Blue By Ninety - Michigan Rises in Rankings After Back-to-Back Top-10 Wins

Episode Date: February 5, 2026

Justin and Tanner talk about Michigan's big wins over Nebraska and MSU.

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It warms you up. You know, in the winter when it's been like, I mean, it warmed up to about 30 today, which was a heat wave. But when it's, you know, zero and negative degrees, we actually went skiing last weekend. And I was drinking Woods and Whiskey starting at like 9 a.m. I'm just, you had to in order to go out on the mouth. Man, I'll tell you what, I've been on a bit of a health kick this year.

I'm down about 15 pounds. Wow. Just getting after it. Yep. Yep. And so then I went on a work trip to Orange County. And, you know, look, the drinks, I don't think the drinks or the calories from the drink or food there, you know, should count personally.

I agree. Hospitality sweets till midnight, you know, whatever food. I mean, they had a whole just buffet most nights. It's so hard with the work trips, you know, if you're somebody out there who does that on a regular basis, I think it's like nearly impossible because you can, I mean, you can say you're going to get up in the morning workout, but you got like the 8 a.m. meeting or whatever. Right. You've got to pack your gym clothes, your shoes on the on the check bag.

You always have good intentions going into it. like, yep, I'm going to get up early, you know, and then, like you said, that hospitality sweet goes till midnight. Like, you're going to be there until 1145. Yeah, 100%. You might shut it down. You might. You might try to leave at 1030.

And then you might say goodbye to the same people five more times. And then one of the guys, dude, I love you, but get the heck out of here, man. What are you doing? I was like, I said goodbye an hour and a half ago. He was like, that Midwestern goodbye, you guys all do. Or there's like, there are always that one, you know, that one group or that one person, And sometimes it's me, to be honest, that's like, hey, let's go to the bar, you know, the hotel lobby bar for one more, right? Like, just one more.

Somebody orders a whole bottle of wine. Right. You're like, all right, I'll put my, we'll split it on the corporate cards. Yeah. You know, how much of a tip can I leave? Like, all. Yeah. Everyone's been there.

So, yeah, no, no, uh, otherwise no drinks for me. Um, but it has been cold. Um, I have another trip to Omaha, though, in about a week. And the day I land is going to be 57 degrees. tropical paradise, Omaha, Nebraska in February. There you go. So I'll definitely be making sure that remind those folks who won the basketball game against Nebraska about a week ago. All right, let's get into it.

I mean, it's been a while since we've done a pod here. And Michigan basketball has had a lot going on. Let's start with the beginning of the week this past week. So big week, obviously, we knew that. Nebraska came in. Let's start with they have never won a tournament game, an NCAA tournament game. That's not very nice. Well, I mean, it just sets the stage for that they seem to not know how to handle this.

That's also true. That actually is fair. I've seen a lot of it. So, you know, back and forth game in Chrysler, it was. It was, I didn't think Michigan played particularly well at the beginning. Nebraska, I got to give it to them when they were, I mean, they shot the lights out to start the game. They're unbelievable. Like, they're a very, very good basketball team, right? They are like super meticulous, methodical.

Everything is run very, very well. Hoyberg's got them like a well-oiled machine and you have to give that to them. ultimately down the stretch, they, you know, they didn't end the game. Michigan's defense stepped up. They hit, you know, I think it was like, I don't think they hit maybe one three for the last like 11 minutes or something like that was all it was. And, you know, Michigan just kind of like muscled up at the end of that game and was like, all right, we're not going to, you know, let them do this.

And then they, and also we got to the follow line. And, you know, there's a disparity in the free throws. understand it that, you know, there are bad calls on both ends. If you've ever watched a Big Ten basketball game in your life, which I've watched a lot of them. I've watched way too many Big Ten basketball games with a terrible officiating. It happens every single time. If you're going to blame it on the officiating, I mean, I don't know what you want to do.

You kept seeing this tweet, you cannot get a hook and hold when you're the ball handler. It's not how it works, man. It's not a hook and hold. I saw Ant was on Twitter. I mean, just kept saying the same thing, but he got his hand caught in the cookie jar. Yeah. He's going for a steal.

Will Cheddar is within his right to rip the ball, to protect the ball. Like, that's just not a hook and hold. Because I saw a lot of Nebraska fans would show up on my timeline. Oh, no, they're called the hook and hold. I don't think they've watched enough basketball to understand what a hook and hold is

and when it's applicable. Correct. But, you know, that all, I mean, that stuff like that happens in football too with with michigan nebraska like they were mad because the play clock was at zero for a split second and i like people were trying to dunk on me and the nebraska fans were like yeah i'm gonna like this and ratio this guy but they were wrong just like they're wrong here like it's just they don't understand the rules and and you know they're not used to this level of success like hey you were in you were in a game where you scored 50 in the

first half on michigan you were up i think 11 at one point in the first half yeah up like eight points with eight minutes left. Like, first of all, I don't know how Michigan won that game, to be honest. Like, just from a vibes perspective with, like, eight to go. Oh, we had. I was like there's no way this is going to happen. We, it felt like Wisconsin all over again where for some reason on our home court against a top five team, you just have like no juice at all.

I didn't, you know, that's something that I don't know the answer, but we got to figure that out about Chrysler. Like, come on, man. I mean, this is, you know, we'll talk about MSU and second, but like the one thing I got to give it to the Spartes is the Brezlin is rocking no matter what. And especially in that scenario, even if it's a Tuesday night, it doesn't have to be Friday night at 8 o'clock. So we do got to figure that out. But to your point, you know, it just felt like it was like, all right, this is just not going to be our night. Yeah. And so, you know, from the Nebraska

perspective, you should be extremely proud of the, you know, even with the two losses this week, like they went to Ann Arbor, they went to Champaign and they battled. Or I'm sorry, they were in in Lincoln and they battled. Like those are, you know, Michigan is one of the best teams in the country. Illinois's, you know, top 10 team, right? And so aside from all that stuff, I mean, Michigan gave up 22 points in the second half. I mean, that did, there was bad defense in the first half, very bad moments. They didn't communicate well.

