Where was Ari wrong (and right) in his Post-Spring Top 25? + Brian Kelly and NIL overreaction
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
We asked you, Until Saturday and college football fans alike, to weigh in on Ari Wasserman's Post-Spring Top-25 rankings. Ari takes fan feedback on his list as well as input from Chris Vannini, who joins him on today's show. Why was Utah ranked so low? Was a Group of 5 team considered, and a fan thinks Ari's story was DISGUSTINGLY...rational? Plus, Brian Kelly, Spencer Danielson, and more coaches spoke openly about certain aspects of their school's NIL approach. Some of what was said wasn't well received, but are outspoken parties simply overreacting? Unlimited coaches, Iowa's new QB, the ACC's dark horse and more!
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Rundown:
- NIL consternation + Boise St. HC Spencer Danielson on Freshman/NIL comments (2:00)
- Post-Spring Top-25 postmortem + Chris weighs in (13:30)
- Changes + G5 regrets and contenders (21:15)
- Until Saturday phone line opens: Ari, why do you hate Carson Beck? (26:45)
- How are early-season marquee matchups contextualized? (31:30)
- Someone liked Ari's rankings? (38:00)
- Text via Jason from Austin: Why is Utah ranked so low? (41:00)
- Text via David G San Antonio.: Post-spring hypothetical 12-team playoff (44:00)
- Text via Ben from Louisville: Kudos for ranking the Cardinals (51:00)
- Until Saturday newsletter QOTD: Which team is the ACC dark horse? (53:00)
- Iowa's new QB + unlimited coaches (56:00)
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| 0:29.9 | Music Welcome back to Until Saturday. I'm Ari Wasserman, joined by my good buddy, Chris Finini. |
| 0:48.3 | We're going to talk reaction to my post-spring top 25. We're going to get into which G-5 teams will contend for the playoff because there were no G-5 teams in my top 25. |
| 0:59.5 | We're going to talk a newsletter, question of the day, who is the ACC Dark Horse? |
| 1:03.7 | And of course, we're going to get into NIL discussions with some of the coaching comments that were made over the course of the past 24 hours. Chris, how are you doing today? I'm good, man. We're dealing with some storms at the moment here in Dallas. I don't know if you've got them, but I've got them up here. So that's going on. You've had an eventful day here, fresh off the plane, getting to this podcast. How was your day? Yeah, I had a 24-hour man |
| 1:31.9 | vacation in a casino. So I was up till 5 in the morning last night playing Blackjack and doing |
| 1:37.6 | R.E. Wasserman things. So I am generally aware of the comments that had been made by Brian Kelly and Boise States coach |
| 1:48.0 | and all the other ones that are going around here, you freeze. |
| 1:51.0 | But why don't you, if you were following it all day closely, more closely than I was as I was trying to win some money, |
| 1:57.1 | why don't you take us through that and we'll react to it? |
| 1:59.9 | Yeah, real quick, quick we end up or down |
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