Welcome back to the Audible. I am Bruce Feldman, joined as always by Stuart Mandel. We are taping in the heart of championship week and our favorite bracketologists. That's not Joe, whatever his name is. That's our own beloved Stu Mandel. I'm pulling him away from college hoops to jump back in his first love, his only real love, college football. Stu, what's going on? You know college football is my first priority for 49 weeks a year.

This happens to be one of the weeks that basketball takes precedent.

But look, I haven't stopped paying attention to football.

And actually, a couple interesting things stood out to us this week.

Let's start with that since we're getting your

almost undivided attention. What caught your eye? You know, on signing day, I had Brian Kelly on the

audible. He had just done his first press conference with the local reporters in a while, and the big

theme, both in that press conference and on my interview, was him taking ownership for their bad season last year, saying it's on me, I did a poor job of coaching.

He comes back to start spring practice, and now it turns out that, you know, that is now playing out in him pretty much reinventing his entire coaching style.

And this was also laid out in greater detail by our friend Pete Thamell in a Sports

Illustrated feature.

Yeah, and hopefully we'll dig into more of that story and yoga and all those other things

in the next edition of the Automol.

So I ask you this.

I feel like I'm more of a believer in Brian Kelly than you are as a coach a little bit.

No, I've been a believer.

I've been, you know, I've always thought he's a pretty good coach.

I mean, I was pretty critical last year.

I thought he did a terrible job last year.

He seems to agree.

And I would say the skepticism now is I've seen this a lot, right?

Coaches, oh, I'm going to get more involved. It always deviates, right? Some coaches are like,

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