And we are back, folks, here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050, WTCA, online at the big 1050.com, Sam Webb, Mr. Ira

Tribe on the other side and joining us as he does every single week to go inside the huddle, our good friend Michael Spath.

Mike, good morning. How are you?

I'm doing well, guys. A gorgeous morning here in southeast Michigan.

The weather has turned.

Thank God for that.

Man, and I feel like we're inching closer to college football, which I'm not in a rush for,

but we know it's on the horizon.

And my only complaint about Mother Nature is she killed one of my hibiscus bushes.

You know, I'm kind of horticulturalists now.

You know, my grass is coming out the way I wanted to.

Mike, now I'm getting over into the, over into the shrubs.

And one of my hibiscus has died because it broke its dormancy and then it froze and killed it, man. Anyway, I digress. Didn't mean to get off on the hand. Sam, you and I can talk, you and I can talk offline because I am quite the horticulture myself. There you go. My man, my man, we've got a lot in common. All right, so Mike, listen, I know you don'torticulturist myself. There you go. My man.

My man.

We got a lot in common.

All right.

So, Mike, listen, I know you don't care much about the playoff expansion talk.

I'm just more curious about the political dynamic, the power struggle at the top of college football and watching what seems to be Tony Petiti flex a little bit and watching Greg Sanky while he is certainly representing his the interests of his his constituency, but of his TV network.

He is doing so in a way that doesn't show as much bravado as I'm accustomed to seeing

and hearing from Greg Sankey, who was normally like, hey, we're the big fish in this pond, you know, do as we say, you know, we're the king beast.

While saying that, you know, he is content and status quo.

If it comes to that, he also said that, you know, he's open to the conversation, which is the polar opposite of the tone that Tony Petiti took last week when he said, listen,

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