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Behind the Uniform with Jordan Marshall: "We're Michigan... nobody cares about predictions"

The Michigan Insider

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Behind the Uniform - Season 3 - we feature sophomore running back Jordan Marshall. The former Ohio high school player of the year reflects upon his decision to commit to Michigan over Ohio State, emphasizing the culture and people in Ann Arbor among the key reasons why. He recalls the emotions he felt during the coaching staff changes and explains why he maintained his commitment. The conversation turns to his freshman season, the memorable victory over Ohio State, and the significance of the rivalry especially to players from those states like himself. Marshall highlights his performance in the bowl game against Alabama before attention shifts to insights gleaned from Behind the Uniform's financial literacy boot camp. Marshall shares lessons learned from the "Playbook for Prosperity" seminar with the University of Michigan Credit Union stressing the importance of budgeting, and David Himich from The Himich Group at Morgan Stanley on long-term financial planning. The interview concludes with Marshall discussing his readiness for a leadership role in the offense, sharing his early impressions of Bryce Underwood, and sharing his reaction to Jeremiah Smith's promise that Ohio State will not lose Michigan again as long as he's in a Buckeye uniform.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And we are back on another edition of Behind the Uniform. This is when we take you inside, not only the playing careers of the guys who wear the uniforms for the University of Michigan, but we take you into their backgrounds as well. Who are they off the field of play? And on this edition of Behind the Uniform, we talked to one of the young men carrying the mail for the maize in blue.

0:40.0

And you saw him do it in a rousing way in the bowl game for the University of Michigan talking

0:45.5

about Mr. Jordan Marshall. Jordan, thank you for joining us, man. How you doing?

0:48.9

Good. Thank you for having me. Beautiful day. Nice to be here. Another day in Ann Arbor.

0:54.5

Man, it's a pleasure to have you.

0:57.2

Been anxiously anticipating having you on set since you are a recruit.

1:03.2

You know, this is one that we've been excited about.

1:07.1

An Ohio Kid, a player of the year.

1:15.9

Best player in Ohio, in my opinion, choosing to come north of the border.

1:18.2

There's a lot of pressure that comes with that.

1:31.0

And you chose to do it anyway, and that's where I want to start, is when you choose to spurn the Buckeyes to come to Michigan like you did.

1:33.1

That takes a lot of courage too, man.

1:43.0

Let's take me back to that process of that decision, of why you did it and what it was like after you did it.

1:46.4

You know, walking the halls, walking the town,

1:49.9

what your life was like around that time in your life?

1:59.0

During that time, it was, it was kind of, I had just people in my ear.

2:03.6

There's a lot of Ohio State fans from where I'm from, Cincinnati. But one thing my mom always told me is you have to do things for yourself sometimes.

2:09.6

And when I was looking for places, she was talking about the culture and the people,

2:16.6

and she wanted this to be a decision that I made and

2:20.2

throughout the process Michigan showed me all the things that were necessary and Ohio State didn't have

2:28.2

those things and I didn't love the people, the culture, Never grew up an Ohio State fan.

2:35.5

I actually grew up a Georgia fan.

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