Five o'clock, been an incredibly busy day.

We'll get right back to the phones in a second.

Just want to welcome our audience in.

We've tried to cover the Sharon thing for what it is,

not just sidestep it and talk about who the next coach is.

We've done three hours of basically the media's role in empowering this crap

and how it can get here when people, their lone job is covering Michigan, you're not covering all sports.

You're not an entertainer.

You're a reporter.

I don't want to hear about you coming out today and telling me you known for months.

I mean, when you really look at it, it's something where even if you can't break the story,

go to your editor and go, look, I need some help on this. I think we're sitting on a big story.

That is, of course, if you still want to be a journalist and not a propagandist. Then the other note is, well, what about you? And it's like, yeah, dude, I'm an entertainer. I don't make any bones about it.

I didn't get a journalism degree because I wanted to be a journalist.

I got a journalism degree because I didn't have anybody in my family who'd ever gone to school,. I didn't get a journalism degree because I wanted to be a journalist.

I got a journalism degree because I didn't have anybody in my family who'd ever gone to school,

and I didn't have a guidance counselor, and I thought it's what you needed so I could do ready.

Okay.

Look, I don't purport to be that.

I've never been interested in breaking news.

The whole point in this is this is how college football programs, not just Michigan, end up in this place because instead of hiring journalists, we hire overenthusiastic

fanboys and fan girls. And they're vested in clicks, likes, hearts, and emojis.

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