Brandon Wimbush, MOGL co-founder, chats Brian Kelly & NIL + commissioners speak on CFP expansion
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Andy, from Las Vegas attending the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame events, catches up with ex-Notre Dame QB and MOGL co-founder, Brandon Wimbush. But before cutting it up with Brandon, Andy, Kevin Warren, and Bob Bowlsby, among other commissioners, share their thoughts about an expanded CFP. What kinks need ironing out? Is a 12-team format more likely than an 8-team? Afterward, Brandon joins the podcast to discuss his company, MOGL, whose mission is to connect athletes and companies with NIL deals. Brandon chronicles his business' rise as well as how he's helping athletes earn what they're worth. The duo also discuss Brandon's time as Notre Dame's quarterback and the future of the Fighting Irish under Marcus Freeman. Plus, Brandon shares his thoughts on Brian Kelly's departure from South Bend, his experience in the transfer portal, and manning Jeff Lebby and Josh Heupel's offense at UCF.
Follow Andy on Twitter: @Andy_Staples
Follow Brandon on Twitter: @WimbushB7
Save 33% on a subscription to The Athletic by visiting: theathletic.com/andystaples
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show. Happy Friday. It has been quite a week. I've been in Las Vegas for the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame festivities. I didn't sit through the four and a half, |
| 0:22.0 | five-hour dinner. But I did hang out with a lot of the athletic directors and coaches and commissioners |
| 0:28.0 | who were in town. And then there was the Learfield Sports Business Journal Collegiate Sports |
| 0:34.5 | Forum, which was pretty interesting. |
| 0:38.0 | All the commissioners from the Power 5 leagues and a few of the group of five commissioners |
| 0:41.8 | came and talked and discussed their various positions on the college football |
| 0:46.7 | playoff and scheduling and NIL and all kinds of stuff. |
| 0:51.2 | It was fascinating. |
| 0:52.9 | And actually, bumped into an old friend, and you're going to |
| 0:56.2 | hear from him later in the show, Brandon Wimbush, former Notre Dame quarterback. He is now one of the |
| 1:01.6 | co-founders of a company called Mogul, which connects athletes with companies for NIL deals. And |
| 1:07.2 | it's pretty cool because when I met Brandon, he was a quarterback at Notre Dame, |
| 1:11.7 | he wanted to parlay being the QB at Notre Dame and getting a Notre Dame degree into becoming |
| 1:17.8 | a CEO, a mogul, you know, in his own right. And he's the chief athletic officer at |
| 1:24.4 | mogul. And my guess is he will be the CEO of something someday. He's only |
| 1:28.5 | 24 right now. So he's got plenty of time left. But he talked about the business that he's |
| 1:33.6 | helping create, about playing quarterback at Notre Dame, about what that means and what that's |
| 1:38.2 | like. He talked about his old coach, Brian Kelly, you want an LSU. We talked about Marcus Freeman |
| 1:43.4 | taking over at Notre Dame. Tommy Reese remaining at Notre Dame as the OC. So really good interview with |
| 1:48.6 | Brandon coming up. But first, let's talk a little bit about the college football playoff, |
| 1:52.7 | because it was my first chance to in person talk to a lot of these commissioners about what |
| 1:57.7 | is going on with the negotiations for the playoff. And I can say the |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.