In the Trenches 144 - Erick Anderson
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
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4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this week's "Seven from 77," Jon reflects back on his time in Washington D.C. after the attacks on September 11, 2001 (4:00), discusses the latest news surrounding the Big Ten's postponement of fall sports (9:45), and breaks down some of the biggest games in college and pro football this weekend (16:15). Then, Erick Anderson, the lone Butkus Award winner in Michigan football history, stops by to talk about his wide-ranging and unique recruiting process (32:30), the importance of Michigan's rivalry with Notre Dame and win over the Irish in 1991 (41:15), his tackling records and Butkus Award (47:45), and some of the great projects he is working on now (54:45).
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| 0:00.0 | We have another Michigan captain stopping by the podcast today, but we're also going to raise the bar just a little bit because it is the only Butkus award winner at the University of Michigan with so many great linebackers. |
| 0:14.7 | We are joined today by Eric Anderson here on In the Trenches. |
| 0:19.7 | Let's go in the trenches with John Jansen. |
| 0:22.6 | The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer will take you inside the locker room with players and coaches. |
| 0:28.6 | It was euphoric because we had finally gotten over that hump in a big game against a team that we had not had success against, which was unusual for us at that time. |
| 0:41.0 | And to get that win, I think it really set us up for the rest of that season, which really was a very good season as well. |
| 0:48.9 | Once again, here's John Jansen. |
| 0:51.7 | There is so much going on in the world of college football. |
| 0:55.8 | We've got two conferences that one of them that we are a member of not playing football. |
| 1:01.1 | The other Power 5 conferences will be firing things up this weekend. |
| 1:06.2 | But before we get there, I want to bring in my partner on the podcast and shine a little bit of a |
| 1:13.7 | spotlight on them because this is coming out today on Friday, September 11. We all know |
| 1:19.5 | what today is. We'll get to that in just a moment. But tomorrow will be the debut of the Michigan |
| 1:27.3 | football classics. |
| 1:29.1 | They will kick off the pregame show at 1130 on Saturday morning, going all the way |
| 1:35.7 | through the end of November. |
| 1:36.8 | Our first game is the Michigan Notre Dame matchup 1991, and we will take you back in the way back capsule to an epic moment in |
| 1:49.2 | Michigan Stadium in Michigan football history. |
| 1:52.6 | And that is the catch that happened and set Desmond Howard on a course for his Heisman |
| 1:58.7 | trophy. |
| 1:59.5 | But it all started on the second game of the season |
| 2:03.0 | against Notre Dame. 24 to 14 win. You can listen to it live on 971, the ticket in the |
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