Nebraska also was hitting some junk. Like there was that fadeaway three in the corner with a house. Yeah, I was like, and is this constant all over again? And Sanford is just like, I mean, you just got to, he, he, he, how does he release it so fast it's unbelievable yeah man i mean it it's uh those guys move the ball they can shoot um they're they're smart they're poised um you know and they made that a really good game without two of their best players so that's going to be a team that in you know a month and a half um or whatever the big 10 tournament is that like could be you know a semi-final or a championship game type of matchup with

michigan nebraska so but you know it was ugly the turnovers were horrible um and they found a way to win man And, like, ultimately, yes, very frustrating. You know, you know this. I'm an emotional watcher, but then after the fact, I'm, like, able to look back and say, okay, like, it's not as bad as I thought in the moment. There were definitely a lot of, you know, dumb turnovers, some bad defense. But guess what? They found a way to win against a top five team, right?

Like, I don't know. I'm not going to be apologizing for that. First of all, we do not apologize for winning. We have been on the record for that. Actually, not top five wins. And then, like, I know it's not, you know, it's Nebraska who's not a perennial like, you know, Blue Blood type program or even top of the Big Ten program, but you're still not going to apologize for that. I mean, it's just over the course of a basketball season, it's just so much different than football

because you just play so many games. And, you know, you think about these guys now with the expanded Big Ten, they're traveling to the West Coast, back to the East Coast, back home, playing. Tuesday and then Saturday or Sunday and then Wednesday, you know, it's just, it's a rigorous schedule. And so it's just, it's just so hard. And so, yeah, if you can, ugly or not, if you can pull out that win, you, you obviously take it, especially when, you know, you have to think about how dusty is, is prepping this team when you have two top 10 games in one week. Like, you have to, you can't not, it's one of those things like, where, you, you know, you, you're, you know, some of the coach speak comes in of like, oh, we're not looking past this game.

We're going to, but you have to prep for MSU before the Nebraska game, right? Like, you're prepping for both games all at once because after Tuesday, you know, you only have Wednesday, Thursday to prep for the Friday game at the Breslin, which is, you know, somehow even more important, right? And so, yeah, huge win against Nebraska. And then, you know, you head to the Breslin. And once again, I just want to acknowledge, like, that environment was unbelievable. And that's what makes this rivalry special.

Yeah, it was, it was loud. It was raucous. I mean, the pregame stuff with Dusty. Can you imagine if that was inversed, by the way? Can you just imagine the bitching and moaning? Oh, my God. And I'll say this, thank God that we won that game because it would have been that, that would have been memed to death.

Yeah, well, you know. They won that game for a lot of reasons. But yeah, I mean, in the first half, man, I mean, they were, it felt not that they were flat, but they were maybe a little stagnant. And then, you know, Yaxil, he gets the hook and hold. He makes the two pre throws. They got a stop.

And then he gets an and one, and it's a 5-0 run from Yaxil. And then they were off to the races at the end of the first half there because they were up, what, 42, 24 before Cohen Carr got a dunk right before half. And then you come out of halftime and it's like the flip was switched. And Michigan State goes on a run. And you're just like, I mean, I don't know what it was like. Maybe you need to take us through the pretzel bell basement as to what the environment was like. But I'm sitting watching it, like holding my breath, like just waiting for the other shoe to fall.

And it's like, oh, shit. And they just, they weathered the storm, man. Elliot Cadeau played phenomenal down the stretch. I mean, he had big shots. You compare him to Jeremy Fiers in the last seven, eight minutes of the game or whatever kind of crunch time was. Kadoe is making big plays. Fears is trying to trip guys. There's just a big difference there in terms of who was actually doing something

to try to win the basketball game versus maybe, you know, do something cheap. So, yeah, Kadoe was hitting big shots, man. And he was coming up huge. Yeah, it was just an awesome, awesome game. I mean, you know, Michigan gave up an 18-point lead and then still won by, what, 11 or 12 or whatever ended up being? I mean, it's game of runs, right? Like, that's basketball.

ball. And, okay, I got a couple funny things from pretzel bell. One was we, I got there, Caleb got there. The game was at what, seven, I think. Yes, he was there at three o'clock. What's that? He was probably there at three o'clock, ready to go. He was there like 545. Yeah, yeah. I got to give him and Jordan Avery a shout out. They, you know, they got our seats, which was great. We didn't get there. This is, you know, pretty typical of myself, but didn't get there to like 6.45. But he said they got there early because he wanted to eat before the game and get that over with so he didn't have to like worry about food, you know, during the game is going on. Then he said 545 was too close to the game that his stomach was already like butterflies.

So he couldn't. So he couldn't eat. He's the real one. Like I get I get nerves before football games. mainly the big ones, but like, yeah, but the basketball games, like they don't, you know, I love basketball, but like, honestly, this team, I felt so good about it. I'm like not even that concern. So like, six, 50 rolls around, my heart starts beating a little bit, but I was able to have some dinner, thankfully.

I mean, my heart's beaten for sure. I'm like, I'm like pumped and jittery a little bit, but I'll still scarf down some food. Nothing's going to stop me from that. No, no. TV timeouts are made for. Yeah, exactly. But, and then at the second, or at the end of the first half, you know,

we're going on that run. It feels like our defense is unbelievable and we're making shots every time. And I said to Caleb, we got to stretch this lead as far as possible because you know that they're going to come out hot in the second half. That's just there's no way that they're going to lay down in this, right? And we did, you know, you stretch it to, what was it, 14 or 16, something like that? 16 and a half, but they got up 18 right before. And then Cohen Carr got a dunk right before half.

Yeah, yeah. And it was 20 or was it close to 20 or over 20? It was 18, yeah. 18, okay. And so I, that's what I said. And then, and that, you know, turned out to be so true of like, you know, obviously they come all the way back to even take the lead. And I'm thinking to myself, like, okay, if that was, if we had only, if we had like let off the gas a little bit at the end of the first half and it's only a 12 point lead or, you know, you know, a 10 point lead or something. I mean, they, they could have went on that run and taken a 10 point lead, you know. And so, so yeah, so that was unbelievable. You know, MSU goes on that run.

And I put this out in a tweet the other day, too, but you kind of alluded to it just now, like to be able, you know, that in that environment to let them come all the way back, you know that the, the Breslin's just going insane, right? And most teams in the past, whether it be a Michigan team or just any team in the that's visiting the Brezlin, they turtle in that, in that scenario, right? MSU makes their run. Usually the officiating ends up on their side, which I, you know, I'll be honest.

I felt like that was the first time and maybe ever that we got like the benefit of a whistle in the Brezlin ever. I don't remember a time where we did. And it was still pretty even, but I'm, I'm just saying, like, you know, I felt like we maybe came out on top. But anyways, the, the, the mental toughness to be able to withstand that and then, you know, have Caddo and Johnson and Yax, you know, down the stretch, make those plays, was something that I, that set me apart for like, holy shit, this team is really special.

