Week 0 instant/over reaction & talent composite analysis
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 29 August 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Andy, Ari Wasserman, and Chris Vannini react to Week 0's headlining games. According to Nebraska message boards, this season is just one long interview process for the program's next head coach following a disappointing season-opening loss to Illinois. Is Scott Frost, more or less, out the door? The trio takes recommendations from Huskers fans for the university's next head honcho. What is the complexion of the team as a whole, and what did Saturday's win say about Bret Bielema and his team? UCLA hogtied Hawaii defensively, only allowing 10 points in what was a 30+ point blowout. Is this a foreshadow of our UCLA-LSU bet, where eating an entire banana, peel and all, hangs in the balance? The guys grab their clipboards and other recruiting paraphernalia as they examine 247's talent composite. Which teams exceeded, and fell short of, our expectations?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show, a rare, rare in-person edition live from Casa de Wasserman. |
| 0:17.6 | Ari's here. Chris Vinini's here. |
| 0:25.3 | We have been eating barbecue, watching college football. |
| 0:31.0 | Cannot imagine a better Saturday if you're anyone except for Scott Frost. |
| 0:34.0 | But I did want to say, Ari, happy Brett Beelma Day. |
| 0:35.3 | Chris, happy Brett Beelam a day. |
| 0:37.8 | Because every day is Brett Beelma Day. Yeah, I just Bilema Day because every day is Brett Bilema Day. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, I just wanted to thank both of you for coming over in being in my home. I hope Andy got a nice, solid look at that backyard because I hope by the time this football season's over, he will |
| 0:49.7 | have moat it at least one time. Oh, that's right. That's right. I'm going to be your butler for some bet that I lose, though. |
| 0:56.3 | We are currently watching UCLA destroy Hawaii right now. |
| 0:59.8 | Hawaii on the verge of scoring. |
| 1:01.0 | It's 44 to 3. |
| 1:02.0 | If Hawaii comes back, I promise we'll re-record the podcast. |
| 1:04.9 | But I am still not the least bit worried about our bet for next week, where I have given you 15 points with Hawaii, I'm sorry, with UCLA against LSU. The loser of that bet has to take the Will Levis challenge, which is eat a banana, peel, and all. I still think LSU is going to be just fine. I don't know how to break this. Everybody, Hawaii may not be very good. Yeah, |
| 1:28.1 | that's the way I'm looking at it, too. We started recording this podcast, |
| 1:31.6 | midway through the third quarter of the Hawaii UCLA game because UCLA is too good, |
| 1:36.5 | too big, too strong, too fast, and too damn talented to even continue watching the end of that |
| 1:44.0 | football game. You think LSU is going |
| 1:45.8 | to walk into Pasadena next week and win by more than 15. You're insane. Look at this team. |
| 1:50.6 | It's a team full of Greek gods. They actually do look very good. It's just that when you see |
| 1:56.9 | them compared to the LSU players next week, they're going to look very different. So that's going to be all right. |
| 2:01.6 | We have another game we need to talk about, though, and that is the first one. |
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