Michigan’s Coaching Crisis, Transfer Portal QB Bonanza
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Michigan situation has taken a darker turn than anyone expected. Bruce, Ralph, and Stew break down how Sherrone Moore's firing has evolved into a potential crisis in the athletic department, why AD Warde Manuel's job may be in jeopardy, and what this means for the coaching search. They debate whether Kellen DeBoer could realistically leave Alabama and discuss candidates like Jedd Fisch.
Meanwhile, the transfer portal is exploding with quarterback talent. Dylan Raiola, DJ Lagway, and Sam Leavitt headline a loaded QB class. The crew ranks the top available signal-callers and discusses how NIL money is changing the draft-or-stay calculation.
Plus, Ferndando Mendoza wins the Heisman in a relative landslide over Diego Pavia. The guys divulge how they voted this year, and why Pavia's competitive fire led to his controversial social media posts. And: should Notre Dame join a conference after their playoff snub?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Ottawa presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined by my colleagues from the athletic, Ralph Rousseau and Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:15.1 | Guys, a lot to get to. |
| 0:17.4 | We have a Heisman trophy winner. |
| 0:19.1 | I don't know if it's a Heisman trophy controversy that came |
| 0:21.2 | out of it in the hours after the announcement. And there's the Michigan story. The Michigan story |
| 0:29.9 | has dominated, not just the college football news, but it's bigger than that because it has been |
| 0:35.9 | so messy and it is sprawling out into a lot of different |
| 0:40.8 | areas we're going to get into that guys it's an interesting weekend we've had let's start with |
| 0:48.3 | the wolverines though yeah well i mean the it looks like michigan may what's interesting about what's interesting about Michigan's coaching search before we get into the Shero more of it all is we have one less clear candidate now, right? |
| 1:03.1 | A lot of people had thought about Kalin DeBore and at Alabama possibly being a candidate eventually at Michigan in the way he was thought of as a |
| 1:12.8 | possible candidate eventually at Penn State. But that's gone now, Stu. Kailen DeBore has said |
| 1:20.2 | like he's staying at Alabama. |
| 1:23.2 | Yeah. And then you look at some of the other people. I think Kenny Dillingham has been a hot name there. |
| 1:30.3 | There's been reports that he might be nearing some sort of raise or extension at ASU. |
| 1:37.6 | Our guy, Kyle Wittingham, announced he was stepping down on Friday at Utah for 21 years, |
| 1:42.7 | which in any other coaching carousel would be |
| 1:45.1 | maybe one of the bigger movements of the cycle, but not so much, then mentions of possibly |
| 1:51.3 | entering the mix there. |
| 1:54.6 | I'm interested, obviously, who the next coach is going to be, guys. |
| 1:58.3 | But also, I believe when you and Bruce last, like you guys came on and talked about the |
| 2:04.4 | Michigan stuff, whenever that was late last week. |
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