WTKA Roundtable 8/1/2024: THE Michigan Insider

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Things Discussed:

• Storytime with Craig: some of the criticism of Dotman has gotten weird.
• Also weird: people still trying to talk about a bowl ban. Sam asked people in Athletics and they've heard nothing about
• Stalions on the CMU sideline: CMU fired a coach who was most connected to Stalions, which if you put 1 and 1 together means they figured out how Stalions got on the Chips' sideline. It also proves signs don't matter much because CMU couldn't beat a crap MSU team; in fact at no point did you think they knew what was coming.
• Sam: Helps Michigan prove to the NCAA that Stalions was a rogue actor.
• Phonebooks: Enow Etta is a tackle, a lot of young tackles are now big enough to be viable inside, Sam pumps breaks on whether the freshmen can help.
• Barham was 230 as a recruit and 230 at Maryland, now 245. Reading tea leaves that suggests he got serious about weights at Michigan, versus when he was a near 5-star recruit in College Park they just said you go out there and do you.
• Better defense this year? Question isn't up front, it's who's going to give them the play diagnoses that they got from Mike Sainristil and Rod Moore. Sam says Will Johnson and Makari Paige can do it.
• Zeke Berry: players are seeing the athlete we saw as a recruit, but if they want to go with more blitzing they can get away with leaving Jyaire in man like they couldn't as much with Wallace. Berry is a blitzer in ways that Sainristil wasn't. Dax-like? Not pure speed but athleticism yeah.
• Craig's hot take: 13th scholarship for basketball should go to Jamal Crawford.