Football's life-changing impact, March Madness & Tom Herman starting over at FAU
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
March Madness delivered once again. The guys discuss takeaways from the first weekend of madness.
Can Tom Herman rebuild his image at FAU? A coach who was once a lightning rod in the sport is now starting over in Boca.
Colorado has sold almost 30k tickets to its spring game. Last year about 2k fans were in the building. Welcome to the Deion Sanders effect. Can the Buffs go to a bowl game in 2023?
Plus, Stew and Bruce discuss the impact football has had on their lives both professionally and personally.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague from the athletic Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:26.6 | Stu, we are coming off the first weekend of March Madness. |
| 0:31.5 | It is always probably the best weekend of college basketball. |
| 0:36.2 | I know that people love the Final final four, you know, weekend. |
| 0:40.8 | But because you get crazy upsets and you get storylines that pop out of nowhere seemingly. |
| 0:48.8 | You were following your alma mater, which fortunately for you was only a couple hour car ride away, Northwestern didn't make it out of the first weekend. |
| 0:59.3 | What was your experience like being there? |
| 1:03.0 | First of all, Bruce, the first weekend of the tournament is just unbelievable. |
| 1:06.6 | It's four days of craziness. |
| 1:10.4 | But I like, I'll watch the whole tournament, but I just think that the first |
| 1:13.6 | weekend's the best part, you know, I'll watch Sweet 16 lead eight. |
| 1:17.4 | I'll watch Final Four. |
| 1:18.6 | But there's just nothing like it. |
| 1:20.1 | And if you remember, so Thursday, like two hours into the day, Furman has that crazy |
| 1:25.7 | ending to beat Virginia. So, yeah, it worked out really well. |
| 1:31.6 | So full disclosure, I have not been to a college sporting event that I wasn't covering. No, |
| 1:39.8 | that's not true. I did go to a Northwestern football game for homecoming about five years ago. But football, |
| 1:46.2 | I don't really, I can't, because it's our job and my beat, like I can't really get into |
| 1:51.4 | Northwestern football as a fan. You know, I just, I follow it like I follow other programs. Basketball, |
| 1:56.8 | no touch reservations. And it's just been crazy to get to go to the tournament um |
| 2:02.4 | they've only ever made it twice i got to go to the first round in 2017 in salt lake and then |
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