Mailbag: Which teams bounce back in 2021? Bowl season never the same? + NCAA Tournament picks & Brody Miller on LSU
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Stew & Bruce are joined by The Athletic’s Brody Miller to discuss a busy news cycle at LSU. The National Championship season feels like a distant memory as spring practice kicks off on the Bayou. Meanwhile, off-the-field, a Title IX investigation is ongoing. Former LSU Head Coach Les Miles was fired at Kansas after sexual misconduct allegations during his time in Baton Rouge were revealed.
Mailbag questions! Which team that underperformed in 2020 will bounce back in 2021? Penn State, Wisconsin or Michigan? Will PJ Fleck be a one hit wonder at Minnesota? Was 2020 the end of bowl season as we knew it? Plus, the guys make their NCAA Tournament picks & share stories from covering March Madness in the past.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:24.0 | Bruce, this is a college football podcast as everybody knows, but man, it is college basketball's on the |
| 0:29.5 | brain this week, March Madness. Great opportunity, by the way, to subscribe to the athletic. |
| 0:34.6 | It's only a dollar a month right now. Dollar a month if you subscribe to the athletic, it's only a dollar a month right now. Dollar a month. |
| 0:38.2 | If you subscribe to the athletic and clearly you're going to want to get your March Madness expertise from Seth Davis and Danae O'Neill and Brian Hamilton and not the two of us. |
| 0:48.2 | No, I think we're pretty devoid. |
| 0:49.7 | I don't know if we ever had much expertise on the college basketball front, but if we did, I think it kind of fizzled out back in the days when Mike Bray was a hot coach. |
| 1:01.0 | I mean, I was still doing bracketology as recently as 2018, so I did know something at that point, |
| 1:06.9 | but it's, poof, I'm having to read up myself on this season. But, you know, we actually, |
| 1:15.7 | so on today's episode, we're having on Brody Miller, our excellent LSU writer, because there's |
| 1:20.5 | just been so much going on involving LSU football on and off the field. And then we're going to |
| 1:27.0 | take some mailbag questions, and one of those mailbag questions |
| 1:29.5 | allows us to, we didn't expect to do this, but we went on quite a trip down memory lane |
| 1:35.8 | about some of our favorite March Madness memories, some of which don't actually involve |
| 1:39.2 | the basketball games. |
| 1:40.4 | Let's get to Brody. |
| 1:42.1 | All right, we're pleased to be joined now by our excellent LSU reporter, Brody Miller. |
| 1:47.0 | Brody, we wanted to have you on because obviously LSU's been in the news a lot lately. |
| 1:52.8 | Not very much good news, which kind of, I feel like continues the theme of the last, what, 14 months or so. |
| 2:02.5 | I wanted to get kind of your big picture perspective first before we get into some of the details here. |
| 2:07.7 | But like, how long ago does the 2019 undefeated season feel like at this point if you're around LSU? |
| 2:14.5 | It feels like a very long time ago, and I'm sure it does to Ed Ogeron and everybody involved, too, just because, yeah, it it was like a very long time ago and i'm sure it does to ed ogeron and everybody |
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