Well, when they, so they took the lead, 57, 55. I think Fear's got a transition bucket. And then they were up 59 to 57 with six minutes, 55 seconds. Michigan won a 17 to 6 run. Yeah. So just basically, you know, there's nothing that you can really do here. And, you know, MSU got some, you know, some second. Here's a crazy stat.

I'm sure you saw this. And I'm sure it's been talked about. But Michigan State did not get any second chance points until garbage time. The first second chance points that they got were that kickout with like a minute left for, I think Fears hit a three. but it cut it to like nine points. Like they were just. And when have you ever, like the storyline of this game

and every game under Tom Izzo is always Michigan State comes away with 12 offensive boards and 20 second chance points. That's just always how this goes. Yeah. So, you know, the fact that again, Michigan was able to really weather the storm, deal with some of the non-basketball plays being made on the court. and keep their composure. I think just bodes well for this team.

I mean, it's a very mature basketball team. They got a lot of dudes that are, you know, 21, 22, 23 years old. And, you know, they've got a lot of contributors that have been in these types of situations. Now, granted, maybe in, you know, different conferences or against different, you know, different levels of intensity that maybe don't compare to this.

But it prepped them, you know, Kado played in Duke UNC, right? I mean, that's one of the best rivalries in the sport. But, you know, for like a guy like Yaxil, like, I don't know who UAB is. got on the schedule that's like that, you know, intense. But, I mean, he had 26 and 13 and played his ass off. So it was just great to see those guys really step up and not fall into the nonsense that sometimes happens in this game. Yeah, 100%. I think there were a couple instances of that.

One, A, it was just good to see Yax, like, have that take over a game because I think we've been looking for that for the past probably month, like the whole month of January. you were looking for that and it just didn't come. You know, he had the injured calf. Even when he came back from that, it just didn't feel like he had it or had the explosiveness. So this was a game where he was like, okay, you know, fuck it. I'm taken over and he did.

One instance of that, though early on was the flagrant, you know, karate chop hammer from fears on the X. He gets taken to the ground. They call a flagrant immediately. He gets, I don't know if you remember seeing it. he yaks gets up puts his hands up and just walks away right and just like that alone i'm just like i'm sure dusty just talked about it you know all week right to be like hey don't succumb to what they're going to try to do to you it's only going to backfire but still in the moment when you

get hammered that hard like your first instinct is get up and fight right and so for him to to have that is i just really really good composure um and then And one other thing I wanted to touch on there, too, before. We'll talk about fears in a second. I mean, that's a whole other topic. But, you know, Carson Cooper, right? Like, he is a senior guy that is, you know, has just been a go-to for Michigan State this year, even last year. You know, for him to have six points, two rebounds.

Like, I mean, that is just, I know we're big. I know it's, you know, I'm sure it's hard to get. rebounds when Mara and Johnson and Yaks are in. But they're just that there are not many teams that have ever done that to an is out team. So it was it was pretty unbelievable to see that. I mean, you know, Kohler only had five boards. You know, Cam Ward was their highest rebounder.

I'm sorry, Carr was their highest rebounder with seven, you know, as a guard. And I know you can jump out of the gym, obviously. but um so i you know at the end of the day msu had chances down the stretch to you know tie to bring it back i just you know i'm not going to discount them they're you know most of time msu teams go through a little bit of a lull in january and then they you know by the you know by march their full seam ahead that's you know been the typical but like i just outside of fears i don't know who like the go-to score is. You know, I, you know, I think it's, I think it's tough when, you know, like,

Carr's your guy, he's an unbelievable dunker, unbelievable playmaker, but we were literally able to not guard him on the three-point line, and there's really nothing he can do, you know. Yeah, he tried the one, he, like, lined it up and he bricked it. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think they really have that guy. And Kohler's been like, okay, it's been nice, but like even Fears is one for five from three point. You know, he's not a three point shooter.

He's get to the line. And so when you don't have that outside shooting, which it sounds like they're going to try to start Jordan Scott, you know, moving forward or something's going to happen. Yeah. But, you know, I don't know. I just, I don't know. We'll see. but I you know to the michigan side of things it's just like man what a complete team just what a like every single guy did their part you know down to the will cheddar who gets who gets significant

minutes trey mckenny significant minutes you know i i'm very curious as to what's going to happen in namari burnett going forward you know tray keeps getting more minutes i don't know what's going to happen to lj um namari didn't play like the last bit of the msue game, didn't play the last bit of Nebraska. I love Namari. Great kid. Really, you know, he's our best three-point shooter, I still think to this day. You think so? I mean, McKinney's on fire right now, obviously, but like, and Kadeau is obviously shooting the shit out of the ball, but it's just like a spot-up shooter, you know what I mean? Yeah, but I think it's tough because I think teams have found a way to take that away. Like, when you watch Amari, like, he's not getting a lot

of open looks. I mean, some of the shots that Tray McKinney, man, I don't know how much time we're going to get with Tray McKinney. Like, I don't know if it's going to be this year, but if he has a great run over the next month and a half, like, I don't know. But if he comes back to college next year, look out because the shots he's making, the plays he's making, you know, against Nebraska, he has a tough pull up that he rattles home.

He did that against Michigan State once or twice. He hit some big three-pointers. The kids got it, man. like I don't know who to compare him to in terms of recent Michigan players. But like I wouldn't be surprised of his trajectory as that of Nick Stouskis. And I'm not saying that the same basketball player, but I'm just saying in terms of, you know, freshman year, make some shots, make some plays on a really good team, sophomore year, you know,

in contention for player of the year type conversation. Because he is that good and he's only going to continue to get better. 100%. That kid has like I love Namari. Unfortunately, from that perspective, you've got to play McKinney 20 to 25 minutes. And that's what happened on Friday night. He just gives you a different dynamic. Same thing with LJ.

Like, I think LJ is a good, you know, good basketball player. He just doesn't do all the things that Trey can do, right? It's like, Trey can handle the ball. He can shoot. He can go off the dribble. He can get to the rack. He's really that like five tool type guy. And yeah, to your point, I think, you know,

pre-NIL, I think there's a chance that McKinney is like goes the Iggy Brosdakis route and is a one and done. Now, thank God for NIL, I think he can stay, still make a ton of money and but develop in college and then be the primary ball handler and be that like, you know, player of the year type guy and as a sophomore. and then you go become a lottery pick, right? And I think his size is really impressive. He is 6 foot 4, you know, in 225 or something like that. So, you know, to be able to be as quick as he is, but still he can body anybody down low and he has height, right? So, yeah, when he's able to work on getting to the rim,

you know, that's where I think that development. into top 10 lottery pick comes from is just adding to his game maturing his game but very excited about his you know development over the next you know a couple months and then hopefully next year you know so over the summer and into the 2026 season but man this team i mean we're not you know we got we got a couple months here to enjoy this team i i will be i will be enjoying them a lot um yeah so And I'm going to cross my fingers. I'm going to hold, you know, trying to hold back a little bit before I'm like, you know, saying final four or something like that because anything could happen.

