SCAR & DUE! Ep. 13 Bo’s Boys Breaking Down Today’s Ball 6/3/26

[Scar and Due are back. Dude, there is no offseason, man. It is hot. Recruiting is nonstop. Whit is bringing them in, and it’s a never-ending battle. How are you doing, dude?

Yeah, man, I’m doing great. Just got off a week-long vacation. I was down in North Carolina fishing in the ocean and then riding my motorcycle through the Appalachian Mountains in western North Carolina. Beautiful country out there, man. I can’t tell you how beautiful those mountains are, right by the Smoky Mountains. If you don’t like twisty, curvy roads, though, don’t go, because there isn’t a straight road for miles.

Oh, that’s God’s country, man. Dude, a big thing going on is the Wayne State Showcase. It’s been going on for a long time. Big-time recruits come from all over the country. It was part of Sound Mind Sound Body, right?

It just finished up, and we would have had coaches there looking at kids. I just wanted to mention it. I remember going to it and bringing some of my players. Urban Meyer was there, and a lot of big-time coaches were there. That just happened at Wayne State. That’s something of note. I don’t know if we made any inroads there.

I’ve just got to take a shot: Rich Rod keeps talking about Michigan. I know people don’t want to hear it, but he says, “I never should have taken the Michigan job.” Just leave it alone, Rich. Leave it alone, man. It bugs me. I’ve got to keep taking a shot at him.

But that’s that. What are you hearing about recruiting, dude? What are you seeing out there?

Well, these guys are working the recruiting trail like crazy. They’re getting guys from all over the country. Since the last time we were on, we’ve got a handful of more recruits.

We lost one three-star safety, Maxwell Miles, who flipped his commitment from Michigan to Minnesota. He called Minnesota “Safety U.”

So he’s going to Safety U to play safety. Good luck.

Yeah. Then we got three-star linebacker Braden “Tank” Watson out of Georgia. I love this guy just because of his name. Four-star defensive back Tover Harrington from Chicago. We got a tight end who flipped from Alabama, four-star Colt Lumpris. Then four-star quarterback Darius Johnson from Georgia.

As of today, when I looked on 247Sports, Michigan is ranked 14th in the 2027 team rankings. That’s quite a move. There are some more guys who are rumored to be coming pretty quickly here.

It seems as if, and we mentioned this last time, whatever Whit and his staff are selling, guys are buying. There are a lot of good players visiting and coming away impressed. Families are impressed, and he’s getting some great players. That’s what we need. We’ve got to start building this thing back up.

You’ve got to keep those reserves ready to go, man. You’ve got to have them in the chamber, ready to fire.

Yeah. I met Whit and some of those coaches, and I know Kerry Coombs. Dude, as much as the money and all this other stuff is going on, I think these guys are selling parents on, “We care about your kid. He’s going to go to class. I don’t care what he’s making. He’s going to go to class. We’re going to get him educated.”

We’re selling Michigan. It’s a lifelong commitment. From the guys I met, I really see that we have a presentation that is recruiting parents in a big way, too. I think that’s important.

You talk about the parents—they’re a huge influence. Probably the most famous example is Spielman’s dad. When Chris Spielman was being recruited, he was in the same class as me, so to speak. He mentioned, “I might go to Michigan,” and his dad flat-out said, “You’re not going to Michigan. You’re going to Ohio State.” That was that.

Parents are a huge influence. There was a tight end a little while ago, probably three classes ago, who Michigan was in on, but Dad preferred Penn State, and that’s where he ended up.

Having a guy like Whit sitting in his office telling the parents what you just described—classes, being respectful, showing up on time, doing your job every single day, working at it—that resonates with parents.

I think it’s important for a guy like Whit to give that talk, too, because he’s not just selling you. He means it.

I don’t know what the story was when Sherrone was coaching and recruiting, sitting down with parents, but it feels as if the message is resonating a little better right now. I think the parents pick up on what we talked about when Whit was hired: We have some adults running the program now, and that’s important.

