Hour 2: Stewart Mandel joins the show
The Paul Finebaum Show
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3.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The pride, passion, and pageantry of college football lives here. |
| 0:10.0 | This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, Hour 2 podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | This might be college football head. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome in as we continue to plow through a lot of the news left over from the season. |
| 0:25.6 | As we look at this headline, the college sports actually want rules in Indiana. |
| 0:33.6 | Stuart Mandel from the Athletic Stewart, I'm really chuckling about the first part of your headline there |
| 0:40.1 | because we've just gotten through with yet another dramatic moment with Davo Sweeney. |
| 0:46.1 | And you want to agree with Davo and you want to clap and say all the right things. |
| 0:50.0 | And then you remember who he's calling on to look into this. |
| 0:54.7 | But before we even get to that specifically, just the idea of college athletics right now |
| 1:00.2 | and enforcement, they don't seem to be getting along very well. |
| 1:04.7 | Right. |
| 1:05.3 | Well, as you know, Paul, everybody loves to blame the NCAA for everything |
| 1:10.7 | while overlooking the fact that the NCAA is the members and the members set the rules. |
| 1:17.2 | And so we hear a lot of ADs, coaches, even commissioners complain that there's no enforcement and we need something better. |
| 1:27.0 | Okay, but are you willing to actually follow the rules? |
| 1:30.3 | And I use the Alabama basketball situation as a great example of that. You know, Greg |
| 1:35.7 | Byrne and the folks at Alabama have been out on the front line for years, advocating for a |
| 1:42.6 | better system, the Score Act, those sort of things. |
| 1:47.5 | And then, but they need a basketball, they need a seven-footer for the basketball team. |
| 1:50.5 | So they get a guy who, I mean, literally Charlie Baker, the president of NPA said maybe two weeks ago, maybe a little more about eligibility. |
| 2:05.6 | We're not going to ever grant a waiver to somebody who already played college basketball and turned pro, you know, in this case years ago. |
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