9/7: Petros Papadakis on the collapse of USC
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 7 September 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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FS1 analyst and former USC Trojan Petros Papadakis joins Bruce and Stew to discuss USC's debacle against Alabama in Week 1 and the collapse of the program in recent years. Then the guys dive into the insane contract extension Iowa gave Kirk Ferentz (25:30), one thing that could help Houston's case getting into the Big 12 (33:10) and your Mailbag questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible. |
| 0:11.2 | I am Bruce Feldman, joined as always by Stuart Mandel and Stu. |
| 0:15.1 | We're taping this early Wednesday afternoon. |
| 0:18.6 | It's actually our second pod of the week. |
| 0:23.4 | I am excited, and I know you are too, because we're going to be joined by one of our favorite guests that we have and |
| 0:27.6 | one of our favorite colleagues, and who would that be? That's our good friend Petrus Papadakus, |
| 0:34.0 | and always a great day when we get a chance to talk to him. And unfortunately for him, |
| 0:39.4 | his alma mater, Jacob Olman's alma mater, just keeps providing us with fodder to bring him back on. |
| 0:47.5 | Yeah, never a dull moment around USC. So without much more ado, let's get to our guest. |
| 0:56.2 | All right, we're pleased to welcome back one of the most popular guests on the history of the Ottawa. |
| 1:01.9 | I'm not kidding. |
| 1:02.7 | I'm not exaggerating. |
| 1:03.6 | We've gotten lots of requests for him. |
| 1:05.7 | Petros Papadakis is back. |
| 1:07.8 | And Petros, you know, you've got a sports talk radio show in l.A. And I feel like |
| 1:13.2 | USC just keeps giving you material. Yeah, yeah, I wish it wasn't that way. This was pretty |
| 1:19.8 | humiliating. This one got pretty ugly. I did expect a little bit closer of a game. But at the same |
| 1:26.3 | time, you know, I had a conversation on the show with |
| 1:30.2 | Max Brown, who's a great young man in a really good interview and different from a lot of USC |
| 1:36.0 | quarterbacks recently, being from the state of Washington. And he talked about how they were |
| 1:42.2 | going to attack Alabama moving very quickly and spreading it out |
| 1:46.4 | and not a lot of tight-end or full-back action. |
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