CFB Lunch Break: The Big East is a Window Into the Future
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This episode is for paid subscribers, but everyone can hear a preview. If you’re not a paid subscriber, you can get a weeklong free trial.
Alex Kirshner and Richard Johnson take a bunch of live questions from Split Zone Duo subscribers and discuss college football offseason news:
* Maryland losing a basketball coach to the Big East is a sign of what’s coming in college sports’ new economy
* Is the SEC the next flashpoint for intra-athletic department funding over House settlement revenue share dollars?
* How about the blue-blood men’s basketball schools like Kentucky and Duke?
* How will this new era affect the service academies?
* Do we believe that NIL has ruined the NCAA hoops tournaments?
* Does Richard believe in Florida’s offensive play-calling apparatus?
* What is Alex’s problem with Wisconsin?
* Let’s talk about Georgia Tech’s defensive line
* Frank Reich to Stanford
* Pac-12 realignment musical chairs
* The Athletics’ horrible treatment of Sacramento, and thoughts on torpedo bats
Producer: Anthony Vito
Also this week from Split Zone Duo
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. |
| 0:03.6 | 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 shit like a through a ten horn, man. |
| 0:15.1 | Ah, fuck it. |
| 0:16.6 | Thank you, Lee. |
| 0:17.6 | My name is Alex Kirshner. |
| 0:19.0 | My co-host here is Richard Johnson, and this is a recording of a live |
| 0:23.0 | Q&A session that the two of us did on the morning of April 1st, talking about a lot of topics in the |
| 0:28.4 | news lately in college sports, answering live questions in the substack app from our subscribers at |
| 0:33.5 | www.w.w.w. Splitsendro.com. New format. We've really enjoyed it. We're doing it periodically. |
| 0:38.6 | It's a bit less formal than a typical episode because we're taking a lot of live |
| 0:42.0 | questions. |
| 0:42.8 | And we also record it from our phones. |
| 0:44.2 | So the audio quality is a little bit less polished than a typical splits and do episode. |
| 0:48.2 | But we hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:49.0 | Nonetheless, we really enjoyed getting to talk to people live. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.