In the Trenches 117 - Warde Manuel
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
The Varsity Podcast Network
4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Michigan's Athletic Director, Warde Manuel, covers a lot of topics including student-athlete health and wellness, impacts on the budget, protocol for protecting every individual in the AD, will there be football games, B1G and the June 1 landmark, NIL(name, image and likeness), one time transfers and an open letter from Head Coach Jim Harbaugh. Plus a note to all the moms as we start to celebrate Mother's Day.
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| 0:00.0 | How is the University of Michigan Athletic Department responding and adjusting to the shutdown after the coronavirus? |
| 0:08.0 | Name image and likeness news. |
| 0:09.9 | One-time transfer rule has been postponed. |
| 0:13.1 | And an open letter from Jim Harbaugh to the football community. |
| 0:17.5 | We'll dive into all of that and will be joined by Ward Manuel, the Donald R. |
| 0:23.1 | Shepherd, Director of Athletics, to get his thoughts on all of that next on In the Trenches. |
| 0:28.7 | Let's go in the trenches with John Jansen. The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports |
| 0:34.2 | Hall of Famer will take you inside the locker room with players and coaches. |
| 0:38.5 | Once again, here's John Jansen. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome back, friends, and as I promised, we have the Donald R. Shepard, director of athletics here at Michigan. |
| 0:49.2 | Ward Manuel, joining us. |
| 0:51.1 | And Ward, first of all, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:53.6 | And how are you doing eight weeks into |
| 0:56.1 | the shutdown? John, thanks. It's always great to listen to your podcast and your perspective and |
| 1:04.6 | hear the perspective of the guests. Eight weeks in, and we're still moving, you know, still moving forward as best we can, |
| 1:14.7 | given everything that's in front of us that we're dealing with here at Michigan |
| 1:20.9 | and in the state, in the country, and in the world around this coronavirus |
| 1:26.0 | and trying to figure out the best next |
| 1:29.2 | steps for everybody's health and safety and progress now, you know, turning to talk about |
| 1:37.6 | the economy coming back and things starting to move forward. |
| 1:40.8 | So we're making some progress overall and we're still trying to continue to figure |
| 1:46.9 | out the best path for our student athletes, our coaches, our programs, our fans, our donors, |
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