Coaches Grade the Coaching Carousel
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The College Sports Commission is already overwhelmed, and Nebraska is the first school to challenge rejected NIL deals in arbitration. What’s it mean for enforcement, and can the system survive? Then, Bruce and Antonio Morales surveyed nearly 30 coaches anonymously on the latest coaching hires. Will Lane Kiffin win a title at LSU? Kyle Whittingham is the most respected hire, and Alex Golesh raised eyebrows at Auburn. Then, mailbag on West Coast schools in the Big Ten, which Power 4 coach will last longest, and coaching conviction scores.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined by my colleague from the Athletic Stewart Mandel. |
| 0:14.4 | We don't have Ralph Russo today, but he will be back in the next episode. |
| 0:17.9 | So you'll see his happy, optimistic face shortly. |
| 0:23.2 | Stu, we were going to get into the mailbag in a little bit. |
| 0:26.2 | We're also going to get into the story Antonia Morales and I did this week for the athletic |
| 0:31.0 | on our coaches survey, really related to the last coaching carousel cycle. |
| 0:38.3 | But before we get that, you did a story on Tuesday, I guess it is, about the CSC. |
| 0:47.0 | And I don't know how many of our listeners know exactly what that is, because I feel like |
| 0:51.4 | we talked about it and then it kind of went under the radar. |
| 0:59.2 | But it relates to the transfer portal and it relates to kind of the accounting space of this kind of kind of nebulous dubious little side space of college football so what did you find |
| 1:06.7 | out yeah there's some news in that space on Tuesday what I'm going to do is mention the most digestible part first and then work |
| 1:15.2 | backwards to explain it. |
| 1:16.6 | So it was actually one of our friends, Ross Dellinger, who reported later Tuesday after |
| 1:22.3 | our story came out that Nebraska is the first school we know of, I've heard of, where a large number of players, 18, |
| 1:29.8 | had their NIL deals rejected by CSC, and now they're going to fight. |
| 1:35.4 | They've hired a law firm, and now they're going to fight that. |
| 1:38.8 | Okay, what is CSC? |
| 1:41.2 | College Sports Commission. |
| 1:43.0 | This was the organization established by the power four |
| 1:45.7 | conferences, not the NCAA, after the House settlement, to enforce the House settlement. |
| 1:51.4 | The Revs share part of House Settlement is pretty clear cut, right? Schools can make deals with |
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