Players we're most excited to watch; CFB cool kids' table & Frost's future
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
We're almost there! The college football season is in sight, and there's no better college football podcast appetizer than what Andy and Ari serve up in today's show. Before nominating and elaborating on their lists of players they're most excited to watch this season, the guys discuss the NCAA's investigation into Nebraska because of allegations of improper use of analysts and consultants and illegal workouts. In light of these potential violations, what's Scott Frost's future? Who is the Regina George of college football? Andy and Ari name college football cool kids and label which teams are on the cusp of joining the Queen Bees' table (#GlenCoco). Lastly, the guys take inventory of college football's most exciting players, namely, the ones who interest them most, including TreVeyon Henderson, Emory Jones, and Jahleel Billingsley, among others.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.6 | Best day of the week for this week, because this is the last time you're going to be hearing Ari Wasserman on a Monday with me for a good while because Ari is going to move |
| 0:23.3 | to Friday starting next week and then we're going to have shows that come out right after the |
| 0:29.4 | games in. So you're going to hear him Sunday morning while you're making your breakfast. Now, |
| 0:33.5 | a little bird he said Ari might be the first guest on one of those. So you may hear Ari pretty soon after this. |
| 0:39.6 | But Ari, we're close. |
| 0:43.7 | We're so close right now. |
| 0:45.4 | It's less than a week. |
| 0:47.1 | We're going to have games. |
| 0:49.1 | I can't wait. |
| 0:50.5 | And that's actually kind of a sneaky banger of a game starting off next Saturday. |
| 0:56.5 | Nebraska, Illinois, you kind of pumped it up a little bit, and I think it just got a little bit juicier this week, didn't it? |
| 1:00.7 | Well, we talked about Nebraska, Illinois for like 30 minutes last week. |
| 1:04.6 | And then the news comes out, I think that was, was that Monday or Tuesday? |
| 1:08.3 | And I was like, well, either we're geniuses for talking that game up or we're idiots because we wasted all our stuff, all our takes on it. |
| 1:16.7 | No, I think that the takes just got boosted. Everything that we were talking about became more prevalent as a result of the news. So I would say genius side of the coin on that way. |
| 1:27.4 | I'll take it. I'll take it. |
| 1:28.8 | It is very interesting what is going on there. And so if you have not heard, Scott Frost, Nebraska, |
| 1:38.3 | under NCAA investigation, now take that for what it is. There's not a lot of teeth in the |
| 1:43.4 | NCA right now. |
| 1:49.0 | But it's for analysts coaching, which is something everybody does. |
| 1:56.6 | And it's for an accusation of having secret workouts during the pandemic, which is not something everybody did. |
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