Michigan alum Charles Woodson says it hurts to see Wolverines struggle

Charles Woodson won a Heisman Trophy and national championship when he played for Michigan more than a decade ago.

The fact the current crop of Wolverines are nowhere close to earning similar accolades and mired in a four-game Big Ten losing streak doesn’t sit well with one of the football program's most well-known alumns.

Former Michigan cornerback Charles Woodson chats with a fellow alum while waiting to tee off at a golf outing held at the University of Michigan Golf Course this past spring.

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“I’m not excited about losing,” Woodson said Tuesday, while visiting Ann Arbor. “They started out on fire and looked good for a short period, but it’s hard to watch the place you love and played … to see the team struggling like that is hard. It’s hard."

Woodson, who currently plays for the Green Bay Packers, said the Wolverines’ record is often a topic of conversation in the locker room - and a sore spot for him.

“I’m getting flack from a guy who went to Cincinnati,” Woodson said of his Green Bay understudy, rookie Brandon Underwood. “I never thought there’d be a day in my life I was taking flack from a guy from Cincinnati.”