Hour 1: Blake Toppmeyer, USA Today
The Paul Finebaum Show
ESPN Radio
3.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:30.9 | The pride, passion, and pageantry of college football lives here. |
| 0:39.8 | This is the Paul Feinbaum Show, Our One Podcast. |
| 0:46.3 | Good Tuesday afternoon, ESPN Radio. |
| 0:49.2 | This is the Paul Feimbaum show, and as you can tell, of course, I am not the great Paul Feimbaum. |
| 0:55.7 | I am Braden Gull, honored to be here with you guys on this Tuesday. And we got a lot of stuff to get to. |
| 1:00.9 | Softball tournament, of course, in the SEC ongoing on the television. You, of course, can get in. |
| 1:06.6 | 855242. Paul, 855 242-7-285. But I'm going to start where we always start around this time of year. |
| 1:14.9 | And that's, of course, ranking coaches, ranking programs, ranking quarterbacks, ranking |
| 1:19.5 | coordinators. And I do find the coaching discussion to be utterly fascinating. We will have lots of time for your phone calls. |
| 1:26.8 | So if you want to line them up, go ahead. We will get to those coming up momentarily. However, we start today with an uptempo offense. Blake Topmire senior college football reporter for USA Today. Joining us here, Blake, good to talk to you, sir. How are you welcome to the show? |
| 1:45.0 | Blake, can you hear? |
| 1:45.7 | I'm doing well, Brad. |
| 1:51.1 | All right, first and foremost, you guys have, you know, it's the time of year where we do this. |
| 2:00.5 | And you've got coaches all over the country with different track records and different sort of, you know, resumes, different strengths and weaknesses, but also different challenges. |
| 2:00.9 | Can I just ask you first personally before we get into the list and some of the folks' criteria? I'm curious |
| 2:06.5 | how you evaluate a coach who has all the resources like a Kirby Smart or Ryan Day versus a guy |
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