3/1: State of the Big Ten with Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald & The Mailbag returns
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 1 March 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Stew returns to his alma mater Northwestern for an interview with head football coach Pat Fitzgerald to discuss the Wildcats’ basketball team and what an NCAA Tournament bid would do for the athletic program (3:00); Looking ahead to spring football (10:30); And the current state of Big Ten football (13:00).
Bruce and Stew then team up to answer your emails in the triumphant return of The Mailbag (28:00): They answer questions about their favorite college coaches to cover (35:30), which coach would be a good candidate for a career in politics (41:00); Quarterback competitions at Stanford and ASU (43:30) and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up today on the Audible, one of the most successful coaches in recent Big Ten history, |
| 0:06.1 | and we get to your questions in the mailbag. |
| 0:09.6 | All that on The Audible. |
| 0:19.6 | Welcome back to the Audible. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined by Stuart Mandel, who is back in his old stomping grounds, too. |
| 0:27.3 | I know this is probably one of your favorite road trips you have taken in a while, correct? |
| 0:31.7 | Well, I haven't taken any road trips since the national championship game, but, you know, |
| 0:36.5 | probably against my better wishes, I decided a couple weeks ago to come here |
| 0:40.0 | and check out the Northwestern Basketball Resurgence story. |
| 0:44.8 | But to be honest, resurgence, doesn't that imply that they were once good? |
| 0:48.5 | The, what's the, no, what's a better word? |
| 0:50.8 | The upstart Northwesterns. |
| 0:52.3 | Emergence. |
| 0:53.3 | Emergence, yeah. |
| 0:56.8 | Well, so I booked it a couple weeks ago after they beat Wisconsin |
| 0:58.1 | thinking that by the time we got to this game |
| 1:00.4 | which is the Michigan game on March 1st |
| 1:02.3 | they would have basically locked up |
| 1:03.9 | the NCAA tournament bid and I could just interview people |
| 1:06.0 | about how excited they are for that |
| 1:08.2 | as it is as I'm recording this |
| 1:10.3 | not knowing if they've won the game or not |
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