Welcome back to another edition of the Wolverine.com video podcast. My name is Chris Ballas with me, Doug Skeen, Michigan's former All-Big Ten offensive linemen. Also played for the New England Patriots, five-time Big Ten champion. The list goes on and on and on. And, yeah, I think he's retired somewhere down in the, what, down not yet huh no no ballast not yet i'm here

in michigan yeah yeah okay still here in michigan so anyway uh just got back from newark new jersey man

that's an interesting state did you uh you ever been in new work no no never never traveled

through there never really been to new jersey been to the jersey shore once uh yeah never traveled through new work or anything been to New Jersey, been to the Jersey shore once.

Yeah.

Never traveled through Newark or anything like that, though.

You haven't missed anything. I'll be honest. We stayed, it's terrible.

With all due respect to the people, great people of the state of New Jersey, it was, we stayed

right across from the state penitentiary near the airport, by the way. And, yeah, so it was, it was interesting.

But you know what, Rutgers is in the Big Ten, whether we like it or not.

And the sacrificial lamb for Michigan, didn't look like that way in the first half,

though, skiing.

And look to me like Michigan kind of expected after that first series that, okay, these

guys are going to go away.

Then you get a punt block and then it's game on.

No, it was clearly, balance.

It looked like Michigan had shown up.

Ho-hum, it's Rutgers.

You know, we've just come off of a string of high-intensity games and Michigan looked like a team that was just there to

go through the motions and get on with the get on with their lives. Clearly Rutgers showed up

with everything on the line. The Saturday night looked like the weather was nice and the stadium

was full and everybody's having fun and Rutgers was ready.

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