CFB Lunch Break: Michigan, LSU, Coaching Trees, and More
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Alex and Richard take live and pre-submitted subscriber questions in this quick episode to start off the new month. Topics include:
* Biff Poggi’s return to Michigan
* The tough job ahead of Pitt’s new AD
* Brian Kelly’s make-or-break year
* Colorado State continually being just short of being something
* The first 100 days of the Belichick UNC administration
* Gary Pinkel’s underrated career
* Nebraska canceling a Tennessee series and the Big Ten either retreating from tough non-conference games or setting up for more of them
* The concept of a Tulane-LSU-Saints football road trip
* How many coaching trees can we really name right now?
* A quick preview of SZD’s offseason plans
Random historical show note: Here’s Colorado State’s pitch to the Big 12 from 2016, which Matt Brown and Alex dug up for SB Nation.
Producer: Anthony Vito
A bunch of fresh podcasts from SZD
In case you missed any of these:
* Our special on why Kent State’s football program is always bad, and what can be done about it if anything. Featuring Rodger Sherman!
* Anatomy of a coaching carousel: 2001. Diving deep into the ramifications of one coach hiring cycle with our co-host emeritus Steven Godfrey
* Offseason Vibe Checks: The state of the SEC
* Offseason Vibe Checks: The state of the Sun Belt
Stay tuned for more this week
Offseason Vibe Checks will roll on with the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're coming, and we ain't backing down. |
| 0:02.1 | We don't need a bunch of cats in here. |
| 0:03.7 | Looking in the mirror. |
| 0:04.8 | Everybody just do your job. |
| 0:07.0 | You understand that? |
| 0:07.9 | Hey, will you shut up? |
| 0:08.9 | I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. |
| 0:11.4 | Guys being dudes. |
| 0:12.6 | And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man. |
| 0:16.5 | Thank you, Lee. |
| 0:17.2 | Thank you, Richard Johnson. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm Alex Kirchner. |
| 0:19.0 | Fun one here. Last week, |
| 0:25.0 | we got back to something that we used to do a little bit more frequently here at Splitsund Duo, |
| 0:30.7 | which was live audio and video, taking questions from subscribers. We did that in the substack app, |
| 0:36.2 | called a college football lunch break. Those are for our subscribers at www. www.spitzoonduo.com, which if you're listening to this, I think you probably are. |
| 0:39.1 | This was experimental, Richard. |
| 0:40.8 | It was fun. |
| 0:41.7 | Just kind of a short college football Q&A going over some recent things in the news, |
| 0:45.1 | answering questions. |
| 0:46.2 | I liked it. |
| 0:47.2 | I hope you liked it. |
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