2/8: College sports scandals with Dennis Dodd of CBS & The Mailbag returns
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew are joined by Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports to discuss the various college sports scandals making headlines recently, including UNC's 18-year academic scheme of bogus classes; Details on Baylor's sanctions for the massive sexual assault scandal surrounding the football program (11:30); and the Colorado recruiting scandal (22:30). Things lighten up with the return of the Mailbag, where Stew and Bruce answer your emails about the possibility of Chip Kelly joining Nick Saban's staff at Alabama (42:00); Grading Kirby Smart's first year at Georgia (47:00) and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:12.9 | It's been a couple of weeks. |
| 0:14.0 | Our schedules just didn't align, and then I got sick. |
| 0:17.9 | And I don't know, we just couldn't make it happen. |
| 0:20.2 | We didn't want to wait this long. |
| 0:21.7 | But now that we're here, we've got a lot to catch up on, Bruce, and none of it is particularly pleasant. |
| 0:27.5 | No, lots of police blotter stuff, more of bailer stuff. |
| 0:32.3 | And, you know, well, we also have some fallout from some of the coaching moves, most notably. |
| 0:40.6 | Steve Sarkeesian stay at Alabama was not very long. |
| 0:43.3 | So let's get to our guest. |
| 0:45.0 | It is Dennis Dodd, who is versed in everything, but especially so in the North Carolina academic scandal. |
| 0:52.8 | And all things, NCA enforcement. |
| 0:55.2 | Dennis, how are you? |
| 0:56.1 | And which of these sorted stories do you want to get into first? |
| 0:59.7 | I want to spin the wheel of fate. |
| 1:02.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:03.0 | I guess North Carolina because of, because it was somewhat new. |
| 1:10.3 | And Bob McConaugan chose to speak out on the subject, |
| 1:14.3 | right as they're about to go in the room, you know, later this year before the committee |
| 1:18.1 | in France. |
| 1:19.2 | All right, so let's catch people up on that. |
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