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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three.

Our number three of our radio program, a surprising story from the gossip mill of the pigskin world,

would the Pittsburgh Steelers longtime head coach leave the Steel City for a college job?

Well, Carson Palmer tossed Mike Tomlin's name out. Fair or foul that Mike Tomlin is a candidate for the University of Southern California

coaching job?

We break it down point by point right now in our number three.

Looking for a change, but is that really true?

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Maler show.

We are side by side in the air everywhere as we pass the time coast to coast, border to border, and beyond, on the vast

and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the theater.

The Hot Take Theater located in the bowels of the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location in the Northwoods.

So we begin this hour with something a little different as the World Series gets started tonight.

Our lead this hour, though, coming from the files of rampant speculation.

This is a hybrid story.

It's a hybrid story. It's a combination of the NFL and college.

This happens once in a blue moon. This happens once in a blue moon.

This happens to be the blue moon.

So the University of Southern California

that got walloped by Notre Dame over the weekend,

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