1/25: Reaction to Brent Musburger’s retirement, coaching salaries & The Mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew react to the news of legendary broadcaster Brent Musburger’s retirement, and are joined by his longtime spotter Brian Movalson to reflect on Musburger’s career; The guys share their favorite Musburger stories (22:00); Discuss college football coaches salaries (30:00); Read your e-mails in The Mailbag, which include Dabo Swinney’s potential future at Alabama (38:00); How do schools recruit transfer players without “tampering?” (47:00); Will Georgia live up to the hype this year? (53:00); and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Audible, a broadcasting legend is retiring. |
| 0:04.9 | We'll get into that with somebody who knows him very well, and we'll answer your emails on this episode of the Audible. |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome to The Audible. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:24.0 | It's Wednesday morning. |
| 0:25.6 | Bruce made to scramble a little bit with some late-breaking news, but fortunately, you came up with a great get. |
| 0:31.2 | Yes, we'll get to the reason behind the get in a minute, but the legendary voice of not just college sports, but had been such a prominent voice for NFL today and pregame shows and everything beyond that. |
| 0:45.1 | Brent Musburger, a guy you and I both really like personally, announced he's stepping down. |
| 0:50.8 | And he's stepping down pretty soon in about a week or so. |
| 0:56.2 | As we're going to discuss this, you know, quite a bit this morning. And we decided we had a really good option for a guest |
| 1:01.6 | here of a guy, behind the scenes guy who worked with him for 25 years and really kind of had |
| 1:09.1 | a dream job kind of scenario, how he ended up working side by |
| 1:12.7 | side with Brent for so long. And that is Brian Movelson, who is now a big executive at IM |
| 1:19.2 | and Brian had a great job at EA Sports before that. But all along, he was Brent's spotter |
| 1:25.6 | on broadcast. So with that, let's bring in Brian Movelson to the Audible today. |
| 1:31.7 | Hello, guys. |
| 1:33.6 | Brian, how are you? |
| 1:35.8 | Fantastic. |
| 1:36.6 | Yeah, that was big news, big news. |
| 1:39.0 | It'll be different without having Brent regularly on the airwaves. |
| 1:42.4 | But what a career. |
| 1:45.9 | So when we get into this, |
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