Michigan's South Africa trip and recruiting updates
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 4 May 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We open the show discussing Michigan's annual offseason foreign trip, which is heading to South Africa this year after trips to Italy and France. We break down why South Africa made it on the list, how David Turnley gives the Wolverines a unique look at the country and more benefits to the trip.
We also look the trip from the fans' perspective, addressing the vocal minority against the trip, why the trip is a good idea and the impact that the trip has on recruits, players, parents and others.
Then, we turn to some 2020 recruiting updates, looking at how and why Michigan could be turning up the heat on the class after it's trip and some prospects to keep an eye on for visits.
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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. |
| 0:18.1 | Steve Lorenzo on the phone lines with me. This week's show, or this show is going to be South Africa and recruiting. |
| 0:25.3 | Obviously, if you want to read all of our stories on football, basketball, recruiting, everything in between, check out the Michiganinsider.com. |
| 0:31.8 | Michigan.247 Sports.com. |
| 0:35.0 | But Steve, yeah, yesterday, today, today is Friday. |
| 0:37.9 | On Thursday, they left for South Africa, the third annual trip. |
| 0:41.3 | They've also been to Rome and France, Paris, and Normandy, the whole deal. |
| 0:48.0 | I don't know about you. |
| 0:49.2 | I feel like there's a lot less people who are against this trip than maybe the first |
| 0:53.4 | couple years. |
| 0:54.6 | And I think Michigan's made it a little bit lower profile. |
| 0:58.1 | Like they're not like trying to, you know, they're not, they don't have, it's not national news that they're going on these trips now. |
| 1:04.7 | It's just kind of their routine thing. |
| 1:06.5 | So that might be part of it, but still a vocal minority. |
| 1:12.6 | Obviously, I think there always is going to be, |
| 1:17.0 | but it seems like people have accepted this is, this is not a time of year, they're not allowed to practice, you know, yes, they're allowed to work out and things, but a two-week trip, |
| 1:23.0 | not even a two-week trip, a one-week trip to another country, you know, to get to learn some |
| 1:29.3 | things, cultural things. We'll talk about that in a moment, but just the fan reaction, I don't know, |
| 1:34.8 | feels like people have kind of caught on that this is, this is a, there's really no downside to this |
| 1:39.9 | trip. Right. So just for fun yesterday, I did a poll on our Facebook page. |
| 1:47.1 | I think Facebook page has about, I don't know, at this point, half a million. |
| 1:51.9 | Yeah, a little bit more than that. |
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