Defend the Block 218 - Penn State Recap

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

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🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The Wolverines' losing streak reached four in a 79-73 loss to Penn State on Sunday at the Palestra. Brian Boesch recaps the loss and the opportunity for Phil Martelli to act as the Head Coach in his hometown of Philadelphia. Then, we hear from Terry Mills (7:00) and Coach Martelli (10:00).

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0:00.0	We will get into the tough loss for Michigan against Penn State at the Pellestra here momentarily.
0:04.6	But before the game, I caught up with Phil Martelli, who at the time thought he was going to go in as the associate head coach,
0:10.8	is one of the three assistants for Michigan.
0:13.5	But then Joanne Howard decided to give Phil an opportunity here in his hometown at an arena that means so much to him and so many in this area and so many
0:21.2	in this sport and against his one of his sons at Penn State Jimmy Martelli and assistant
0:27.3	under Mike Rhodes a chance to be the head coach for this game and Phil talked to me about what
0:33.6	basketball really is all about what long term people remember about their time in the game?
0:40.3	To have this opportunity is special. I've said to you before, Brian, that coaching this game and playing
0:47.2	this game, yeah, it can be about the wins and the losses, and it can be about the rings and the
0:52.1	Nets and the accolades and then national TV and
0:54.9	all that other stuff but at the end of the day when you take away it's the memories and
1:00.8	I'm going to look around today there's going to be a lot of memories there's a lot of memories in the
1:06.8	building but there's going to be a lot of faces. If my phone is an indication of all the
1:12.1	people that are coming to this game, and what they are is not just friends and acquaintances
1:18.5	and former players, but they're memories and their memories that are holding my heart forever.
1:24.8	He'll reference that later in our postgame conversation after the Wolverines
1:28.6	loss. And I don't bring that up just to try to put something over what was a really
1:33.9	tough performance for Michigan because memories are difficult to truly appreciate when they
1:40.2	come because of the context, because of the details, and oftentimes because of some of the
1:45.6	negative things, the disappointing things, the challenging things that come about in our lives.
1:50.6	Down the road, I'm sure one day Phil Martelli will think back to this, and it won't be so much
1:55.1	about the 19 turnovers or about the 10-point halftime lead that evaporated pretty quickly or
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