2/12: How Much Credence Should Fans Put in Recruiting Rankings? + Jimmy Raye
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew start this week's episode of The Audible with an interview of longtime football coach Jimmy Raye (1:09); they follow up the interview with a discussion about Kyler Murray's decision to play football (29:38); they talk about the opening weekend for the AAF (43:22); and wrap up the show with a quick mailbag (50:13).
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on today's episode, we talked to a guest who played an extremely important role in college football history. |
| 0:07.7 | We talk about Kyler Murray's decision to stay in the NFL draft and why does Bruce hate recruiting rankings. |
| 0:16.1 | All coming up on the Audible. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, yeah. on the Audible. Welcome back to the Audible. |
| 0:35.5 | I am Bruce Feldman, joined as often as the case by my colleague, Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:40.6 | Stu, we got a very important guest on the Audible today, a guy who spent three plus decades in the NFL, but also has a really, really important connection to the history of college football. |
| 0:55.6 | And that is Jimmy Ray. |
| 1:01.9 | And we'll explain more in a minute. Yeah, really, really fascinating to talk to him. This being Black History Month, give Bruce credit for coming up with the idea. We hope to do more guests like this. |
| 1:06.9 | So let's go to the interview. Now we got a special guest. So I'll preface this by saying a few weeks ago we had Manny Diaz on and it gave us an opportunity to stretch beyond just the news of the day. |
| 1:17.8 | And we're looking to do more of that on the audible, especially in the off season. |
| 1:21.6 | Since February is Black History Month, I thought it would be an ideal time to delve into a coach who I think may be the most underrated |
| 1:28.7 | important figure in the sports history. His name is Duffy Dordy and he is in the college |
| 1:35.1 | football Hall of Fame, but I'll be honest to, if it weren't for a chance meeting I had with |
| 1:38.7 | our guest today a few years ago, I'd really have no idea just how big an impact Duffy Doherty has had. |
| 1:45.8 | Our guest today is Jimmy Ray. He's a longtime NFL coach who back in 1966 became the first |
| 1:52.3 | black quarterback from the South to win a national title. Jimmy, I'm, we're glad to have you |
| 1:56.7 | join us. You're from Fayetteville, North Carolina. Tell us a little bit about what the |
| 2:00.9 | recruiting climate was like back then for top high school players in the South, and what was |
| 2:05.8 | Duffy Doherty's Underground Railroad? Well, it's a pleasure to be on your show, Bruce. Back in the |
| 2:13.4 | mid-60s, there wasn't any recruiting climate for black athletes in the South. |
| 2:19.0 | Basically, all of the schools within a 60-mile radius of where I live in the Atlantic Coast |
| 2:25.8 | Conference, all of those schools were segregated. |
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