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The Audible with Stew & Bruce: A show about college football

Historic Change Coming to College Football

The Audible with Stew & Bruce: A show about college football

The Athletic

Sports News, News, Football, Sports

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Stewart Mandel is joined by famous Attorney Thomas Mars to discuss NCAA transfer policy. College Football is on the precipice of changing a rule that has been in place for the last 127 years! Mars represented high profile athletes like Ohio State's Justin Fields and Michigan's Shea Patterson. The Athletic's Chris Vannini talks about his story on a Division III school that is making an unprecedented jump into Division I. Plus, Vannini gives his take on whether his alma mater Michigan State overpaid for Mel Tucker. Subscribe to The Athletic (40% off): www.theathletic.com/theaudible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up on today's episode of the audible attorney Tom Mars joins me to talk about a

0:04.9

potentially revolutionary proposal by the NCA this week that would allow players to

0:10.4

transfer without having to sit out a year.

0:13.0

And the athletic Chris Vanini joins me as well

0:15.0

to talk about his very unique story about a program

0:18.0

that is attempting to move from D3 straight to D1.

0:21.0

That's coming up on the audible. Welcome to the Audible with Stu and Bruce presented by Trader Joe's. I actually just

0:48.3

went to Trader Joe's on Valentine's Day to pick up flowers for my wife. I'd recommend you do the same whenever

0:55.5

there's a special occasion go get your groceries from Trader Joe's and buy some of

0:58.8

their beautiful flowers. Bruce is not with us this week. I would say he's on vacation but the man hasn't actually

1:05.2

taken a true vacation since like 2008. I'm sure he's in line at Disney World right now trying

1:10.3

to break the Colorado coaching search. But there was big news in the college

1:16.6

sports world this week. In fact, I'm not even sure it's getting as much attention

1:20.7

as it probably should be given the magnitude.

1:24.8

That's the transfer rule, the transfer proposal that's

1:28.8

first the Big Ten proposed it.

1:31.4

The ACC came out this week, said they endorse it, and now the actual

1:35.8

NTA transfer working group, transfer waiver working group. Basically they want to get rid of these waivers that have been causing so much

1:46.1

consternation the last couple years and just give every football and basketball player a one-time

1:51.9

exception as long as they're in good

1:53.8

academic standing transfer play right away. Obviously that would be a game

1:57.7

changer. There's no person on the face of the earth more qualified to talk about this, than Thomas Mars.

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