Signing Day Pt 1 - Penn State's James Franklin & Oklahoma's Bob Stoops
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 1 February 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Stew kicks of National Signing Day with Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops. The Sooners' coach talks about his 2017 recruiting class and how he stocked up on offensive players to replace Heisman finalist Dede Westbrook and star running backs Samaje Perine and Joe Mixon.
Stew is also joined by Penn State head coach James Franklin (11:30), who is using the momentum of last fall's surprising Big Ten championship season to help sell new recruits. Franklin talks about his Top-20 2017 class and how the lowly ranked classes he inherited seem to be definitively in the past.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. I'm Stuart Mandel from Fox Sports. It is signing day, and my usual co-host |
| 0:16.5 | Bruce Feldman is not with us because he is out covering signing day at a school to be revealed |
| 0:22.1 | later. But in the meantime, I'm doing something pretty cool. I'm welcoming a whole bunch of coaches |
| 0:27.2 | on throughout the day, which we will be churning out as several different podcast episodes. |
| 0:32.9 | This one includes Bob Stoops from Oklahoma and then James Franklin from Penn State. In Bob Stoop's case, |
| 0:40.7 | Oklahoma has signed its highest ranked class since 2010, which is pretty impressive, |
| 0:48.9 | given the run they've had in the back-to-back Big 12 titles and obviously the playoff |
| 0:53.8 | appearance two years ago we |
| 0:55.3 | get into the effect that had on this class with him and then with james franklin i mean nobody's |
| 1:02.0 | enjoying probably a bigger recruiting bump right now than he is coming off penn state's big 10 title |
| 1:08.3 | season and rose bowl appearance which obviously marked a huge |
| 1:13.8 | change in the whole atmosphere around Penn State, obviously, from the way it had been since the |
| 1:19.4 | time he first got there and was still dealing with sanctions and obviously the aftermath of the |
| 1:25.3 | Jerry Sandusky scandal. So for those of you listening who maybe don't come to the Audible regularly, |
| 1:31.1 | I would encourage you to subscribe on iTunes or Google Play or Stitcher, |
| 1:35.5 | anywhere you get podcasts. |
| 1:37.3 | And like I said, new episodes will be popping in throughout the day, Wednesday, |
| 1:42.4 | as I interview various different coaches. |
| 1:44.8 | So obviously go check your feed and then check it again later to see who might be popping in there. |
| 1:50.2 | And also you can follow me on S.L. Mandel at Twitter, I'll be posting the links as soon as they become available. |
| 1:59.6 | All right. |
| 2:00.2 | All right. Very excited to be joined right now by Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops, signed a class that all the recruiting experts have ranked very high. |
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