The following is a guest column from Matt Dery, host of the Locked on Lions podcast, The Pistons Podcast and contributor at 92.3 The Fan in Cleveland. The views and opinions in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect that of Maize n Brew, its contributors, and SB Nation.
The 2021 Michigan Wolverines football season will be the last one called by its current radio broadcast team. The announcement was made last week in a bombshell announcement dropped in right before the start of the Western Michigan game.
No one expected to hear the news delivered live on the radio that longtime Michigan football staple Jim Brandstatter was retiring at season’s end, joining his broadcast partner Dan Dierdorf in retirement.