Is Hugh Freeze right for Auburn? SEC vs Big Ten coaching depth & Ari's UNLV recruiting pitch
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The coaching carousel is whirling at an alarmingly fast rate, but Andy, Ari, and Scott are here to help it all make sense.
- Is Hugh Freeze at Auburn the right fit? (3:15)
-Which conference now has more quality coaching depth: The SEC or Big Ten? (24:30)
- Ohio State has regressed under Ryan Day (26:30)
- Who's the worst coach in the SEC, or Big Ten? (34:15)
- Will the Big Ten's larger payday help elevate the conference to SEC levels? (39:15)
- Ari's UNLV recruiting pitch (52:00)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show presented by Sling. |
| 0:12.4 | We are talking coaching carousel. |
| 0:14.7 | There is a lot going on. |
| 0:16.6 | It is Monday. |
| 0:17.5 | It's been a few hours since Auburn hired Hugh Freeze and made that announcement official. |
| 0:22.2 | Matt Rule has been introduced at Nebraska. |
| 0:24.4 | Luke Fickle has been introduced at Wisconsin. |
| 0:26.6 | UNLV has fired Marcus Arroyo. |
| 0:28.9 | Texas A&M has fired in-name-only offensive coordinator Daryl Dickey with the most terse |
| 0:33.7 | statement I think we've ever seen. |
| 0:36.2 | It was one sentence. |
| 0:37.1 | It was like, |
| 0:38.2 | Darle Licki's been relieved of his duties. Thanks. Bye. That was it. It is a Scott Dockerman |
| 0:48.5 | Day. We're all recovered from our cottage cheese comas. Scott, I appreciated that, you know, all through Wednesday and Thursday, I had people reaching out on social media saying, hey, I'm from Iowa, and what Scott said is completely normal. I had cottage cheese. I liked it. And after a while, I'm like, oh, my God, this is like running the gauntlet back in high school, running through |
| 1:11.4 | the blaster and you're like, boom, boom, boom, boom, but except it's more like people taking all kinds of shots. I'm like, wow, I feel like are even some of these mits, you know? I felt, I felt bad, Scott. I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to unleash that on you. You're too good of a guy. But when I saw that a restaurant was serving and I was like, okay, I guess this is normal. I saw a restaurant menu with it on there. Yeah. It's in the, it's in the man of colonies, which is kind of the German territory of Iowa. So yeah, that's, I guess that's kind of nature to what we do here i suppose well i i i am glad i |
| 1:46.5 | you know i'm just i wanted to make sure that that we pointed that out that's scott is not as |
| 1:51.9 | unusual as we made him sound so he's he's he's very much on brand for where he is he's drinking |
| 1:57.9 | what's under that what's under that's coozy pal the coozy, pal? The coosies a ham's beer coozy. That's the best part. Yes, that's the nectar of the gods here in Iowa and Wisconsin. So unfortunately, it's a diet Pepsi, but, you know, hams. Hey, I thought we were doing a buzzed podcast on it. I'll go get a drink. |
| 2:19.9 | I've done that once before. |
| 2:21.5 | That was when the comes won the World Series. |
| 2:28.0 | We got to talk about Hugh Free is getting hired at Auburn, but Michael Hartman coming in hot in the live chat. |
| 2:34.6 | If Ryan Daseed is actually getting warned, what big name could Ohio State Target to replace him? |
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