The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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NOVEMBER 2026 ❱ THE WOLVERINE 17 ❱ INSIDE MICHIGAN ATHLETICS "Every program at Michigan has done it. Because basketball hasn't done it, I wanted to be a part of trying to do something that has never been done before. And I think the same is true with the players that we have in our program." — Head coach Kim Barnes Arico on chasing Michigan women's basketball's first-ever national championship "You practice how you play. Those guys do that every day. That's a point of emphasis for the entire team. You don't just show up on Sat- urday and make things happen. It's every day throughout the week, and we work on that individually as wideouts, as well as being avail- able for the quarterback even when you may not look available. Just tell [sophomore quarterback] Bryce [Underwood], 'Give us a chance, and we'll always try to come down with the ball.'" — Wide receivers coach Micah Simon on sophomores JJ Buchanan and Andrew Marsh making highlight-reel grabs "Jalen Reed is a little bit of an unknown in this equation. I think he's going to be better than people … I don't say think because he hasn't played, but we've seen in practice he's pretty good. So I think he may surprise people in terms of what he's able to do coming off an injury." — Michigan basketball head coach Mike Boynton Jr. on graduate forward Jalen Reed "I think it angered most of our fans." — Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo on Michigan winning the 2026 national championship "Offensively, they have to adjust. There's no way forward without adjusting. They cannot go out there and try to run this exact same philosophy and this exact same scheme because it has proven to be ineffective so far for Michigan." — FOX analyst Joel Klatt on Michigan during an appearance on "The Herd" "The defense and myself aren't even really scratching the surface of what we can do. I still have a lot of things to get better at. I definitely feel like, in this time of need right now, I need to raise my level of play and try to bring the defense with me doing that." — Senior linebacker Troy Bowles, the team's leading tackler "It's possible the Wolverines just click one of these weeks and score into the 30s or 40s against a Big Ten opponent, but I'm going to need to see that first." — On3's Andy Staples on Michigan's struggling of- fense "It's a blessing. I can't even put it in words how good it is. I'm just so grateful that he could be here with me and I could be here with him and that I'm in a position where I can teach him and help him and guide him through this process." — Graduate linebacker Aisea Moa on being teammates with his brother, freshman wide receiver Salesi Moa "He probably doesn't get enough credit as a passer. The key as they get into the Big Ten season will be if they can get pressure on him. If you give him a clean pocket, he can throw the underneath stuff all day." — An anonymous coach to The Athletic on sophomore quarter- back Bryce Underwood — Clayton Sayfie THEY SAID IT The preparation has worked really well for 20-something years and won champion - ships and gone to Rose Bowls and things like that. It's only natural when you hit a tough spot to ques - tion everything you're doing and evaluate and take a good, hard, in-depth look, but if you believe in what you're doing — which we do, and we've been doing it for a long time, most of us being together — then you can't panic and you just stay the course." — Head coach KYLE WHITTINGHAM PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL