12/19: Players skipping bowl games, Donnel Pumphrey's rushing record & Joe Mixon's punishment
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 19 December 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew react to the recently-made public video of Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon assaulting a female student and give their thoughts on his punishment; How the Minnesota football team nearly boycotted the Holiday Bowl after ten of its players were suspended in light of sexual assault allegations (17:00); LSU's Leonard Fournette and Stanford's Christian McCaffrey sitting out their team's bowl games to prepare for the NFL Draft (23:00); Your questions answered in the Mailbag (33:00); And did San Diego State running back Donnel Pumphrey really set the FBS career rushing record? (42:00).
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| 0:00.0 | It's been a newsy few days in college football. |
| 0:04.6 | The Joe Mixon video is out. |
| 0:06.8 | Minnesota very nearly boycotted a bowl game, |
| 0:09.2 | and Christian McCaffery is going to set out a bowl game. |
| 0:12.6 | We'll be talking about all of that on today's episode of the Audible. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:28.9 | As always, if you enjoy The Audible, you should subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. |
| 0:34.8 | Bruce, it was quite the event for a few days, and an unfortunate coincidence. |
| 0:40.3 | I had, my family and I went away for the way we had planned this a long time ago to go away on Friday. |
| 0:45.1 | You called me just as we were pulling into the hotel with some news. |
| 0:48.6 | The Joe Mixon video is out. |
| 0:50.7 | I don't know about you, Stu, but to me, when I watched, the two things that kind of stood out to me. The first was, this kind of took a minute to unfold. I mean, we only saw, you know, what started before it, but it looks like there was something that happened, you know, to precipitate, you know, the first 30 seconds of it. And so it wasn't like hair is an argument, and then a woman slaps a guy and the guy reacts and hits her. You know, we've seen those videos and they're disgusting as they are. |
| 0:55.8 | This... And so it wasn't like hair as an argument and then a woman slaps a guy and the guy reacts and hits her. |
| 1:11.4 | You know, we've seen those videos and they're disgusting as they are. |
| 1:14.4 | This, you know, at one point, she pushes him and he like kind of lunges her as if, you know, like, don't you mess with me kind of thing. |
| 1:22.9 | And then she recoils and like swats at his neck and he recoils and just decks her and walks off and |
| 1:29.4 | like i said it's a disgraceful thing to see um what was your reaction was it different than you |
| 1:35.4 | anticipated it to be once you saw it well like you you know i think and i've seen people say it |
| 1:41.1 | shouldn't have taken seeing the video for people to react like this. But I'm sorry. |
| 1:45.4 | There's one thing to read about a crime. |
| 1:49.6 | And nobody was saying, nobody was condoning it. |
| 1:52.8 | You know, I mean, we all acknowledged that this was part of Joe Mixon's story and he was suspended for a year. |
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