Elephant in the room: Will football be played in 2020?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:30.3 | much for joining we had a great conversation today with bruce feldman of the athletic we talk about |
| 0:35.8 | what's going on now when we might see college football again and we talk about what's going on now, when we might see college football again, and we talk |
| 0:41.1 | about it in a way that does not insult your intelligence, hopefully, because we don't know what's |
| 0:46.1 | going to happen. Nobody really knows what's going to happen. No coaches know what's going to happen. |
| 0:51.4 | No ADs know what's going to happen. At this point, probably no governors know what's going to happen. It's a very fluid situation. We recorded this |
| 1:00.8 | before Mike Gundy's comments came to light. And I think it's interesting because Mike Gundy said |
| 1:07.9 | that he thinks they just bring the players back on campus. |
| 1:11.6 | They're young. |
| 1:12.5 | They'll be fine. |
| 1:14.2 | They'll blow through COVID-19. |
| 1:17.3 | And let's get some money running through the state of Oklahoma. |
| 1:23.0 | Now, while I agree with him that college football does need to be played for financial reasons, it needs to be played this school year, which would be sometime between August and May, for financial reasons, because the athletic departments need that money. |
| 1:31.8 | Otherwise, you're going to have to lay a bunch of people off, cut a bunch of sports. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm not sure I want Mike Gundy handling my state's COVID-19 response. |
| 1:41.3 | I trust him to call up a ballplay on 3rd and 10. I don't necessarily trust him |
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