Behind the Uniform with Zak Zinter; "So many goals still to accomplish"
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Episode nine in the series features my recent sit-down with Michigan offensive lineman Zak Zinter discussing his decision to spend one last season donning the winged helmet. The two-time All-Big Ten selection shares his thoughts on the playoff loss to TCU and NIL progress at Michigan and how those considerations factored into his decision to return. Attention then turns to Sherrone Moore’s impact on him and the entire offensive line. After explaining why he thinks the offense is poised to rise to another level he reflects upon last season's blowout of Ohio State and subsequent NFL dalliance by Jim Harbaugh. After highlighting early impressions of the portal additions and heightened expectations for Braiden McGregor the episode closes with his outlook for his senior campaign.
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| 0:15.0 | We're back with another edition of Behind the Uniform pleased in this series to be able to take you in deeper with the prospects, |
| 0:24.2 | the players that you see on the field or court of play dawning the maze in blue. |
| 0:30.2 | There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes and their preparation and their lives. |
| 0:33.8 | This gives you an opportunity to get to know those things and to get to know some of the stories behind some of the things that actually occur on the field and joining us today is another |
| 0:42.9 | one another guy that I've been known for a long long time going back to his recruitment |
| 0:47.8 | and then he's been playing for all four years here at the University of Michigan and decided to come |
| 0:53.4 | back Zach Zenter, |
| 0:55.0 | Zach, how are you, man? I'm great. Thanks for having me. Yeah, man, glad you could join us. |
| 0:59.2 | And obviously Michigan fans elated that you decided to come back to Michigan. So let's start there |
| 1:05.7 | because you could have obviously gone pro. What was it that made you say, hey, let's do it one more time? |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, I mean, it was a tough decision. I mean, as you know, I mean, Trevor was on here. It wasn't an easy one. You know, |
| 1:17.9 | I'd wake up one more and be like, ah, I'm going to come back. Wake up another morning. I think I'm |
| 1:22.0 | going to leave. But I mean, when it came down to it, I just, I have so many goals here still that I want to accomplish. |
| 1:29.3 | And, you know, some of my other brothers were coming back too and kind of decided, you know, |
| 1:35.3 | just got to run this thing back one more year. |
| 1:37.3 | So a couple of extenuating kind of circumstances, one of them being, you didn't know, first first if all the guys were going to come back at the time. |
| 1:46.4 | Maybe you guys were talking, but certainly once you, as players made your decision, you didn't quite know what was going to happen with Coach Harbaugh. |
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