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The College Football Hall of Fame Ballot is LOADED but needs Mike Leach | More from EA Sports

Andy & Ari On3

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4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The College Football Hall of Fame ballot is out for the induction class of 25, and it is a STAR-STUDDED list. Nick Saban and Aaron Donald are among the no-brainers, but the rest of the choices for the members of the National Football Foundation will be brutally difficult. Andy breaks down the candidates. Andy also explains why Mike Leach isn’t on the ballot — and why he should be. (0:00-2:34) Intro (2:35-16:24) Escape Velocity: Deion Sanders and Caitlin Clark (16:25-25:27) Hall of Fame Ballots (25:28-30:46) Mike Leach left off ballot (30:47-50:36) EA Sports - Peak Behind the Curtain (50:37-1:01:52) Notre Dame Commit Will Black joins (1:01:53-1:04:18) Conclusion Next, Andy chats with Ben Haumiller and Christian McLeod of EA Sports about the process of bringing back the college football video game. Haumiller and McLeod both worked on the old game and kept the fires burning until they could bring it back this year. Follow Ben Haumiller here: https://x.com/BenHaumiller Follow Christian McLeod here: https://x.com/CMcLeod_EA Andy also catches up with top offensive tackle recruit Will Black, a Canadian import who plans to play at Notre Dame. Will explains why he chose the Fighting Irish and what he hopes to get out of his time in South Bend. Follow Will Black here: https://x.com/will_black60 Plus, the Super Regionals are set in college baseball! Want to watch the show instead? Head on over to YouTube and join us LIVE, M-F, at 8 am et! https://youtube.com/live/tJLRlfIqIR8 Host: Andy Staples Guests: Ben Haumiller, Christian McLeod, Will Black Producer: River Bailey

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0:00.0

Welcome to Andy Staples on three. It's June, which means there's some crazy stuff going

0:09.0

around. Something happened Monday that kind of, I don't know, just kind of stuck in my craw.

0:15.4

And it was, I was watching the reaction to this show and then watching the other stuff that was going on in the sports world.

0:24.4

And I noticed something in common.

0:27.5

And I just felt like we needed to talk about later in the show, we've got a loaded college football Hall of Fame ballot.

0:33.2

We got to talk about that.

0:34.3

There's a couple no-brainers on it.

0:36.9

And then it gets very, very difficult to parse. And we'll talk about that. There's there's a couple no brainers on it and then it gets very,

0:38.6

very difficult to parse. And we'll talk about some of the names on it and how I mean, I would

0:44.3

I would very much struggle if I was voting for the college football Hall of Fame because I would

0:50.5

not know where to draw the line like between the Hall of Fairgood and the Hall of Fame,

0:54.5

because there's some guys on there. I just feel like you cannot leave off, but they're probably

1:00.3

not going to make it in this year. So we'll talk about that in a little bit. A couple of coaches

1:05.4

who are definite no-brainers. We're going to go deeper inside EA Sports College Football 25. We've got Ben Howell Miller and

1:14.7

Christian McLeod, two of the principal creators of the game talking about bringing the game back.

1:22.6

These guys are true believers who worked on the old game, worked their way through to get back to the new game.

1:29.7

It's pretty cool.

1:30.9

It's pretty cool to watch them finally get a chance to put this game out again.

1:35.6

And you'll be able to hear when you talk, when you hear from them just how passionate they are about it.

1:41.4

Also, Will Black, five-star offensive linemen, Notre Dame commit, he joins the show.

1:49.9

Canadian import playing at a boarding school in the Northeast. He is going to be a very good college

1:59.1

offensive lineman. He's a very interesting guy, too.

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