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The Valenti Show

Should Michigan Hire Someone Who Will Fix The Program?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico debate which type of coach Michigan should go after.

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0:00.0

Five o'clock, been an incredibly busy day.

0:02.9

We'll get right back to the phones in a second.

0:05.0

Just want to welcome our audience in.

0:07.3

We've tried to cover the Sharon thing for what it is,

0:09.9

not just sidestep it and talk about who the next coach is.

0:13.5

We've done three hours of basically the media's role in empowering this crap

0:18.8

and how it can get here when people, their lone job is covering Michigan, you're not covering all sports.

0:26.2

You're not an entertainer.

0:27.7

You're a reporter.

0:29.1

I don't want to hear about you coming out today and telling me you known for months.

0:33.5

I mean, when you really look at it, it's something where even if you can't break the story,

0:38.6

go to your editor and go, look, I need some help on this. I think we're sitting on a big story.

0:51.1

That is, of course, if you still want to be a journalist and not a propagandist. Then the other note is, well, what about you? And it's like, yeah, dude, I'm an entertainer. I don't make any bones about it.

0:54.0

I didn't get a journalism degree because I wanted to be a journalist.

0:57.3

I got a journalism degree because I didn't have anybody in my family who'd ever gone to school,. I didn't get a journalism degree because I wanted to be a journalist.

0:57.3

I got a journalism degree because I didn't have anybody in my family who'd ever gone to school,

1:01.1

and I didn't have a guidance counselor, and I thought it's what you needed so I could do ready.

1:01.9

Okay.

1:05.5

Look, I don't purport to be that.

1:07.2

I've never been interested in breaking news.

1:12.8

The whole point in this is this is how college football programs, not just Michigan, end up in this place because instead of hiring journalists, we hire overenthusiastic

1:20.3

fanboys and fan girls. And they're vested in clicks, likes, hearts, and emojis.

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