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. Steve Lorenz,

is on the phone lines with me. You can read all of our stuff.

We are far more than podcasters.

We write several times a week, and you can check it out at the Michiganinsider.com, 24-7 sports.com slash Michigan.

And we've written plenty about this, but 10 minutes after, and I'm not kidding, 10 minutes after we, we recorded last week's podcast, Michigan announced

the hiring of Josh Gaddis as its offensive coordinator. Obviously, would have loved to have

maybe seen that maybe an hour sooner last week, but we'll talk plenty about Gaddis.

We'll talk about the two other assistant coaches that they've hired.

We'll talk a little bit about recruiting.

It is kind of a weird time to talk about recruiting.

So as far as specific updates, might be, might be a little low on those.

And then we'll close with some basketball.

We took some reader questions, or I guess I should say, listener questions this week on Twitter.

But first, you know, we'll add some of these questions in

because a lot of them were about Gattis.

Josh Gattis hire, you know, our site, we were very much, you know, you could kind of see the patterns emerging for who they were looking at their other two assistant coaching opportunities to replace Al Washington and Greg Madison.

Steve, I don't know about you.

I was not aware that they were pursuing Gattis as an offensive coordinator until it was announced.

Do you have any intel for how this came about?

I know he took the job as the O.C. at Maryland to follow Mike Loxley.

But was this something that maybe had been in the works for a while,

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