5/4: Minnesota Gophers head coach PJ Fleck, Nick Saban’s big salary & The Mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew begin the show by discussing the news of Nick Saban’s substantial salary and how it affects the rest of the sport (5:00); They are then joined by Minnesota head football coach P.J. Fleck (9:00), who talks about his transition from Western Michigan and the MAC to his new opportunity in the Big Ten. Fleck discusses what he’s seen from his team so far in spring practice, what to expect from the Gophers this upcoming season and he shares some of his inspirations and role models that have made him successful so far.
Next up, the guys answer your emails in the ever popular Mailbag, including questions about the recent layoffs at ESPN (25:00), As possible solution to college football’s current bowl system, and players sitting out (40:00); and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:12.0 | Joined by Bruce Feldman, when I say that, this time for once, he's sitting right next to me. |
| 0:16.0 | Stu, we've had done a lot to make this podcast work this morning. |
| 0:20.0 | We tried from my hotel room, but there was a woman with a really, really awkward piercing laugh. I think you would say like laugh, the expression laughs like a hyena. Yeah, she was outside in the next, outside in the courtyard, so we couldn't do that. Then we went to the breakfast nook. That didn't work. So here we are. |
| 0:37.6 | Here we are. |
| 0:38.3 | Lovely room. |
| 0:39.0 | My lovely room here at the Marriott courtyard. |
| 0:41.8 | We are here in Phoenix, if we didn't make that clear yet. |
| 0:45.1 | I don't think we had. |
| 0:47.1 | It's kind of not a very well-known thing to the public, but basically most of the college football world convenes on Phoenix, |
| 0:55.1 | specifically the Biltmore Resort, the first week of May, |
| 0:58.4 | for various meetings, but also an excuse to play golf and get drunk. |
| 1:02.5 | Let's be honest. |
| 1:05.0 | We've been here for a day, and we've seen coaches and ADs from the PAC 12 because their meetings had already started. |
| 1:13.6 | The American. |
| 1:15.1 | The Big 12 hasn't really gotten here yet. |
| 1:17.7 | The Big Ten has started to arrive. |
| 1:20.3 | The Mac. |
| 1:21.6 | And then some other coaches like Brett Beleman when we ran into. |
| 1:24.4 | Because there's people from the AFCA who are here. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah. |
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