7/27: News & Notes From The Big Ten And Pac 12 Media Days
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 27 July 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew start this week's episode of The Audible discussing how Urban Meyer handled the Zach Smith situation (1:00); they then discuss Scott Frost's first Big Ten media day and where they expect Nebraska to be in the next 3-5 years (16:00); they talk about Khalil Tate's admission that he tweeted about the triple option to prevent Ken Niumatalolo being hired at Arizona (43:00); and finally they give their reactions to ESPN's rankings of the 21 National Champions since 1999 (46:00).
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| 0:23.3 | You'll find Inside Trader Joe's on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Audible. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always by Bruce Feldman on a Thursday. |
| 0:51.9 | We don't usually record this late in the week, but we've both been attending |
| 0:56.9 | conference media days. I was in Chicago earlier this week for Big Ten. Bruce was there. I barely |
| 1:03.4 | saw you, and then you hopped on a plane and went to L.A., very admiralty, by the way, for Pac-12. |
| 1:09.7 | And I don't know, has your head spinning right now |
| 1:12.5 | a little bit just from like i was like you said i was barely in chicago i got there late |
| 1:18.4 | sunday night and uh was there for about i don't know 30 hours and then flew back midday |
| 1:24.4 | midday tuesday to a pack 12 dinner and then pack 12 media day on Wednesday. |
| 1:30.9 | But let's start with this, if I may. |
| 1:34.3 | So I saw the Tuesday morning press conference that Urban Meyer had. |
| 1:38.5 | I did not see the Tuesday afternoon one did. |
| 1:41.5 | But that was the big story that came out of Big Ten Media Days from my perspective. |
| 1:46.5 | And I know you wrote a column about this as it relates to Urban Myers handling of the firing |
| 1:54.1 | of Zach Smith, a protege of his, who incidentally is the grandson of one of Urban Myers mentors, Earl Bruce, |
| 2:02.2 | people can read your column on the athletic. |
| 2:04.8 | For people who haven't yet, and I encourage you too, to do so, |
| 2:08.8 | what struck you as the most confounding part of this whole story? |
| 2:13.2 | As it unfolded in pieces, it seemed like. |
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