In the Trenches 174 - Mike Macdonald
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
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4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Jon discusses the latest on spring football, the happenings around Schembechler Hall, and the national coaching carousel in this week's Seven from 77, which begins at the 6:45 mark. Then, Jon chats with Michigan's new Defensive Coordinator Mike Macdonald about his acclimation process to the program and the area (24:30), the various stops in his coaching career (27:45), his vision for the defense in 2021 and beyond (36:10), and getting back into recruiting at the college level (41:45).
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| 0:00.0 | Today we get a chance to find out what this defense is going to look like. |
| 0:04.8 | Mike McDonald, the new defensive coordinator, stops by today to give us his thoughts on returning |
| 0:11.6 | to the college ranks as well as what he sees in this defense. |
| 0:15.7 | We'll dive into all that here on In the Trenches. |
| 0:19.5 | Let's go in the trenches with John Jansen. |
| 0:22.9 | The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer |
| 0:25.7 | will take you inside the locker room with players and coaches. |
| 0:29.2 | We're going to have our staples, you know, |
| 0:31.4 | our core concepts and our core fronts and all that kind of stuff. |
| 0:35.4 | We're going to install that. |
| 0:36.9 | But the guys have to |
| 0:38.0 | understand those concepts before we can start moving things around to kind of accentuate who's |
| 0:43.8 | doing what and to make sure guys are doing what they do well. Once again, here's John Jansen. |
| 0:49.3 | Welcome back, friends, and we've got a lot to get to. You know, the spring ball is going to be starting up |
| 0:55.7 | on Monday, so we're going to get a chance to talk some spring ball. And just a quick look ahead, |
| 1:00.6 | we will get a chance to talk to some players and find out from them what they're working on, |
| 1:05.5 | what's going on in spring ball. That's coming down the road here and in the trenches. But, hey, with all of the sports up and running, we are celebrating Black History Month on Conquering Heroes, as well as here on In the Trenches. |
| 1:19.1 | So make sure you tune in on Tuesdays. |
| 1:21.4 | And my partner comes out with Defend the Block, and that is Mr. Brian Bush, the play-by-play voice of Michigan basketball. |
| 1:29.6 | And Mr. Bush, how are things going now that basketball is up and going? |
| 1:35.3 | It looked terrific. |
| 1:37.8 | John, it was terrific. |
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