Yeah. Bo came to my house with Coach Mo and Coach Carr. They didn’t even talk to me. They were talking to my parents in the living room for an hour.

I had a speed bag in the basement. The old man put one up there for me. I was hitting the speed bag. Then they called me downstairs.

Millen came to the house, too.

Is that right?

He had me hit the speed bag. He wanted to hit the speed bag, man.

“All right, I’m talking to your parents. Get the hell out of here.”

But the whole visit was basically talking to my parents.

Okay, dude. Indiana’s everywhere. Indiana’s legit. We’ve talked about it. They’re there with Notre Dame and Ohio State for us in recruiting. I’m seeing them everywhere.

Michigan State’s staff, I think they’re a legit staff. I’m hoping we can continue to out-recruit them, but in my opinion, they’re not a joke. They’re a formidable opponent. I have great respect for Fitz. I’ve heard Bulla speak a few times at clinics. I think they have good coaches there, man. They’re no joke.

I see we’re beating them on the in-state kids, though. I want to keep beating them with the in-state kids.

I saw a kid from Cass Tech. I saw this kid play, Kel Miller. Indiana has offered him. He’s only a three-star kid, but Indiana has offered him. He’s a Cass Tech kid, so we don’t always like to see that.

Again, this Majo kid, the big tackle from Oceanside, California, is down to Michigan, Utah, and Washington.

I continue to be impressed. I don’t know that we’re as international as Jim was, but we’re definitely hitting every corner, every time zone here in America. Keep it up, Whit and the boys. Come to Michigan.

You know what else I’m seeing? A lot of decommitments, commitments, and flips. I think these coaches are putting a lot of pressure on these kids because they want to get their classes wrapped up. They want to get this stuff finalized because, a month from now, they start. Early July, these guys are going.

That’s what I think you’re seeing. The coaches are saying, “Look, you’ve got four days. You’ve got a week,” whatever it is. They’re juggling. They’re trying to figure things out. That’s why you’re seeing all these commitments and decommitments.

I have to share one story, and then we’re going to get on that film, because I want people to understand what recruiting is like.

This was a story I heard last year about a big-time linebacker, one of the top linebackers in the country. Someone affiliated with Michigan told me this story.

This kid wanted at least $15,000 to take a visit. He was getting 15 grand just to get on a plane and visit this college. I’m not going to say the college. Then he wanted five first-class tickets, so he was bringing four people with him. Then he wanted five-star accommodations.

Listen, I got recruited, and I was by myself on most of those trips. But that’s what we’re talking about now. These kids are asking and demanding. That was last year—15 grand. I bet everything’s gone up.

If they can get 20 grand for every visit, they’re going to do it.

The other thing about that kid was, okay, he wanted 15 just to take the visit. Then, when he got back home, he told this college he had one more visit to take, and it was at Ohio State.

This college told the kid, “We have our NIL agreement figured out. Don’t go to Ohio State. I’ll slap another 10 grand on top of what we’ve talked about.”

You understand? That’s what’s going on. This was last year. That’s the story exactly how I heard it from a legitimate source. I just wanted to share that. Any comments on that, D?

Yeah, it’s a different world. It actually leads into what I wanted to talk about quickly before we get to the film.

Right now, in the Senate, there’s a committee discussing the Protect College Sports Act. It was brought about by Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell. It’s a bipartisan bill, and they want to try to rein in some of what’s going on in the college landscape, including what you just talked about: guys asking for extra money and coaches offering extra money.

With this bill, they want to try to curtail some of the free transfers. They want to offer one free transfer where you don’t have to sit out, but anything beyond that, you’d have to sit out a year.

They want to reel in some of this money being spent and give administrators the authority to enforce policies related to player movement, permitting only one penalty-free transfer. They want to establish a five-year eligibility period for college athletes, codify portions of the NCAA’s House settlement, grant legal protection to the NCAA, and enforce standards prohibiting certain third-party NIL deals.

