Podcast 12-11-18 (Basketball success, Harbaugh staying, Daxton Hill)
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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Summary
The podcast begins with recruiting, including discussion surrounding the Michigan football team’s loss of five-star safety commitment Daxton Hill to Alabama. We break down how it happened, what Michigan’s reaction was, and where the Wolverines go with Hill and others from here. During the talk, we also take a look at Michigan’s 2019 recruiting class just over a week before the December signing period. Following the recruiting discussion, we dissect Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s decision to take a hard stance against NFL head-coaching rumors tied to him, and what ind of impact that has for recruits and the team. We also take a moment to look at the impact of Urban Meyer’s retirement. Then, we turn our attention to the No. 5 Michigan basketball team, who is off to the fourth 10-0 start in school history and is seen by some metrics as the top team in the country. We break down Ignas Brazdeikis’ star power, Jon Teske and Isaiah Livers’ growth, the Wolverines’ team defense and more, while also looking at a few areas where Michigan can improve in order to sustain its success. We briefly break down our early thoughts of the Big Ten as well.
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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. |
| 0:16.5 | We're going to have a little bit of all three today. It should be a fun show. Perhaps more of basketball. |
| 0:23.7 | Obviously, there's some football and recruiting news that we have to discuss, but basketball has earned its seat at the table, so we'll talk plenty about that. |
| 0:33.5 | And, of course, for those that are new listeners, I'm Zach Shaw. I write for 24-7 sports. |
| 0:43.0 | Steve Lorenz is on the phone lines with me. He also works for 24-7 sports. Technically my boss, |
| 0:51.8 | great recruiting, insight. And Steve, let's jump right into the recruiting, which you can read the full updates at the Michiganinsider.com, |
| 0:54.4 | Michigan.24-7sports.com. Some great VIP intel on there. |
| 0:57.1 | But with the big news, five-star safety, Daxton Hill, who we have praised as one of the, |
| 1:04.5 | one of the, you know, better athletes to come through in a long, I mean, 40, 43-inch |
| 1:10.5 | vertical leap, 4.3 flat, 40-yard dash time, computer-timed, |
| 1:15.0 | not just, you know, a high school coach, an ambitious coach with a stopwatch, but, you know, |
| 1:19.5 | real-time. Elite, elite player has flipped from Michigan. He was committed for about a month |
| 1:25.7 | and a half, two months to to Alabama who many thought might be |
| 1:29.7 | the leader initially but as you said in your post Steve uh this was not a oh Alabama's probably |
| 1:39.6 | going to flip Daxton Hill situation this was a Michigan thought they were solid. |
| 1:51.1 | And so kind of a rim rattler, so to speak, of a flip compared to a typical flip. |
| 1:59.7 | Yeah, I mean, it wasn't so like Alabama flipped, Echior last year, offensive line commitment from Michigan. |
| 2:02.9 | And that was kind of one of those deals where it was expected. |
| 2:10.8 | Yeah, I mean, the thing was, like I said, Michigan found out the same way all of us did when he tweeted that he was flipping his commitment. |
| 2:14.7 | So I know they were completely blindsided by this. |
| 2:20.0 | You know, it's like I posted on the board, and I don't usually say this because I don't, I mean, granted, the fans are what make our sight go and everything like that, but I usually don't care about the feelings of the fans that much because they're usually very overreactive to a lot of this stuff. |
| 2:32.9 | But this one, I think, kind of a punch to the gut. |
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