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The Michigan Insider

Michigan football's return to campus (w/ Matthew Hibner)

The Michigan Insider

247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football

Football, Sports

4.6855 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss the NCAA and Michigan football team’s plans to return to campus for voluntary workouts, and chat with tight end signee Matthew Hibner about his view on the quarantine and Michigan’s handling of it.

We begin with a macro discussion of the NCAA’s unveiling of a summer schedule, that includes a six-week ramp-up into a regularly scheduled season, along with a window of voluntary workouts that will go into mid-July.

Then, we focus more on Michigan, discussing the Wolverines’ return to the football facilities, why the plan makes sense, other facts to know and how we feel the Wolverines handled the pandemic and return to campus.

We close with Lorenz’s 15-minute discussion with Hibner, as the tight end discusses what it was lie to go through this as a signee, his view on how the Wolverines handled everything and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw.

0:07.7

Steve Lorenz here with me. And this podcast is all about the topic that I'm sure our listeners have been eagerly awaiting this episode.

0:17.6

Maybe not specifically, but the byproduct of this news is that this is the episode

0:24.7

where we talk about the return to football and Michigan football teams return to campus.

0:30.9

I know throughout the past three months, there's been speculation. There's still speculation.

0:36.3

I mean, nobody officially knows how the fans are going to be involved,

0:41.0

which games might be rescheduled or canceled or swapped out for a different game.

0:45.8

There's still a lot of unknowns, but the Michigan football team returns to campus this week.

0:53.4

And so we'll start broad and then we'll get specific.

0:57.1

There will be stories about this as well over at the Michiganinsider.com,

1:00.8

Michigan.247sports.com.

1:02.5

But we actually, in addition to our discussion, myself and Steve's,

1:08.0

Steve talked to tight end incoming freshman Matthew Hidner and kind of got

1:15.7

his perspective of how Michigan has handled, maybe not so much the return because they don't,

1:20.5

you know, that part hasn't happened yet, but how the team and the coaches have handled

1:24.8

the pandemic, the workouts, because that's a big part of it.

1:28.9

I mean, this, this 2020 season is going to be so fascinating to me because on one hand,

1:34.7

nothing might be different. It might just look the same. On the other hand, there were three

1:39.8

months where players had to kind of do their own due diligence on what to eat, how to work out,

1:47.2

you know, sleep habits, general life habits, and there weren't coaches, there weren't spring

1:52.6

practices, there weren't these plans.

1:55.3

And so Steve first, let's talk about this six-week plan.

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