David's burning CFB thoughts while on paternity leave: EA Sports CFB 25, best new coaching hire & more!
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
A sleep deprived, but exuberant, David Ubben returns to Until Saturday! He joins Ari Wasserman and Chris Vannini in New York while in New York for a company event. David has been champing at the bit to share his thoughts about recent college football news and developments since being on paternity leave, including EA Sports College Football 25, the best head coaching hires this cycle, hype train teams, private equity, and more!
Rundown:
- David takes a break from Bluey to talk EA Sports CFB 25! (2:00)
- Will CFB 25 be a good tool to learn about players? (9:00)
- CFB needs a portal fix (16:00)
- The shortsightedness of private equity (23:00)
- Are coaches overreacting to future roster limits? (31:00)
- The Pac-2's media deal trumps the Pac-12's (44:00)
- Best coaching hire of this cycle (49:00)
- Hype train teams (58:00)
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| 0:29.9 | Music Welcome back to Until Saturday. |
| 0:45.1 | I'm Ari Wasserman, joined by Chris Vidini, |
| 0:47.3 | and somebody that we're finally getting back in touch with here. |
| 0:50.1 | Dave Ubin is taking a quick hiatus from his paternity leave. |
| 0:56.6 | We are in New York City at the New York Times building. |
| 0:59.9 | We are here for a team summit. |
| 1:01.7 | It's really good to all be together in the same room. |
| 1:03.9 | It's not very regular that we get to do this at least once a year. |
| 1:06.9 | Sugar Bowl is a lot of time. |
| 1:08.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:08.7 | So Dave's back for a few days, and we're going to get a few episodes while he's here before he goes back to Babyland. |
| 1:15.5 | And we're going to do a pretty fun show today, which is Dave's been on the sidelines, Chris, during, while we've been working really hard. |
| 1:22.1 | He's been at home, just relaxing. |
| 1:24.9 | And he's got about eight to ten takes that he's been sitting on, dave that you've been trying to get off your chest and if you haven't been paying attention to college football and you have since you've been listening to the show you know that missing a week of this sport is like missing a year of another sport there's been a lot going on i can't imagine what it's been like to not be able to fire off some takes. |
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