6/28: Can Will Grier Win The Heisman Trophy? + Max Olson
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Stew and Bruce are joined on this week's episode by Max Olson of The Athletic to break down the early front-runners for the Heisman Trophy (1:00) and to discuss the future of Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury (33:00). Following the conversation with Max, Bruce and Stew wrap up the show with a quick mailbag (35:30).
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| 0:00.0 | The presenting sponsor of The Audible, as always, is Trader Joe's. |
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| 0:45.0 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm Stuart Mandel, |
| 0:48.6 | joined, as always, by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:52.4 | And today, Bruce, we have a third member of the All-American. |
| 1:13.3 | Would that be your daughter, Stu? I thought I just heard her in the background. She is making a bit of a cameo right now, but no, I'm speaking, of course, of the great Max Olson. Welcome to the Audible Max. Hey, guys, a long-time listener, first-time caller. I appreciate you having done. Max, for those who don't know, is based in Austin, Texas, and covers a lot of the Big 12 for us. |
| 1:14.3 | I mean, covers the whole country, but especially plugged into the Big 12. |
| 1:18.6 | And so without like an obvious newspeg to talk about this week, Bruce came up with a |
| 1:23.2 | creative idea? |
| 1:24.5 | I did. |
| 1:25.3 | So there's a few things we'd like to talk to Max about. He had recently done an |
| 1:29.7 | extensive profile of Will Greer, the West Virginia quarterback, and it was well done. And I think |
| 1:35.0 | Will Greer is going to have a big season, especially that offense with a lot of, you can check |
| 1:39.5 | out Max's story for more detail on that. But he's in the Heisman mix. How realistic is he as a Heisman |
| 1:45.6 | contender? I mean, Major Harris made a good run at it probably 30 years ago, but you just don't |
| 1:50.3 | see West Virginia as one of those schools that typically guys are in the Heisman running for. And so I |
| 1:56.4 | have got the Heisman, latest Heisman odds, and I wanted to talk to Stu and Max to see how |
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