Bryan Harsin & Herm Edwards' future, Harbaugh stays at Michigan + updated top 25 rankings
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Will Bryan Harsin make it to season two at Auburn? All of the noise surrounding his program after year one is pointing in the wrong direction. Bruce Feldman and Stewart Mandel sort through all of the mess surrounding this situation and get to the bottom of whether Harsin is on the way out. Recruiting seems to be at the very center of this controversy. Is Hugh Freeze a realistic replacement? Herm Edwards' future at Arizona State is also in doubt. Jim Harbaugh's flirtation with the NFL is over and he will return to Michigan to defend the 2021 Big Ten title but without his OC & DC.
Plus, Stew addresses the blowback from Oklahoma fans after updating his offseason top 25 and leaving the Sooners out. See the full list here: https://theathletic.com/3111607/2022/02/04/stewart-mandels-post-transfer-portal-early-top-25-for-the-2022-college-football-season/
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| 0:00.0 | The Audible is presented by Trader Joe's. |
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| 0:14.0 | They have the best salsa of any store I know. Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:40.2 | And even though it is Super Bowl week and a time that should be quiet in college football, |
| 0:45.7 | it is anything but there is so much college football news to talk about starting first and foremost, |
| 0:51.3 | Bruce, with all the craziness at Auburn is Brian Hartz. Last week on this podcast, we were both like, yeah, I think he might be in trouble there. I don't know if he's going to get past his second season. And then within a few days, it became he might be fired any minute. Yeah, it sounds like I had spoke to somebody who made the same point. Well, I said, |
| 1:12.3 | well, you think he gets through his second year? And this person, I'm not even sure if he's going to |
| 1:15.6 | get to his second year. As we're taping this, over the weekend, Andy Staples and I had done |
| 1:22.5 | an extensive story, kind of basically setting up what has been going on kind of behind the scenes there and why |
| 1:29.8 | things have escalated so much in terms of you had 20 transfers you had a bunch of assistant |
| 1:36.3 | coaches leaving some in a really curious fashion right like so you had um derrick mason defensive coordinator just basically leave and he was going to |
| 1:47.7 | he got to Oklahoma state but from what I understand he was going to leave whether he got Oklahoma |
| 1:51.6 | state or not uh and then you had the Austin Davis hire he was the new offensive coordinator |
| 1:56.5 | he came from the Seahawks he was not there very long before he left. |
| 2:01.8 | It feels a little cryptic in how that played out. |
| 2:04.8 | That was among the staff moves. |
| 2:07.5 | I think it has gotten significant here in that John Hayes, our producer, his old mentor, Paul Feinbaum, apparently at some point, maybe it wasn't on his show on the SEC network, but he had said earlier today that he does not think Brian Harshon is going to be the head coach there a week from now. |
| 2:31.4 | And that is significant. |
| 2:32.5 | This is not Paul talking about like a Jim Harbaugh or Paul talking about something in the Big 12 or the PAC 12. This is him |
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