Pat Fitzgerald facing suspension + why Texas can make the playoff
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Bruce Feldman is solo hosting this week with Stew out on vacation...
Scott Dochterman joins the show to discuss the alleged reports of hazing at Northwestern that has landed Pat Fitzgerald a two-week suspension.
Ari Wasserman then joins Bruce to discuss the latest on the field in college football. Michigan is going for three straight Big Ten titles. Can Ryan Day and Ohio State get back to Indy in 2023? Plus, Ari explains why he thinks Texas is headed to the College Football Playoff this season.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined this week by a couple of my colleagues from the athletic. |
| 0:23.9 | We're going to start. |
| 0:25.3 | We'll have Ari Wasserman, our recruiting guru, join us a little later. |
| 0:31.3 | But the biggest story that happened, and Stu was on vacation vacation still and i was on vacation last week |
| 0:38.6 | uh there was a friday news dump out of northwestern uh pat fitzgerald is getting a two-week |
| 0:47.3 | suspension and it goes to their investigation into hazing allegations inside the program |
| 0:53.8 | and we're going to have on Scott |
| 0:55.8 | Dr.man. Scott is the athletics, you know, fantastic Iowa beat writer, but he's really a great resource |
| 1:04.6 | on all things, Big Ten especially. And so Scott, you a couple of years ago covered the scandal at Iowa involving Chris Doyle, |
| 1:14.9 | the former strength coach, and obviously Kurt Ferrence. |
| 1:19.7 | But I think what was interesting about that story was it felt like it was playing out in real time |
| 1:25.2 | with former and current players weighing in on social media and |
| 1:30.1 | kind of airing a lot of stuff and it kind of blew up. I think this story is interesting because |
| 1:36.0 | it really, I don't know if if people kind of, and I always say people who cover college football and the media were kind of, oh, we, you know, Pat Fitzgerald's a good guy. |
| 1:49.5 | We end up, you know, kind of looking at it in that light and dismissing it or just didn't know what was going on. |
| 1:55.9 | Maybe also because it's a private school that it was kind of floating behind the underneath the radar. What was your |
| 2:02.2 | reaction when this thing first, first got released Friday? Well, first, thanks for having me on. |
| 2:10.1 | And I guess, you know, like everyone, I read the executive summary and I was a little confused by it |
| 2:16.3 | because there was an omission that there was |
| 2:18.8 | that hazing had taken place that they were going to shut down Camp Kenosha which was |
| 2:23.2 | you know a tradition for 30 years and Pat Fitzgerald is going to receive a two-week unpaid |
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