Brian Kelly leaves Notre Dame for LSU and Lincoln Riley's introductory press conference at USC
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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News broke Monday night that Brian Kelly is leaving Notre Dame for LSU. Stew and Bruce react to the news and discuss the details. Who made the better hire, USC or LSU? The coaching carousel is spinning out of control and Stew thinks it doesn't reflect well on the sport. Bruce gives his shortlist of 3 candidates who could get the Notre Dame job: Matt Campbell, Luke Fickell & Marcus Freeman. Plus, thoughts on Lincoln Riley's introductory press conference at USC.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:19.3 | You guys get an extra episode this week because this sport, college football, will not stop. |
| 0:26.0 | It has been a 24 to 48 hours unlike any, I think you and I. |
| 0:33.6 | We've been covering the sport a long time. |
| 0:35.5 | I don't remember anything quite like this to go from |
| 0:38.8 | one stop the press's bombshell of lincoln riley to USC to i would say an even bigger bombshell the next night |
| 0:49.6 | brian kelly leaving notarym for ls u s u with With Lincoln Riley, well, we got a little bit of a warning for one thing, but also, |
| 1:00.2 | I mean, he was literally just answering a question the night before about another job we |
| 1:03.9 | thought he might be up for. |
| 1:05.0 | So I can't say that was completely shocking. |
| 1:08.9 | This one left me speechless when the news came out. |
| 1:11.6 | I actually am less surprised by this one than I was Lincoln Riley. |
| 1:17.6 | And I think the reason why I say that is because I didn't think USC would be able to pull it off. |
| 1:23.6 | And quite honestly, if I thought Lincoln Riley was going anywhere, I thought it would be to the NFL. |
| 1:29.1 | Whereas Brian Kelly, I've heard little rumblings, like even Brian Kelly could have been a candidate at USC. |
| 1:34.3 | The part that I get where you're coming from is, and I don't remember exactly how it was worded, but Brian Kelly did this like fairy godmother rant or whatever. |
| 1:42.8 | Like it was in the wake of mike tomlin's |
| 1:44.8 | definitive you know not only am i not going f you for even asking me it you know like that kind |
| 1:51.0 | of thing whereas brian kelly went down that road not quite as probably forceful as jimbo fisher did |
| 1:56.6 | but pretty much so and last week by the way not like three months ago right i think the part that |
| 2:03.6 | has made this more wild is this aspect of it and look all of this i feel like i feel like this has been |
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