Worthy, Dudek, Michigan's spring secrecy and a fan mailbag
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In a loaded football episode, we break down two breaking news developments, offer our thoughts on Michigan’s secret scrimmage, offer some quick spring takeaways and answer a host of Michigan football questions.
We begin by taking a look at the developing story that Xavier Worthy asked out of his national letter of intent. We discuss Worthy’s recruiting saga, argue that there was pretty strong tampering involved in his decision and discuss what his loss means for Michigan. We next look at recruiting director Matty Dudek’s departure from the Wolverines. We discuss the impact he had on Michigan, why he never seemed to get fair treatment from fans and how the recruiting department might change under new leadership.
Then, we take a look back on Michigan’s conclusion of spring practices. We discuss why we think the Wolverines’ commitment to secrecy and keeping fans at arm’s length is a disservice to fans and players alike, along with what it says about the state of Michigan football. We then discuss Michigan’s best position group after spring ball, the spring riser we believe in the most and the position group with the biggest question mark surrounding it.
We close by answering a host of listener questions about, well, seemingly everything.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:03.9 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. |
| 0:08.1 | Got a loaded show, as promised the other day, football only. We had a little spring review |
| 0:16.1 | episode lined up, but there is a couple breaking news points. |
| 0:21.2 | We'll talk about that. |
| 0:21.9 | So the rough agenda, we'll talk about Xavier Worthy asking out of his letter of intent. |
| 0:27.1 | We'll discuss Matt Maddie Dudec going to Mississippi State. |
| 0:30.7 | We'll talk about that a little bit more succinctly, just because I, you know, |
| 0:34.7 | the recruiting pod the other day talked um, talked about Courtney Morgan and, |
| 0:38.0 | and kind of the, what he would bring. Um, and then we'll talk about the spring game and |
| 0:44.3 | whether Michigan missed the mark on making that thing as private and closed as possible. And we'll, |
| 0:50.7 | we'll discuss why we both think it did miss the mark a little spoiler there for you |
| 0:54.9 | and then i went and fielded a bunch of questions and we also have a couple quick lightning round |
| 1:00.2 | things so going to try to get through it all as as um not as quickly as possible but but got a lot to |
| 1:06.7 | hit on so we'll get right into it Xavier worthy Worthy, top 100 signee for Michigan, so not just a |
| 1:13.1 | recruit, tweeted about an hour before we hit record that he had asked to leave his national |
| 1:22.2 | letter of intent with Michigan and will reopen his recruitment. Pretty strong, you know, I guess we don't need to |
| 1:29.6 | speak for him, but pretty strong vibes that Texas is, is where he, he will be heading next. |
| 1:38.2 | Don't see this too much, Steve, where a guy who is signed before he even arrives to campus asks out of their national |
| 1:47.0 | letter of intent. If you do see it, it's often due to coaching changes. So this is a little bit |
| 1:53.0 | different. Now, he did cite due to circumstances beyond my control. I don't know if that's |
| 1:57.8 | him saying that or if that's the truth. It doesn't really matter. |
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