12/12: Reaction to Lane Kiffin leaving Alabama for FAU & a closer look at the Heisman voting
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 12 December 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew are joined by Joe Tessitore of ESPN to break down the Heisman Trophy voting. They discuss why this year’s race was particularly bizarre and things that could be changed about the Heisman voting process (3:00); A closer look at the candidates and where they finished on the ballots (15:00); Looking ahead to the Peach Bowl matchup between Alabama and Washington (23:00); Reaction to Lane Kiffin taking the head coaching job at FAU (34:00); Bruce goes behind the scenes of the Lott Impact Trophy ceremony and gives insight on the candidates and winner, Michigan’s Jabrill Peppers (40:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:13.5 | It is the Monday after the Heisman trophy ceremony. |
| 0:16.7 | Lamar Jackson is your Heisman trophy winner. |
| 0:18.7 | And who better to talk about this than the world's leading Heisman Authority from ESPN, Joe Tessitore. What's up, guys? Yeah, what's going on? It's a Monday where I can actually breathe is what's going on. I don't have to prep for a game and nonstop Heisman ballots coming into my inbox. So that's always nice. How are you guys? We're doing good. We're trying to catch fair breath amid all the coaching carousel stuff and everything else that's going on. But I don't know. There's an interesting time of the season where you kind of downshift from everything that got you to the playoffs and now all the craziness that happens off the field. |
| 0:54.9 | I'm not going to lie. It was nice to wake up Saturday morning and not have to rush to do anything. |
| 1:00.4 | That's why it's cool. We get this little break in the action, not that there isn't some news happening. |
| 1:05.4 | In terms of the Heisman, Joe, do you feel the same way I do? Just a very weird year in the way it all turned out. |
| 1:12.2 | Definitely, Sue. I felt that way for a long time, even when we had, you know, Lamar doing |
| 1:18.9 | what he was doing in October and the first half of November, where, you know, you did feel like, |
| 1:25.6 | oh, okay, we got a pretty clear-cut guy here, |
| 1:27.7 | and it looks like he's having a Heisman season, because then it didn't look like he was having a Heisman season. |
| 1:32.3 | Then nothing that we know in all these, you know, all these pillars of Heismanology that I put forth all the time. |
| 1:40.3 | They didn't feel as sturdy, but then you didn't really have anybody stepping up at the right time, |
| 1:46.1 | and then you had all this hard to fill out your ballot in third or second, and which way do you go? |
| 1:51.5 | And then they handed me the results, you know, moments before they opened the envelope, |
| 1:56.4 | and I glanced at them, and it was everybody, what I thought it would be with this ridiculous |
| 2:01.9 | widespread voting between third and this tie for tent that I'm looking down at right now |
| 2:07.7 | on the list so yeah it didn't it didn't seem like a normal year at all Joe let me ask you |
| 2:12.6 | this you're a voter correct mmhmm. What was your ballot like? |
| 2:22.8 | Players appeared on my ballot that weren't in New York. |
| 2:25.0 | I never reveal my ballot. You never reveal. |
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