Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel joined, as always, by Bruce Feldman, what feels like the slowest week in a long time in college football.

Do you have anything, Bruce, to get us started here to energize the college football conversation?

I do, Stu.

I know that the Super Bowl has just

ended, but we got the FCS season, the spring season about to kick off this weekend, and I, for

one, am very excited. There's a good story in there. McNeese State in Louisiana has probably

endured more hardships than maybe any other

program, you know, even in light of the pandemic, because on top of the pandemic, they

endured two natural disasters. Hurricane Laura really devastated Lake Charles, Louisiana.

I talked to Frank Wilson, who's the head coach there. A lot of SEC fans probably remember him.

He was a LSU assistant as well as at Ole Miss and Southern Miss and was then the

UTSA head coach.

And he pointed out it's been 445 days since that program last played a game and what was pretty uh you know

adding into the destruction and being relocated and and not having a place they basically were

staying in hotels till very recently um they had 21 players leave the program because as he put it he said you know we had to basically re-recruit guys you know in the program because I'd only been there a couple of months and then the pandemic hit so they didn't really know us so as he put it we lost our best defensive player to Texas. That's Dorian Dunn. They lost the best

defensive lineman to Syracuse, another player to Hawaii, another good player to Tulane. And it's

been a scramble. One other interesting note, the quarterback of the team is the son of Ed Ogeron,

Cody Ogeron, who started in 2019.

So they play Tarleton State.

It'll be on the road in Texas Saturday afternoon.

I'm very excited to watch.

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