It was Michigan media day, and the Wolverines running back had just been asked to recall the day he found out his team had hired Jim Harbaugh as its new head coach.
It wasn't necessarily an uncommon question on that day, given the excitement that Harbaugh's hiring has elicited in Ann Arbor and the past seven months, but there was something genuine in Green's nonverbal response that couldn't be seen from the Michigan players at other positions on the eve of fall camp.
And the more Wolverines running backs you talked to, the more that trend continued to emerge.