Athletic departments feeling impact of COVID-19
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Texas A&M AD Ross Bjork joins the show to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting his athletic department in College Station and others around the country. Plus, who are the top 10 college football coaches Bruce and Stew have covered during their respective careers? Subscribe to The Athletic for 40% off your first year: www.theathletic.com/theaudible
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. I am Bruce Feldman joined as always by my colleague Stuart Mandel. We have an |
| 0:22.3 | interesting episode today. We're going to get to the mailbag in a little bit and we'll be |
| 0:26.9 | highlighted by a really interesting question we got about the best top 10 coaches that we've |
| 0:33.3 | covered since being around the sports. Stu and I have slightly different windows of how long that is, but it's a good 25 years or so. |
| 0:40.8 | But before we get to that, we are going to dig in to what's going on around college sports. |
| 0:47.6 | We thought it would be really helpful to bring in a Power 5 AD, and we have one of the best |
| 0:53.8 | at one of the biggest schools |
| 0:55.1 | joining us today and that is Ross Bjork from Texas A&M and there's just this is a really |
| 1:02.7 | fluid situation and so he's explaining he's fresh off of a daily call that he has with the other |
| 1:08.4 | ADs in the SEC. |
| 1:14.3 | So we wanted to bring Ross on to get that perspective. |
| 1:26.2 | In talking to ADs, you know, this week, Ross, there's every time I talk to somebody, |
| 1:27.6 | there's a new issue that, oh, I hadn't thought of of that that you guys have to be dealing with right now with all of your |
| 1:32.0 | athletes scattered around the country back home trying to be students virtually trying |
| 1:37.4 | to be athletes virtually you know what what is the most for you what are the like a few of |
| 1:42.2 | the almost logistical or procedural issues |
| 1:46.5 | that are the hardest to deal with right now? |
| 1:49.3 | Well, I think it's that detachment piece, you know, right? I mean, I'm working from home |
| 1:53.8 | and we're all used to seeing each other face to face or being able to walk down a hallway |
| 1:57.8 | of a building and, you know, walk into Coach Fisher's office or |
| 2:01.3 | Buzz Williams office or see student athletes in the training room. |
| 2:05.2 | And so the biggest thing is, you know, we're all here for our student athletes. |
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