Was Brian Kelly's Notre Dame exit mischaracterized?
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 16 July 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Brian Kelly is back in the college football conversation, and Stewart Mandel and Bruce Feldman break down his recent revealing interview. Kelly addressed his Notre Dame exit, his relationship with Notre Dame fans, and whether his coaching future could eventually lead him back to the ACC or another major college football job.
The Michigan investigation remains one of the biggest stories in college athletics, and Bruce shares the latest reporting after new details emerged surrounding the Wolverines football program. Stewart and Bruce discuss what the leaks suggest about the athletic department, why the report may not be released publicly, and what it could mean for Manuel’s future in Ann Arbor.
Then, it’s time for an ACC preview coming out of ACC Media Days. Is Miami the clear favorite to win the conference after adding major transfer portal pieces and continuing to recruit at an elite level under Mario Cristobal? The guys discuss why the Hurricanes may be the strongest Power Four conference favorite entering the season and whether the ACC needs Miami to become a true national contender.
Bruce also makes the case for NC State as a possible ACC sleeper, while Stewart questions whether the program can finally break through against the league’s best teams.
Plus, the mailbag covers whether NIL would have changed previous eras of college football, what happened to Dabo Swinney and Clemson, why Cody Campbell has become such a polarizing figure at Texas Tech, and how the modern college football GM role is evolving in the age of NIL, revenue sharing and the transfer portal.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always, by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:13.6 | No Ralph Russo for this episode. |
| 0:15.3 | He is on assignment, really. |
| 0:17.3 | Sometimes we use Bruce on assignment as like code for getting a colonoscopy or something or just sitting at the beach. But no, he's on assignment covering ACC media days. And we are going to get to some ACC talk a little bit later in this show. And of course, second episode of the week means mailbag questions. And we will get to those as well. See who gets that $16 Trader Joe's gift card. |
| 0:39.3 | Also, Brian Kelly appeared on one of our colleagues' podcasts. |
| 0:43.1 | First real extensive interview in a while, so we want to get to that. |
| 0:48.2 | Michigan remains in the news. |
| 0:49.7 | We talked about it the other day. |
| 0:51.4 | We're starting to get little bits and pieces and leaks from this investigation |
| 0:55.7 | into the athletic department that they apparently aren't planning to publicize. So I guess it will |
| 1:00.8 | just leak out instead. Bruce, you just reporting on this Tuesday after a Wall Street Journal |
| 1:06.6 | story came out. What's the latest? Yeah, Sue. So our recording followed up on a Wall Street |
| 1:13.0 | Journal story that came out earlier in the day on Tuesday. And it cited a handwritten note from |
| 1:19.3 | Michigan AD Word Manual dated August 29th, 2024. That was two days before Trone Moore's first game. |
| 1:26.7 | I told him, I don't remember if we had already discussed, but that she, |
| 1:34.1 | that was Paige Schreiber, his executive assistant who he had the inappropriate relationship |
| 1:40.3 | with, that she couldn't accompany him on trips, Manuel wrote. |
| 1:44.1 | A Michigan source briefed of |
| 1:45.9 | the investigations confirmed that notes existence uh so our where we you know followed up with that |
| 1:53.2 | um two program sources that we talked to and have talked to for a while about this um basically have said that Trone Moore's relationship with |
| 2:04.1 | Shiver, at the start of training camp in 2024, these sources came forth and basically |
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