the Michigan Insider.

This is the Big 1050 WTCA online at the big 1050.com.

Great to be back here inside the Ann Arbor Studios of the Big 1050 WTKA online at the big 1050.com. Great to be back here inside the Ann Arbor Studios of the Big 1050 WTKA. Out on Friday. Out yesterday. Thanks to Ms. for filling in for both me and Sam yesterday. Did a great job. Appreciate that. Had a really fun weekend in Chicago. A lot of fun. My wife had a chance to see a few Chicago Bears. And yeah, it was

fun. And she went to Wrigley Field. It was a really fun weekend. Great trip to Chicago.

And now back here as we are getting ready for the Michigan football season, which is, well,

I'll get to the countdown in just a moment. But we have Big Ten Football Media Days. They have arrived

today, tomorrow and Friday. Big Ten Football Media Days is here. And so the schedule gets underway with Commissioner Tony Petiti. And I'm a little uneasy. I'm a little uneasy about my feelings toward Tony Petitia after what I was reading on my on the drive home yesterday. But he will get things started today at 11 a.m. Pacific time, 2 p.m. Eastern time. He will be on the podium speaking. And then after Petiti, it'll go, we'll hear from the head coaches of Illinois, Rutgers, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Ohio State. So we're going to hear from Brett Bilema. We're going to hear from Greg Shiano. We're going to hear from Kurt Signetti. we're going to hear from Mike Loxley. We're going to hear from Matt Shiano. We're going to hear from Kurt Signetti.

We're going to hear from Mike Loxley. We're going to hear from Matt Rule. And we're going to hear from Ryan Day. That's today. Those are going to be the podium speakers. Plus, those schools are each represented, I believe by three players each up by three players each. Tomorrow you've got Minnesota, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington, and Penn State being represented starting at 2.30 p.m.

That's at the podium.

Then the rest of the activities take the breakout sessions, et cetera, are all beyond, are all after that.

And then we have on Thursday, we will have the closing of the festivities with Iowa at 1130, Purdue, UCLA, Michigan State, USC at 1230.

And then Thursday, Big Ten Football Media Days concludes with Michigan, Sharon Moore at the podium at 1245.

And Michigan, Sharon will speak for 15 minutes at the podium on Thursday.

That's 1245 Eastern, 3.40, or to be Pacific.

3.45 Eastern time.

And so we'll be watching from back here, of course.

Sam will be in Las Vegas on Thursday for Michigan's Day at Big Ten Football Media Days.

So we'll hear Thursday from Sharon Moore.

We'll also hear on Thursday from tight end fullback, Max Bredesen, of course, captain as well. We'll hear from linebacker Ernest Hausman. Ernest had great summer with travels and, of course, prepping for football and has had some great experiences in his couple of years here in Ann Arbor. And then Derek Moore will be there as well. Edge Defender Senior, now one of the leaders of that defense.

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