There’s a whole host of things they want to address.

Nick Saban was in Washington, D.C., among others, and he was talking about it. “When I was there my last year, we had $1.7 million for NIL. The year after I left, it was $2.7 million.” A couple of years after that, it was $17 million. Now, you could be talking about $40 million or $50 million NIL budgets.

We all talk about a free market, and we want what the game can handle. Water finds its level. But there are some things I think they need to restrict, because it just can’t be the Wild West.

There is opposition to this bill. The bill has a chance of passing. One guy from the ACC said maybe 50–50. But even if it doesn’t pass, there are going to be some major changes in college sports.

Of course, players don’t want to give up the opportunity to transfer when they want, and they certainly don’t want to cap how much money they make.

Part of the bill was to pool all media rights. You take all the media rights money from the conferences across college football, put it in a big pot, and distribute it to everybody. Of course, the SEC, the Big Ten, and Notre Dame don’t want that because they make the majority of the money, and they don’t want to share it.

There’s also some concern about women’s sports. If we’re talking about all this NIL money, and predominantly it goes to football and basketball, Olympic sports and women’s sports in general are at risk of not having enough of the pie. Some of these things could fall off.

We may not watch as much women’s softball, lacrosse, or whatever, but it’s important to have that. If you have a daughter, you certainly want her to have an opportunity to go to college and play a sport she’s been playing her whole life. You don’t want to jeopardize her ability to do that.

Everybody has to fight for a piece of the pie. Unfortunately, the big boys—the SEC, the Big Ten, and Notre Dame—want to hold on to more of the pie.

If this bill doesn’t pass, there’s concern that the Big Ten, the SEC, and Notre Dame could gather up some other teams they like and create a super league.

Texas—excuse me, Texas is in the SEC now. I keep forgetting. But they could create a super league. I don’t know if that harms college football or hurts the other programs.

Everybody’s got their own agenda. At some point, they have to come to an agreement on how they can make it fair for everybody. Some teams are going to have more money than others. That’s just the nature of the beast.

But this is a fast-moving bill. It was just introduced last week. They’re having discussions now. It could be next week when they do the markup.

They take all this information, listen to the testimony from people like Saban, Pete Bevacqua from Notre Dame, and others, and then say, “Okay, we’re going to change a couple of these things based on what we heard and what we know.”

Then it could go up for a vote. It’s moving faster than other bills or proposals to rein in college football have in the past.

There are changes happening. If they don’t happen through this bill, they’re going to happen in other ways. It’s interesting.

Yeah, because Michigan, Notre Dame, and Ohio State—people are watching them more than North Carolina State or Kansas State.

One hundred percent.

To say, “We’re just going to throw it all in”—I get it. Hopefully, they can work and find some type of compromise to give everybody a chance to compete.

Dude, we’re going to get on the film in a minute. Hey, we’ve got the 1964 team coming. I’ve got a couple of guys from that team. We’ve got film. It was a Big Ten championship Michigan team, and that’s coming in a couple of weeks. They did win the Rose Bowl.

Be sure to hit that like button, man. Give Due and Scar a little love. Anything else before we get on the film?

No, that’s it for the time being. We’ll see how these things progress over there in the Senate. Just prepare yourself for an interesting future for college football and college athletics in general.

Okay. You’ve got the game up, dude?

I do.

Okay, good. We’re going to look at every play. I talked about Tommy last week, or a couple of weeks ago, and said I thought he was really slow on the trigger throwing these bubbles.

Yeah.

You want to lead him, and you want to be quick. This ball has to get out of his hand.

What are we doing on defense here? We’re in a four-man front. This is Moa. He transferred from BYU, right? I believe that’s the linebacker who transferred.

No, he came from Michigan State. We have Salesi Moa on offense, and his brother transferred from State. He’s a linebacker.

