6/23: Urban Meyer's coaching future | Alabama's 2018 recruiting class | Coaching scandals
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 23 June 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
An all-mailbag episode of The Audible. This week, Bruce and Stew dive deep into all of your questions. They discuss the possibility of the College Football Playoff being hosted all in one location over a week, which coaches in each conference are least likely to be involved in a scandal, how much longer Urban Meyer will coach at Ohio State, why Alabama's 2018 recruiting class is currently ranked so low, if Baylor has been able to move on from all of their scandals, why Penn State lost a big time QB commit, and recall some of the most memorable plays in college football since 2000.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible. |
| 0:11.8 | I am Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:16.2 | We are taping this on Wednesday morning. |
| 0:19.3 | And Stu, since we feel like we have such a great connection with our |
| 0:22.9 | listeners, let's go to the mailbag. We're going to go to the mailbag, but I have a quick question |
| 0:27.0 | for you first. Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma's new coach, they announced his new contract, 3.1 million a |
| 0:33.9 | year, fully guaranteed. 3.1 million the first year. It's actually an average of 3.5. That's pretty good money for a first-time head coach, don't you think? It is. It is. But it's Oklahoma. And I think, you know, you're looking as paying arguably the top job in the conference or certainly one of the top two jobs in the conference. And I think they're going to pay you what they think you are worth. |
| 0:57.0 | Also, keep in mind, what's interesting about this deal is we reported on Tuesday. |
| 1:01.5 | It is fully guaranteed from what I've been told, this is the biggest fully guaranteed contract |
| 1:07.5 | a first time head coach has ever received. |
| 1:10.2 | So that is a big commitment on OU's behalf. |
| 1:14.5 | So I asked you offline earlier, how do you think Oklahoma is going to do this year? |
| 1:18.1 | You said 11 and 2, which would be a great season. |
| 1:21.4 | If they go 11 and 2, will he then get a raise after the season? |
| 1:25.0 | Or is it like, well, we're already paying you a lot? |
| 1:46.0 | My guess is that if they were going to do something like that, it would happen, you know, maybe within the first two years. I don't know if it happened after the first year because the expectations are high. What my question, I asked this, you know, I did a podcast on the blatant homerism podcast this week was what, how do you define success if you're the head coach at Oklahoma you know I mean is it if you're replacing Bob Stoops within that five-year deal |
| 1:51.4 | I think you have to go to the playoff at least once oh sure you know you have to win a national |
| 1:57.1 | title I don't maybe you know in a lot of people's eyes there, probably yes, but realistically, |
| 2:01.7 | you used to have to go to the playoff. |
| 2:03.3 | And I think you have to win at least two, if not three big 12 titles because Bob Stoops |
| 2:09.2 | won more than, you know, this is 10 and whatever it was, 18 years. |
| 2:14.6 | So I think you've got to try to keep up that lofty, lofty pace. |
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