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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Danny Kanell on Ohio State, the USC job and a Wild CFB Idea, Plus Should We Be Nicer?

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the evolution of athlete criticism (0:25) before he is joined by his former colleague Danny Kanell of SiriusXM and CBS Sports to discuss college football. They hit on Ohio State’s loss to Oregon, the recently open head coach position at USC, Iowa’s outlook, the early impact of NIL, GOAT of the week, and more (14:00). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (57:40). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Danny Kanell Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're going to white-high intro for you today.

0:13.2

I want to talk about the criticism of athletes and where that is headed because I think we've

0:18.1

seen a change.

0:19.1

And Danny Cannell, College Football, a ton of stuff from him, including the USC job, and

0:24.1

we have life advice.

0:25.1

Joey Friday.

0:27.0

For today's open, I've been thinking about this topic and kind of where this is.

0:30.3

I'm just going to be kind of working this out out loud here.

0:32.9

I've been thinking about this now for a while because I think in the last couple years,

0:36.4

things have changed.

0:37.4

There's been a lot of things in the last two years that have changed.

0:39.6

And specifically the way we talk about certain subjects.

0:42.6

And specific to what I do, I talk about sports basically every day for a living for almost

0:45.7

two decades now, I've noticed that how we criticize athletes, that is being questioned

0:52.6

maybe more now than ever.

0:54.5

I think there's a push back to certain criticism that there never was when I was younger.

0:59.6

I mean, if you just wanted to crush a guy, you could crush a guy.

1:01.5

But now if you do it on social media, I also think this is a big part of it too, is that

1:06.0

I was talking with a reporter about this.

1:07.6

In the past, if you had it out for somebody, you could just trash them and they were kind

1:11.2

of at your mercy.

1:12.8

And that was a very different dynamic between the relationship between media and then subject.

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