We fixed college football (kinda) with Dan Rubenstein
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Andy is joined by co-host of The Solid Verbal, Dan Rubenstein, to fix college football! With blueprints, hardhats and tacos in hand, the duo examines shortcomings in the sport that need reworking but, before then, the two dive into discourse about Tennessee's reported interest in Clemson offensive coordinator Tony Elliott for its vacant head coach position. (2:15). Should there be a cap on the number of 5-star recruits a school can sign (6:30)? You punt, you lose a point (20:30). Consequences from end zone fumbles are too harsh (28:00). Let's make conference schedule reform a thing (34:15). Plus, Andy and Dan deliberate college football commissioner candidates (38:30), and the sport needs a central authority figure (46:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show. |
| 0:11.5 | We're going to Fix Stuff edition. |
| 0:13.1 | I brought on a friend, Dan Rubin seen from The Solid Verbal, and I'll admit I'm sort of stealing his idea, but that I don't know. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm also stealing my own idea because but that I don't know, I'm also stealing my own |
| 0:21.5 | idea because last week I had a couple of columns about what to do in terms of pressing the reset |
| 0:27.9 | button in college football because the season's over, the off season was a disaster, |
| 0:33.4 | the season was handled as best as it could be, but a lot of kind of fissures in the sport were exposed. |
| 0:40.2 | And so I had a few ideas about how to fix those. |
| 0:43.8 | Dan, on his podcast, The Solid Verbal, he and his co-host, Ty Hildenbrandt, had a great episode last week about other things you could do to fix. |
| 0:53.0 | A little more on-field type stuff, some recruiting stuff, but other things you could do to fix a little more on-field type stuff, some recruiting stuff, |
| 0:55.8 | but other things you could do to make college football more interesting, more fun, more |
| 1:00.4 | evenly matched. |
| 1:01.6 | A lot of good ideas floating around. |
| 1:03.7 | It's the off-season. |
| 1:04.4 | It's time to talk about those ideas. |
| 1:06.1 | So, Dan, welcome aboard. |
| 1:08.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:09.5 | And I'm not taking credit for any of this because it is the most common trope of like how to fix the NBA All-Star game, how to fix the home run derby, how to fix the Pro Bowl, how to fix the X games. |
| 1:20.5 | And I would imagine we're like the 57th college football, how to fix college football podcast. |
| 1:26.8 | Maybe of the year. |
| 1:28.6 | We just, we happen to have built up somewhat of an audience and we got some really good |
| 1:32.9 | suggestions. |
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