Early takeaways from SEC Media Days: lucrative NIL deals; crackdown on fake injuries & Deion (or just Coach?) dips out w/ David Ubben
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Andy and The Athletic's University of Tennessee keyboard clacker, David Ubben, react to storylines from the opening days of SEC Media Days. Who has been the most entertaining coach so far according to David? Bryce Young might make HOW MUCH MONEY from his NIL partnerships? Tennessee receiver, Grant Frerking, is among few others who is completely exploiting NIL benefits to its fullest. John McDaid, SEC coordinator of officials, expressed conference adjudicators' intent to crackdown on players faking injuries. How do flag throwers intend to judge whether a player is truly injured? Deion Sanders....umm...or maybe just Coach, dipped out of SWAC media day after being referred to by his first name. Andy and David remind us that there was a similar controversy in the SEC not too long ago. Also, is Sanders distracting from his team with, presumably, these publicity stunts? Lastly, the guys help an overseas listener pick a college football team to root for.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.9 | There is actual football to be talked here in talking season. |
| 0:16.0 | The SEC is having its annual media days. |
| 0:18.6 | It is not the circus that it usually is a little more subdued |
| 0:22.0 | affair. But our David Ubin is there. You know David. You love him. He covers Tennessee for the |
| 0:28.0 | athletic. He also is the host of football and grits, the athletics' SEC focused podcast, |
| 0:34.0 | and he drags his co-host, is just some sloppy through that through the that show |
| 0:38.5 | every episode david welcome thank you uh i believe you'll be henceforth referred to as uh sloppy co-host |
| 0:46.2 | so that's always nice i like but yes uh when the win free this year is a subdued is a good word uh it's |
| 0:53.2 | it's a little bit weird but at the same, I haven't been here in a couple years, |
| 0:56.9 | so it's nice to be back with everybody. |
| 0:58.8 | Well, so you are actually podcasting from the mall that is connected to Winfrey, the |
| 1:03.6 | gallery, the river chase gallery. |
| 1:05.7 | That is accurate. |
| 1:07.3 | Yes. |
| 1:08.1 | Are you outside of belk? |
| 1:11.6 | I can see the belt from where I'm currently sitting. I was in the belt shortly, or not a few minutes ago, and I believe we are making podcast history. If your memory is correct, that this is the first time that her podcast has been recorded on the athletic |
| 1:27.6 | platform uh from a mall so this feels like a special moment and i'm glad that you can share that and |
| 1:34.1 | our listeners can share that and just uh you know a little celebration of american commerce yes if |
| 1:39.8 | i love the smell of commerce in the morning. This is now a mall rats. |
| 1:44.7 | This is now a mall rats podcast. |
| 1:47.0 | We're going to talk about how the cookie stand is not part of the food court. |
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