Yeah, it's a final four team. I mean, it's talented enough to get to a final. It's talented enough to win a national championship. It's just March is different, you know, one and done, right? But also survive in advance. So like, even if this team doesn't get to a final four, I think this is the best Michigan basketball team since 2012, 2013. I agree.

And even though there's been multiple. multiple, you know, elite A, there's been a final four team to a national championship in there. Like, it's just, it's a better team. It is a, it's, it's so deep. I mean, I just, you know, nine guys deep is like, you know, any of those guys could start on most big 10 teams, right? So, yeah, I mean, shout out Dusty. He is, he's pretty incredible to do this in year two. And, you know, the portal helps, NIO helps, but obviously, but he's got, he's got this thing rolling.

He's riling some people up, man. You get some people pissed off. Get some people pissed off. Well, it started with fears. So I just, okay, I want to address this a little bit, talk through it. I want to start by saying, nobody is saying that Jeremy Fears is a bad basketball player. No, I think he's a really good basketball player and this stuff pisses me off because he doesn't need to do this stuff. That's exactly my point.

That is exactly what I was going to say. like if you do all this, you can be a gamesman and, you know, try to get to the rack by going to the rim and drawing fouls. You don't need to stop in front of Aday Mara to do that, right? You don't need to trip. Yeah, the tripping is the bigger issue for me. Yeah. Running in front of it, Mara, like, I think that's a weak call. Like, I don't know what a seven-footer is supposed to do, but I guess that's how they're going to call the basketball game. But like the tripping, If he was any stronger or if Yaxel was any smaller, like Yaxel might have gone into the first row.

That was a really dangerous play. It's just not needed, man. It's just not. And, you know, this will turn into, you know, I don't think many of Michigan State fans watch our podcast, but, you know, this will turn into this entire conversation. Like, they'll victimize themselves somehow, just like how they're doing. Like, we're watching the same game, man.

And they'll be like, oh, but you guys tamper. okay dude like are we talk what are we talking about in the year rebuttal is that oh dusty may tamper is just like every other basketball coach in the country sorry you guys can get transfers go do it you got no money though there are a couple things um that i want to say there uh you know one yeah i i i'm totally in on you know fears i think you just like okay the one where um he jumps up and then tries to like jump into LJ and falls to the ground. I saw someone like, why is this not a foul? I'm like, because nobody touched him.

He tried to kick him. You know, LJ literally was like this. Yeah. And I'm like, those are the things I think are like unnecessary, right? Because like that's not a basketball play to me, right? Like I, you know, if you want to, if you, the one where he like stops on one foot right under the basket and just like hangs there until Roddy jumps on top of at least you're like trying to get to the rim somehow that's a basketball play right and so

I'm fine with that you caught somebody off you know off balance and you made him go into whatever but the other things like I just you know to your point I'm I'm I'm hoping that is well like those are the things that he's addressing or the tripping you know that's just bullshit but um so the tampering thing is like dude if you're complaining about tampering in the year 2006 after NIL in the portal has been to Wild West for the past five years, like, come on, man.

Like, find me anybody who is not quote unquote tampering, which means they're reaching out to people to try to feel the roster. Like, there isn't a program in the country that isn't doing that type of shit. And so, I mean,

how do you think that Fernando Mendoza's brother entered the transfer portal and then announced where he was going literally the next day, right? Like, he didn't go on five visits in 24 hours and do that, right? Like, this is how this all, you know, is working right now. You know, you can hate it. You can do that. But to play the like, woe is me and to also think that your program isn't doing the same thing, right is just crazy to me so that's you know these are all things that it's just like you know there are things if you won the game you wouldn't say right and so then you lost the game you can't believe you lost it so then you you try to find any other reason that it can't possibly be that

michigan's the better team it can't that's not an option no i mean dude it's like i i have actively tried to avoid Twitter lately just because it's an absolute cesspool. Yes. But yeah, it's one of those things that you just, it's the same story every single time. Like they, like somebody does something from Michigan State that is like, hey, probably shouldn't do that. Probably shouldn't swing a helmet at a guy. Probably shouldn't jump him eight on one.

And then somehow it's Michigan's fault. And it's just, dude, I'm so, like, it comes from the top down. Izzo's doing it. Dantoni used to do it. Like, I'm just so, I'm so sick of it, man. Like, I just like, are we living in the same reality here? And also, like, this is where it's funny to me. You know, they made, they made Dusty out to be this, like, terrible person after last year with the logo thing, right?

And now, now this stuff where he, you know, they're, they're like villainizing him for calling things out that need to be called out. But it makes me laugh because, like, out of all, Dusty is a great. human being. He is a very, very nice guy and like super calm and like not this like snakey. He's not like John Calapari or some shit like that, right? So it's like, you know, I don't know. It just feels so funny to me. But you watch them, you know, you watch what Dusty said in his presser. And then Izzo jabs back in his presser. He says, call me, blah, blah, blah. I think they hate each other. I think they would hate each other. It's not like, you know, I've, felt like iso and b line like there was not like a hatred there was a very bad want to beat each

other because they were both really good but there was super respect right now I don't even know if that respect is there and I feel like they're like you know I I don't think it's like oh they you know sometimes these coaches like they you know want to beat their beat each other so badly on the court but then in the off season they're like vacationing you know in the same place or some shit like that. You know, I'm not saying that they would do that, you know, because their rival rivals, blah, blah, blah. But this feels like legitimate hatred.

Yeah, I mean, you could tell Dusty was fired up, you know, he got on Clayton's ass a little bit at the press conference. It's like a period. Clayton's like, oh, shit. Yeah, Clayton's like, I'm sorry. Okay, you don't have to apologize, man. Like, you just are, you know, asking a question. But, yeah, I mean, you can tell there's disdain, you know, some pot shots back and

fourth now. I mean, it's good for the rivalry, for sure. I mean, this rivalry is already, you know, in both sports, football and basketball, you know it is the most toxic. I would say it's probably one of the most toxic rivalries in all of sports, at least like in America. I'm sure there's some shit over in Europe with soccer where it's like crazy. But yeah, yeah, it's just, it's toxicity, man.

