Coach Jerry Mack on Roster Building, Culture, and Kennesaw State's Future
The Solid Verbal College Football
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Coach Jerry Mack led the Kennesaw State Owls from a 2-10 season in 2024 to a Conference USA championship in his first year in 2025, flipping the roster and the entire offensive scheme in the process. In this episode, he talks about what drew him to Kennesaw State, how he approaches roster construction in the transfer portal era, what he brought back from his time coaching in the NFL, what it takes to maintain stability through college football's most unstable era ever, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome to the solid verbal. |
| 0:08.1 | The solid verbal. |
| 0:09.1 | Come after me. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm a man. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm 40. |
| 0:12.6 | I've heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy. |
| 0:15.1 | You want to be happy for a day? |
| 0:16.7 | Eat a steak. |
| 0:17.6 | It's that woo-woo. |
| 0:19.2 | And now, down and tie. |
| 0:22.7 | Dan Rubinstein, welcome back from your trip to the West Coast. |
| 0:25.7 | How are you? |
| 0:26.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:27.4 | I have lesser burrito quality available to me now that I'm back in the Midwest, |
| 0:33.8 | but love being back home, loved eating a bunch of burritos, |
| 0:39.6 | getting some time on the California coast, |
| 0:42.7 | Legoland, the San Diego Zoo. |
| 0:50.4 | I saw, I guess, three pandas, depending on how you technically are going to index a red panda, |
| 0:53.5 | which is technically not a, I don't know. |
| 0:55.5 | I don't know how all of these things are classified, |
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