1/24: Everything you need to know about college football’s top recruits heading into signing day
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 24 January 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew are joined by Ryan Bartow of 247 Sports to discuss the biggest recruiting storylines heading into National Signing Day (3:00); Three under-the-radar recruits that will have big impacts in college (13:00); Lane Kiffin on the recruiting trail (21:00); NCAA’s rule changes on recruiting, including the new early signing day (24:00); College programs recruiting players in other countries and other sports (30:00); Do politics have a place in college sports (34:00); College programs most represented in this year’s Super Bowl (45:00); and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Audible today, we go deep in the weeds as signing day approaches. |
| 0:04.7 | We also talk about coaches and politics as well as Jim Harbaugh spurring more NCAA |
| 0:10.2 | new CLA rules changes. |
| 0:12.0 | That's all today on the Audible. |
| 0:24.3 | I am Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:28.2 | All right, Stu, we are about a week away from National Signing Day, |
| 0:32.3 | which is a holiday for a lot of college football fans and diehards. |
| 0:35.7 | And I feel like I fall into that category. |
| 0:38.4 | And our guest today is somebody I worked with back in my CBS days. |
| 0:42.5 | He is way deep in the weeds of recruiting. |
| 0:45.2 | And he is Ryan Bartow. |
| 0:47.2 | He is the National College Football Recruiting Insider for 247 Sports. |
| 0:51.5 | And he is all over all things recruiting. |
| 0:53.8 | And Ryan, thanks for joining us today on the Audible. |
| 0:56.5 | Hey, it's an honor to be here, Bruce and Stu, and everything is great down here in |
| 1:01.6 | Paradise in Fort Lauddy. |
| 1:03.2 | Not a bad place to be based right now. |
| 1:05.6 | You know what? |
| 1:06.2 | I'm only here probably either the 12 months because I'm all over the country and the nation's hot spots. |
| 1:12.3 | Like last year, I think I made 362 high school stops, probably more than a college coach. |
| 1:19.1 | And I spend a lot of my time in Southern California where you guys reside along with Dallas. |
| 1:25.8 | But I have Jersey all the way down to Virginia Beach the Carolinas where |
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