6/14: Who Is College Football's Sleeping Giant? + The Mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 14 June 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Bruce and Stew start this week's episode of The Audible talking about the new rules passed by the NCAA (1:00); after that they discuss the transfer of Clemson 5-star quarterback Hunter Johnson to Northwestern (11:45); and they finish the episode answering your questions in the mailbag (19:05).
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| 0:26.9 | or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the A |
| 0:47.6 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined. |
| 0:49.3 | As always, by my colleague at the All-American, Bruce Feldman, and Bruce, we didn't know exactly what we were |
| 0:55.7 | going to talk about today, and then the NCAA dropped some news for us, literally about an hour |
| 1:00.3 | before we started recording. |
| 1:01.9 | Yeah, so one of the rules that, proposals that you and I both, and pretty much everybody, I |
| 1:06.9 | think, across the board felt like was a no-brainer got pushed through starting this year. |
| 1:12.5 | It was affectionately known as the red shirt rule. |
| 1:15.7 | You're happy about this, Ryan? |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, it's something that I have been writing about really since, I mean, you go back to the bowl season two years ago when |
| 1:26.2 | Fournette and McAfrey set out the bowl games and everybody was all up in arms about it. |
| 1:31.1 | And that was when I think I first wrote about, and I'm not saying I created the idea by any means, but first wrote about, hey, well, maybe one way to deal with this and to maybe energize those lesser bowl games a little bit would be to |
| 1:45.9 | let the freshmen who have redshirted play in them. And then it turned into a much bigger thing. |
| 1:50.6 | And Todd Berry, the director of the AFCA, started championing an actual proposal that would allow |
| 1:56.7 | the players to play it up to four games. And the ball game thing ends up being just, you know, one small part of it. |
| 2:03.2 | It's really more about, you see teams this happened to Alabama last year with their linebackers, |
| 2:08.6 | Maryland with their quarterbacks. |
| 2:10.3 | Like they're in this day and age, and the season is longer and longer, you see teams get |
| 2:15.4 | a bunch of injuries at a specific position and they end up having |
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