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College Football Enquirer

Recruiting floodgates open, future of sports media coverage, rats take over Australia

College Football Enquirer

Yahoo Sports

News, Sports News, Football, College Basketball, College Football, Ncaa, Ncaa Basketball, Ncaa Football, Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The pivotal June 1st date in the recruiting calendar is here. Dan Wetzel, Pete Thamel and SI's Pat Forde assess the difficulties facing both recruits and schools in the coming years. Pete estimates there will be a 40% dip in roster spots for players in the next few cycles. Naomi Osaka rattled the sports world when she bowed out from the French Open to take care of her mental health. Pat, Pete and Dan dive into the media/athlete working relationship and how that might change soon. Dan wraps the pod with a scary tale coming from a land down under...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Time now for the Yahoo Sports College Podcast with Dan Wetzel.

0:07.0

Just every kind of cat we can get on one boat and then just drop them off like Normandy.

0:11.5

Eat them all. So the opportunity for high school kids to get scholarships this year, I'm estimating this

0:17.5

just doing the math could be down 40 percent.

0:20.8

Wow.

0:21.8

And S.I's Pat 40. We're fairly easy marks you give us some people you give us

0:28.4

some access you act decent guess what we roll over and say, you know, I mean, we're not that difficult.

0:34.8

Here's Pat, Pete, and Dan.

0:40.2

Uh, welcome to the pod.

0:41.9

June 1st is when we are taping this, which is also the start once again of the live period for college sports recruiting to a college football

0:55.0

to deal a lot with here.

0:57.0

It has been shut down since COVID.

1:00.0

Coaches can fly around the country,

1:02.0

players can take visits, they can come a campus, all sorts of the normal stuff that happens

1:08.0

according to the normal calendar of each sports recruiting, which is very complicated and seems someone unnecessary but whatever

1:15.7

Recruiting's back baby and we love it except Pete throws out this little bucket of cold water on the whole thing

1:22.8

reality. No, this is actually quite fascinating.

1:25.2

As you recall, last year, due to COVID being such a disruptor,

1:31.4

the NCA got sensitive and felt that they should grant every college

1:36.0

athlete a fifth year of eligibility or an extra year of eligibility due to losing a season or having their season greatly altered.

1:46.2

Now, there was a lot of push for that,

1:49.2

but I always did wonder how exactly

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