Michigan and SDSU: Doing good! The NCAA: Doing bad!
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Richard and Alex talk about San Diego State's increasing momentum as a Pac-12 expansion candidate and go over what it means, or doesn't mean, that Michigan is making unusual recruiting inroads in Ohio. Then, a catch-up on the latest set of existential-ish crises facing the NCAA, featuring the magazine reporter who's covered a lot of them and the writer who's now made the big time of congressional subcommittee footnotes. (It's us, haha!) Subscribe to our Patreon for bonus episodes and more at splitzoneduo.com.
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| 0:00.0 | We're coming and we ain't back now. |
| 0:02.0 | We don't need a bunch of cats in here. |
| 0:03.0 | Yeah, looking in the mirror. |
| 0:05.0 | Everybody is you, your job. |
| 0:07.0 | You understand the stand at. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey, will you shut up? |
| 0:09.0 | I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. |
| 0:11.0 | Guys being dudes. |
| 0:12.0 | And they run through our shit like shit through a ten horn man. |
| 0:15.0 | Ah, fuck you know. |
| 0:17.0 | Alex, the NCAA is in peril. |
| 0:22.0 | It's at a crossroads. It's never been less healthy. Why, you might ask, old friend? |
| 0:28.8 | It's because the final four ratings are going to be terrible. |
| 0:34.0 | FAUs in the final four, |
| 0:35.0 | San Diego States in the final four, not great brands. |
| 0:38.0 | The rating is going to be awful. |
| 0:40.0 | You're going to hear a lot of sports media types |
| 0:42.0 | saying that the ratings are going to be awful. |
| 0:44.8 | You know what, Alex? You don't have to care. You don't have to care at all. It is in my professional opinion that unless you are an executive for one of the companies advertising at the Final Four or for the N. C. A you do not ever have to care about the TV |
| 1:07.6 | ratings of anything. Granted college basketball ratings were fine across the board, even up as far as the men's are concerned, even though, as we talked about a couple weeks ago or a couple, yeah, a couple weeks ago, |
| 1:22.0 | men's college basketball at least does not really have that standout player during its regular season. |
| 1:27.5 | Obviously, tournament creates narratives. |
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