Kiffin’s ‘Vanity Fair’ Moment, and Which Coach Wins the Next Title
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ahmad Hardy, Missouri's star running back, was shot over the weekend. Bruce has the latest there. Then, a Vanity Fair profile on Lane Kiffin delivers some gems, like Kiffin implying that Ole Miss fans should be grateful for all he did for them (before abandoning the team during the playoffs). Then Bruce puts Stew on the spot with a ranking exercise: of eight of the most likely active coaches who haven't won a title (Lanning, Freeman, Cristobal, Sarkisan, Kiffin, Campbell, DeBoer, and Riley) who will actually get there?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:12.8 | We are into our second week of soldiering on without Ralph Russo, who we saw some pretty lovely pictures of where he is right now and very jealous. |
| 0:22.5 | Today we're going to talk about America's favorite college football subject, Lane Kiffin. |
| 0:27.3 | There was a interesting to use a, interesting might not be the right word. |
| 0:33.3 | Strange feature on him in Vanity Fair we're going to talk about. |
| 0:36.6 | We're also going to get into |
| 0:37.7 | who we think will be the next coach to win their first national championship. First, a couple |
| 0:42.5 | quick headlines. One of them pretty disturbing, Bruce. Amad Hardy, Mizzou's start running back, |
| 0:47.9 | leading returning Russia in the SEC was shot. Tell us about that. Yeah. So over the weekend, he was back home in Mississippi, where he's from, |
| 0:57.7 | and got shot at a concert from what sources have told us that he got shot in the leg. |
| 1:06.8 | Fortunately, it's not expected to be career-threat threatening. His career is not expected to be in |
| 1:12.4 | jeopardy, but he had surgery over the weekend. It's fortunate that the bullet did not hit an artery |
| 1:19.8 | or hit a nerve. And so, you know, he's only 20 years old. He still has a redshirt year if if if he needs that for |
| 1:30.6 | this season i mean we're talking about one of the best running backs in all of college football put up |
| 1:35.1 | huge numbers last year for for mazou um from what we've heard from uh a bunch of sources that |
| 1:43.6 | it was just a wrong place, wrong time situation. |
| 1:47.9 | But, you know, our thoughts are with him. |
| 1:50.5 | And hopefully he's able to make a quick recovery from this. |
| 1:56.6 | But again, we're told it's not expected to be career-threatening. |
| 2:02.6 | And he's already on the road to recovery. |
| 2:04.5 | All right, yes, wishing him quick recovery and thinking about everybody there at Mizzou. |
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