Welcome back to the Wolverine.com podcast. I'm John Borton here with one of our absolute favorites, Tom Crawford, our guy in East Lansing. Tom, it's good to have you back. Happy 2022 to you. And we'll see what's going on in the world of both Michigan football and basketball today.

But, you know, there's never any lack of developments, obviously.

No, there's not.

And, you know, when you lose a D-Line coach, Sean Noah Lutz has the USC today piles on to the debacle last night in basketball.

And I text you about what I had heard about with the five players not playing.

And we knew where that was headed.

And then obviously what happened between the lines at the Orange Bowl.

But let me say this about my quick trip to Miami and Miami Gardens

and back the Orange Bowl and the incredible and I mean incredible presence of Michigan fans

in the orange lot there throughout the entire stadium. I was at a donor's party before the game.

Matt, the passion for Michigan football is off the friggin scale. I will say that.

So that's my biggest takeaway from Miami and 2020 is going to be even better.

And I think Michigan football is indeed back.

Well, okay. Let's start with football. I was thinking about starting with basketball,

but you've got to be fired up right now. I know that you, you had a different way.

You drove down there with some friends. And that had to be in itself quite the, uh, quite the excursion.

Well, we try to do a flashback to spring break. We drove down the A1A in Fort Lauderdale,

you know, for the new, the millennials, they won't relate to this as the college retreat.

But, uh, went down memory lane, uh, ran in some people down there, had a,

had a, uh, you know know great tailgate party and then

that pre-party it's who you hang around with that gives you opportunities oh let me give you that

little side note um but anyway um no it was good i mean i you know what we had you know the costs and then

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