And we are back, folks, here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTKA online at the

big 1050.com, Sam Webb, Mr. Ira Wynchrop on the other side and joining us for the

midweek peak is our good friend, Steve Clark and Steve. We are inching closer to the start of the Michigan football season,

which means we are inching closer to the countdown to kickoff. How are you, my friend, this morning?

Sam, because I'm sitting on my couch, a very comfortable couch with you guys on my monitor,

let's say I'm probably doing better than most college football athletes on the first day of camp. Yeah, man. You know what? I got the sense

sharing time with most of those guys. Anxious anticipation, nervous energy, excitement, at least for the first day.

Now, after they hit each other a little bit, I think they're going to be battered and bruised, banged up.

Maybe some of that excitement will go away.

But at least for the first day, I think excitement and nervous energy, Steve Clark.

Sometimes day one is filled with that summer conditioning testing.

You know, they talk about everybody's going to test out, and we expect everybody to do well.

Maybe that's already happened, but for some schools, that's what they do on day one,

is they measure out to the extreme.

Do they have what it takes to be able to get through a practice or worse?

And then you get past that first week and then it starts to temper off a little bit

because you were supposed to be doing all that hard work in the summertime to begin with.

That is true.

That is true.

That is true. This will true. That is true.

This will fatter out the ones that haven't been keeping in good shape.

Well, it is the time for optimism, Steve.

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