Playoff expansion tabled through 2025 season, coaching hire grades & mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Stew and Bruce react to the breaking news that College Football Playoff expansion will officially be tabled until after the 2025 season. Stew's annual coaching hire grades publish on Monday. How did Athletic Directors perform during this coaching carousel cycle? Plus, mailbag questions on recruiting, the transfer portal and Jayden Daniels' decision to leave Arizona State.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman for a rare Friday afternoon episode of the Audible. Bruce, they say it's not smart to put out content on a Friday. We're doing it because there's some news to talk about for one, but also in a weird coincidence, and we didn't even realize it until this week. We're both going on vacation next week at the same exact time. Yes. By the way, who is it that's, who is the they and saying it's not smart to put out on content? |
| 0:21.1 | And what are those same people? week. We're both going on vacation next week at the same exact time. Yes. By the way, who is it that's, who is the they in saying it's not smart to put out |
| 0:40.0 | on content? And what are those same people say about basically telling people, yeah, we're |
| 0:45.1 | going to have a playoff expansion and then eight months later having to just kind of let everybody |
| 0:49.9 | down with the sad reality? I don't know where the don't put new content on Friday thing comes from, but not Ari Fleischer, I promise you. |
| 0:59.9 | So, good segue. |
| 1:03.4 | Friday morning, this is not a shock by any means. |
| 1:06.6 | This had been pretty obvious that we were going to get to this for a while, |
| 1:17.3 | but the CFP made it official four more years, four more years of the four team playoff. |
| 1:21.3 | The commissioners could not come to an agreement on an expanded playoff, |
| 1:27.6 | so they're going to ride out the existing contract that goes through the 2025 season. |
| 1:35.8 | Any 8, 12-team, whatever changes will not take place until there's a new contract in 2026. |
| 1:43.7 | And that was evident from, you know, when I was in Indianapolis being around those commissioners, it was clear they were out of standstill but the presidents |
| 1:46.1 | had asked them who really want to get this done were like meet one more time just meet one more |
| 1:51.0 | time that meeting was going to be in early march in dallas and apparently the commissioners |
| 1:57.2 | got on a video call or something this week and said, yeah, there's no point. |
| 2:03.0 | This isn't changing. |
| 2:04.2 | So they went ahead and made that announcement, which, like you said, is not what I would have expected last June when with great fanfare they unveiled their proposal to go to 12 teams. |
| 2:17.3 | Yeah, they were very giddy about patting each other on the back. fanfare they unveiled their proposal to go to 12 teams. |
| 2:23.2 | Yeah, they were very giddy about patting each other on the back and how it was for the good of football. |
| 2:27.4 | And there was a strategy behind this with like leak it. |
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