Kiffin Downplays Expectations, Ralph Witnesses History
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Lane Kiffin tries to temper expectations at LSU despite a reported $40 million roster. Bruce isn't buying it. Rising roster costs across college football trigger a transparency debate, and the Nebraska NIL arbitration case could set the rules for everyone. Ralph caught March Madness history in person, Irish rugby player Neff Giwa is heading to South Carolina, and could Tommy Tuberville's transfer and eligibility bill actually work? Plus, Ralph psychoanalyzes his cohosts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman and Ralph Rousseau. |
| 0:14.7 | Today, we will be talking about Lane Kiffin trying to temper expectations despite his $40 million roster at LSU. |
| 0:23.4 | Bruce will give us an update on the hottest recruit in America. |
| 0:27.0 | And yes, I wrote a column praising a certain politician. |
| 0:31.3 | We'll get into that as well. |
| 0:33.1 | First, as you know, if you've been listening in the last couple weeks, Ralph has been on the March |
| 0:36.9 | Madness Beat. Two weeks ago, he was in Buffalo. Not much happened there. But this week, he was in Washington, D.C. for the elite eight. And you'll never guess what happened in Washington, D.C. in the elite eight. Better than this guy. Get it into Boozer. Back for Sarr. Ahead. Boozer, that ball deflected and stolen by Mullins. |
| 0:56.9 | Caravan, two seconds. |
| 0:58.3 | Mullins tosses it up. |
| 1:01.5 | It's good. |
| 1:02.9 | We're point three. |
| 1:04.8 | Yukon goes in front. |
| 1:09.7 | Ralph, you've been covering college sports for like 30 years. |
| 1:13.5 | This that you sat and had a front row seat for was the most exciting sports event you've seen since when. |
| 1:21.2 | What top of that? |
| 1:22.6 | It would be hard to top that. |
| 1:25.5 | I mean, listen, I've been blessed to be at some of the greatest college |
| 1:28.9 | football games ever played, right? I mean, USC, Texas, some of the great Clemson, Alabama |
| 1:35.6 | national championship games, Alabama's overtime win over Georgia. So there have been a bunch bunch and I'm probably missing a whole bunch more. |
| 1:48.5 | There is something, I can use the word, unique about what happened yesterday, even within the context of basketball. |
| 1:58.0 | Like that buzzer beater, it's just like football doesn't have anything |
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