Taking football questions, Sims transfer and recruiting talk
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
After breaking down Spring Game takeaways in the previous episode, Lorenz and Shaw field football-related questions from listeners. The discuss what Ben VanSumeren's redshirt freshman season could look like at running back and H-back, how Michigan has seemingly gotten over its decade-long depth problem, what to make of Michigan's 9.5 over-under win total projection and the Wolverines' schedule, how position roles might change under Josh Gattis and more.
Then, they break down the breaking news of cornerback Myles Sims' decision to enter his name into the transfer portal, and what that says about the Wolverines' cornerback position right now and moving forward.
Finally, Shaw and Lorenz look at the latest in recruiting, discussing a recent 2020 decommitment, how and why Michigan is getting a lot of players to visit this spring, the state of the Wolverines' 2020 recruiting class and more.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things |
| 0:14.0 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz is on the |
| 0:18.6 | phone lines with me, as we've mentioned before, twice a week now, we switched our format from once a week to twice a |
| 0:25.8 | week. |
| 0:26.2 | Hopefully for more shorter focused podcast, if you missed our spring game reactions, we're published |
| 0:32.7 | Sunday night, Monday morning. |
| 0:34.5 | I've gotten a lot of good feedback on that so far, but feel free to check that out. |
| 0:38.7 | I talked about the basketball decisions last week where I think things stand and what I think |
| 0:43.5 | of what, where things stand. Feel free to rate and subscribe. We actually have a podcast page on our |
| 0:49.7 | website now, and you can read all of our stories because we write plenty more than we podcast |
| 0:53.9 | at the Michiganinsider.com and Michigan.247sports.com. now. And you can read all of our stories because we write plenty more than we podcast at |
| 0:54.3 | the Michiganinsider.com and Michigan.247sports.com, however you choose to get there. |
| 0:59.9 | But this podcast, we're going to answer a few lightning round questions about Michigan football. |
| 1:05.1 | And then we're going to actually go to recruiting. We haven't done recruiting due to March |
| 1:09.6 | Madness and spring football. We haven't done recruiting due to March Madness and spring football. |
| 1:12.0 | We haven't really gotten to give recruiting its full due that will come plenty this summer, |
| 1:16.9 | especially two podcasts a week. I would imagine one out of every two or three podcasts are going |
| 1:23.1 | to be mostly recruiting. So Steve, one of the primary sources on Michigan recruiting, if not the primary source, |
| 1:31.7 | if I say so myself. |
| 1:32.8 | But it's, you know, we'll get lots of recruiting intel for those who like that. |
| 1:37.1 | But first, some football questions. |
| 1:39.2 | Andy Schiltz asked, you know, he was mentioning Ben Van Zumeren. |
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