No football without students on campus
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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The Athletic's Stewart Mandel and Bruce Feldman discuss two stories that were published this week about VP Mike Pence's conference call with conference commissioners & the legend of former Hawaii defensive lineman Isaac Sopoaga. Plus, listener mailbag questions on the college football playoff, Ohio State's national championship hopes, Auburn vs. Florida State in 2013, Texas A&M, Will Muschamp & Curb Your Enthusiasm! Subscribe to The Athletic (40% off): www.theathletic.com/theaudible
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined, as always, by my colleague, Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:28.4 | And we will get to your email questions in a little bit. |
| 0:33.7 | But first, we're going to chat about some news, at least it feels like news, in college football and college athletics, with Mike Pence, the vice president, speaking to all the conference commissioners in FBS football to get the lay of the land. |
| 0:49.5 | I keep waiting for the episode where we're not going to have to bring up anything related to coronavirus but I just I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon it's certainly the |
| 0:57.7 | the topic that will continue to dominate college football until we have an answer one way or |
| 1:03.1 | the other is is there going to be a season when's it going to start so on and so forth and of |
| 1:09.0 | course we don't know the answers to that yet, but it was a notable moment, to say |
| 1:13.0 | the least, on Wednesday when the vice president, who is, you know, leading the White House's |
| 1:19.9 | task force on coronavirus, invited the, it's technically the college football playoff |
| 1:26.9 | management committee, but who that is |
| 1:28.6 | is the 10 commissioners, Notre Dame AD, Jack Swarbrook, and Bill Hancock about what it would take |
| 1:35.4 | to get college football back to normal. It wasn't anything earth-shattering when we talked to |
| 1:41.3 | some of the commissioners that were on the call for, but I do think it's notable that they go on the record basically and make it kind of an official stance and let him |
| 1:49.4 | know that until students, the general student body is allowed back on campus, there's not |
| 1:55.8 | going to be college football games. I think some people may have thought, well, they're all |
| 2:00.7 | taking online classes anyway, |
| 2:02.3 | so you could bring the football team back. They still do online classes. No. If we get to |
| 2:08.5 | August and even some of the schools say we don't feel comfortable yet doing, you know, opening |
| 2:17.1 | our campus back up to students |
| 2:18.6 | then uh they're not going to make an exception for football and if they can't do august training |
| 2:24.7 | camp um i mean regardless of that like if if that happens i think then you the idea of maybe |
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