6/15: Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley on taking over for Bob Stoops & Baker Mayfield's punishment
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 15 June 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Bruce and Stew are joined by Oklahoma's new head coach Lincoln Riley (1:00), who discusses how he was prepared to take over the job, the future of OU football and the recently announced punishment of QB Baker Mayfield (16:00).
The guys then answer your emails in the latest edition of The Mailbag (19:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible College Football's only twice a week, |
| 0:14.2 | a national college football podcast in the middle of the off season. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:20.4 | What do you think about my completely unverified claim there? Oh, I think it's pretty awesome. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. What do you think about my completely |
| 0:21.4 | unverified claim there? Oh, I think it's pretty awesome. I love that you call it completely |
| 0:26.1 | unverified. I mean, I haven't combed iTunes for every podcast, but I mean, come on, give us a little |
| 0:32.4 | credit. We're still going twice a week in June, and this is a big one. We got a big guest who's been in the news lately. Yeah, I just love the idea that, you know, I think you need to work on this. You've got to come up with a completely unverified, quote-unquote, fact every time we do an intro. I think that would be good. America's fastest growing college football podcast. Can't dispute it. There's nothing out there to dispute it. |
| 0:55.3 | We're bearing the lead last week. |
| 0:56.7 | Bob Stoops, legendary Oklahoma coach retires and hands the reins to his offense coordinator, |
| 1:02.4 | Lincoln Riley. |
| 1:03.4 | Lincoln Riley, nice enough to join us today on the podcast. |
| 1:08.1 | And here he is. |
| 1:09.0 | Joining us now is the new head coach at Oklahoma, Lincoln Riley. |
| 1:14.0 | Lincoln, first question is, it's been about a week since you became the head coach. |
| 1:19.4 | How much have you actually slept since then? |
| 1:23.8 | You know, not a ton. |
| 1:26.3 | There's been a lot, but it's, you know, I've enjoyed it. |
| 1:30.8 | It's been fun, you know, meeting with all the different people, connecting with |
| 1:35.1 | recruits, spend a lot of time here with our current players. |
| 1:40.2 | So, yeah, it's been, it's been a whirlwind. |
| 1:41.9 | There seems like there's, you know, a hundred decisions a day and a lot of people to meet with and talk with. But like I said, it's been fun. I've enjoyed it. It's felt great. There's a ton of support here. And so, yeah, I've survived week one, so hopefully now I'll make it to week two. Well, that's one thing I often hear when I talk to coaches after they move from a coordinator |
| 2:04.0 | role to a head coach is oftentimes as much as they've been around it, they don't really |
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