Playoff expansion update, Miami hits the reset button & mailbag!
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Stew chats with Bruce about his trip to Vegas where power brokers in the sport continued their discussion about potential expansion to the college football playoff. The guys grade this year's (still ongoing) coaching carousel and take a fun look back at Stew's coaching hiring grades 10 years ago that were pretty spot on. Plus, mailbag questions about the early signing period, the benefits of being an independent program and the new recruiting landscape in Florida with Mario Cristobal in Miami and Billy Napier in Gainesville.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Stuart Mandel, |
| 0:22.8 | joined as always by Bruce Feldman and Bruce. |
| 0:26.5 | The season ended over the weekend, |
| 0:29.6 | and then you immediately got in a car and drove to Vegas. |
| 0:35.1 | And I'm not sure people even realize that so much of the college football world used to be New York, |
| 0:37.1 | but as of this year, Vegas, that so much of the college football world convert used to be new york but as of this year Vegas that |
| 0:38.7 | so much so much so much of the profession converges uh for a few days right it's like you go |
| 0:44.4 | immediately from okay here are the playoff teams here are the bowls to everybody congregating in one city |
| 0:50.1 | right so it's the it's the nf national football foundation event it's the it's the collegeF National Football Foundation event. It's the College Football Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. And it's really two days of it, Monday and Tuesday. And then it feeds into other panels that somewhere colleagues, Andy Staples is moderating with a lot of the fat cats from the CFP and conference commissioners on Wednesday and Thursday that go into it. |
| 1:16.8 | So it used to be when it was in New York, you'd see a lot more head coaches. |
| 1:20.9 | You still see some head coaches, but I would say probably about half the number you would see before because there is the early signing |
| 1:28.5 | period in recruiting is ramped up so much. But I mean, just as a college football fan, I think |
| 1:35.0 | it's pretty awesome to get to see and meet a lot of the greats of the game. And there were two |
| 1:41.4 | classes that went in this year. And part part of it myself and my colleague were there to |
| 1:47.0 | help celebrate our colleague Bob Stoops who was going in as part of the class so on Monday night |
| 1:54.8 | right like right after I got there I had to go over to a there was a big event that oh you had put on it was really cool because you |
| 2:02.0 | not only had like barry switzer and you had you know roy williams and all these great players |
| 2:07.0 | but you also had bill Snyder who was a you know obviously stoop's was a protege of his and you had |
| 2:11.3 | barry alvarez and you had gary patterson and a lot of other coaches who maybe didn't coach with |
| 2:17.0 | him just wanted to, |
| 2:18.1 | you know, to honor him. And it was a really, it was a cool event. And then Saturday, or I'm sorry, |
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