Mel Tucker Talking Michigan Rivalry
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00:00 Michigan game this year will be a night game, prime time. Any early thoughts on that? Especially in context of the weather. Is that concrete? It is. It is? It's what's been reported today. Yep, we'll be there.
00:11 How would you give us your overall state of that rivalry? I guess what would you say to people who felt like maybe it needed to be reigned in somehow after last?
00:22 What do you mean reigned in?
00:23 Like maybe it crossed the line.
00:25 How do you reign it in?
00:26 I don't know.
00:27 I don't know how you do that.
00:29 There's not a day that's gone by that I haven't heard something about that game. I mean every day of my life I hear about that game. So I don't know how you reign that in.
00:38 It just is what it is.
00:42 You taking a year off in the way to go with that?
00:45 No. That's never going to happen. That's not even a reality. So why would we want to do that?
00:52 Are you glad that they protected that rivalry too?
00:56 Of course.
00:57 Yeah, I mean that's what's great about college football. I've been a part of it. We talked about it before. When you coach in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Green Bay, Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, Nebraska.
01:10 I mean those are big games. That's why we coach. That's why we play to be in those games and ultimately win those games.
01:17 And oftentimes you're judged by how you do in those games. So I think it's great.
01:22 I mean from the day I got here in my initial press conference, I'm not stepping away. I'm not shying away from the challenge or the rivalry.
01:31 It's the biggest game of the year for us. And it's always going to be like that as long as I'm the coach here.