Saban's Presidential Commission + CFB Biz Lightning Round, with Matt Brown

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Extra Points publisher Matt Brown joins Alex to break down a handful of big offseason stories in the business of college football.

* 1:25: Donald Trump’s presidential commission on college sports, co-chaired by Nick Saban: What will it do? How will it interact with the NCAA’s efforts to get Congress to write it a bill? Are Ted Cruz and Tommy Tuberville going to fight? And how seriously should you take the whole thing?

* 36:10: Negotiations over a potential 16-team playoff format

* 39:46: The drip, drip, drip of news about Bill Belichick’s relationship: Will UNC ever know a moment of peace as long as he’s coaching?

* 40:51: Notre Dame and Clemson make a scheduling deal

* 44:06: Akron, the first academically ineligible bowl team in a decade

* 46:34: Jim Tressel’s new career in Ohio

* 47:56: Arkansas’ state law and a House settlement race to the bottom

* 56:03: Brett Yormark’s extension as Big 12 commissioner

* 59:49: Private equity in college football: Have our views changed at all since this became a big story in early 2024?

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, Alex here. Big show coming up this week, but first I want to start you off with a live show announcement.
0:05.2	On August 23rd, that's Week Zero Saturday, the full group of split zone duo founders.
0:11.0	That's me, Alex Kirsner, my co-host, Richard Johnson, and our co-host, Emeritus Stephen Godfrey are going to be in Raleigh, North Carolina.
0:17.7	We are headlining the second annual sports podcast festival at the Rialto. Great venue.
0:22.5	Doors open at 5 p.m. on week zero Saturday. We'll be there along with local radio legends
0:26.9	ovies and jiglio and the crew from the big screen sports pod. I'd love to see you there.
0:31.5	I'd love to meet you. And we always love doing these shows in the flesh with you all.
0:34.9	Tickets are freshly on sale. You can find them at splitzone duo
0:37.8	live.com or at the link in our show notes right here. Come bring in the season with us. It'll be fun.
0:43.6	Here's the show. We're coming and we ain't backing down. We don't need a bunch of cats in here.
0:47.6	Looking in the mirror. Everybody just do your job. You understand that? Hey, will you shut up?
0:52.7	I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today.
0:55.2	Guys being dudes.
0:56.4	And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man.
0:59.1	Ah, fuck it.
1:00.3	Thank you, Lee.
1:01.9	Matt Brown is the founder and the publisher of extra points, a newsletter that covers the off-field
1:07.1	developments that shape college football.
1:09.6	Most every conference commissioner reads him,
1:11.8	certainly all the ones that I would trust to run my conference. Athletic directors read him,
1:16.6	and I personally know him. If you could believe that from our long time working together and
1:21.0	being pals, you probably heard in the last week that our nation's president, Donald J. Trump,
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