Who is the Mike Krzyzewski of college football? Program budgets & other CFB-CBB parallels
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Survive and advance. That's Mike Krzyzewski and Duke's mentality this March Madness after rallying to beat Michigan State and dancing to the Sweet 16. Who else shares Coach K's mentality in the college football ranks? Heck, which college football coach has more in common than just mentality with Coach K? Andy and Ari discuss Coach Krzyzewski and Tom Izzo comps in CFB. The guys also converse about other parallels between the sports including program budgets. Plus, Ari's introduction to the concept of throuples, Utah's CFB environment, and learning home decore terminology from the ASSF wives!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:12.2 | It's Sunday as we record. |
| 0:14.9 | The NCAA basketball tournament is going on. |
| 0:18.0 | Coach K's still alive. |
| 0:20.5 | Arias, I was watching the final minutes of |
| 0:22.7 | of Michigan State and Duke, I just started making football comparisons. I couldn't help it. |
| 0:28.3 | Like, what if this was Nick Saban's lap? Because, I mean, they looked done. They were down five, |
| 0:34.9 | and they came back. Duke really did kind of dig deep to get back. |
| 0:40.5 | But I was thinking, okay, what if this was Nick Saban's final game? And also, who is football |
| 0:47.1 | iso? Like, I don't know if there's a football K either, but I think I know who football iso is. |
| 0:56.5 | Who's football iso? |
| 1:02.5 | Bob Stoops was football iso. That's perfect because he won a national championship right the same year, I think, even. You want to hear something, wow, Bob Stoops won his national |
| 1:06.6 | title seven months after Tom Izzo won his. Yeah, that is, he's not an active coach, but yeah, that certainly makes the case. |
| 1:13.8 | You want to know the prevailing thought that I had while watching games this weekend, Andy? |
| 1:19.0 | What's that? |
| 1:19.6 | Especially because I'm on a bunch of group texts with guys, you know, good friends of mine who are texting constantly. |
| 1:24.9 | And there's like this prevailing, like, I want Michigan State to win. |
| 1:30.5 | I hate Coach K. |
| 1:31.9 | Get out of there. |
| 1:32.8 | And like this isn't a unique phenomenon in the R.E. Wasserman friend group. |
| 1:38.3 | And the thing that I've always wondered. |
| 1:39.3 | He's probably the most disliked elite coach in sports, I think. But when somebody has accomplished, I mean, |
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