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UNDERRATED: Why Jason Beck Could TRANSFORM Michigan Wolverines With Bryce Underwood This Season

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Jason Beck turned Utah’s 105th-ranked offense into the No. 4 offense and No. 2 rushing attack at New Mexico.

1. Locked On Wolverines focuses on Jason Beck as the overlooked coordinator hire and Michigan’s 68-63 loss to Duke. 2. Isaiah Hull is the host, says he publishes Wolverines Wire through USA Today Sports Media Group, and frames the episode around Michigan football and basketball. 3. The episode asks whether Jason Beck can transform Michigan’s offense now that Bryce Underwood and the rest of the roster are in place. 4. Hull compares Beck with Chip Kelly, Bobby Petrino, Charlie Weiss Jr., Will Muschamp, Gary Patterson, Buster Faulkner, Chad Morris, and Jim Knowles, saying most of them carry name recognition. 5. He says Beck has been an offensive coordinator for only three years and that his first year at Syracuse was not strong. 6. Hull points to Beck’s work at New Mexico and Utah and says both teams reached the fourth-ranked offense and second-ranked rushing attack. 7. He says the jump from 105th to fourth at Utah may have been the biggest offensive move-up in the country last year. 8. Hull argues that Beck’s results would have drawn head-coach interviews if they had happened at a place like Texas. 9. He says Michigan’s offense was 69th nationally last year and 117th the year before, so Beck is inheriting a much better baseline. 10. He says the current roster suits Beck’s style because Bryce Underwood, Jordan Marshall, Andrew Marsh, Jamie French, and A.J. Buchanan give him more weapons. 11. Hull uses a go-karts-to-Formula-One comparison to describe the difference between Beck’s old situations and Michigan. 12. He says elite coaches are sometimes missed because they are not at Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, or Texas. 13. The Duke segment opens with Hull saying he does not like blaming referees, but he thinks the first half changed the game. 14. He cites Cameron Boozer’s four fouls, the Adai Mara foul trouble, and a travel on Axle that he says should not have been called. 15. Hull also mentions two out-of-bounds calls and a goaltend that Jay Bilas questioned on the broadcast. 16. He says Duke got away with more contact than Michigan even though the foul totals did not show a simple one-sided discrepancy. 17. The second half is where the game swung, as Michigan’s shooting dropped from 51 percent to 29 percent. 18. Hull says the episode has a conversational solo-host style, with repeated asides, numbers, and basketball and football transitions. 19. Michigan football fans tracking Bryce Underwood and Jason Beck. 20. Listeners wanting only game recaps or broad national-candidate talk.

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A loose, smart Michigan take that makes the Beck case and stays grounded through the Duke loss.

Locked On Wolverines turns its opening into a clear case that Jason Beck deserved more national notice, then carries that argument through Michigan's loss at Duke and into an early look at the quarterback picture before spring.

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