John Beilein

And over the next few weeks, we'll catch up with many members of the new class.

We already had one back in September, sharing that one on Defend the Block with former men's basketball head coach John Beilein.

This week, we visit with softball star Sierra Romero, one of the best hitters, not just in Michigan history, but in collegiate softball history.

So Sierra Romero joins us next right here on Conquering Heroes.

All right, so you go-

This is not John Beilein.

This is not...

Who, who is the guy?

I'm Anthony, and, uh, joining us on the horn right now, a now one-but-two-sport athlete at Concordia University.

Did his GA years under John Beilein at the University of Michigan, now patrols the sidelines at Ohio University for the Bobcats.

Titles, titles, titles.

He's the coach, Cal Barlow.

He's, you know." And I said, "Cool." You know, "Share my number." And so we texted a little bit and it wasn't anything crazy.

Um, and then he hired John Beilein and I said, "Oh, you know, you hired John Beilein," like, you know, "Congratulations on f- you know, finishing the hire." And he said, "Hey, I haven't forgotten about you.

Could, could you ca- I'm going to Chicago for the draft combine.

Can we catch up next week?" And I said, "Great.

It's...

And Perry, by the way, I always come back, you didn't tell John Beilein about the Greek Freak.

What, what, what are you doing, Perry? What are you doing? I mean, between, uh, we got Perry and-

And Eric

... and Eric in South Carolina.

Man, Ja Morant and the Greek Freak could've been Wolverines if those guys just picked up the phone and called John Beilein.

Anyway, we gotta get to a break, Steve.

So much more to talk about across the college football landscape.

Fred Hoiberg, the immortal Fred.

And we had John Beilein, who was our last college-to-pro coach in 2019.

This has not happened for seven years, and there's a reason for it, 'cause this league's really good, and it's really deep, and there's a lot of talent, and it's always good to have s- like, you'd ra- much, much rather have, like, a Sean Sweeney, who's been in the war, who's gone against all these dudes, who has a reservoir of other people and, you know.

To just come in blind to this, Zach, what are, what are you hearing on this?

I think a coach is a coach is a coach.

I mean, you're going back way, way back with some of those names that, that failed transitioning to the NBA.

It has been a while since John Beilein.

Remember the story about John Beilein calling his, naming his plays after animals and the k- and the players laughing at that?