Mount Rushmore of CFB Villains + Baylor's bet on Dave Aranda & coaching timelines
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
One of Until Saturday's most dedicated listeners, Sad Husker Nate, did it again. He left another gem of a question for Ari Wasserman, Sam Khan Jr., and Mitch Light on the Until Saturday Phone Line (316-462-9852): Who's on our Mount Rushmore of CFB Villains? The trio go meta with some of their choices (like the Pac-12's cognoscenti that destroyed the conference), but weren't bashful about naming some names (like Michigan's Jim Harbaugh). Baylor is gambling on Dave Aranda after consecutive losing seasons. Why did AD Mack Rhodes decide to retain Aranda? Sam takes us inside his excellent story before the group delves into a bigger picture conversation: What's a fair timeline for a coach? Lastly, EA Sports NCAA 25 dropped a bombshell on us last Friday.
Read Sam's Dave Aranda story: https://theathletic.com/5467548/2024/05/06/dave-aranda-baylor-football/
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Rundown:
- Mount Rushmore of CFB Villains via Sad Husker Nate (4:00)
- Honorable mention villains (38:00)
- Baylor's big bet on Dave Aranda + fair timelines (44:45)
- NCAA 25 cover athletes (1:00:00)
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| 0:29.9 | Music Welcome back to Until Saturday. I'm Ari Wasserman, joined by my editor and confidant, Mitch |
| 0:49.2 | Light. And one of my... All right. Yeah, yeah. And one of my good buddies, Sam Kahn. |
| 0:54.9 | We have a pretty busy show. |
| 0:57.1 | Later on in the show, we're going to get to a really good story that Sam wrote about |
| 1:02.0 | Dave Aranda at Baylor and the bet that they took to bring him back. |
| 1:06.2 | In the front half of the show, we're going to dive into the reverse of the Mount Rushmore of college |
| 1:13.0 | coaches. That's the Mount Rushmore of villains. And as we get into that, just want to have a disclaimer |
| 1:19.2 | that we're not talking about off the field terrible people. We're talking about villains and |
| 1:24.3 | characters in the sport. So we will also discuss the NCAA-25 cover |
| 1:30.8 | reaction because there were a lot of different ways that EA sports could have gone with that. |
| 1:35.8 | It was leaked by the PlayStation store last week. And I'm very curious to see what you guys |
| 1:39.9 | think. Mitch, did you ever play the game or are you too old? No, I was going to say, I am in that |
| 1:43.7 | sweet spot age-wise, huge Tecmo Bowl fan, obsessed in college, after college. And then basically, I think when the NCAA game came out is when I had kids and I just stopped playing video games. So I appreciate everyone's enthusiasm for it. I just missed it all. |
| 2:01.5 | I don't know. |
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