4/21: Tom Herman’s pricey new Texas locker room, more spring visits & The Mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew discuss Bruce’s visit to Texas, where he talked to Tom Herman about his new — and very expensive — locker room and how it helps with recruiting (1:00); Stew’s visit to Oregon and his conversation with Willie Taggart (8:00); Could Tennessee QB Josh Dobbs sneak into the first round (18:00); And your emails answered in The Mailbag (31:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:12.9 | It is our second episode of the week. |
| 0:16.0 | Bruce Spring Football starting to wind down. |
| 0:18.1 | We've got a whole bunch of spring games this Saturday. And let's |
| 0:22.9 | kind of put a bow on our respective travels throughout the month. You had a story go up on Thursday |
| 0:29.4 | from your visit to Texas. And we mentioned this on the last podcast with Andy Staples about the |
| 0:34.4 | Texas lockers. But there's more to say. Yeah, so I talked to Tom |
| 0:41.0 | Herman about the lockers. You know, we talked about first when I visited with them on Friday, |
| 0:47.3 | you know, dealing with entitlement. And that was one of the knocks that has been plagued, |
| 0:53.2 | plaguing the Texas program for much of the |
| 0:56.6 | past decade, certainly in the last few years. |
| 0:59.1 | That's one of the issues Charlie Strong was trying to work against and obviously wasn't able to |
| 1:03.7 | get turned around fast enough. |
| 1:06.1 | But so we talked about that and what he's doing. |
| 1:09.7 | But then, you know, we talked more this week |
| 1:12.8 | after I left just because I had to finish up the interview on the reaction he got and Texas |
| 1:20.5 | got on social media. And I said, you know, was this exactly, what did you make of it? And he was |
| 1:27.4 | very blunt he was |
| 1:28.2 | like the only reaction I care about is that of our players and our recruits I don't |
| 1:33.1 | care about Twitter's reaction I don't care about social media's reaction our |
| 1:36.8 | players loved it the recruits loved it and mission accomplished on that and it was |
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