Even like, you know, sometimes like like, Michigan Ohio State, right? We're at the tailgate. Ohio State guys there, man. Like, yeah, we don't like each other's teams, but it's not like, that serious, you know? Like, social media is not always a representation of the real world. Unfortunately, in this rivalry, that kind of is. In person, it's the same thing, right?

Like, the Ohio State stuff, yeah, on Twitter, it's like, you know, it's pretty toxic. But in person, it's like, you know, if you get normal people, it's fine. So I think it's, you know, it's, I guess it's good for the rivalry. It's entertaining. You know, if you don't want it to be so toxic as it has been the last, you know, almost 20 years, then, you know, this is not a good. thing but um yeah i don't know man you're supposed to not like each other i'm supposed to take shots at each other you're not like trying to hurt people but yeah it there's a line right um and i'm not gonna

like sit here and you know holier than now like michigan's never done anything wrong right like obviously you know every rivalry has their own things there's always cheap shots there's always after the play shit and all that stuff both sides and so you know when iso says like i think there's things on both sides. There is 100% dude. Yeah. Always like if you don't think in the in the football game that at the bottom of the pile there isn't people punching each other in the dicks. Like that's definitely happening. That is yeah that happens. That's why every single play. Right. And like little shit. And so, um, but when your head coaches are verbally, vocally doing that, that really adds to it. So, um, it is the rest of the season is going to be very

interesting. I mean, there's a chance this plays out that MSU comes to Chrysler, and I believe March 5th or March 8th, whatever that is, and for a chance that that game is March 8th, there's a chance that that is for the Big 10 regular season championship, which according to MSU fans is the most important thing ever and the tournament means nothing. So I am, you know, I am excited at the possibility that Michigan wins. wins the regular season championship. And then do we get to say like that that means, okay, we won it all and that means everything?

Because that's all they said last year. So I don't know. You know, they really like to talk about, you know, the Big Ten championship versus the big ten tournament. They both mean a lot to, they should mean a lot. Like, you know, yeah, I mean, I do think the Big Ten, I'd rather win the Big Ten regular season championship because it's over the course of, you know, 20 games or however many games it is.

You know, the Bigton tournament's always fun, though, because that punches your ticket to the NCAA tournament, right? Like, you know, there were some times where Michigan, when they won back to back, it was like, man, they're kind of on the bubble. Yeah. So they were able to go and win that, play themselves into the NCAA tournament, get a better seed, right?

So, you know, yeah, I mean, they love it for sure, but I do think that, you know, that you could celebrate a Big Ten tournament. Like, I don't understand. I mean, it's just, just tiring, dude. It really, it really is. And it's just, it's this rivalry. And it's just like the same conversation over and over and over and over.

And I like when Michigan State fans make fun of Michigan for hanging banners for the Big Ten tournament championship. Because I don't know if they, maybe they take them down. But I know at some point, they definitely, I'm looking at it right now. They had some Big Ten tournament championship banners. Of course. So, like, it means a lot. It's important. You won a trophy.

They do a trophy ceremony. Cut down nets, dude. Like, what are we doing here? It's okay. Outside of the top four or five conferences in the country, that's the most important thing to every school in the country, to get to March, to get to the tournament.

Yeah. It's a bit different in the Big Ten in the ACC. And you can improve, like you can either improve or go down a couple spots in seating based on the Big Ten tournament, 100%. Those games mean a lot. Or if you're Michigan last year, you get screwed on your seating for some reason, even though you won the Big Ten Tour. That's true.

That is very true. But all right. Anything else on Michigan, Michigan State or Michigan. No, I really, I really hope I don't have Michigan State fans. Just don't. It is exhausting, man. It's exhausting. I told you, I turned off like my notifications other than people I follow.

Like, it's just too much. And I try to use the following tab. And then it goes before you. And then I see Twitter is just brutal these days. Twitter X, whatever. you want to call it. I mean, it used to be so awesome where you just only see the things that you follow. Check out this funny Scott Bell tweet. Now it's like I've got, you know, Sparty 4269, like all the, Michigan State. Like it just brings stuff I don't want to see your care to see. Somehow I don't

even know, but like mine is like a couple of Michigan tweets, then like 40 Epstein tweets and politics and then like boobs for some reason. I mean, I. I definitely click on it, but, you know. Who's the second? I don't know. It must be spam or something. And then it's like no three. Yeah.

It's like Pete Nicos like reporting like somebody in the portal. And it's like, dude, the semester's halfway over. How was you in the portal? And you're just like, I'm going to just turn the app off and go back to work. That's the entire experience these days for at least a sports fan, I feel like. 100%. It's tough. It's tough.

All right. So let's flip over to football. I know we're in the offseason here. but actually as of yesterday it feels like we officially have the roster that is Michigan football and so Andrew Marsh finally posted his graphic you know he finally what like I mean he's got have been working out with the team right he's been working out with the team what would he yeah so my question would be like are like the the social media and like the videographer is like making sure not to have him in there not to like like

where was you know it's like just February like you know I saw that I was like cool but like I kind forgot about portal I thought we were all good there so it's kind of funny that it took this long to get an announcement I I don't know I mean it's kids man I have no idea I'm not going to try to put my stuff I try to get more bread if I could I get it I yeah I'm not going to try to put myself in the brain of a 19 year old that's making millions of dollars like that I can't relate cannot relate but but anyways you know I think that

I don't know I think that Michigan did a an overall like what would you grade the overall you know offseason portal yeah time I give it probably an A minus teetering on an A

you know certainly some some guys that you know left Elijah Dodson is a guy that comes to mind. Okay, with the caveat of the dad's open letter that he put out, like that might say, that might explain some things. Yeah, but I mean, dude, I mean, look, they got Jordan Young back, right?

Like, that was one I thought was done. I thought he was gone, man. He's out of region. So I think they did a really good job. I mean, you got your core guys. I mean, it sucks losing Justice Haynes. I would love to see what he could have done in this offense. But I understand why it went that way.

And, you know, he's going home to Atlanta and he's going to be making great money. And he's going to go to the NFL and have hopefully a long career. And so I'm going to root for him as long as they're not, you know, the jackets aren't playing Michigan. But yeah, man, I mean, they got, I don't think maybe you could remind me because it's been so long. I don't think there's anybody at this point that is that left that I was like. I mean Sullivan probably. So, yes. Okay, sorry.

