Defend the Block 22 - Franz Wagner

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Michigan, College, Sports, Ncaa, Jon Jansen, Wolverines, Football

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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After Brian discusses the ongoing department-wide pause, Franz Wagner stops by to talk about the mindset of the team during this two-week quarantine (9:00), assess the season to this point and his potential areas for improvement (14:00), and break down the play of some of his teammates, including Hunter Dickinson, Eli Brooks, and Mike Smith (19:00).

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0:00.0	Both before and during this season, Juan Howard was cautious about assuming that there would be games,
0:05.1	and you could understand his motivation why. Your quote-unquote schedule is only as good as your next
0:10.8	day's test results and during the season as your opponent's test results. Though I don't think
0:16.5	many had considered what is happening now at the University of Michigan, a department-wide two-week
0:23.2	pause. It really was the first of its kind at this level of college athletics, and it did come
0:29.2	out of nowhere. You think about the crazy 30 hours or so back two weekends ago, Michigan getting
0:36.0	set to face off with Purdue on a Friday night at Mackey Arena,
0:40.0	and then the boiler makers announced a positive COVID test, Sasha Stefanovic, about two hours before tip-off.
0:47.1	Still, the game went on, Michigan got the victory, and you're thinking, okay, hopefully everything works out.
0:53.7	Hopefully no one else had it and things
0:56.4	could go smoothly for Michigan and for Purdue for that standpoint. Then one night later,
1:02.4	Saturday night, boom, two week pause, four games postponed for the men, six for the women.
1:08.8	Two incredible seasons halted for a pretty significant stretch of time.
1:14.6	Now, as we've heard from Ward Manuel, from Phil Martelli, from Kim Barnes-A-Riko and others,
1:19.3	and those three we had here on Mgo Blue podcasts, there was frustration at the beginning for a lot
1:25.1	of the student athletes at the University of Michigan.
1:31.9	And of course there would be. These are competitors, not just the basketball programs, but you think about some of the other sports that were just getting into their seasons or on
1:35.6	the precipice of starting after so much uncertainty, such a long wait. And you think about how
1:41.1	diligent Michigan has been when it comes to safety and it comes to COVID-19
1:47.0	protocols. Yet, here we are in the midst of a pause. From the basketball standpoint, you just hope
1:54.1	this is the very worst stretch of the season from a COVID standpoint. You hope this is the last pause.
2:00.9	You know, it's one thing to fall in your final game, to fall short of your goals.
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