More 'Vanity Fair' Fallout, Sark Piles On, and the 24-Team Playoff Nobody Asked For
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Lane Kiffin made comments in his “Vanity Fair” piece about Ole Miss recruiting and race that are making waves, and now Steve Sarkisian is also taking the opportunity to take a shot at the Rebels. What both coaches said reveals some interesting insights into the SEC's increasingly public grudge matches. Then: the 24-team playoff has real momentum now, and Bruce and Stew aren't happy about it. In mailbag, could we do a creative "NIT-style" bowl alternative?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of The Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague from the athletic, Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:14.9 | As you know, Ralph Rousseau is still away on this exotic vacation. |
| 0:19.2 | We think Ralph will be back next week if he does decide to come back. |
| 0:23.6 | Think about how much he's missed. |
| 0:26.6 | I mean, this has been the newsiest week probably of the whole offseason. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm sure he's okay with it where he is in the pictures he's sending us. |
| 0:34.9 | So, all right. |
| 0:35.6 | So there's a bunch of stuff, as you just alluded to, to get to, |
| 0:39.2 | Stu. We are going to talk about the latest Lane Kim Finn story that seems to not be pretty |
| 0:47.3 | sticky, as well as his old colleague from his USCDA Steve Sarkeesian throwing more shade at Ole Miss and kind of broadsiding |
| 0:56.5 | the rebels as well as the Nebraska arbitration case, the 2014 playoff, and how it feels like |
| 1:04.1 | there's some momentum and how things have shifted with that plus the mailbag. |
| 1:08.1 | But let's go back to this story we talked about a little on the last episode, which was |
| 1:12.8 | the Vanity Fair piece where Lane Kiffin said a lot of things over this interview. |
| 1:20.8 | The thing that really has gotten people the most riled up, at least on social media after |
| 1:26.5 | this story came out, was comments Kiffin made |
| 1:29.3 | in regard to the recruiting implications based on the racial history and perceptions of |
| 1:36.8 | Ole Miss. And I'm going to read from the Vanity Fair story here. When he was coaching there, |
| 1:42.6 | Kiffin says, top recruits would tell him, quote, |
| 1:46.0 | Hey, coach, we really like you, but my grandparents aren't letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi. |
| 1:51.9 | That doesn't come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Parents were sitting here this weekend, |
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