Because that was like literally two months ago almost. Literally. Like, well, not that long. but still it feels like two months ago um yeah cole solven that one that one stinks um i wish that they could have figured that one out i guess i still don't understand that necessarily he also is going to a school that's coming to ann arbor and like it's just kind of weird i totally feel like a guy that was going to leave there was guys more likely to leave than him on the team to in my opinion and i was surprised at that it felt like he had already made that decision before whittingham was hired and he didn't

even really give this staff a chance because it was pretty early in the portal But go to Oklahoma as a linebacker, it's not a bad move. I agree. I mean, Venables is a defensive guy. I'm sure he got a healthy check. You know, I think a lot of these guys that like went into the portal and came back, I've been told that like none of them wanted to leave. It was just almost like the protocol of like, all right, I got to go get my options.

And then, you know, I'll end up coming, you know, give me a little bump. and then I'll come back. And it's like that it does suck about, you know, college football right now that like guys like a Blake Frazier, like a legacy guy, probably never once wanted to leave. But his agent's telling him to blah, blah, blah. And like you got to, I don't know. That part, we got to figure it out.

But sorry, go ahead. Hayden Sanders, too. I'm looking at it. Jaden Sanders is another one that's disappointing. But yeah, man, otherwise, you know, I mean, look, I know Brandon Hillman started last year. You know, we had a conversation in the group chat about. that. I mean, there were some moments that were rough for him last year.

And who knows, maybe with a, you know, better, you know, and Lamar Morgan is a good coach, but, I mean, you look at what Witt has done in terms of, like, he's bringing in, like, three or four assistants to the assistant coach to help with position groups. Like, this is going to be a well-coached football team. Like, I'm very excited about the development to see what these guys are capable of. Here's a question. How is Peyton O'Leary? Why is he listed as being in the portal? Why was that reported?

he doesn't have any eligibility left. I don't understand. I don't know if he's trying to go, like, play lacrosse somewhere. That would make sense. You know, something like that. Or, you know, maybe he could possibly get a red shirt for one of his years. And, you know, it's just like, hey, do I throw a Hail Mary, see what happens, see if I can make 100 grand somewhere? Might as well. Yeah. It makes sense. Better than going to make like 40 grand as an entry level, like, you know, accountant or something like that. I don't know. So I don't blame many of these kids. Making $100 grand is better than, you know, 90% of us out there, right?

So, yeah, I don't blame these kids. But a lot of these things, I don't know, it's just weird. All together, though, I will say that with everything, if you take everything into consideration, the stat, you know, our head coach was in jail, you know, all these issues. You don't even hire Whittingham until Christmas, essentially. So then he's got, what, seven days before the portal, right? Like, essentially, you know, it's just there's, for them to come in, be able to, like, make an impression and build relationships with the guys,

evaluate the talent, go bring in a couple new guys, like all that. I just, I commend them because I think, I don't think people understand how, difficult that is to just like, you know, you haven't even like moved to Ann Arbor yet as a position coach and you're already, you know, call in recruits or calling guys in the portal say, hey, come to Michigan. And they're like, hey, okay, what's your recruiting pitch? I don't know. I've been in Ann Arbor for 24 hours, you know. Yeah. I mean, the guys they were able to get out of the portal. I mean, they kept the class together too, aside from Bear McCorder and the tight end, Matt Ludwig,

and maybe there was one more than I'm forgetting. But they did a great job of keeping the core intact, keeping the big, you know, I would have loved to have kept both of those guys. It was kind of surprised those were the two that first jumped into the portal. I think Marquesi and, you know, but they were able to get, you know, add some,

I mean, J.G Buchanan coming in, like a jumbo receiver, basically, Celessi Moa. I mean, dude, like, where we're at right now, and we talked about this, you know, right after the events that led to all this, like, you know, football-wise, Michigan's going to come out ahead, right? And so, you know, it's one of those things where, hey, this is, this is okay. This is going to be a really good time, I think a really fun time. It's going to be different. I don't know what it's going to look like, but I'm very excited

about the coaching staff. I'm excited to see, you know, Bryce Underwood's working with Jordan Palmer, who is, you know, infamously for Michigan fans, talking about JJ as the other guy with Kate. on that podcast a few years ago, if you remember that. But he's worked with Burrow, Lawrence, Josh Allen, like numerous, numerous big-time NFL players. The other guy? Yeah. I don't know if he's worked with JJ. No, no.

The podcast was when he kept talking about the other guy. Yeah, yeah, with Cade. But no, man, I think, you know, Bryce is, you know, I think making some decisions that I'm excited about, you know, to take that next step and work with the guy that's worked with. with Joe Fricken Burrow and Josh Allen, right? Like, that's good to see. So I'm excited about the potential of this team. They were a young team last year,

and they brought a lot of that core back, man. Like, yeah, there's a couple guys that would love to have had back. Linebacker still got to find some guys to emerge in defensive, you know, tackle. But they got a lot of talent, man. They're going to be really good. 100% agree. I also think you have to take into consideration just the guys that are coming back that we're, you know, freshman or sophomore is next, you know, next year,

they're going to just get that much better, right? You know, I have to imagine Bryce is, he's obviously the most important one that needs to make a gigantic leap, a ton of pressure on him again. There's no shine away from that. But I think there are a lot of, a lot of quarterbacks in the history of college football that that freshman and sophomore leap has taken, you know, you know, taking them to a next level. So excited about that.

You have Marsh, you know, like you said, the JJ Buchanan kid. I think Jamar Browder is going to be very good. He, like, the coaching staff really liked him last year. I don't think he was physically ready. He was still pretty skinny. So he just wasn't quite there yet. But I think just like- As a true freshman, I think is going to be really good.

Like, there's some talent, you know. Hogan Hansen's back. Yep. you know, Deacon, Marshall. Like, there's a lot of talent that's back, and I'm very excited. I do wish one guy that not necessarily in terms of, like, actual production, you know, at Michigan, but Brady Prescorn, man, I was so excited about him.

I would have loved you've seen him. But he was going to Ole Miss where his brother was at. So, you know, there's some guys that you look at, like, you're like, you know, just off the potential of them. But, yeah. Yeah, otherwise, man, you know, they got a lot of young talent, and they're going to develop them. And they've worked, I mean, the, the CV,

of these coaches is like night and day, man. I mean, no disrespect, but man, it is completely different. And it feels like down to the positional level, right? Like that's kind of what I'm looking at. There's not one guy in the second or you have four. Right. That's what I'm saying. Like it just feels like it, I don't know.

