Michigan hires Mike Elston, looking at Wolverines' NFL Draft departures, transfer portal needs
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 14 January 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Zach Shaw and 247Sports/Michigan Insider newcomer Alejandro Zuniga break down the Michigan football team's offseason so far (minus the Jim Harbaugh uncertainty), looking at the Wolverines' hiring of Mike Elston, Michigan's NFL Draft departures and where Michigan might look the hardest in the NCAA Transfer Portal.
We begin with a look at Elston, who played for the Wolverines in the 1990s and has coached defensive lines at Notre Dame for more than a decade. We discuss why he is such a home-run hire for Michigan as a talent evaluator, recruiter, developer and overall assistant coach. We discuss his ties in the Midwest, experience coaching at a strong academic program, and why the fit makes sense for him as well.
We then take a look at Michigan's defensive line, and how dire things look after the departures of three 2021 starters up front. We look at who's next, how badly Michigan needs to look in the transfer portal and whom the Wolverines are looking to to step up.. We then do the same at defensive back, where Michigan has lost three reserve players to the transfer portal and three 2021 starters to the NFL Draft.
We close with a look at other positions Michigan might be inclined to look for a player in the transfer portal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:03.7 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. We've got a new guest |
| 0:08.9 | host with me, Alejandro Zuniga. He's new to the site, hitting the ground running. |
| 0:14.3 | His first week on the job was covering the Michigan football team's Big Ten championship. |
| 0:20.1 | Now he's stuck with a little bit more basketball |
| 0:22.9 | dude than he probably wanted this year. But Alejandro, before we start, we have a loaded |
| 0:27.9 | episode talking about Mike Elston. We're going to talk about some of the transfer portal |
| 0:31.6 | departures, the draft declarations, kind of everything but Jim Harbaugh related to the Michigan |
| 0:37.3 | football team. |
| 0:38.5 | We'll wait until there's actually some concrete info on Jim before we have big discussions about it. |
| 0:44.8 | But first of all, thank you for stepping in. |
| 0:47.2 | And go ahead and tell the listeners a little bit about yourself, what you're about, |
| 0:50.6 | and maybe a little bit about what these first couple weeks have been like for you. |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah, Zach, it's fantastic to be here. It's fantastic to be working for the Michigan Insider |
| 1:01.4 | and with 24-7. So I'm Alejandro. I went to the University of Michigan, graduated in 2015. |
| 1:10.0 | While I was there, I worked for the Michigan Daily, |
| 1:13.2 | covered some of Brady Hoax final season at Michigan, |
| 1:16.7 | and then the beginning of the Jim Harbaugh era. |
| 1:19.4 | Post college, I dabbled in sports journalism |
| 1:22.8 | before taking kind of a different direction in Wisconsin |
| 1:26.7 | and then down in Costa Rica, actually. So I'm |
| 1:29.7 | just back in the States for the first time in four years and seemed to have come back right at |
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