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The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

Targeting, Short Shorts, and Carousel Takeaways with Chris Vannini

The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

The Athletic

Sec, News, Sports News, Football, College Football, Cfb, Big Ten, Sports

4.4 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Joey Aguilar's bid for an eighth college year is denied by a Tennessee judge β€” a rare NCAA court win. Curt Cignetti becomes college football's highest-paid coach at $13.2 million per year. UCLA weighs leaving the Rose Bowl for SoFi Stadium amid financial pressures. Then, The Athletic's Chris Vannini joins to discuss the NCAA rules committee's targeting proposals, the short shorts epidemic, and lessons from a record-breaking coaching carousel β€” including the Cignetti Effect, and why massive buyouts are here to stay.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

0:10.0

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Ralph Russo.

0:13.0

Bruce Feldman is out this week covering the Combine.

0:15.8

Coming up later on the show, our colleague, Chris Finini, comes on.

0:19.2

He's had two interesting stories in the last week

0:21.7

about, first of all, NCAA Rules Committee meeting this week, and lessons from the coaching

0:27.8

carousel. He recently completed coaching carousel with the addition of Thomas Hammock leaving

0:33.7

NIA. First off, let's get to some items in the news. Joey Aguilar, the Tennessee

0:38.8

quarterback, who was trying to get an eighth college year of eligibility. He was denied. A little bit of a

0:46.2

rare win for the NCAA in the court in Knoxville. You covered that on Friday. What was the main gist of why the judge denied that?

0:56.9

Yeah. First of all, it's like, it's a little almost hard to count. Is it his eighth year?

1:01.7

Is it a seventh year? Definitely not his sixth. Eighth year of college, seventh year. He was,

1:08.9

the most important thing is he was looking for a sixth season. A sixth season to play. But he also, he had spent so much time at junior college and that was the gist, right? He liked Pavia, like Diego Pavia, had sued about, and he was actually part of the Pavia suit about, hey, don't count my junior college years. The junior college year shouldn't count

1:28.1

towards NCAA clock. The thing with Pavia, though, is where there was a difference is that

1:33.4

Pavia was talking a little bit about the junior, I spent my 2020 pandemic season in junior

1:42.7

college and you're not giving me the waiver like you're doing

1:46.9

everybody else who was actually in the NCAA at that point.

1:50.8

It was actually competing at NCAA schools.

1:53.2

Aguilar took advantage of that waiver.

1:56.3

Like he got to play last year because he took advantage of that waiver.

2:01.4

So he ended up at Tennessee after a brief time at UCLA.

2:04.8

So when he went back to court and he did it in state court, he removed himself from the Pavia lawsuit, did it in state court, which is all the rage these days, right?

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