Defend the Block 320 - Roddy Gayle, Jr.

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

4.8 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Brian Boesch visits with senior Roddy Gayle, Jr., on this week's episode. Gayle looks back on his incredible performance against Texas A&M in the NCAA Tournament, discusses his takeaways from year one in the Maize and Blue, and shares his thoughts on the rest of the team's offseason work.

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0:59.3	or unpredictable win among its 27 from a season ago, you'd have a real debate for number one.
1:06.3	Was it the emergence of Area 51 and Hostel Madison in the Big Ten opener? Maybe the Trey Donaldson personal 7-0 run to stun Penn State.
1:14.8	The Bruce Thornton Airball that sealed the rivalry win in Columbus.
1:19.1	Namari Burnett's buzzer beating three to hold off two top five picks and Rutgers back in late February.
1:24.8	Or come postseason plenty of candidates.
1:28.0	The coast-to-coast winner against Maryland, the defensive slug fest against Wisconsin to win the
1:32.7	Big Ten, the 15-point lead dwindling but not quite disappearing against UC San Diego in Denver.
1:39.9	There are more contenders than that, and there are real contenders all around.
1:44.6	Just so you know, my answer would be Rutgers, but the fact that it's a real debate proves the point.
1:49.0	Because Michigan had plenty of times where it felt sometimes dead to right, sometimes in a really tough spot, yet they found a way.
1:58.8	But if you were to search for the most improbable or unpredictable individual performance,
2:04.3	I think there's probably a pretty big gap between one and two,
2:07.4	especially when you consider the circumstances where that game took place.
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