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The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

Cignetti's Underdog Story, AI in Recruiting, and a G6 Playoff Push

The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

The Athletic

Sec, News, Sports News, Football, College Football, Cfb, Big Ten, Sports

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Stew's new piece on Curt Cignetti reveals how 15 seasons (14 losing) as an assistant shaped his chip-on-the-shoulder identity. Then, some recruiting departments are using AI to provide a boost to their productivity. The Athletic’s Antonio Morales joins the show to explain the promise and skepticism. Plus, American commissioner Tim Pernetti floats an intriguing Group of Six playoff. 




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0:00.0

Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible,

0:08.9

presented by Trader Joe's.

0:10.5

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined by my colleague from the Athletic Stuart Mandel.

0:13.8

No Ralph Russo this week.

0:15.4

Ralph has followed in Stu's footsteps.

0:18.4

He is taking a lavish European vacation. So he won't be here for the next

0:23.7

couple of weeks. Later on the show, Antonio Morales, our colleague from the Athletic, who did a really

0:30.5

fascinating story on how AI is affecting college football recruiting. It's a story if you haven't read, you should.

0:39.5

And we're going to get into that.

0:41.2

There's a lot to get into with that story.

0:44.4

But we're also going to talk.

0:46.0

Let's start with this.

0:47.2

We're going to get into the latest with the Brandon Sorsby situation,

0:53.0

and as well as some interesting G6 playoff chatter.

0:58.9

Before we do that, Stu had a really good story from his trip to Indiana a couple of weeks

1:05.0

back. It just went up on the athletic on Monday. And what I thought Stu did a really good job of is getting into Kurt Signetti and

1:14.2

kind of how losing actually really shaped his journey into the top of the college football world.

1:23.6

It's a part of his story that I don't know. As much as people have covered, jumped into his story.

1:28.3

I don't feel like that has been much of a focus until this story.

1:32.8

So good job, Stu.

1:34.1

So let's get into it with Signetti.

1:35.8

You didn't know him at all, if I'm not mistaken,

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