If you're around college football teams long enough, you know where to go for the honest assessments of what's going on behind the scenes.
It doesn't always come from coaches. It can come from older players, especially those who are no longer worried about trivial things.
At Michigan, Chase Winovich is one of those guys. He's been here five years.He knows what things look like when they're going bad, and he knows how it feels when things are going good. And he knows there's no point in pretending both don't happen.
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"There's been a lot of this," Winovich said, offering a hand gesture that mimes hollow hype and endless talking.