Mailbag! Former CFB stars who could have benefited from NIL, how to level up into a title contender, more! (01/18)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew talks Kadyn Proctor, transfer portal, NIL, coaching carousel and more. First, a robust and interactive mailbag episodes starts with questions from the live audience, like what coaches might not have been as successful in the transfer portal and NIL era (1:37). Then, on the topic of the portal, the future for former 5-star OT Kadyn Proctor as he eyes an Alabama exit (7:19). Then, what happens first: Alabama wins its next national title or the Blue Chip Ratio Gets Broken (22:17). Plus, updates from the coaching carousel (26:00), how schools and programs can level up to compete for national titles annually (32:10), what former college stars would have benefited from the current NIL and transfer portal model (39:30) and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
| 0:09.2 | Canel and Bud Elliot. |
| 0:11.9 | It's your call for the best college football coverage. |
| 0:15.0 | From National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.0 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 Podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 Podcast |
| 0:28.0 | here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.0 | That's Bud Elliot, that's Danny Canel, that's Tom Finelli, |
| 0:32.0 | that's Chip Patterson coming to you live at YouTube.com |
| 0:35.8 | slash Cover3 and everywhere you get your podcast on demand. Thanks for hanging out. Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the chat |
| 0:43.8 | aka the cover three tailgate which has been rocking and rolling here on a |
| 0:48.6 | Thursday interactive because we're gonna be opening up the big old bag of mail. |
| 0:54.4 | You go, you leave us a five star review and in that review you put your question. |
| 0:58.4 | We will put it in a future mail bag episode. |
| 1:01.6 | Also, says the Cover3 tailgate is loyal with us all |
| 1:04.6 | through the year you know we are also going to be taking questions from |
| 1:07.3 | there we've got some big headlines right after we got off the show Alabama had another |
| 1:11.6 | former five-star enter the transfer portal we'll get into that the the coaching carousel as well. We will before we get into all that hit some of the |
| 1:26.2 | early birds because we want to reward those of you who show up and get the |
| 1:29.2 | questions going. So Alex who jumped in almost an hour before we got started says in this cover |
| 1:36.0 | through tailgate would some of the coaches from the pre-transfer portal era be |
| 1:41.7 | as successful with the way they treated players and amassed talent through |
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