Is a spring season even possible? + Holly Rowe prepares to return to work
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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The Athletic's Bruce Feldman & Stewart Mandel welcome friend of the pod Holly Rowe to the show! First, the guys discuss whether a spring college football season is even possible and what it would mean for NFL draft prospects. Bruce taps into his resources around the country to get some inside info. Plus, mailbag questions on the Pac 12's playoff chances & the fate of the group of 5.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always, by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:21.8 | We've got a great guest on in this episode, Holly Row from ESPN. |
| 0:25.6 | She's been on here before. |
| 0:27.1 | We love talking to her, and we're going to get to her in just a little bit. |
| 0:30.4 | But first, Bruce, there's been quite a lot of news in college football since we talked to Paul Feinbaum on this episode last week. I think even |
| 0:38.4 | before we published that episode, the Big Ten with the first big announcements that they were going |
| 0:44.4 | to a conference-only schedule. Pack 12 followed with the same decision the next day. And then on Monday, |
| 0:51.2 | SECADs met in Birmingham. No firm decisions about anything there. |
| 0:55.3 | But Greg Sanky at least laid out a timeline where they are going to try to make some decisions about the season by the end of July. |
| 1:04.7 | So, you know, you had a really interesting story go up on the athletic on Wednesday where you talk to 20 FBS coaches |
| 1:12.8 | about basically the viability of playing in the spring. I mean, it's something that all the A.Ds |
| 1:19.4 | and the commissioners keep saying, oh, it's just it's a last resort. We don't want to do it if we |
| 1:23.8 | don't have to. And you kind of want to be like, guys, I think we're right |
| 1:28.1 | on the brink of the last resort. You might want to start taking this more seriously. So |
| 1:32.2 | tell us some of your takeaways from coaches who would have to deal with this directly if the |
| 1:39.6 | season does get pushed into next year. |
| 1:44.7 | Right. |
| 1:51.7 | So again, as it starts to take on a last resort tone, whether it's do you try to shoehorn a smaller season or a condensed season in the winter slash spring for the academic year of |
| 1:59.9 | 2021 or you don't play at all and there's all sorts of issues |
| 2:04.2 | most many of them certainly financial ramifications to not having a season so one of the things |
| 2:10.6 | that you would hear a lot of people saying you'd see people on social media say oh well all |
| 2:14.8 | all the players would sit out because they would try to get ready for the draft. I was like, I don't know if I buy that. I know. I think there's some who would |
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