Post spring top 25 & mailbag!
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Stew's post spring top 25 dropped this week & the guys discuss some of the most intriguing rankings including Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Iowa State. Bruce talks about two of his recent stories: the 2022 mock draft & the top 50 transfer portal signings. Is the transfer portal becoming as important as recruiting? Plus, is college football better today than it has ever been? If not, when was it the best? Mailbag!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined, as always by my colleague from the athletic Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:28.5 | Stu, we have a ton to talk about. |
| 0:30.6 | A lot of our stories, actually, are, I think, very timely right now. |
| 0:37.1 | We're going to get to a few things. |
| 0:38.5 | So in a minute we will talk about, |
| 0:43.3 | we just finish the drafts, do |
| 0:44.9 | and now all of a sudden everyone's running |
| 0:46.3 | with these way, way, way too early mock drafts for 2022. |
| 0:52.9 | But let's talk about something else that's not way too early, but kind of early. |
| 0:56.5 | And it is your updated top 25. So what has changed for you? What are the readers need to see |
| 1:03.7 | that they didn't see or what did you learn that you were maybe sketchy on three months ago? |
| 1:10.3 | First of all, we want to make sure everybody can read these articles, right? So if you're not a subscriber to The Athletic, use our promo code, theathletic.com slash the Audible $3.99 a month. Bruce, the coffee you're drinking right now probably costs more than $3.99, right? I just realized, yeah, I'm on Zoom. I was like, how does you know I'm drinking coffee right now? I see that coffee bean logo. I bet that cost more than $3.99, right? I just realized you, yeah, I'm on Zoom. I was like, how does you know I'm |
| 1:27.8 | drinking coffee right now? I see that coffee bean logo. I bet that costs more than a monthly than one |
| 1:33.0 | month of all these great articles of which we're only going to be talking about even just a small |
| 1:38.6 | sampling of. So for the spring top 25, I mean, the first thing I want to point out is with all these super seniors |
| 1:45.4 | coming back, with all these players who used their their free year of eligibility from last |
| 1:50.5 | year, I'm fascinated to see the effect it has because I'm, as I'm, you know, in a typical year, |
| 1:57.8 | as you're looking at like returning starters, you know, most teams have somewhere between 12, you know, in a typical year as you're looking at like returning starters, most teams have |
| 2:01.1 | somewhere between 12, you know, maybe 12 and 16 with a couple moving up to like 17. |
| 2:07.6 | There are many teams in this top 25 that return 20 starters or all but one member of their |
| 2:15.2 | two deep. Liberty had 16 seniors up to come back. |
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