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- Wolverines
- Updated: Dec. 31, 2025, 6:03 p.m.
- Published: Dec. 31, 2025, 6:02 p.m.
After Kyle Whittingham was hired arsenic Michigan’s adjacent caput coach past week, freshman backmost Bryce Underwood was nan first subordinate he met with.
Whittingham joined nan ABC tv broadcast early successful nan 3rd 4th of nan Wolverines’ Citrus Bowl against Texas connected Wednesday, and Underwood had already thrown 2 touchdown passes pinch Michigan starring 20-17.
The caller 66-year-old coach is hoping to spot galore much touchdowns from nan erstwhile No. 1 wide enlistee successful a Michigan uniform.
“Just carries himself nan correct way,” Whittingham said. “Carries himself for illustration a backmost (should) transportation himself. Has that ‘It’ factor. In addition, had a chance to meet pinch his parents. Great parents, awesome family and he’s nan correct man to lead this shot team.”
With nan NCAA transportation portal opening connected Jan. 2, keeping Underwood and others will beryllium a apical privilege erstwhile he takes nan reins from Biff Poggi aft nan vessel game. Whittingham said he has met pinch each subordinate connected nan team.
“I’m conscionable trying to find retired astir them,” he said. “I don’t cognize immoderate of them obviously, truthful conscionable being capable to get to cognize them arsenic a personification and trying to that first enslaved pinch nan players and trying to find retired what they’re each about, what their expectations are successful nan programme and really their acquisition has been to this point. Then evidently successful this time and age, do they scheme connected sticking around?”
Here are much highlights from Whittingham’s question and reply connected nan broadcast:
On erstwhile he will denote his staff: “We’re conscionable astir finished. Hasn’t been announced officially yet. Until somebody’s connected nan dotted line, you ne'er want to get up of yourself. But I deliberation we’re successful bully shape. I deliberation we’ll person astir apt 90% of nan unit named by this play and past we’ll decorativeness disconnected nan past spot aliases 2 complete nan people of adjacent week.
On identifying needs successful nan portal: “It’s not easy, but we’ll beryllium locking ourselves successful nan movie room this weekend, and that’s occupation 1, 2 and 3 is to get to cognize nan unit here, find retired what we got, find retired what we need.”
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Ryan Zuke is simply a sports newsman for MLive.com and covers University of Michigan athletics. He writes astir a assortment of sports pinch a superior attraction connected shot and recruiting. With nan occurrence of galore Wolverines...
