Conqu'ring Heroes 7 - Bruce Madej

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Michigan, College, Sports, Ncaa, Jon Jansen, Wolverines, Football

4.8 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Bruce Madej has seen it all in his time with the University of Michigan. He was the athletic department's longest-serving Sports Information Director before transitioning to a Senior Advisor role to Donald R. Shepherd Director of Athletics Warde Manuel. Bruce paints a picture of his role and the athletic department as a whole when he arrived (1:45), details his relationship with Bo Schembechler (9:15), talks about some of his favorite coaches during his time at Michigan (20:00), and shares some stories about current and former Michigan broadcasters (29:45), including Bob Ufer (33:30).

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0:00.0	If you're a young Michigan fan, tune in because you're going to learn a heck of a lot.
0:04.4	If you're an old Michigan fan, this is going to take you down memory lane.
0:08.8	Head of PR at the University of Michigan in the athletic department.
0:12.9	Bruce Mahdi stops by conquering heroes.
0:16.2	Can't wait to have this conversation and for all of you to get a piece of Michigan history.
0:25.6	Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things Michigan Athletics.
0:30.5	Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way.
0:35.8	This is Conquering Heroes.
0:39.8	Here's your host, John Jansen.
0:47.3	Welcome back, friends, and I am joined by one of my favorite Wolverines of all time. Didn't wear a jersey number, wasn't a head coach, but is as integral a piece of Michigan athletics history as you're ever going to find.
0:57.1	And that is, I don't even know the titles.
1:01.8	I knew them as the SID at Michigan, PR director here for athletics.
1:07.3	Bruce Mottie.
1:07.8	Bruce, thanks for joining us.
1:08.9	John, thanks for those kind words.
1:11.5	I probably don't deserve them. But I will pay the 50 bucks a little bit later.
1:16.2	Yes, we'll go to lunch later. This time you're buying. But you've been here since 1978.
1:25.0	And I could take the easy route and say, tell us your greatest stories, and we'll get to
1:30.2	some of those.
1:31.7	But when you came here in 78 and you walked into, onto Michigan's athletic campus, paint us a
1:41.6	picture.
1:42.1	What was it like in 1978? Well, I'm going to take you back a little bit
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