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

Our man on Mondays, Tuesdays, early in the week, our man from East Lansing that comes in and brings not only the knowledge.

A lot of people have knowledge and follow things closely, but he combines it with considerable passion

and history behind him. Tom, welcome back to the podcast.

Well, it's great to be back. John, you know I'm out to walk and do my morning walk and

feel a little football air, you know what I mean? A clean, a clean crisp,

you know, 50 degrees sunny, but I'm not wishing the summer away. By any means, we wait too

long. I'm just excited looking all summer long, talking all summer long forward about Michigan

football and Michigan basketball and all things Michigan. I went to the

softball game, saw Carol Hutchins team out here at Michigan State a couple of games. They lost,

they missed a great opportunity down the stretch on Sunday. Left too many men on base. Too many women

on base. Yeah, careful. Yeah, the NCAA tournament bound, though, for Hutch and her team.

What a great athletic program it is this year.

It's amazing.

Yeah.

Many-sided run from Michigan varsity programs.

We've talked about that quite a bit.

And we are, you mentioned football.

We're going to talk some football

today. We're going to start out talking some basketball because we talked last time about

Caleb Houston getting an invitation from the NBA Combine. And as it turns out, he looked that invitation square in the eye and said,

thanks, but no thanks. He turned it down. And now a lot of people are looking at that and saying,

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