The Nick Saban Butterfly Effect & Big 12 alpha dog search + EA CFB 25 final countdown

Until Saturday: A show about college football

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

How does one coach's decision affect over 400 people? Ari Wasserman, Max Olson and Sam Khan Jr. explain how Nick Saban's retirement caused hundreds of staffers, coaches, analysts, and familes' lives to change. From Alabama to Nebraska Kearney and Washington to Fernandina Beach HS the ripple effects are expansive. Brett Yormark preached innovation and growth for the Big 12 conference at media days, and went as far as to say his league is third best in the nation. Are they ahead of the ACC? Who will emerge as the league's alpha dog? Plus, EA CFB 25 player ratings and final countdown! Read Chris' story about Big 12 marketing: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5628106/2024/07/10/brett-yormark-big-12-pac-12/ Read Justin's story about the need for a Big 12 powerhouse: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5629665/2024/07/11/big-12-football-parity-brand-name/ Rundown: - Nick Saban Butterfly Effect (3:15) - Second chances for coaches + how fast things move (17:00) - The Big 12 needs an alpha dog (27:30) - Big 12 vs ACC health (41:30) - Mike Gundy & consequences (56:00) - EA Sports CFB 25 ratings + final countdown (1:01:00) Call/text the Until Saturday phone and leave us a question for a future mailbag and/or Sunday Sound-Off podcast: (316) 462-9852 Subscribe to the FREE Until Saturday newletter:: https://theathletic.com/newsletters/until-saturday Host: Ari Wasserman (@AriWasserman) With: Max Olson & Sam Khan Jr. (@max_olson @skhanjr) Executive producer: Cam Molina (@commentatorcam) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All the big names are here.
0:02.0	Oh, who is that?
0:03.2	I think she was in the movie about that really big shark.
0:06.0	No, not her.
0:07.0	The florist.
0:08.0	She's automating invoices on the go so she can spend more time on that flower wall. Quickbooks to save you up to eight hours a week
0:15.0	so you could bring your vision to life.
0:17.0	That's how you business differently.
0:19.0	Into its quickbooks. Welcome back to until Saturday. I'm Ari Wasserman joined by two of my good
0:36.0	buddies, Sam Khan Jr. and Max Olson. They teamed up with Bruce Feldman for an
0:40.4	incredible story that's running right now on the athletic.
0:44.3	It's the butterfly effect of all the coaching changes in the fallout of Nick Sabon's
0:48.1	retirement and it is crazy to go in and look and how much things can change
0:51.8	just from one decision.
0:53.0	We're going to go deep into that.
0:55.0	We're going to talk about the Big 12 media days.
0:57.0	We're going to touch on Mike Gundy.
0:58.0	We're going to talk a little bit about Brett Yormark
1:00.0	and where the Big 12 is headed and maybe do a little bit of comparison to
1:03.8	a C stuff and of course we're going to talk about the video game player
1:07.4	ratings and try to contextualize that as it pertains to real life production and
1:11.5	how good players are going to be in the upcoming season.
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