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Q: Last year was your first year back in college football in a while.
How was the transition back from the pros to the college game?
Steve Szabo: “It wasn’t too difficult. I think football
is football, but I think the college game was just more fun. The younger people
aren’t professionals so they have a greater degree of enthusiasm with
what they do and it’s a little bit more enjoyable.”
Q: How much of an adjustment was getting back to recruiting?
Steve Szabo: “Recruiting was the biggest adjustment. It had
been 12 years since I was last in college football, and the texting and cell
phones were new. I have enough trouble with the normal phones and here I was
trying to text (laughing). You get it done, but it’s still different.”
Q: Who are looking like the starting linebackers going into the fall?
Steve Szabo: “We’re going into camp with Crable at SAM,
John Thompson at MIKE and Chris Graham at WILL.”
Q: Austin Panter came in from junior college and struggled a little
bit in the spring. Can you talk about his adjustment and what his future at
Michigan looks like?
Steve Szabo: “Spring was rough for Austin. He played eight-man
football in high school in Kansas and then went to junior college out there.
He doesn’t have a vast background in 11-man football. He struggled in
the spring, but I think he’ll come back a different man this fall. He’s
become acclimated to the university and his teammates and I think he’ll
come back much more competitive in the fall.”
Q: You lost possibly the best middle linebacker in college football.
Talk about the progress Johnny Thompson has made this spring to get ready to
step into his role.
Steve Szabo: “David Harris was a terrific kid. David made coaching
fun. It was a treat to watch a guy play the way he did and make the plays that
he did. John’s got to step up to the plate. He’s got a ways to go,
but I’m often reminded by the coaches of some comments that I made last
spring about David being a little mediocre (laughing). Thompson is the same
way. He’s not a house hold name right now, but you never know with how
hard he’ll work.”
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