Welcome back to another edition of the Wolverine.com podcast.

This is our TV video version. My name is Chris Ballas with me. Well, Rod Moore, first of all, two-time Big Ten champion. And then this guy, Doug Skeen, who won five, he's got five rings. And I was just talking to Rod off the air here. And I said, between the two of you guys, man, no losses to Ohio State, skiing 4-0 and 1. Rod Moore, 2-0. And I got to ask you, Rod, man,

coming from Ohio, what it means to you, man, to be 2-0 in that series and have those bragging rights. I mean, I can't imagine it gets much better. Man, it feels great, especially from being

from there, like you said, I have friends and family that are fans of Ohio State and being

able to rubbing in their face feels good. But going from, like, my freshman year, be...

Oh, we got a... Is he frozen?

He froze.

Somebody even Ohio sabotaged us.

Exactly.

We'll get them back here. We'll get them back in. and then going down there and beating them it just felt great yeah yeah you froze up there for

a second rod but uh I know that Jim Harba yep you still there we can hear you rod oh

he lost he'll be back in a second. He'll come back in a second.

All right.

Well, Skeen, I guess I got to ask you some questions.

No, you just stuck with me now, Ballas. Damn it. You know, this thing was going so well. And I got to thank Doug Skeen for actually hooking this up, man. He said, can we get Rod Moore on there? And I'm like, hell, yeah, we can get Rodmore on here.

But an Ohio guy who played in the Ohio game, and I can't wait to talk to him when he comes back.

So, but Skeen, let's talk about the Big Ten championship before we get Rod back here. It almost felt anticlimactic, didn't it, after you play Ohio State. I'm guessing the Rose Bowl wasn't quite the same because you had time, and it was still the pageantry and everything else. but to come back and play a game like that, could you even imagine having to play Purdue with all due respect after playing Ohio State and that like that? It goes back to a year ago and Aden talked about it with Chris, you know, after the game that they won a year ago against Iowa. And we didn't have to do that, Ballas. You know, we, our season ended with that huge

game against Ohio State. And then you got to breathe this big sigh of relief as you made

plans to go to California and go to the Rose Bowl and then hopefully win that game. And maybe

you were in or not in the national championship conversation. And that was it. These guys,

these guys have to climb that ladder, get over the top of beating the Buckeyes,

which is no easy thing to do.

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