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🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast by reacting to the news that the Dartmouth Men's Basketball team is unionizing and yet another sign of college athletes eventually becoming employees of the school. It was teased in a pod last week and a full discussion on this topic has finally come: Could we ever see a college football draft that replaces the current chaos of recruitment?
The trio weigh the pros and cons of a theoretical college football draft. Dellenger points out that the idea isn't as far fetched as it first sounds, hinting that it's come up in closed board meetings before. Wetzel proposes a high school combine and individual conference drafts. The three agree it's far off from ever happening but the current state of recruiting isn't sustainable for anyone.
The three also react to the news that college football will FINALLY have helmet comms, tablets on the sidelines and a two-minute warning. While Wetzel is excited for the needed updates, Dellenger points out this could turn more traditional fans off as college football resembles the NFL even more.
The three end the show discussing if they'd watch a Nick Saban-Bill Belichick type 'Manningcast' and share a story about a Kentucky school evacuation from fart smells:
1:28 - Ripple effect of Dartmouth Men's Basketball team unionizing.
9:40 - What if College Football got rid of recruiting?
17:40 - Dan proposes a High School Combine and College Football draft
34:10- Why employment brings it's own challenges for student athletes
40:55 - Pat shares bitter recruiting story with his daughter
42:15 - 'Connor Stallions Memorial Law' - Comms coming to helmets, tablets to sidelines, 2-minute warning added
53:35 - Saban-Belichick football-cast? Would you watch?
59:15 - People's Court: Wild Kentucky teen gets school evacuated with fart smells
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode. |
| 0:02.0 | What if we had a draft to replace recruiting? |
| 0:07.0 | Deep thoughts, deep thoughts. |
| 0:09.0 | Also, helmet communications are here, |
| 0:12.0 | and a Kentucky high school prank goes way way wrong. |
| 0:15.0 | Time now for the college football |
| 0:18.0 | Inquirer with Dan Wetsall. |
| 0:22.0 | I have two points. One if I could go seven years without talking with Pat that would be |
| 0:28.2 | That guy is my hero. He got to go seven years |
| 0:31.8 | Angry I've been angry at Pat for seven years. |
| 0:34.0 | Ross Gellinger! |
| 0:36.0 | Everything kind of goes back to recruiting. |
| 0:40.0 | And I think the question is how do you get rid of it and certainly one of the ways mentioned by a few in the industry is have a draft and |
| 0:50.0 | S.I.S. Pat 40! |
| 0:53.7 | If we could draft our employees, we wouldn't have to have the waterfall and the lazy river and |
| 1:00.7 | the 19 people on the recruiting staff and all the other things that go along into |
| 1:07.4 | building up weaponized athletic department. |
| 1:10.9 | Here's Pat, Russ, and Dan. |
| 1:14.0 | All right, welcome to the pod, and this little news nugget works great for what we were wanting to discuss and tease. |
| 1:22.0 | We teased it a week ago. |
| 1:25.1 | Alert listeners. We're coming back to you. Then we wanted to discuss what if they got rid of |
| 1:29.5 | recruiting in college football, which is a tremendous debate or point. |
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