Kiffin Called Out, K-State Coaching Changes, and USF Hires Hartline
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Multiple Ole Miss players publicly dispute Lane Kiffin’s claim that the team asked him to stay for the playoffs. Does it matter?
Chris Klieman steps down at Kansas State after a solid run, and former Heisman finalist Colin Klein is expected to return home from Texas A&M to take over the Wildcats. What might Klein’s experience in a well-funded program like A&M bring to Manhattan?
Brian Hartline lands the head coaching job at USF, who might have the highest ceiling among open jobs in the American. And Neal Brown lands at North Texas.
Plus, the guys answer your mailbag questions!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Ralph Russo from The Athletic, joined today by my colleague Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:15.0 | Stuart Mandel is on assignment. |
| 0:17.4 | The hat is back. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm really struggling with trying to get a haircut, folks. I'm just going to be real about this. |
| 0:23.2 | Been a little too busy for the haircut. We've got a lot to cover, even though we've been rapid firing shows, the news never stops. |
| 0:31.3 | We're going to do a mailbag later on. There is, of course, more coaching news. There is, of course, more Lane Kiffin news. |
| 0:40.3 | Bruce, let's start with the coaching carousel continuing to spin. |
| 0:46.5 | Not necessarily shocking news, but it all came together. |
| 0:52.1 | In fact, I think it should become official as we're recording here. |
| 0:55.0 | But it all became, it all sort of came together this afternoon. The headliner at K-State, |
| 1:00.6 | where Chris Kleiman is stepping down, talking of retirement there. And maybe even more interesting, |
| 1:07.4 | the replacement already is kind of lined up. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, it's interesting. |
| 1:15.8 | I feel like we were talking about this offline, |
| 1:17.7 | maybe in the last 48 hours, |
| 1:18.8 | about there were rumblings. |
| 1:20.3 | And you can get that where, |
| 1:22.8 | whether it was going to be rumblings at Iowa, rumblings at Utah with very established coaches |
| 1:26.0 | who were further along in their career. Maybe this is it for them |
| 1:29.7 | in terms of being on the sideline. So we started hearing a lot more about Chris Kleinman, perhaps |
| 1:36.4 | stepping down. And as soon as there was a report from an account, I'll be honest, I don't follow, |
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