And we are back, folks here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050WTCA online at the big 1050.com, Sam Webb, Mr. I rewind, drop one of the outside.

You know the thing about Northwestern, it's sort of related, but you see the interview with Pat Fitzgerald.

He's ready to come back. Yeah, he did repeat them on the other day.

It was one of those interviews or it's like, hey, just do this interview to announce my,

I'm out here. I'm, you know, fully cleared, fully exonerated. You know?

So they're announcing to the world.

And I think it's a, it's effective PR.

I don't think, put it this way.

It didn't strike me as one of those interviews that someone was seeking.

Maybe he was, but it struck me as one of those interviews.

Hey, hey, come do this interview with me. That's how it struck me. Yeah, it could be that. Yeah, definitely could be that. You know, he is very, he's hireable, right? He's definitely hireable. I think that for a certain amount of maybe fans, when you say, hey, we're going to go higher Pat Fitzgerald.

There may be some fans that you need to be able to,

I don't have placates the right word, but I use it. for a certain amount of maybe fans when you say, hey, we're going to go hire Pat Fitzgerald, there may be some fans that you need to be able to,

I don't have placates the right word, but I use it, that you need to be able to placate those fans because, and he gave a good interview. He obviously, he is fully exonerated. Yeah, I think it's what you're trying to do is you're trying to get back into the conversation, more than anything else.

I mean, James Franklin goes on TV,

and guess what that was?

That was an interview

nobody wanted to watch.

Yeah. you're trying to get back into the conversation more than anything else. I mean, James Franklin goes on TV and guess what that was? That was an interview nobody wanted to watch. But they still gave it to us anyway. I think that all these coaches are looking around going, they're an insane amount of jobs open. And there are going to be more jobs open. By the way, did you see Wisconsin said that they're, that Pick was coming back next year? I, we can talk about that. But that's, I think that with the coaches that are in a position, Brian Kelly, it was like a week after he got fired, he put out a statement, right? He's, I think everybody's now going to start doing this PR stuff because they want to get in the game. And the guys that don't have jobs right now can get hired now.

So if you're interested in James Franklin, you don't have to wait until December. You could hire him tomorrow. And the same thing if you want to hire Pat Fitzgerald, if he's at the top of your list. And so they're trying to get their name out there. They want to remind everybody, hey, hire me. And it's a good idea. I don't know if it really moves the needle a lot, but Fitzgerald, he deserves to get a job. I think it's going to take the right kind of job

to hire him, but somebody will hire him. Well, so he, when he says he's fully exonerated,

what he's talking about is as part of his settlement agreement, there was language that Northwestern used to, in paying the settlement in undisclosed terms.

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