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And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

What's up, everybody?

Welcome to Move the Sticks.

DJ Bucky, joined by our good friend, Joel Klatt, the voice of college football,

the voice of Fox, as he has a rather big game this week, Joel, Ohio State, Michigan. I'm good, man. I picked a great week to come on the show. But I will say, I do these teams so often. It's like the only two teams that I could roll out of bed and just do, you know, someone in the middle of June, like, hey, you got to call Michigan, Ohio State. I'm like, okay, I'm good. Fine. Yeah. By the way,

I'm curious about that, you know, because I do with the Charger games, I see the same team. Bucky does the Jags and sees the same team. So you're just preparing for that opponent every week. How do you approach it when you, you know, from a broadcasting standpoint, when you've

had these teams so many times? What do you look like, what are you looking to get out of

your meetings with coaches

in a week like this one? I mean, honestly, this week I'll just be like, how are you guys doing? What's up? Yeah. Yeah. That's it. And it's literally five minutes of a player availability. Okay. Yeah. You know, it's just like, how are they doing health-wise?

Where are you guys at?

And then I'll ask a couple of schematic, specific questions. ability. Okay. Yeah. You know, it's just like, how are they doing health-wise? Where are you guys at?

And then I'll ask a couple of schematic, specific questions just about how they want to attack or do anything like that. But no, there's none of the, you know, generally speaking, if you're doing a team for the first time, you're going to have 20, 25 minutes of like, all right, run, you know, take me through, like, who are the alphas on your team? And, you know, what are they like in the locker room? And you try to get a feel for whatever's behind the scenes, but certainly don't have to do that with these teams because I've been around them so often. Yeah. And speaking about this, because this is a huge rivalry game. I love hearing you guys call about this. What is the thing that you look forward to the most when you call Michigan, Ohio State? The utter vitriol that I receive

online from both fan bases. No, I'm good because you're a home for each team. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you know,

I love Michigan. I love Ohio State for each family.

So, no, but honestly, it is understanding that these games are where legacies are made,

and we will always remember each of these games. And you can go back, you know, years, 06 and, and Woodson in the late 90s.

And you think of the iconic moments really in our sports history. And they, they originate

from games like this. And in a lot of cases, this game specifically, the 21 game and the snow

with Hutchinson and a jobbo getting after the quarterback. Like these are these are incredible games.

And then to understand the enormity of what this rivalry means to each place,

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