2/16: Jim Harbaugh in the news again, Deshaun Watson’s draft stock & The Mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew discuss the uproar surrounding Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh hiring the parent of a top recruit to his coaching staff and how it could spurn an NCAA rule change (3:00); Changes coming to the targeting rule (9:00); What Gene Chizik had to say about Clemson QB Deshaun Watson, and where he might fall in the upcoming NFL Draft (15:00); And your emails are answered in The Mailbag (24:00), including questions about the stereotypes of the top 3 recruiting schools (29:00); The scandals going on with Ole Miss football and UNC basketball (37:00); and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Jim Harbaugh is in the news yet again. |
| 0:03.3 | Some welcome relief is coming to everybody's favorite rule, the targeting rule, |
| 0:07.4 | and we've got a lot of emails to answer on today's episode of The Audible. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome to The Audible. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:27.6 | Bruce, I don't know why I don't just take vacations in February. |
| 0:29.6 | Nothing's really going on in college football. |
| 0:32.0 | Oh, there's a lot of coaching turnover. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, but it's position coaches for the most part. |
| 0:37.7 | There's coordinator things. |
| 0:39.0 | Under the radar stuff. |
| 0:43.3 | If you had taken off the whole month of February, you would have missed Steve Sarkesian putting to bed his lengthy career as Alabama offensive coordinator to go to the NFL. |
| 0:50.1 | That's correct. |
| 0:51.3 | Well, there was some news in the past week that we haven't addressed, involving, I think, a guy who we both feel is one of our absolute all-time favorite college football coaches. That's Bill Snyder. He is unfortunately dealing with a health issue, throat cancer, and the guy is 77 years old and says that he's getting the treatment and it's not |
| 1:13.6 | going to keep him from coaching the team in spring practice that is so bill Snyder it is i think |
| 1:21.2 | somebody had had tweeted after you know the announcement had come out from case state it was like oh |
| 1:26.1 | he'll beat it just like he does te, you know, where it's like, |
| 1:28.9 | hey, he's 77, no big deal. |
| 1:30.9 | The best line I saw on Twitter was he will beat cancer and then he'll write cancer a nice |
| 1:36.7 | letter afterwards. |
| 1:38.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.1 | That's what he does. |
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