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The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

2/20: Father of FAU QB De'Andre Johnson gives emotional interview about his son's mistake

The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

The Athletic

Sports, Football, College Football, Big Ten, Cfb, Sec, News, Sports News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Bruce and Stew are joined by the father of former Florida State QB De'Andre Johnson, Earl Johnson, who gives an emotional interview about his son's very public incident, in which he struck a woman at a bar nearly three years ago. Johnson talked about the steps his son has taken in the wake of the incident, including his dismissal from the FSU football program, his stint at "Last Chance U" and his recent signing with Lane Kiffin's FAU Owls.

The guys later discuss the recent news of Nick Saban hiring Brian Daboll as Alabama OC (27:00); Boston College's athletic director stepping down and what it means for BC football head coach Steve Addazio (31:00) and other college football news.


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0:00.0

Coming up on the Audible, we have a very emotional interview with the father of a player who got in trouble for violence against a woman and is now trying to start his second chance.

0:10.8

It's a very interesting conversation.

0:12.9

We hope you'll get a lot out of it.

0:14.5

And afterward, we'll talk about some of the events going on in college football right now.

0:18.1

All that coming up on the Audible.

0:29.0

Music college football right now. All that coming up on the Audible. Welcome to the Audible.

0:30.1

I am Bruce Feldman, joined as always by Stuart Mandel.

0:33.9

As we're taping this on Monday morning, We have a very interesting guest today. Earl Johnson,

0:40.1

his son, D'Andre Johnson, who came out of junior college and signed with FAU to play quarterback

0:45.7

a couple months ago. Many of you may remember the name D'Andre Johnson, former Blue Chip

0:51.7

freshman at FSU, but in July of 2015 was dismissed from the program

0:57.1

after video emerged of him hitting a woman at a bar. Johnson later went on Good Morning,

1:03.4

America, to apologize to the woman and subsequently ended up at East Mississippi Community

1:08.5

College, aka Last Chance, you.

1:13.1

We're going to get into that story, as still alluded to at the top.

1:16.9

It's a very emotional interview.

1:19.1

The reason why we wanted to have Earl on is because this issue is not a one-off.

1:24.4

The violence against women's subject comes up often, not just in sports,

1:28.1

but certainly it has in our little corner of the world in sports. And the case of Joe Mixen,

1:33.1

especially in the last year, I think, as an escalated as a prime example of that, where Earl

1:38.0

Johnson and Deontre kind of come into this is what happened on video that night from the bar.

1:44.3

I think there's a lot more that, you know, in the wake of it and the steps that this family and he took and have taken to show that he was contrite and have been determined to do since then, I think is relevant here as we're going forward in a very important subject.

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