And welcome back to the Michigan Insider on the Big 150 WTKA online at the big 1050.com. For the first time in Ann Arbor, Kyle Whittingham had a media availability. Of course, his first media avail when he was hired was down at the bowl site because Michigan and all, almost all the Michigan media was down there. But now they're getting ready for spring practice. So yesterday prior to the first practice of the spring for the Mays and Blue,

Kyle Whittingham, new head coach, met with the media to get us ready for spring football.

So here is Kyle Whittingham from yesterday meeting with the media.

Now here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTKA.

Okay, really looking forward to getting spring football started.

We've been here about two and a half months now.

I have a good idea of our personnel as far as what we were able to see in the winter player development aspect.

And so now we get a chance to see these guys on the field and doing their thing.

And so really looking forward to seeing what we got and where we are as a football team.

So questions.

Starting to laugh with Chris.

Chris Bowles with the Wolverine.

Welcome to Ann Arbor.

You touched on it a little bit, but how much can you really tell about what you have now before you get them on? You get a decent idea just as far as how they move, obviously strength in the weight room, where we are there. And by the way, we've made significant gains in the weight room over the last two and a half months, which is obviously the objective. You know, when you're training in the winter cycle, that's one of the focal points is getting bigger and stronger, and so we definitely got an A-plus in that regard.

But you do get a little bit of a flavor for what kind of athlete you're dealing with and what they're

about, but we're still getting to know each other, coaches knowing the players and vice versa.

You know, most of all the staff is new.

We got a bunch of players that are new as well, so the team's getting to know each other.

But we're not going into spring blind, but still you don't get as good a read in the winter

conditioning as you will in spring football. I mean, that's just...

What do you have?

I think we're pretty athletic.

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