Coaching Carousel 2030
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ralph Russo took on the impossible: predicting every Power Four head coach in 2030. The guys unpack the logic (and chaos) behind the projections. Could Lane Kiffin actually stay put? And what does it say about today’s pressure cooker that even blue bloods feel unstable five years out? And the guys open with a lively discussion about President Trump’s planned “Save College Sports” roundtable, including who is — and isn’t —on the guest list.
Check out Ralph's story in The Athletic here: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7067868/2026/02/27/college-football-power-4-coach-predictions-2030/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by both Bruce Feldman and Ralph Rousseau for our first episode this week. |
| 0:16.3 | Guys, Ralph wrote a very interesting story where he went through every single Power 4 school. |
| 0:23.0 | Who will their coach be in 2030? |
| 0:25.9 | Right. |
| 0:26.2 | So we want to talk about that. |
| 0:28.5 | First, Bruce, welcome back. |
| 0:30.6 | The heck were you doing at the Combine all week? |
| 0:32.9 | It's good to see you guys. |
| 0:34.3 | Yeah, I left Monday. |
| 0:36.2 | I got back Friday afternoon. And it's one of my |
| 0:40.0 | favorite events of the year just because pretty much the whole football world convenes there |
| 0:44.7 | because you have tons of coaches. You obviously have all the players you're going to be in the draft. |
| 0:49.8 | You also have a lot of college coaches, but you also have a lot of former college coaches who I haven't seen in a while. So that part is really fun. It's, you know, for me, it's like how many people can you meet with? It's like, whether it's for breakfast, for lunch or dinner, and then there's the after-hour stuff. So I remember one night, usually there's going to be at least one night where you have to be out till two or three in the morning. |
| 1:11.9 | And I found myself talking to an old NFL scout who used to GA at Fresno State, John Middilcoff, and one of his colleagues, who is now the Saints Receivers coach, Keith Williams. |
| 1:26.2 | And it's two in the morning. |
| 1:27.9 | And I am listening to them talk about the legend of Ryan Matthews at Fresno. |
| 1:32.7 | And what the heck he was doing there? |
| 1:34.2 | And they're talking about him. |
| 1:35.5 | And I'm listening to this. |
| 1:36.3 | I was like, yeah, I remember him being good. |
| 1:37.9 | But they're talking about him like he was Jim Brown and just dominating people. |
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