LIVE in LA: USC spring practice, NFL draft season + Bob Bowlsby steps down
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Stew and Bruce are together in Los Angeles! Lincoln Riley and USC are in the midst of spring practice. How quickly can the former Oklahoma coach get it turned around? It's NFL Draft season! Bruce discusses his new mock draft on The Athletic. Will Kenny Pickett or Malik Willis be a better pro QB? Plus, Bob Bowlsby is stepping down as commissioner of the Big 12.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's, a rare in-person recording of myself and Bruce Feldman as I appear. |
| 0:26.2 | How much are you setting the company back by putting in this fancy penthouse suite you've got yours to in Southern California? |
| 0:32.6 | The one where I can hear the airplanes flying over as they land at LAX. |
| 0:39.3 | It's convenient, though. I mean, we watched the national championship game the other night and it was like a five-minute drive from here over to your place. |
| 0:44.3 | And not too far from USC and UCLA when the traffic cooperate. |
| 0:49.3 | So it's spring football time. |
| 0:51.3 | And the crazy thing is, you know, i've always found spring to be the best time |
| 0:56.7 | to go visit and get time with people they're relaxed but this is the first time i've been able to do it in |
| 1:02.4 | three years because 2020 everything shut down and in 2021 i think i don't know if we've been vaccinated |
| 1:08.4 | yet i just remember that wasn't an option so yeah glad yeah, glad to be back in FaceTime. Yeah, so we're going to touch on a few things. You and I have now both been out to USC. You went out this week. I went out, I don't know if it was last week or two weeks ago now. You were at the first practice. Yeah. So we're going to talk about that that we're going to talk about some big news in |
| 1:31.0 | power five football and somebody we've known for i don't know how many years you've known bob bulls |
| 1:35.1 | probably 20 years 20 years no but at least uh at least a decade yeah he was a prominent ad at |
| 1:42.0 | stanford and iowa before the big 12 and he he |
| 1:46.4 | could probably write a heck of a book if he if he especially on the past year yeah but I |
| 1:51.9 | just think he knows a ton of stuff from from all of his experiences in football so |
| 1:56.5 | we'll get into that in a little bit we'll get into some draft talk because the draft is coming |
| 2:02.3 | up in just a few weeks. So let's get into, let's start with USC. When was the last time you |
| 2:08.7 | were around the Trojans? The last time I was around. We're down here, I should say. Well, |
| 2:13.7 | I went to a, I mean, games, I was at a game against Oregon, actually. |
| 2:18.8 | That would have been the 2019 season. |
| 2:21.4 | But out of practice, I mean, maybe four years. |
| 2:25.1 | Okay, so let's start with this. |
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