Welcome back to the Wolverine.com podcast. I'm John Borton. We're here with Tom Crawford, our man in East Lansing, Michigan, a major Michigan follower and someone who knows the Wolverines inside and out.

And he, despite his extensive knowledge, is waiting along with the rest of us and the rest of the world, to find out exactly what Jim Harbaugh is doing. Tom Crawford, welcome back to the podcast. Yeah, I'm getting Harbaugh fatigue right now, J.B., and I think a lot of other Michigan people are as well. And, you know, I'm in contrast to what I said a week ago. I said, you know what? I'm just going to navigate this thing. Whatever happens, happens.

And that's, I still have that philosophy for the, for the most part, but this thing is, is getting

to be, I'm not saying it's getting to be ridiculous, but it's headed in that, in that direction.

These next, this past Saturday and following two

Saturdays are huge weekends in college football for 23 recruits junior days they call them.

And everybody's got 18 to 30 kids plus going it coming into into your place. And then you're

out on the road during the week the coaches are

position coaches are and the head coach i don't i don't know why this is continuing i make a

freaking decision and move on whatever that is yeah well uh we were just talking about jim harbaugh

before we came on here.

And I posited the fact that his thinking very well could be, look, I'm doing my job.

I hired a defensive line coach.

I'm recruiting.

I'm telling parents and all at status quo.

So maybe I don't necessarily care what people think out there.

But you're saying you probably should care because of what other,

what recruits might be thinking and others around them might be saying.

Well, absolutely, because these kids are going to put themselves in a situation,

you know, a year from now when I'm a senior, are we going to be going to be going to be going

down this path of uncertainty with this guy? I mean, he's under contract. And so, and, you know,

it's like it's just obvious he's going to renegotiate it. But yeah, I just think it's not

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