Welcome back to In the Trenches, our first podcast post-Beline era.

We'll get a chance to dive into what that means for Michigan basketball, Michigan Athletics,

as well as one of the greats.

Offensive lineman Jake Long, number 77.

He obviously holds a very special place in my heart, not only as an offensive lineman,

but sharing the number.

We'll get to that and more on In the Trenches.

Let's go in the trenches with John Jansen.

The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer will take you inside the locker room with players and coaches.

Growing up, watching you and watching the guys who in sports, and it was just something about that number

and the people that wore and the tradition behind that number

and the success that guys had.

Once again, here's John Jansen.

As I mentioned in the open, this is now the post-coach Beeline era.

And we are, we were very fortunate on the podcast.

Obviously, we get to talk a lot of Michigan football.

We had Coach Beeline on this year talking about the run that they were making during

the basketball season.

But we are also joined by Brian Bush, who got a chance to do a lot of the play-by-play this year for Michigan basketball.

So I'm going to bring him in right now, and we'll talk about the impact that Coach B-Line had on the Michigan basketball program on the Michigan community and what this

means moving forward. But Brian, what was your initial reaction when you got the news Monday morning,

last Monday morning, that Coach Beeline was taking his talents to Cleveland? I was shocked. It was something I did not expect. It was something

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