Big time news yesterday for the Michigan football program,

the number one player in the country, Bryce Underwood from Belleville High School.

Quarterback from right down the road.

Flipped his commitment from LSU to Michigan.

Announcement on ESPN and beyond.

And a lot of reaction, including from our guy, Sam Webb and his crew, Sam Webb, Alan Trub, Steve Lorenz, and Bryce Merritt.

So we're going to continue with that right now here on the Michigan Insider on the big 1050 WTCA.

It's ironic.

I go all the way back to the spring.

I go all the way back to the spring because spring was when this recruitment really picked really sort of it's the genesis of

this recruitment picking back up you know the beginning and you know at the beginning you know

Michigan was in it strong and then it died down why did it die down you know, at the beginning, you know, Michigan was in it strong and then it died down.

Why did it die down?

You know, I think Michigan was recruiting him and they were recruiting him heavy.

But, you know, in the early days of at the advent of, you know, you're recruiting and all these teams are doing the,

they're doing the parallel recruiting.

They're doing the part about here's how we're going to develop you.

This is what we're doing on the field.

And we're doing the NIL pitch too.

Michigan in the early days, they weren't doing the whole parallel part.

They were doing just the, just the on-field part. And then NIL was just, we're transformational,

not transaction. That was kind of the, the pit. And that, you know, that just wasn't stacking up to other teams. And Michigan was fizzling

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