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As a postscript to last weekâs newsletter about college football coachesâ golf handicaps, Alex and Richard discuss several football-adjacent golf topics. Has golf supplanted college football as the sport thatâs most being harmed by its executive leadership? Is Hugh Freeze really that good? (Trent Dilfer definitely is.) Why is this the preferred offseason hobby of two-thirds of Split Zone Duo? And what, exactly, will happen at this weekâs PGA Championship?
Handicaps: https://www.splitzoneduo.com/p/college-football-coaches-golf
Production: Anthony Vito.
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Ohio State played host to one of the most bizarre commencement speeches of all time this month, when alumnus Chris Pan pitched graduates on Bitcoin and attempted to lead the Buckeye crowd in multiple singalongs. D.J. Byrnes writes The Rooster, a newsetter covering Ohio and its politics. Last week, Byrnesâ publication broke the news that Ohio Stateâs president, Ted âSlapshotâ Carter, broke with recommendations from an advisory committee to select Pan. What was happening there, and what does it reveal about the leadership structure bewteen one of the most powerful institutions not just in higher education, but college sports and the entire Midwest? D.J. joins Alex to talk about it.
Read Byrnes' story: https://www.rooster.info/p/ohio-states-drug-fueled-bitcoin-shame
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Welcome to a FREE episode of The Single Wing thanks to our friends at Magic Mind (https://magicmind.com/SPLITZONE20 for 20 percent off). May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so let's talk about anxiety, parenting, and the Jimmy Sexton era of agenting. Plus: UCLA, Kent State, Wyoming, and Pearl Jam.
Production: Anthony Vito.
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It was huge college sports news in 2023 when dozens of athletes at Iowa and Iowa State became the targets of a state investigation into underage sports betting and wagers originating from the two campuses. It was less big news when enormous problems with that investigation came to light and the case started to fall apart. On this episode, Iowa writer and attorney Patrick Vint of Hawkeye State joins Alex to discuss how (and why) Iowa law enforcement made itself into an NCAA investigatory arm, how the NCAA handled the information brought to it, and how we can think about a hugely problematic investigative process that still revealed legitimate issues. Production: Anthony Vito.
Read Patrick's feature on the case: https://hawkeyestate.substack.com/p/heads-will-roll
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The end of the spring transfer portal window means the beginning of looking ahead in earnest to the 2024 season. With rosters mostly locked, Alex and Richard share the teams theyâre optimistic, pessimistic, and in between about at the halfway point of the offseason. Richard thinks Ohio State will win the national championship, and Alex thinks Clemson is due for more pain. Weâve also got impressions of Virginia Tech, Kansas State, USF, Michigan, Auburn, Oregon State, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Plus, Richard tells the world definitively what he believes will happen to Billy Napier this year. Production: Anthony Vito.
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The Split Zone Duo crew discusses the results of the NFL Draft through both a college football and âbeing mean to Steven Godfreyâ lens. Georgiaâs player development, Washingtonâs offensive line, Oregonâs way of helping Bo Nix, whether Nick Saban actually admitted to a tampering violation on live TV, and much more. But yes, it all leads to a therapy session in which Godfrey comes to grips with the Falconsâ selection of Michael Penix Jr. Production: Anthony Vito.
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Maryland is hiring Brian Ferentz as an analyst, per Bruce Feldman. Alex went to Maryland, so Richard forced him to record an emergency show about the whole thing. We start with Alex fearing the worst, then discuss how Mike Locksley is building a Saban school, why this move actually makes quite a bit of sense, and where exactly Brian now stands in Marylandâs line of succession.
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A coaching search where nobody got spurned, everyone got paid, and all parties wound up exactly where they wanted to be all along? How nice. Thatâs the semi-official accountâfrom ESPN and many of the people most closely involvedâof what happened at Alabama. Alex, Richard, and Godfrey discuss how media, agents, and administrators collaborated to pitch a sunny description of one of the biggest college football coaching hunts in yearsâand how it fits into the usual way of doing business in this industry.
Production: Anthony Vito.
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Itâs time for an offseason check-in with the most watched, most controversial 4-8 team in college football history. Richard, Godfrey, and Alex weigh in on the four different conversations that happen at any given second about Deion Sanders and Colorado: the one about the actual football team (5:30), the one about Deion as a leader of men (21:54), the one about race (52:20), and the one about disruption (1:09:00). Production: Anthony Vito.
