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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Power Auer: Virginia Tech and Justin Fuente mutually part ways

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

News, Football, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Nicole Auerbach discusses the breaking news that Justin Fuente and Virginia Tech mutually agreed to part ways. Michael Felder gives his take on the story and what type job Tech is in 2021. Oklahoma State is all of a sudden a playoff dark horse in the Big 12. Have the Cowboys been overlooked this season? Felder says freshman OU QB Caleb Williams isn't better than Spencer Rattler he's just different. Plus, flavor of the week and last call! 

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0:00.0

Hey everyone and welcome back to Power Hour, the athletics Tuesday National College Football

0:14.2

podcast hosted by yours truly Nicole Auerbach.

0:17.9

And I am thrilled as always to be joined by my friend and colleague Michael

0:21.4

Feldor from Stadium to break down the biggest storylines in college football in an hour or less.

0:26.9

And if you enjoy this podcast and this podcast feed, just a reminder to subscribe,

0:32.4

rate and review the Andy Staples show and friends. Five stars because much like Ari Wasserman's

0:37.2

favorite recruits,

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that's what we're worth.

0:40.5

And Felder, it was a busy morning already.

0:42.9

We're recording this on Tuesday.

0:44.3

And honestly, before I was even awake for the day,

0:48.5

Virginia Tech decided they were done with Justin Fuente.

0:53.0

Yeah, it's, this feels like it's been a couple, I mean, you can say it's been a couple years in the making.

1:00.2

You can say it's been a couple months in the making.

1:04.1

But, yeah, they were like, you know what, we've got to, we got to get rid of this baby in the bathwater.

1:09.2

So let's go ahead and let's find something new.

1:10.9

So, yeah, I would love to hear what you think about it because Virginia Tech is a very interesting place to me.

1:17.5

Yeah, I think you're right that this has felt like we've been kind of on this slow march towards this decision for a couple of years.

1:24.0

I mean, I remember, was it last season where there was like an announcement

1:28.6

that athletic director, Whit Babcock, was going to have a press conference. And so everyone's

1:34.4

like, all right, he made the decision. And they had to correct themselves and say, like, no,

1:39.8

we're just doing an end of the season thing. Justin Flente is keeping his job. So there's there's been obviously speculation around this for a number of years because it's not

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