This kid was a Spartan. Okay. He was at MSU, and this is him at linebacker. This is French out here. He’s an athletic kid, and I’m seeing good run support.

That’s Moa, the kid who was at Michigan State. I’m looking at his athletic ability. I’m watching him.

But this is good. Tommy’s got to get that ball in front of the receiver, because that’s an extra yard or two.

Yeah. I’m trying to pull up the chat right now. It says there are three comments, but they changed this interface, and I’m unable to get to them at the minute. We’re working on it.

If you made a comment in the chat, I’ll try to get to it as soon as I figure this thing out.

All right, what are you seeing here?

They’re going to run the same play, just to the other side. In the second half, they had a tendency to do that. I noticed they were running a play to the right side, then they’d run it to the left side.

You know what I really like here, D? If I’m playing linebacker or safety and looking at this offensive line, they’re selling it. They’re not coming out sloppy because it’s a pass away from them. They’re stepping and reaching like we’re running zone this way. You know what I mean?

Yeah. I will say that, watching the second-half film, it appeared to me that the offensive line was giving a better effort than the defensive line.

Yeah. You play big-time football now, you’ve got to defend the bubble. You’ve got to run the bubble. You’ve got to defend the bubble. You’re going to see a ton of it. You’d better have corners and safeties who can come up and take on blocks.

Run the heck out of it, man. It’s free yards in a lot of instances. Run it until they stop it, then fake like you’re running it and run the ball up the gut.

Yeah. That’s what I’m seeing. Defensively, our coaches have done a good job teaching run support and getting off the football.

I’m looking at our big tight end here, 42.

Yep. Hoffman.

Hoffman. He picks up Marshall here on a slant. I like him initially. We’ve got a good double-team, and they’re coming off on the backer here.

As a tight end, this is not easy to do when the defensive lineman slants in your face. He picks up that slanting defensive tackle. Now, just stay on him.

And that’s Nate Marshall. That’s not some—

Yeah, I know. Anyway, I was impressed with Hoffman here. Marshall’s able to come off it, but it’s well executed. Guard and tackle doubling and coming off on the backer. They pick up yards here, but I like Hoffman being able to pick up that slanting defensive lineman.

Yeah. That’s how you run that power play. Good job.

Yeah. You’ve got to be able to block a slant. Here’s a slanting defensive lineman. You’ve got to be able to pick that up. It’s not easy to do.

Now, if you watch 88 coming across, he’s going to kick out that end. He’s got to put a little more into that.

Yeah, dude. Those are collisions, man. That’s why I think Colston Loveland was always hurt. That guy’s coming across the formation, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

Those are big-time collisions. You run that six or eight times in practice every day, and it’s going to take a toll. That’s all I’m saying about that play.

What do you see here, dude? This is first down.

Yeah. Is it first down? First-and-10. Quads.

Here’s what I’m seeing. The ball is in his gut. This linebacker is reading that. He doesn’t know: Is he pulling it? Is he throwing it over here? He has to sit. He has to read it.

But that split second it takes him to recognize that he’s handed the ball off—watch how slow he is to recognize it. He still hasn’t reacted. You know what I mean? See how he hasn’t moved?

Carr is eyeing him, too. Carr’s got his eyes on him.

I get it, but the ball is in the gut.

Okay. He has to look at the mesh point.

You’ve got to look at that. You’re not looking at the guy. You’re not looking at the helmet. You’re looking at the ball. You’re looking at the mesh point.

The running back has the ball, and he still hasn’t moved. That makes the difference between getting in that gap or not. You’ve got to read it. You’ve got to recognize it. That’s the difference there, the way I see that play.

Yeah.

Do you agree with me, D?

I don’t know, Jim. I think, as an inside linebacker, just like when we used to have to defend the option, you have to do your job, right?

Yeah.

If the quarterback is your job, you don’t leave that guy until you know for a fact. I think we’re maybe splitting hairs a little, saying he was slow. Then again, I believe that was still Moa, right? Was that 52?