It feels like we quadrupled our staff somehow. You know, it's go ahead. No, I was just going to say it's like we kind of just like modernized again. Like, you know, I think Jim did it. I don't know if, I don't know, man. I mean, you know, that the talent that Jim had on that last, you know, those last couple staffs, that made a huge difference. And, you know, you're seeing multiple of those guys that are not NFL head coaches.

And like, which is crazy. I don't think that's talked about enough, man. Those guys were, I mean, the trajectory of every one of those guys is. I mean, dude, like, I think Jay Harbaal will be a head coach someday. You know, Chris Partridge, I think, could maybe come back to college be a coordinator again. He's, you know, he's the linebacker coach with the Seahawks. Like there's just, you know, Grant Newsom was on Shro's staff, but he just went to coach with John Harbaugh at the Giants. Like, yeah, the, like that staff that they built in 2020, 23 and 21, too, with Mike McDonnell, like, is crazy.

Like, to go back to back with coordinators who became head coaches within like three years of leaving is insane. It literally took Jesse Mender two years in the NFL, and I was a head coach, you know, like literally two seasons after he was last at Michigan. So, but to my point, though, like Jay Hill, defensive coordinator is a safeties guy, right? Like, so you have additional help there. They hired the DC from, the Co. D.C. from Boise to come in.

They hired the dude from Air Force to come in with the secondary and special teams. Like, they're just, and I'm going to learn their names, guys. It's been, you know, it's been a whirlwind for me. Over the last couple weeks, got a lot of work. travel and stuff. So I haven't been able to be on the messes boards and be as much of a sicko these days. But I've seen the moves that they've been making and I'm very excited about it because there's a lot of help. I honestly think like last year Lamar Morgan was probably overwhelmed, dude. Like he had he had safeties, corners, nickels. Like what? Like he's just one guy, man.

Yeah. Where is Lamar Morgan going to end up? Do we know? I thought it was going to be VT, but I think that fell through. So I do not know. You know what? Baltimore Raiders. That's Jesse Minter's guy. That's true. Probably. That's how we came here was the connection to mentor from their days at Georgia State, maybe. Yeah, you're probably true. He is one guy that I do wish, you know, you would have kept. But I think with Jay Hill being a great coach, a great recruiter, but yeah.

Yeah. Two point crowded. It is just crowded. And sometimes it just doesn't work with the personnel, right? Like you just don't, you know, new guys come in and you're like, all right, no, I've got my own guys, you know, and that's okay. Um, but, uh, but yeah, um, no, I think that the, the, the coaching staff was completely upgraded, you know, overall around around the, you know, I'm not going to point out any, any guys, but I think overall it was upgraded. Um, and yeah. And I, I think just like, you know, we talked about it before, but like just the discipline, the, you know, professionalism, like all those things. Um, and then, you know, the development. I felt, I feel like, I feel like, I feel like, You know, you're going to look at, I hope a Marsh, you know, get developed really well. You know, Jordan Marshall and our offensive line and on and on.

So, yeah, man, I'm excited. I'm excited for Springball. Me too. Should we talk about the changes occurring on the Michigan recruiting beat right now? Because the only reason I bring it up, I wasn't going to say anything because I don't give a shit. But so E.J. Holland's going to cover Miami on on three. Good luck to him. But he tweeted, had to follow in the footsteps of my guys, Chris Ewald and Brody Jennings,

who decommitted for Michigan to go to Miami. It's very weird. He's a weird guy. And I think we've all kind of been saying that for however long. But I'm just glad to not have to worry about a recruiting writer beefing with parents of recruits or ruining commitments. Like, Jordan Young, he almost ruined Jordan Young coming to Michigan last year. Yeah. Like, I don't understand how that ever, like, this.

that didn't happen earlier with him, you know, moving on to a different school. There's a similar story with Bryce Underwood. Yeah, and that's when he called us a random podcast, but little did he know. Little did you know. You knew what was going on. We got a lot of intel there. But, I mean, just crazy to me all of that, you know, but did you see Bryce, not Bryce Underwood, of course, but Bryce Merritt's tweet and it was just waving goodbye.

I did see that. He always talked trash about Bryce. And Bryce, if you've met Bryce or if you've interacted with him on the message board, is the nicest guy in the world. Literally. With Bryce, dude. He just does his job at a high level. He doesn't talk trash.

He just so professional. Yeah. He's so professional about it. And like, you know, I've hung out with Bryce on a personal level and he's like the nicest coolest guy ever. When we were at the golf outing, he was, you know, having a great time. I think he had a couple beers. And we were just shooting the breeze.

and he's an awesome dude. So if you don't like Bryce, that says more about you than it does about Bryce. Agreed. The funny thing is, though, I think that our friend E.J. is going to, he's still going to try to, like, trigger Michigan fans through Miami. Or, like, you know, now Miami's obviously, they were in the national title game. They are, like, they're more than, like, three, four years ago. They were just throwing big dollars at players.

and they didn't have any like real juice. Now they do have some juice. And so he's going to like, they're going to be like Miami's going to beat out Michigan for a couple recruits. He's going to try and trigger you. Just don't fall for the bait. Don't do it.

It's, that's all he's got. You know, the number of parents that like told me that they had bad interactions with them was significant. Shout out, Bryce. Nobody has ever told me that. You know, so. And this isn't it on three versus like 247 or rivals thing. No, we got friends at on three, man.

And I'm glad that I don't have to, I don't have to like I felt like they would be lumped in in my disdain sometimes for on three. Because Clayton's the man, brooms the man. Like got a lot of respect for those guys. I don't know anybody else there, but, you know, there's guys that are doing a long time. And then they got some up and comers on the recruiting side. Like, they're all great dudes. The number one guy there. I was like, come on, man.

like why are we acting like it's just it's just childish and the number of times i had to like shoot clayton the text and be like yo what's going on he's like yeah man he i can't just like i can't control him i haven't i that's hidden him that's not me and he's like trying to like you know remove himself from it and now i'm assuming that they have a little bit of a sigh of relief as well so see i don't like I don't care about what, like, someone like him does, but if it's going to negatively affect my enjoyment of watching Michigan football by not letting them get great players and thankfully it didn't, but it almost did, then, yeah, I'm going to be like, dude,

what the hell? Like the whole thing with Jaden Davis, and I know Jaden Davis is now East Tennessee, whatever, all right? He can pat himself on the back about his evaluation and all that. You don't have to be a dickhead about it. No, dude. Like, it's a high school kid, man. Like, what are we doing, bro?

