Welcome back to another edition of the Ballas and Skeen show here at the Wolverine.com. My name's

Chris Ball is with me five-time Big Ten champion, Doug Skeen, former NFL offensive linemen. All Big Ten, name it. Doug, you're looking good, man. You look like you lost a few pounds. Thank you, Flew, for both of us. Thank you, Flew, for those. Yeah, that was great. Yeah, that was great,

you were

as a dog

in the hotel

down in Orlando

and that whole

week, that was great. Yeah, that was great, you were stick as a dog in the hotel down in Orlando. And that whole week, I was sitting on the couch over here, or just sitting there in a daze. That flu is no joke. It is no joke. It was brutal, but we're back and we're here. And I've been waiting a long time to talk to you because A lot of people have been asking for your opinion about this hire Kyle Whittingham and I don't think we've talked about that since or the bowl game.

We'll talk a little bit about the bowl game just because there were a couple things there that I was impressed with how hard they played, right?

They really seemed to play with with intention, even though they'd lost their coach

and everything else that went through. I want to give Biff Pogie a little tip of the cap to him

for keeping that team together. And, hey, a couple of things go right in that fourth quarter.

Then you're looking at maybe a win over a team that, yeah, they had a lot of opt-outs,

so did you. But at the same time, you got to give it to the kids, right, for really coming to

play. Well, certainly because they had every reason in the world to throw their hands up and

walk away and quit. And even those, you know, obviously the guys that declared for the NFL,

the other guys that are opting out because of transfers or whatever.

But they, you know, in this era ballast where it seems to be so much about me, me,

me, and what I'm going to do here come bowl season.

And the non-playoff bowl teams seem to fall apart more than ever.

I think we're going to see that continue.

But for Michigan to show up and play with the enthusiasm that they played with,

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