Anyway, I just think you’ve got to read it quickly. I like the technique by these two defensive linemen here. Pierce.

This is Link coming around. Second-and-4 here.

This is Link pulling around, and he does a good job. If you remember the last time we watched film and he did this pull from the left tackle spot, he got a little too deep. He was about two yards deep in the backfield.

He’s much better this time. He’s coming flatter down the line, so he’s barely a yard in the backfield, which is perfect. Then he comes around and gets his shoulders square. This is excellent movement for a guy I didn’t think was all that mobile last year. That’s a great job by him.

Yeah. I think this linebacker has to recognize it, too, though, dude. In my opinion, he has to be up here meeting it. This is his gap. He has to force the play because the edge player is playing underneath the tight end. The edge player is playing the C-gap. He’s in here.

I think this player has to be up in here.

Yeah. He definitely got a little nosy inside.

You’ve got to know your gap. Listen, linebacker is tough, man. Reading and figuring out where you’ve got to put your body is different from playing at the line of scrimmage.

Especially with a running back like Hiter, who is quick, can cut really well, has good eyes, and has good patience.

We’ve seen a lot of spy. We haven’t seen much spy the last five years. Very little from the other coordinators. But this is a good throw and catch here.

Quads, four receivers split out wide. This is a good throw and catch.

Yeah. I can count it on one hand. Very little from Wink and Minter running a spy, but that’s what you have here.

I think Carr does a really good job here. Watch his eyes. He’s watching the safety right now because he wanted the dig inside the hash. He was looking at that safety: “Am I going to be able to get it to him or not?”

You’re going to see it here on the replay. They’ll show a slow-motion replay. He’s looking at the safety. The safety’s moved up. Look how close the safety got to his receiver. All right, check it down to the guy outside and pick up positive yards.

Look at the ability from French after he catches it.

Very good. Not such a good play by Shamari Earls there.

He’s got to tackle with the right shoulder. You’ve got to have your eyes up.

Yeah. You can see it here.

Watch. Looking at the safety, looking at the safety. Nope. Okay, here we go.

Anyway, he’s got to use the right shoulder, eyes up. Watch how he puts his head down. Head down and wrong shoulder. Lets the ball outside the defense.

Yeah, man. That’s a butt-chewing right there. You know that, dude.

Yep.

That’s a butt-chewing. Coach Carr would have been shredding those DBs on that.

Yeah. Nobody outside the defense. Inside and in front.

Yeah. Here’s first down.

Eleven personnel, three wide receivers. The defense is in a 3–3–5, and Link this time is at left guard. Freshman Malachi Walbridge is at left tackle.

Watch Link do a great job logging this edge. Watch Walbridge take this guy for a ride. Good night.

Yeah. He’s shown improvement as this game went on, the young freshman.

Yep.

But this is a good fake. Carry out the fake. This keeps this guy slower to get here.

Yep.

Hold that ride, that mesh point. Slow this run support down with an athletic quarterback who makes you honor it.

I’m telling you, man. Again, I know it’s spring ball, and I know there are some nonstarters on that defense, but Hiter looks like the real deal.

Oh, yeah.

This is how we used to coach it: Punch the inside shoulder. Try to make it bubble. Try to make this guy bubble. That’s how we used to coach it.

Don’t run it yet.

On the double-team between the center and the right guard, look at this. Watch the right guard’s hand placement. His right hand—watch where he puts it.

I was at practice, and I went directly to the offensive line drills. They were working on this exact combo, and that’s exactly one of the points they stressed when they double-team: Get that hand on the hip.

Look at that.

No kidding.

There’s a perfect example of good coaching and kids taking to the coaching. They want to displace this guy this way.

Yep.

That’s the center of the base, and that’s where you can move him.

Yeah, that makes sense. That’s a better tackle by Earls there. Right shoulder. Keep him inside the defense.

I hate to see our own guys get pancaked, but I love watching Walbridge serve them up.

