It is time to wrap up our media availability with the Michigan football team for the week as they get ready for Michigan at USC coming up Saturday night out at the LA Coliseum.

Of course, your game day cover starts this Saturday at 3.30 with the chap onside fuel and count on a kickoff right here on the Big 1050 WTKA.

You've already heard from running back coach Tony Alford.

So now let's go to defensive line coach Lou Esposito who met with media yesterday, now here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTCA. It seems clear that holding is being called differently this year. I'm ready just not as much. How do you coach your guys to deal with that and to maybe any frustration that comes with that? I mean, you got to play with your hands, right?

Like, if they're going to hold you, we talk about running away from blocks,

you've got to do it all the time.

I do feel like holding in general is becoming decriminalized

across college football.

So everybody deals with it.

It goes both ways.

So we're going to do a good job of using our hands

and running away from blocks and disengaging and creating separation. Because that's the only way you get off of it. You can talk about it all you want. It's not going to change the outcome, right? So people are going to do it. People view it differently. We're going to go do what we have to do to get off the blocks. It's still the same thing. Get off the block,

run away from it, don't walk away from it so they can't hold you. Do a good job with your hands, and normally we get off those. When you have a line like yours, you feel like that's an equalizer for other teams? It's a little frustrating to... Yeah, I mean, I felt like it was the same thing last year too with the two guys we had inside. I don't remember many holding calls we got against us.

So it's one of those things that we're just going to have to deal with. Everybody's going to play with it. Everyone's on the same playing field there, and we got to do a great job. Like I said, using our hands and getting off blocks. Yeah. All right, Aaron? Lou, I know the detackle's been obviously split reps or anything else. What does Craig Pierce done to kind of earn a starting role?

I mean, Yeah. All right, Aaron. Lou, I know the D-Tackle's been obviously split reps or anything else.

What has Trey Piers done to kind of earn a starting role?

I mean, it just kind of started throughout spring ball and camp.

He did a great job in the summer of getting himself in shape.

And he played with the physicality and knockback that we talk about all throughout camp.

And the first couple weeks of the season, he's been great at that.

So he's been doing a great job, and he consistently gets better.

And I think the unique thing we have in our room is we have a bunch of guys that are all really good players.

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