You can, you can evaluate it. You can evaluate players without being a total dickhead and making it be like, no, that kid fucking sucks, right? So like, yeah, I mean, you don't have to be a sunshine pumper. You know, I like to, I like to, I like to, I like to, you know, think Michigan does everything the right way and has the best players. Of course. But there's not always a case, right? But, yeah, it was just like, so, you know, I have had ever since he called us a random podcast, which we are. but like dude look at our like i looked at our numbers after he said that i was like brother we're

doing okay you know what i mean so people are not to pat ourselves on the back but i think people are aware of generally who we are um sometimes it's like those guys but um they're generally aware i'm i'm a moron and i know that but i just come on here and have fun shoot the breeze like that's what this is all about we're not like there are other michigan podcasts if you want if you want recruiting right like there are other things for that if you want in debt depth analysis, which, and I listen to all the podcasts. There's one for that. That's probably my favorite personally. But like, we're just a couple guys that come on here, have some fun, man. We just do it for the love of the game, love of the pod. And, you know, so like, you know,

and sometimes people know things. And so, you know, for him to be like, oh, that ran a podcast, it's like, all right, bro. Like, I mean, come on, man. It's crazy. I'll leave it at that. I just had to get that off my chest because that, I'm glad that were moved on from that era. We had to acknowledge it, I think. But yes, we're all moving on. I will be happy to not mention him ever again and not have to deal with it. So that's my plan. But yeah, man, I'm excited for spring football.

You know, we've got, it's February. It, you know, like I said, it was 30 degrees today. It feels like we're at least on the other side of like negative degree weather. You know, before we know it, it'll be March. and before we know it, it'll be March, and then they'll start spring practice. So just get through the next couple months by watching some Michigan basketball.

Also, you know, I know we should have mentioned this earlier too, but Michigan hockey, number one in the country, dominated Ohio State. I believe they have Michigan State coming up, if that's right. Again, we're not the smartest people. I'm not super dialed in on hockey, but shout out hockey. Shout out women's basketball. They also are dominating.

Nothing makes me quite happier than two Michigan teams going to the Breslin in 72 hours and quieting both like two sellout crowds. That makes me very, very happy. So shout out to them. Shout out to the ladies. They're killing it. They're going to be, I mean, barring what happens down the stretch here, but they could be like a two seed in the tournament.

So they're very, very good. Yeah, man. And they've been in tight games with the best programs in the country. And, you know, they've done a great job. But now it's, can you get over the hump? Can you go and beat Yukon? Can you beat South Carolina, right? Can you win those big momentous?

Really just, I think their next step is get to a final four. Get to a final four. I think that, like, if they can hang a final four banner, and I'm not like trying to mitigate what they could do, because I do think that they are good enough. I mean, Silas Sorge is unbelievable. Olivia Olson is great. Meala Hall of the pod.

Yeah, friend of the pod. They're awesome. Shout out KBA. She re-tweets us a lot, so I appreciate her. And I know her personally. I like KBA a lot. So, yeah, so they're balling. It's going to be fun to watch all three of those teams down the stretch here.

you know, Michigan hockey, they need to win a Natty. If you just make it to the final four or the Natty again, you know, I hate to say that that's like a disappointment because it's an unreal accomplishment. But we're to the point where, speaking of getting over the hump, you've got to go win one for us. Yeah, man, it's, you know, that's, I mean, it's been 28 years, you know. I mean, think of the last handful of. years of like how many chances you've had you know you've been in the frozen four so many times right i mean we we watched it at b dubs one time you know and they ended up losing in the frozen four um back in 22

they lost to denver in overtime and you're just like dude like you turn it over in your own end and it's just i mean it's just one of those things where it's like they're so so so close and they're going to get there i have no doubt i have a lot of faith in brandon orado it's a it's a great great job that he's done with the program and um just keeping things rolling after some things that happened with the program a few years ago in Mel Pearson. So, yeah, just really excited to continue to watch that team. Really, all the teams, you know, specifically basketball and hockey. But, yeah, I'm excited, man.

I want to see the women's team make a run. Obviously, just want to see the men's make a run and watch hockey make a run, man. You know, watch the rest of the team, all that stuff. So it's a good time of year. It would be a fun March and April for sure. I'm hoping so, man. And the Detroit Pistons, too. they just made a trade. I know a lot of people aren't jiving with it with Kevin Hurder not

shooting that well from three. But I think it could be with the pistons and the wings this year. We might have some fun in April, hopefully May and beyond, man, because it's been good to watch those teams so far this year. For sure. Yeah, we were at the Pistin. What's that? It's a good time right now. It's a great time. I was a little nervous that Duncan was going to be thrown into that Pistons trade. We need the shooting too much. man. I know. I'm thankful that it that it wasn't. And yeah, it was kind of cool. We went to the Pistons' Suns game. Devin Booker didn't play, which sucked. But it was all on the court at once was Duncan, Caris, and Livers, because Livers is on the sun. So pretty cool that like those three guys are still kicking it in the league.

It's hard to stay in the league for a long time, dude. It's really freaking hard. With Isaiah, like he had a hip issue, his injury, and so for him to hopefully find a landing spot, I was really excited when the business drafted him. I know. One of the better players at Michigan over the last, you know, this century, really, really good basketball players. So, yeah, man, a lot of good stuff going on.

I'm going to get back in here, chop it up a little bit, but I'm looking forward to spring football and watching these basketball teams as hockey team, man. It's going to be fun. Spring. 100%. Another thank you to Feldman Chevrolet of Highland. Go check them out, Felman Chevy of Highland.com. Check out Woodson Whiskey, too. Woodson Whiskey.com.

They've got some limited edition bottles on their website if you want to go check them out. And Charles is doing, I think he's out of the Super Bowl this week doing some appearances, our boy, you know, not as high level as like, you know, coming to the bushes in Ann Arbor and hanging out with us. But I'm sure he's going to have a good time. So yeah, yeah, I wish him well. And yeah, man, Super Bowl, you know, kind of sad football is already over, but his basketball team is a lot more fun than two years ago, man. That's for sure.

And now he could only do so much heavy lifting for the basketball team. So this is a nice change of pace. Yeah, and it gets you through these couple months. Otherwise, if your basketball team stinks through these months, there's like, it's really hard. There's nothing. It gets dark, like it's dark right now. Yeah.

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