Okay, here’s empty. Again, we’re in a three-man front with a spy. Second-and-2.

Good coverage. I think Carr missed it here. Pause it right there.

He’s got a pocket. He wants to try to hit this guy again on the dig, the number two receiver. But look, he’s got French here at the numbers, and he has—I can’t remember who was up here on the hash, but he was open for a second.

Oh, hit him right now. Hit him. Look at that. If he hits him, throws him open, that’s going to score.

You’re talking about right here?

No, I’m talking about up on the top hash.

This guy here?

No. The guy on the 15-yard line, the 14-yard line.

Oh, okay. I’ve got you.

Throw it to him. Throw him open.

Yeah. He probably did.

But a lot of spy work, and they seem to do a pretty good job with it.

Yep.

I’ve seen guys run that spy, and I always question the angles some of those guys take.

Pauli’s getting a lot of clock.

Yep. I think we come out in quads here again. Yeah, we do. No, are we? Yeah, two and two.

Yep. This should have been a catch. He was looking for this route on the last play. He gets it this play. He’s got to catch this.

No question about it.

I’m seeing a nice pass rush. Is that 93 up there at the top?

That’s putting the ball in a tight spot.

Yeah. It’s spring ball. You want to work on the timing and stuff, but I think there were some free yards shallow.

Yeah. Number 93 will rush the quarterback. Number 94, Marshall, will rush the quarterback.

Yeah. Number 93 is Patterson.

Yeah, those two guys. I said this guy reminds me of Kwity Paye right here. We’ve got some edge players, man.

That’s a good effort. That was not a good effort by those two guys blocking him. There’s no way a guy should split two dudes on a three-man rush.

We’ve got about four more plays. I’m not sure who kicked this, but you’ve got to have a kicker.

Stewart Blake hits this field goal.

Stewart Blake. He hit two. At least two.

Well, that was his second. Let me put it that way. I don’t know if he kicked one later.

This was Jim’s first game. Do you remember this game, dude?

I do remember this one.

There’s your boy Butt. We lose.

I’ve got to tell you a quick Harbaugh story, dude. My sophomore year, Jim’s first spring, it’s the end of the scrimmage, and we’re scrimmaging up at the stadium. They throw the young guys in there. Harbs is a freshman, and I’m a young guy. This is mop-up time, the end of the scrimmage.

I’ll never forget this. There’s a commotion going on in the offensive huddle. I’m on defense. I’m on the field, and the guys on defense are sitting there: “What’s going on? What are they arguing about?”

You know how the quarterbacks had to wear the pink jersey during scrimmages? What they were arguing about was Harbaugh arguing with Coach Hanlon. He didn’t want to wear the pink jersey. He wanted to be live.

Jim wanted to be live. He didn’t want to wear it. It was red, but I call it pink. We called it pink on defense.

I remember Jim Harbaugh did not want to wear the pink jersey. You know what Coach Hanlon told him? “Take the damn jersey off.”

We ran option. He ran option. I remember I drilled him not long after because he was live. There was no pink jersey. That’s one of my early Harbaugh memories.

Showing toughness. I got a little too close to Harbs one time when he wasn’t live, and, man, Bo let me have it.

Oh, that’s when he was the franchise.

Yeah, that’s when he was the franchise, and Dip Rod got a little too close on a blitz. Bo made it perfectly clear that he was a lot more important than I was.

Yeah. This coverage here, man, you’re really giving them this. The offense is saying, “Look, you have nothing here. I’m getting some easy yards.”

Yep. This is Salesi Moa. The guy’s 10 yards off him. Throw it up here. You’ve got no one over the slot player.

Throw it. They’re running Cover 2, so I get it.

It’s almost like that’s something you’d want to do at the end of the half or the end of the game. That’s eight yards, man. That’s as good as you’re going to get.

Take it. Free money.

Yeah.

Second down here. Same play. “Hey, you dummies, you didn’t cover it last time, and you’re not going to cover it again. We’re going to run it again.”

