Welcome back to the Wolverine.com podcast, our video edition. I'm John Borton. We're here with Tom Crawford, and Tom Crawford has been carefully monitoring all things Michigan sports like he always does from his perch in East Lansing, Michigan. Some things get him a little bit fired up. I know that our number one topic today certainly has over the past few weeks.

You know, Tom Crawford, we enjoyed and Michigan enjoyed its breakthrough season.

It's Big Ten championship.

And then all that aura of great feeling sort of disappeared in a big hurry these last few weeks,

culminating in the fact that your head coach isn't around for signing day and maybe just one knot away from

becoming the Minnesota Viking head coach. But that did not happen. He is supposedly back.

He's told Michigan this is not going to be a regularly occurring thing. So first of all, welcome back. He's told Michigan, this is not going to be a regularly occurring thing. So

first of all, welcome back to the podcast. Second of all, your thoughts on the matter.

Okay, I got a blank canvas here. I'm going to roll. Hey, so I'm going to use the MIS theme. Since you

live relatively close to MIS, Michigan International Speedway.

After all that great season in 2022, we had a spin out on turn three.

And the driver of the car was Jim Harbaugh.

And I, you know, Anthony mentioned this in our dialogue before and with you.

And it's like, good thing we didn't do this podcast last night or even yesterday morning because I was, I was disheveled and and just fatigued with Jim Harbaugh.

And I still am.

And I'm still, you know, I'm a Michigan man.

I'm an alumnus.

I'm a diehard fan.

I'm fan media.

And I care about the Michigan football and basketball programs,

all the athletic programs as much as anybody.

But I was in a funk yesterday.

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