Feldman's 'Freaks list' and Big Ten TV deal with John Ourand
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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It's "Freak's List" release day! Stewart Mandel talks with Bruce Feldman about his annual piece highlighting the most athletic players in college football. Plus, Sports Business Journal's John Ourand joins the show to discuss the Big Ten's reported new TV deal. He gives his take on what type of impact will this have on the sport and the future of conference realignment.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always, by Bruce Feldman. Bruce, the big story in college sports this week does not involve X's and O's, uh, whatever you want to say on field football. It's the big 10 TV deal and the, and the, not, I wouldn't say it's shocking, but it's significant fact that espn won't be part of it we're |
| 0:38.2 | bringing on somebody who's much smarter about sports tv than we are john oran from sports business |
| 0:42.7 | journal to talk about that in a minute but first big day big day in your world a big day on |
| 0:49.5 | a lot of fans world once a year it's freaks day. Freaks list is out on the athletic. |
| 0:55.7 | Theathletic.com slash the Audible if you're not a subscriber and you want to read it |
| 0:58.9 | and you want to learn about the best athletes in college football coming into this year. |
| 1:04.2 | So why don't you start out telling us about your number one guy for this show? |
| 1:08.3 | Okay, Stu. |
| 1:08.9 | My number one guy was not expected to be my number one guy until about three days ago. |
| 1:15.2 | And that's Mazi Smith. |
| 1:16.2 | I think most big 10 fans know who he is. |
| 1:18.4 | He's a big defensive tackle for Michigan. |
| 1:22.1 | He's been a really solid player. |
| 1:24.0 | He's about 20 pounds heavier now. |
| 1:26.8 | It's 6.3.337. But when I was talking to the longtime |
| 1:31.3 | strength, Coach Sarah Ben Herbert, who has been, you know, he was at Wisconsin, previously |
| 1:35.9 | he was at Arkansas. He's been around a lot of elite big guys. He just started gushing. We were |
| 1:42.2 | talking about some other athletes, and he just started talking about |
| 1:44.7 | Mazzi. And his strength, some of the numbers just kind of blew my mind. And I've obviously been doing |
| 1:51.2 | this for almost 20 years. One of the things that really popped out does 22 reps of 325 on the bench. |
| 1:58.8 | I mean, 22 reps for 225 isn't a lot for a delinman, but it's, |
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