Ann Arbor — Devin Bush Jr. received a curious text on his cell phone in January.
“‘Yo, who is this?’” Bush said the text read. “And I’m like, ‘How are you going to text my phone and ask me who is this? Yeah, this is Devin.’”
It was Ben Herbert, Michigan’s new director of strength and conditioning, and that was his icebreaker.
“He was just like, ‘We’ve got a lot of work to do, come and get this work in,” Bush said last week after practice. “I’m like, ‘Coach, we just got off a game, like, let me rest.