Yeah, but, dude, sometimes they’re just working. You wonder what the coaches are working on here.

Well, I hope they’re working on taking the free money.

Yeah. What they’re doing on defense, you know, it might—

Eleven personnel on this first down. It’s play-action. This is a good throw and catch coming up here.

Yeah. Whit likes to keep that whistle in his mouth. Man, I couldn’t coach like that. I don’t even think I wore a whistle. I had it around my neck, but very little did I use it. I was mainly yelling.

That’s me. Just yell.

I mean, he puts it right in there.

It’s all basic stuff we’re watching. Like Jake Butt said on the broadcast, we’re seeing 20 percent of the offensive playbook. We’re seeing 20 percent of the defensive playbook.

Yeah, that’s a tight window, and he puts it in there.

Very tight.

Yep. I think that’s the last play, D.

There’s one. I’ve got one more. We’ve only gone 35 minutes. One more.

They call a timeout after this play. This is quads. I like this play because Carr’s eyes sell the pass.

This is such a little thing, and I’m probably making more of it than it is, but he sells it like he’s going to pull this and throw it. We just ran that play twice, so the defense is a little leery.

He looks like, “I’m going to pull this thing and throw it again. Nope. I’m going to give it, and my guy’s going to take it.”

This is a young kid, O’Meara. Tomas O’Meara. He’s out of Ann Arbor, Father Gabriel Richard. Go Catholic League.

When I coached at Notre Dame Prep, we had a really good rivalry with Father Gabriel Richard. They were tough, but we beat them.

Yeah. Let me also tell you this, dude. This guy here is getting launched, 51.

Yeah. He’s not representing the number.

He isn’t representing the number like he should.

Yeah. He’s not repping that number. He’s getting pushed around here. This is another big part of this play. This left tackle is just launching him.

Yeah. They just displace this whole side of the line of scrimmage.

Yeah. You can’t be out there. You’ve got to get down in there and punch, man.

That’s the last deal there, dude.

Yeah. Where are we at here? We’re back live.

Okay. Dude, that’s it, man. We’ve got the NBA Finals tonight. Give us a like. We’ve got the ’64 team coming.

These guys will be hitting and putting the pads on in another month or so. It’s winding down, and we’ll start looking at the season and the schedule. We’ll try to look at maybe the first three games in two weeks.

We’re 94 days away. Ninety-four days to kickoff against Western Michigan, September 5.

Yeah. These guys typically start reporting in mid-July. I don’t know if Whit does the same thing, but typically you bring in your freshmen for a few days and get them acclimated to the whistles, the hustle to the drills, the warm-ups, where we’re going, and where your position group is going to be.

Then they bring in the upperclassmen maybe three days later. They’ve got to go without pads for a few days, and then it’s on.

Yeah. My last comment, and then I’m done: There’s a lot of talk about Bryce. Some former pro is saying he can’t throw, can’t play.

Listen, I like our quarterback room. We both watched Bryce in practice. He’s a bigger, stronger kid. He started 12 games. He’s going to be better. They’re going to run him.

Tommy Carr—we hit the jackpot. We’ve got a kid there who we already know can play. The more I look at this film, the more confident I get that we’ve got a second kid who can play. We’ve got Nicolosi coming in.

I like our quarterback room. They can talk about whatever the hell they want. I guarantee you Whit likes his quarterback room, and so does Beck.

That’s my final thought. I’m fired up. I’ll see you in two weeks. Any last comments, dude?

Yeah, man. Keep doing what you’re doing. These guys are on the recruiting trail, and they’re working summer conditioning right now.

The specialists, the quarterbacks, receivers, and the back seven on defense are running their own seven-on-seven drills.

Man, 94 days. It’s going to fly by. We’re going to be talking about Western Michigan here pretty darn quickly.

Go Blue.

That’s it. Go Blue. Go Blue. Over and out.]