Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

It is the Monday of Playoff Week.

I mean, Bruce, it has not,

it still feels not real that on Friday night, we're going to have a Notre Dame Indiana game in South Bend to start the college football playoff. We're going to get into more detail

on the games in our episode later this week.

A lot of news to get to on this Monday, starting with the fact that, you know, it's portal season,

and we were wondering when it was going to affect teams that are in the playoff.

Well, Penn State's number two quarterback, Bro Perbula, who actually they use at times during games, entered the portal on Sunday.

We find out the next day that Drew Aller is coming back next year, so probably not a coincidence.

This is a very important player for Penn State who is just gone now, not going to be there for the

playoff run, which is, you know,

controversial to say the least.

Sorry, are you still going or no?

No, no, I'm good.

Okay.

Yeah.

So it is definitely an interesting dynamic and it's something that a lot of people are outraged by and I think

with any story and I talked to somebody who's directly involved in these situations where it's

like talking to player personnel people they're the ones who understand this issue better than

anybody because they're they're living it,

essentially, and they're living at it from both sides, maybe unlike maybe the players involved.

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