NBA Draft Round 1 Preview With Sam Vecenie. Plus: Looming CFB Conference Realignment.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Russillo shares his thoughts on college football conference realignment (0:35) before talking with The Athletic's Sam Vecenie about the upcoming NBA draft and running through almost every first-round prospect (10:15). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:04:40). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Sam Vecenie Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is almost my favorite day, the entire year.
0:14.0	The NBA draft will get you ready with the Athletics Sam Bacini.
0:17.6	It's got this great work.
0:18.6	We're going to talk basically about every first round prospect.
0:21.4	So we cover a lot here in an hour and an opening rant about colludry alignment and why
0:26.0	you know I hate it.
0:27.4	It's been going on forever and it's basically unavoidable.
0:30.1	So some backstory to somebody that had talked about it all the time when he was at ESPN over
0:34.2	a decade ago when he was doing this stuff and liping by so enjoy.
0:38.1	Because of the NBA draft and then the finals finishing up, I have not talked about a subject
0:41.3	that I actually love talking about even though I hate it and that's conference realignment.
0:45.0	Let me tell you, somebody who lived through it at ESPN about 10 years ago and all this
0:48.7	stuff kind of got started up again and again, it happened.
0:50.9	It's been happening for years, but the time it really felt like there were these plate
0:54.9	tectonic type shifts happening throughout college landscapes.
0:58.1	And really it's about college football.
1:00.0	It's never really about basketball, although if you add a basketball school, you're like,
1:03.1	hey, cool.
1:04.1	Look at how awesome our basketball school is.
1:05.4	I hate it.
1:06.4	I hate it.
1:07.4	I hate it.
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