Bobby Bowden's legacy, the Freaks list, ASU scandal & mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Stew & Bruce remember the legacy of Bobby Bowden. The legendary FSU football coach died over the weekend at the age of 91. The annual 'Freak's List' is officially available on The Athletic. The guys talk about the 2021 edition which features some of the best athletes in college football. More details have emerged about the Arizona State recruiting scandal that took place during the pandemic. Plus, mailbag questions on Week 0, the future of Iowa St., the AAC & NIL.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:25.1 | It is Monday, Bruce on Sunday, the sad news that Bobby Bowden has passed away at the age of 91. |
| 0:33.5 | We knew he had terminal cancer, so you and I shared some stories about him a couple weeks ago on the pod, but I think it was at the very end of a long episode. |
| 0:42.4 | I'm not sure that everybody would have heard that. |
| 0:45.2 | So I wanted to, you know, take some time here off the top of the podcast because Bobby was a just an absolutely one of the all-time great coaches, a huge personality |
| 0:58.3 | in the sport when both you and I were coming up in the 90s. |
| 1:04.0 | The thing that stands out when, you know, Andy Staples wrote a tremendous tribute to him |
| 1:08.5 | on our site, lots of people wrote tributes in terms of the football part of it, the stat that just blows my mind every time I see it. |
| 1:15.0 | From 1987 to 2000, Florida State finished in the top four of the AP poll 14 straight years. |
| 1:24.0 | We talk a lot about Nick Saban and his national championships, and there's no question. |
| 1:28.2 | It's the most impressive feat probably anybody has had in the history of this sport. |
| 1:33.1 | But do you think anybody will ever do that again? |
| 1:35.8 | Even Alabama occasionally has a season where they finish eighth or ninth. |
| 1:40.2 | I don't know. |
| 1:41.2 | That's a good question. |
| 1:42.0 | I didn't thought of it like that. |
| 1:43.0 | I mean, it was a remarkable run. I think also was, you know, pretty amazing about it was he had an arch rival at the time, which was for a long stretch of 20 years was like the top program in the country. And it was in the same state in Miami. You know know I know he had the line about and he played |
| 2:02.0 | Miami and there was the wide rights and so you're measuring up against that you know they won |
| 2:07.5 | five national titles in that stretch but he went from that length and even beyond um was remarkable |
| 2:15.9 | I'd like to just touch on one thing. |
| 2:18.7 | As you said, you and I both kind of came up on the national football beats |
| 2:24.3 | around the time when Bobby Bowden was established as probably the biggest coach in college football, |
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