Hello, everyone. Happy Monday, December 9th, 2024 to you. A lot to talk about today. Anthony

Broom here with Chris Bales and Clayton Safie for another edition of the Wolverine Live

and the offseason is underway. Transfer Portal is open. Michigan has an offensive coordinator

opening. So, you know, the bowl game.

You have basketball is rolling right now.

We're going to get to all of it.

Fellas, welcome back.

It's, things are kind of starting to move fast here, waiting on an offensive

coordinator for Michigan, but this is where the build begins.

This is where team 146, as they'll coin it, will be forged in the fires of

this offseason. And so far, a lot of momentum, but got to keep it going. Yeah, got to find an

OC now that the portal's open. They've got to figure out who it's going to be. And Jason Candle,

we've been hearing his name a lot from the beginning as we posted on our first hotboard about a week ago, I guess it was, that Kirk Campbell was let go. So I like the name. He's not the only name. There are some others they're looking at. So we'll see where it goes. But they've got to get somebody in here pretty quickly because guys are going to want to know from the transfer portal who their offensive coordinator is going to be.

So other than that, Alabama in the ReliaQuest Bowl, you start the year with Alabama,

you end the year with Alabama, and frankly, whatever happens on December 31st happens,

I don't really care. Obviously, you want to win, but if you're going to give me the choice between one or the other, January 1st will never be duplicated or replicated. So we'll see who plays in that game. I'm guessing there will be a lot of opt-outs. In fact, I'm not guessing on a few. There are going to be some guys who absolutely do sit out. But it'll be fun to be down there with you guys. We'll have a good time. It's an interesting time of year because you're building and attacking at the same time with a sword in one hand and a shovel in the other as you're building towards the future. But you still want to win this football game. And it's kind of an exciting matchup. Like you said, I mean, the rematch of the Rose Bowl, way less luster than the Rose Bowl, of course.

But a little more excitement than maybe playing like a South Carolina is pretty good, but, you know, maybe an old miss.

Just the fact that it is Alabama, you know, I think makes it a little bit more exciting.

And it's historic anytime these two teams go at it.

Only six times in history.

They're three and three overall.

Michigan 9 and 9 against SEC teams in bowl games.

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