1/19: Oregon players hospitalized, can Jim Harbaugh bring a title to Michigan & The Mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew dive into the disturbing situation at Oregon that caused three players to be hospitalized after strenuous team workouts; They discuss some of the best college football players that failed to make their Mt. Rushmore list (13:00); And dive into everyone's favorite segment, The Mailbag, and answer e-mails about Jim Harbaugh's ability to lead Michigan to a national championship (24:00); Leonard Fournette's decision to skip LSU's bowl game (36:00); Will the new startup pro football league force the NCAA to pay its players? (42:00); Is USC's 2017 schedule an advantage or disadvantage for their playoff hopes? (46:00) and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Troubling news out of Oregon this week. |
| 0:03.8 | Also, time to go back down the Mount Rushmore well and answer all of your emails, all of that on this episode of the Audible. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to The Audible. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm Stuart Vandelle, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:24.4 | And Bruce, this may be a first. |
| 0:27.4 | We're going to do an all mailbag episode. |
| 0:32.3 | Well, not entirely all. |
| 0:34.1 | No, all. |
| 0:35.5 | Let's get into it then, if that's what you're doing. |
| 0:38.5 | As always, you can send your emails to the audible pod at gmail.com. |
| 0:43.3 | I mean, this first one, we were going to probably address this topic anyway, |
| 0:47.1 | but since we have an email, let's just use that. |
| 0:50.1 | It's from Max in Bend, Oregon. |
| 0:52.6 | Hello, Bruce and Stewart. |
| 0:54.0 | As a duck fan living in Oregon and a regular audible listener, I was prepared for the, quote, |
| 0:58.6 | never worked this hard in the wait room articles to riddle my Twitter feed all offseason. |
| 1:04.2 | I realize now that the jokes we made about the puke bucket stories kind of took a twisted turn this already this offseason. |
| 1:12.2 | So yes, he says I was prepared for those, |
| 1:13.8 | but I did not expect three duck football players |
| 1:16.2 | to be hospitalized from ruling workouts |
| 1:18.1 | and a suspended strength coach. |
| 1:20.9 | Is this story unprecedented? |
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