Welcome back to the Wolverine.com podcast. I'm John Borton here with Tom Crawford.

Our man in East Lansing brings you all things, Michigan, from that particular, at times, hostile outpost, Tom.

Great to have you back with it.

It can be hostile. Even in, you know, the sultry hot days of uh of mid-june uh people still talking

college football up here i'm talking college football i'm talking college basketball and everything

else but uh it's great to be on with you john you know no off days on the wolvering dot com

no off weeks because there's just too much content to go over right there's no's no question about it. And we're always talking Michigan football, and we are talking

Michigan football most certainly on this day because there are just some things that as we

draw to the close of one of our busier times of the year, even though the events aren't going on,

but football talk is always going on. We're finishing up the football preview. I know that's

near and dear to your heart, and it's something that all the folks on the fort and beyond,

our premium message board, are looking forward to.

I love the time of year when people from coast to coast are saying,

oh, it arrived in Santa Barbara, California, or in Miami, Florida, wherever it might be.

So we've talked to a lot of people.

We've talked to players on this Michigan team.

We've talked to their relatives.

We've talked to their friends.

We've talked to some coaches.

And we've talked to some very savvy observers about Michigan.

And that's what I want to, I want to focus in on a couple of things.

I want to, I'll start with a rather maybe controversial topic.

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