Michigan football: 2025 schedule and key games
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Brady Norton, the now Michigan football offensive lineman, got a phone call while he was in a hotel in Ann Arbor.
An All-American at FCS Cal Poly, Norton thought he would get some “group of five” looks when he entered the transfer portal last winter, only to immediately receive a number of power four ACC offers.
He was considering them, that is until U-M got in contact with him and he truly “couldn’t believe.”
Ohio State had also reached out, he said Tuesday in Schembechler Hall while meeting with local reporters for the first time. But then they “ghosted” him. That is, until he was in Ann Arbor and U-M offered.
Not long after that happened, Norton, just miles away from the Big House, got the phone call from a staffer at OSU who offered him a scholarship. He said he thought it was “a little odd”, they hadn’t made contact until U-M wanted him, so he never responded: he simply posted a recruiting graphic that he was pledged to the maize and blue.
His thoughts now that more time has passed?
“(Expletive) those guys,” Norton said.
‘Grew up not liking Michigan’
Oh yes, he will fit in quite nicely in Ann Arbor. That is if he can get people to forgive him (jokingly) for his previous thoughts about the program. Norton grew up in Mission Viejo, Calif rooting for nearby UCLA as well as his father’s old favorite team, Notre Dame.
Norton knows the lore of the block M, the tradition of the program and the success they’ve had, and combine that with the Notre Dame-Michigan rivalry in the early 2000’s, and his opinion of the Wolverines was pretty much set.
“I honestly grew up not liking Michigan, I’m not gonna lie,” Norton said. “I definitely think they’re the most hated team in the nation, no doubt, which is a good thing…it’s a…
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