5/30: What Is It Like Behind The Scenes For College Football's Biggest Games? + Matt Campbell
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Bruce is flying solo on this week's episode of The Audible. He starts the show interviewing Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell. They discuss Iowa State's rising program, how he identifies guys who fit the culture they are creating in Ames, and they get into his journey from GA to head coach.
Following the interview with Coach Campbell, Bruce is joined by Chuck McDonald who is the lead game producer for Fox Sports College Football. He and Bruce discuss the art of televising a college football game, the path he took to his current job, and he tells stories from his time working for the World League in Europe.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Bruce Feldman. No Stu Mandel. He is on vacation |
| 0:23.9 | with his family, but we have two guests today. I think you'll really like this episode. We're |
| 0:30.4 | going to be joined by Matt Campbell. He is the great young coach at Iowa State. We're going to get |
| 0:35.3 | into a lot of topics with him, not just about program building, |
| 0:39.3 | but why they've been able to have success at a place nobody's really had success at and his |
| 0:43.8 | path and also his perspective on what it takes to develop talent. I think it's a big picture |
| 0:48.9 | topic that you'll see we dig into. He has a really interesting, interesting view of things, |
| 0:53.8 | and I think we'll get at some really good stuff. Our other guest is Chuck McDonald. He has a really interesting, interesting view of things, and I think we'll get at |
| 0:54.6 | some really good stuff. Our other guest is Chuck McDonald. He is a colleague of mine at Fox Sports, |
| 1:00.7 | and he's one of the best game producers in the business. And Chuck has been around for about two |
| 1:06.1 | decades. And I thought it would be fascinating for a lot of people to hear what it's like behind |
| 1:09.9 | the curtain of a game broadcast, as well as some of Chuck's stories. |
| 1:14.2 | So we're going to start out with Matt Campbell, and then we'll get to Chuck in a minute. |
| 1:18.4 | And next week, Stu will be back on the Audible. |
| 1:21.1 | At least I think he will. |
| 1:22.3 | And now we are thrilled to be joined by our guests today on the audible. |
| 1:26.5 | Matt Campbell, he's the outstanding coach at Iowa State, who has worked some wonders there in Ames. |
| 1:32.5 | Coach, I want to throw out a crazy stat that I've seen that's happened under your watch in the last two years. |
| 1:38.0 | ISU is 3 and 1 versus top 10 teams the past two years. |
| 1:42.7 | In the previous 25 years before this run, ISU was 2 and 33 in top 10 teams the past two years. In the previous 25 years before this run, |
| 1:45.7 | I assume was 2 and 33 in top 10 games. |
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