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We get a lot of questions about how we keep up with the wide world of college football to bring you this podcast. How do we try to figure out where the interesting stories are? How do we keep eyeballs on a sport with so many teams at so many different levels? In the spirit of transparency and it being April, letâs talk about how to process a sport with a million things happening at once. These are our tips from years of covering the sport professionally, but they arenât just for media members. We hope they can help anyone get more out of CFB.
Production: Anthony Vito.
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For SZDâs annual NFL Draft QB special, Richard is joined by Ben Solak of The Ringer and Derrik Klassen of Bleacher Report. We start with the compulsory review of the greatest QB prospect of this century (Jacksonville Jaguar Trevor Lawrence) and review last yearâs college-turned-pro QBs. Then, from Joe Milton to Austin Reed to Drake Maye to Caleb Williams, we break down this yearâs. Production: Anthony Vito.
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USC reporter Luca Evans of the Orange County Register joins Alex to talk about the many challenges facing the Trojans in the NIL and collective space (4:19). How does a rich school with a blue-blood football history run into difficulty in this new world? USC is the best window into that question. Then Richard and Alex talk about the unusual buildup to the April transfer portal window (33:32) and break down interesting position groups to watch over the coming weeks: Michiganâs QBs, Penn Stateâs WRs, and more at Miami (x2), UNC, USC, and Washington. To close, they discuss the different ways that football institutions decided to remember (or not) O.J. Simpson (1:04:02). Production: Anthony Vito.
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Welcome to The Single Wing, where Steven Godfrey takes subscriber questions on a wide range of college football topics. This week, Godfrey's officially issuing a Gangster AD badge (Go Vawls), and we're also discussing the come-up at Virginia Tech, the veteran plains-ish states head coach most likely to sneak into a title game (Go Utes), and the delightful mash-up of the Nick Saban and Bill Snyder eras. Plus, let's talk about an X-Men cartoon. Why not?
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Richard has a conversation with Eric Galko, the director of football operations and player personnel for the East-West Shrine Bowl. Itâs wide-ranging: Eric shares his 2024 NFL Draft hot takes and QB rankings, then talks about how the NFL views college playersâand how well their programs are developing them. Eric tells us whether NIL actually ruined the third day of the draft. And having developed the XFL kickoff plan that is now part of the NFL, Eric shares whether college football is ready to implement the same thing.
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In 2023, Neal Brown was the industry's most fireable head coach. Then he had a good enough year to get a small contract extension. Who is 2024âs most fireable coach? Well, there are a few contenders. Godfrey, Richard, and Alex take the temperature on a handful of coaches who look troubled as spring ball gives way to what could be their final offseasons in their current jobs. Who has the best chance to resurrect his tenure, and who is in trouble? And in the case of Billy Napier, are all 7-5 records created equal?
Production: Anthony Vito.
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Week 1 has always had tons of warmup games, but the schedule usually has a big handful of bangers. In 2024, thatâs not the case. There are barely any games pitting Power 4 teams against each other and as a trickle-down, not many all-Group of 5 matchups of note either. Yes, there are a few blockbusters (LSU-USC, Georgia-Clemson), but look beyond that, and youâll see the issue.
Is this just a scheduling coincidence, or are recent changes in the college football ecosystem taking a toll on Labor Day Weekend over multiple years? Godfrey leads an investigation and discussion about whatâs up with Week 1.
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Richard has ideas for how to make college footballâs on-field rules a little bit better. Alex and Godfrey like some of them and donât like others. Letâs discuss the optimal width for the hashmarks, whether itâs time to shift the rules around RPOs and linemen downfield, the NFLâs new take on the kickoff, and then some more chaotic ideas that weâve been kicking around. Production: Anthony Vito.
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Godfrey's answering your questions about Lane Kiffin's short- and long-term plans now that Bama has hired a Nick Saban replacement who isn't him.
Let's also discuss the vital signs of Year Zero as a concept, plus Florida's DEI mess and any effect recruiting, Mel Tucker career rehab, Dabo narratives in Clemson's post-title era, pro wrestling âjournalists,â and anxiety treatments.
Production: Anthony Vito.
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Spring practice is a lot of hype and not a lot of substance, but sometimes we can learn a lot. Alex, Richard, and Godfrey talk about what to pay serious attention to right now and the five most interesting teams of spring 2024: Alabama, Michigan, Army, Ohio State, and Texas A&M.
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Godfrey's answering your questions about SEC Network bias (lol), the Big 12's inadvertent but noticeable "be good at basketball" strategy, how effective Ohio State's new AD will be, Colorado rumors (no), CFB programs hiring media (also no), and Nick Saban eating his microphone. Also, "Dungeons and Dragons."
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