Podcast: Chip Lindsey hire, NFL decisions, O.H.I.O. flag planting bill, 2025 schedule, Michigan basketball loss to Arkansas
On this episode of The Wolverine Podcast, Clayton Sayfie, Anthony Broome and Chris Balas discuss Michigan Wolverines football hiring Chip Lindsey as its next offensive coordinator, NFL decisions and junior kicker Dominic Zvada returning, the O.H.I.O. flag planting bill, the 2025 Big Ten schedule that was revealed this week and basketball’s 89-87 loss to Arkansas at Madison Square Garden.
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The show began with the hosts discussing Chip Lindsey as Michigan’s new offensive coordinator. Lindsey spent the last two seasons at North Carolina.
“A pretty solid hire for Michigan here,” Sayfie said. “There were different candidates out there, and I think this is one that people were fine with.”
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“Yeah,” Balas said. “He checked all the boxes, right, of a guy with experience who’s done it at a high level at more than one stop. He’s not a flash in the pan because he’s had success at different schools and done some good things. He’s 50 years old, which I think is too old for some of the young guys on our site that were, ‘Ah, we wanted the young guy. We wanted Craddock or whatever.’
“I wanted somebody with experience, somebody who has coached quarterbacks like Bryce Underwood, which he has, clearly, and has gotten it done — not just one way or the other, but with both run and the pass. We’ve seen him have great offenses that have had great passing attacks, we’ve seen him have great offenses that have had great running attacks and we’ve seen him have great offenses that are both.
“Not quite sure what people are expecting here or hoping for, but to me this is what … it kinda falls right into what I thought they would get. If not a [Jason] Candle from Toledo, then maybe a Chip Lindsey. Willing to give anybody a shot.
“There were a lot of people who were complaining about the Jesse Minter hire because of what he did at Vanderbilt. If you pick one year and the worst year of anybody, it’s not gonna be very good. So I’m fine with it and anxious to see what he does in Ann Arbor.”
