AAC Snapshot: Cincinnati's ceiling; Malzahn era begins & Aresco, conference's future
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Andy welcomes The Athletic's Group of Five savant Chris Vannini to the program to discuss the most pressing storylines in the American Athletic Conference. What college football rumor circulating online should you ignore? What is the AAC's future under commissioner Michael Aresco in lieu of the recent realignment tornado? How far can Cincinnati rise this season? Will they beat Notre Dame and Indiana? Can Gus Malzahn elevate Dillon Gabriel's play to new heights? Plus, the Fickells are workout and recruiting machines; we are anxiously awaiting the return of big guy touchdowns, and Chris Berman's legendary nicknames.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show special re-alignment rumor edition. No, no, we're not going to |
| 0:16.3 | spend a lot of time on realignment. We've got Chris Vinini here. We're going to talk, |
| 0:21.7 | well, several topics because Chris has written a lot lately about a lot of very interesting things, including |
| 0:25.8 | fat guy touchdowns. So we have to have a serious talk about fat guy touchdowns. We got to talk |
| 0:31.7 | about Mike Oresco doing something that a year ago, if you'd said, the commissioner of the American Athletic |
| 0:38.7 | Conference is going to have to deny plotting with ESPN to destroy the Big 12. |
| 0:43.7 | I would have said that sounds ludicrous, but that's where he is right now. |
| 0:48.3 | And we're also going to talk about AAC member Cincinnati entering a season when, I don't know, |
| 0:53.9 | if things broke right, maybe they |
| 0:55.4 | actually could be a playoff contender. There's a lot going on. And we, you know, be remiss if we |
| 1:03.3 | didn't talk about the Chris Berman nickname story that Chris Finini wrote because Eric sleeping with |
| 1:07.8 | B enemy is an all-timer. I don't care how you feel about Chris Berman. That's incredible. So Chris, welcome. You've been incredibly busy. Yes, I mean, I think we all have. It's been one heck of a summer fall camp is here. And honestly, I'm not even in the football mind yet. I'm writing conference previews and trying to remember what actual football looks like. |
| 1:28.9 | And we're still a few weeks away and who knows what's going to happen in the coming weeks. |
| 1:32.9 | But it's been good. And so before we start with all the stuff you've been doing, there was a rumor. |
| 1:40.7 | We don't have to say who said it because it was completely ridiculous. |
| 1:44.4 | It wouldn't even go a rumor. Well, when you start it with, I have to, I tell you who told |
| 1:50.8 | me, but I'd have to shoot you. And then proceed to basically say, anybody who hasn't been invited |
| 1:55.9 | to the SEC yet has been and is now joining. So let me make sure I got it right. Which school is it? |
| 2:02.5 | TCU, Baylor, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma State to quote unquote lock up the Texas market. |
| 2:10.7 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 2:11.7 | I mean, when you're doing realignment, when you're expanding your conference, you have to do it like the bachelor. |
| 2:17.2 | You have to give out one or three spots at a time. You can't bring everybody at once. You got to |
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