Welcome back to another edition of the Ballas and Skeen Show. That's Ballas and Skeen Show here at the Wolverine deck.

You would think a guy with five big ten championship rings and who played in the NFL should have his name first. But you know what?

It's a contract thing, you know. So yeah, yeah. It's alphabetical too. Right. And plus your golf game has been a little bit shoddy lately so

you're going to turn that back so other than those eight parts in a row up there at tullymore which

was really damn impressive so yeah so he's doug skein five-time big ten champion all big ten

offensive guard at michigan ske. I appreciate you being here.

Let's talk a little bit about the offensive line down and where things go heading into the

summer because we didn't see a whole lot of these guys together in the spring and that concerns

me a little bit. And I understand that there are guys there that can play football. I've seen them.

I watched Andrew Gentry, for example, push people around. I like him at right tackle. I really think that Josh Crebe is going to be good from Northwestern. I know that Gio Avani-Oaddi can play, but the fact that they haven't played a lot together scares me a little bit. That's my first concern. Your comment on that. It's a concern. It always is. No matter how many reps they got in the spring together as a unit, if that's in fact what the unit's going to be, there's nothing that takes the place of full live speed practice reps. And as great as that is, that's all fine and wonderful. And you can build camaraderie and all those things and the

walkthroughs that they'll do all that stuff too nothing takes the place of game speed reps together

and unfortunately this is this is just part of the problem ballis is that until you get on the field

on saturdays and you get 60 reps together in a course of a football game, maybe 70,

you just don't have that.

And you just can't replicate it.

So it's a legitimate concern.

However, it's not a barrier for success.

It doesn't mean these guys can't be good out there.

And we just can't see it together.

They can't feel it together until we get two or three games in. Is this a case of, you know what, you wish you had last year's schedule or you had a three patsies to get these guys together? I hate to play that because I love these big games skiing. And you guys played against Florida State back in the day. He played Notre Dame every year. Who was some of the other big name teams you played? In your first year, I think it was Miami of Florida. Yeah, I played Miami of Florida. There

was always somebody in that first few weeks. You know, oftentimes it was Notre Dame right out of the

gates. Right. And or one year, I think we played Maryland or Wake Forest either before or after.

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