3/28: The 'worst' college realignment decisions of all time
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 28 March 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew kick off the podcast with a discussion about the interesting Final Four matchups and discuss the huge difference between playoff systems in college basketball and football (2:00); If South Carolina leaving the ACC is really considered one of the 'worst' conference realignments of all-time (10:00); Michigan State now has a sexual assault scandal on its hands (25:40); Thoughts on Jim Mora potentially facing a make-or-break season at UCLA (36:00); and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:13.7 | All right, Bruce, I had my month of basketball. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm ready. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm back. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm ready to focus on football from here on out. |
| 0:20.8 | You don't want to talk women's hoops or anything like that? Well, you know, it might come up. I'm ready. I'm back. I'm ready to focus on football from here on out. |
| 0:22.5 | You don't want to talk women's hoops or anything like that? |
| 0:27.5 | Well, you know, it might come up in one of the conversations that we've planned for today. |
| 0:33.2 | But otherwise, it's spring football. You know, okay, not to go off topic right off of the bat, |
| 0:38.4 | but I may be the lone or at least one of the minority of college basketball enthusiasts or NCAA enthusiast, my interest in the tournament peaks at the elite eight. |
| 0:43.6 | Once they actually know who's in the final four, it's kind of all gravy for me. |
| 0:47.9 | Obviously, I'm going to watch those games, but I just feel like that's where the suspense is |
| 0:51.6 | and who makes the final four four not necessarily who then wins the |
| 0:55.3 | final four yeah i'm kind of with you i mean look i thought there was great drama in those games |
| 1:00.8 | that we had this past weekend but you know what it's almost also like for a lot of us i think it's |
| 1:05.7 | it's about the bracket the bracket is the first weekend and then i think it starts to most people start to lose stuff what i think has always been interesting about the tournament is The bracket is the first weekend. And then I think it starts to, most people start to lose stuff. What I think has always been interesting about the tournament is I feel like the first week, if not even the second week, is really about some under the radar star unless you're a diehard college basketball person. Everyone kind of discovers them. Like Sandarius Thornwell? No. I think it would be like there are guys that happened in the years before. |
| 1:29.9 | I would argue that the guy who everyone is discovering now, it's not like he was, no one |
| 1:34.2 | heard of him before, but just seeing him on a big stage is actually his coach, Frank Martin. |
| 1:39.9 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 1:41.8 | It's a big, it's often this is the moment when coaches become star, star coaches. |
| 1:48.1 | Mark Fuse obviously pretty well established already. |
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