You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Hey there, boys and girls, welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew

Brand.

I'm your host andrew brand trying

to give you this whip around every week 25 30 minutes go around the business of sports things that i

saw giving my insights hopefully unique podcast among the sports landscape of podcasts and there are a lot

so i appreciate you listening to mine i really do do. We're produced by Jack Connell.

Musical producers, my son, Sam Brantzian, him next week for Thanksgiving time. And of course,

we are presented as always by Draft Kings. A lot to get to in this week's edition. I want to talk about

college sports slash football, NFL football, of course.

Baseball, I've got some things, a little bit on international talk as we wrap up the NFL

international games last week with Madrid.

I'll tell you some stories about Barcelona many, many years ago.

So let's get to it. I'm going to start in college football because my friend, I wouldn't

call my friend, but James Franklin, the deposed coach at Penn State, found another job.

He's the first of these many fired coaches in power conference football and in

college football to resurface. So it took 36 days from October 12th to November, whatever it was,

where James Franklin goes from head coach at Penn State to head coach at Virginia Tech, moves from the Big

10 to the ACC, an area he knows well. Well, he probably knows from central Pennsylvania down to

Lower Virginia very well. His strength in recruiting has been the DMV area where he was at Maryland,

two stents. And of course, as I mentioned before, I know James

from his one year, who I got to know him pretty well for only being there one year, as wide

receivers coach for the Green Bay Packers in 2005. So we've stayed in touch. We talked about his

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