The State of the Bowls, Feat. Bowl Season's Nick Carparelli

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Nick Carparelli is the executive director of Bowl Season, the group that represents the interests of CFB’s many bowl games. Alex and Richard interview him about:

* What if anything worries him right now about the state of bowls

* Bowls’ efforts to thrive in a world of opt outs, and how bowls might fit into the next economic iteration of the sport

* The payout landscape for different kinds of bowl games

* Bowls in baseball stadiums. Bowls in the Bahamas. What’s next?

* The differences between representing big bowls and small

* What Nick is thinking about the first-round playoff games that will exist outside the bowls

* How to make more bowl games matter to casual fans

* Also: Bill Belichick as a prospective college coach

Hosts: Alex Kirshner, Richard Johnson

Producer: Anthony Vito.

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0:00.0	We're coming, and we ain't backing down.
0:02.1	We don't need a bunch of cats in here.
0:03.6	Looking in the mirror.
0:04.8	Everybody just do your job.
0:07.0	You understand that?
0:07.9	Hey, will you shut up?
0:08.9	I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today.
0:11.4	Guys being dudes.
0:12.6	And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man.
0:15.0	Ah, fuck it.
0:16.5	Thank you, Lee.
0:17.9	Special show this week during a slight bit of downtime, that there is, of course, college football still happening.
0:24.4	Richard, how are you?
0:26.7	I'm doing well. I'm ready to go bowling is what I'm ready to do.
0:30.5	As am I. This week we have Nick Carparelli on the program.
0:34.3	Nick is the executive director of bowl season, which is the group that represents
0:40.4	as sort of an umbrella, all of the bowl games that comprise the college football postseason.
0:45.8	And we had a lot we want to talk about. Wanted to talk with Nick about how the bowl system is
0:51.0	interacting with the college football playoff, about what worries him for the future of
0:55.7	bowl games, about how he thinks they are on the verge of changing or not changing.
1:00.4	But it was a really interesting conversation. Nick also has a really interesting biography.
1:04.3	He's worked all over college sports. He worked for Bill Belichick for a bit. Richard picks his
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