A lost program, nightmare recruiting visits & the brains behind SEC shorts
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Andy is joined by David Ubben to discuss a trio his recent stories in The Athletic...
- Arkansas’ journey away from football success can be chalked up to three letters: SEC
- Coaches’ nightmare recruiting visits revealed: Jungle cats, cowboys, ‘Shaquille O’Neal of pit bulls’
- Meet the creators of ‘SEC Shorts,’ the video series that ‘just kind of writes itself’
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:20.9 | We got a busy, busy man on with us today. |
| 0:24.5 | David Ubin, he just sold his house, but he's also been writing a billion different stories, |
| 0:29.3 | all of which, like every story you've written in the past week, David, I wanted to do an entire show about. |
| 0:34.8 | So I apologize because we're squeezing a lot of this into one |
| 0:38.7 | spot. But we've got your story on the horror stories from coaches in-home visits while |
| 0:45.5 | they're recruiting. We've got your Arkansas wayward program story, which has some crazy stuff |
| 0:51.7 | from Frank Broils that he said on the radio |
| 0:54.5 | that this just sort of got lost to the sands of time |
| 0:57.0 | that there's so many... Preaggregation. |
| 1:00.3 | Preaggregation is a big part of it. |
| 1:02.2 | Yes, so many alternate histories of different leagues |
| 1:05.3 | that you could write with all this. |
| 1:07.2 | And then you've got a piece out Wednesday on the athletic |
| 1:10.4 | on the SEC shorts folks who are some of the funniest people in America. |
| 1:16.8 | We will play you a clip of my favorite SEC shorts. |
| 1:20.9 | But if you haven't been to their YouTube page, you don't have to be an SEC fan to enjoy them. |
| 1:27.5 | In fact, you may enjoy them more just giving you the opportunity to laugh at all the SEC fans. |
| 1:33.4 | So it is spectacular. |
| 1:36.0 | But you've been on a heater, as they say. |
| 1:39.5 | If you were playing in an NBA jam, you would be on fire. |
| 1:43.9 | By the way, I must say we just, so I played a lot of NBA jam actually in high school and |
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