Good morning, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Happy Thursday, everybody.

It is Thursday, January 9th, 2025.

This is the Michigan Insider.

This is the Big 1050, WTKA online at the big 1050.com.

It has been 1,867 days, 1,867 days since Ohio State last beat Michigan on the football field.

And we'll be talking a little Michigan football this morning as the first day of the winter semester was yesterday.

So we are now underway.

The ad drop is in a couple of weeks, in a few weeks now, I guess just under three weeks.

So still time to bring in some transfers at the moment.

But that window, that portal window on the Michigan side is definitely closing up a little bit.

But we will be discussing that this morning, a little bit later on here on the show.

We will also get to the top dog of the week at around 805, the MGOBlog roundtable for the 9 o'clock hour.

All that and more coming up here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050, WTCA, online at the big 1050.com.

Before I get to the first piece of Michigan news, which actually is Michigan football related,

just thoughts and prayers

and best wishes to listeners, friends, relations, you name it to everybody out in the LA

area because the pictures, the scenes, the videos are just absolutely horrific from the wildfires

that are going on in the LA area right now.

We have listeners that have lost homes and have evacuated, et cetera, et cetera.

And I've been thinking about you guys, the men and women, all of our listeners, our family,

our WTK family, and obviously everybody else that is being impacted is just absolutely

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