Saturday Special - Colin talks NCAA athletics with Bruce Feldman
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 15 February 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Colin goes in depth with Fox Sports College Football Reporter Bruce Feldman about the troubling state of Pac-12 football and they try to explain why the conference is struggling so much to keep up with the Big Ten and SEC. They discuss "middle of the pack" schools like Michigan State being able to poach coaches and why USC has been unable to recreate the success of their past in this exclusive podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody and welcome to our Saturday morning podcast where we take 20 minutes. |
| 0:09.0 | We find a topic we find fascinating and you know I've talked about this a lot on my show. |
| 0:14.9 | We just got out of the decade of dynasties, the Yukon Women's Basketball, Alabama dynastie, |
| 0:22.0 | Patriots dynastie, warriors and heat dynastie. |
| 0:26.6 | There's a lot of reasons for this, which I've gone on and talked about at length on my show. |
| 0:31.6 | A college football has now a regional and financial dynastie called the Big Tan in the SEC. |
| 0:39.6 | And it is not only puncturing the momentum and sort of the gravitas of the pack 12, |
| 0:47.6 | but it is making it entirely difficult to keep the coaches out west. |
| 0:54.6 | We saw it again this week where little old Michigan state, not Michigan, not Ohio state, not Penn State, not Wisconsin. |
| 1:02.6 | Michigan State steals away Mel Tucker from Colorado and Bruce Feldman, a great college football reporter TV, |
| 1:09.6 | print everywhere for Fox Sports is joining us. |
| 1:12.6 | Is this am I am I too hyperbolic? Is this just a coach who decided to double his salary? |
| 1:18.6 | Or do you see something beyond that? |
| 1:21.6 | No, it's actually exactly what it is. I mean, look at just on the reality of this. |
| 1:27.6 | So the Michigan state and first of all, Mel Tucker had started his coaching career at Michigan State on next statement staff in the late 90s. |
| 1:36.6 | So there was a lot of people there, whether it's Tom is a next statement had some influence some other people who are inside the university who had felt like this is our guy. |
| 1:46.6 | This is the guy we feel like should we know what he's about. This is a guy who feel like should take the program going forward. |
| 1:52.6 | So they reach out to him late last week and he just basically says, you know, I want to be a Colorado. |
| 2:01.6 | I plan on being here. Then they come back to him like three days later with a big financial offer. |
| 2:08.6 | And he thinks about it and he's inclined. I'm going to still stay a Colorado now this plan. Then they came back to me, the more the next day. |
| 2:17.6 | And by the end of that night breaking news, Mel Tucker's leaving the pack 12 in Colorado to go to the big 10 and a big reason for this is Michigan state is going to double his salary pool basically from a little over three million to $6 million. |
| 2:35.6 | That is a very significant. That should be noted. That's not just for Mel. That's for his assistance. |
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