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The Year 2 vibe check on a bunch of head coaches
Conventional wisdom says a coach's second year is when we start to get an idea of how he'll do at a school in the long run. Godfrey, Richard, and Alex go through every second-year FBS head coach and …
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
SEC office politics, history rhymes, Utah, and Clemson
College football is in a quiet period, but Split Zone Duo continues apace. Richard and Alex talk about a notable Deion Sanders hire, why Bryan Harsin is starting a podcast to compete with ours, the l…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
What every conference should do about divisions (plus Jimbo and Saban)
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex start this episode by picking through the aftermath of the May coaching kerfuffle of the century between Nick Saban and Jimbo Fisher. After that: The lifting of a 25-man li…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
The 2022 primetime schedule takes shape
Richard, Godfrey, and Alex are tired of talking about NIL all the time, but fortunately, this mid-May stretch has brought a kernel of 2022 football business to discuss. ABC’s primetime schedule is pa…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
CFB's big, fancy meetings and existential crises
Richard is back from college football's big offseason conference meetings and Fiesta Bowl confab. He explains to Alex what his industry contacts are talking about and wondering about at those meeting…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
The Jordan Addison saga + a CFB lens on the draft
Godfrey and Alex talk about some of the most CFB-centric storylines from the NFL Draft, including how the NFL gave an icy reception (in different ways) to college football heroes like Nakobe Dean, Ma…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Mark Emmert is out, and the draft is a CFB event
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex discuss Mark Emmert's run as the president of the NCAA. In some areas, his failures were systemic and probably inevitable. In others, he made a mess all by himself. It is a…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
The Big Ten, pay-for-play, Texas Tech, and a lot of QBs
The Big Ten and Fox are poised to deepen their TV partnership. What’s that mean for you, the viewer? The adults in the room are doing a lot of hand-wringing about college football economics. Texas Te…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Sark gets mad, O plays a long game, and the USFL plays football?
Ed Orgeron visited Notre Dame and told the Irish they’d win a national title. Godfrey explains the long game at play here, which is — we swear — more interesting than you’d think. Steve Sarkisian kno…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Notre Dame is playing WHOMST? In WHAT?
Notre Dame scheduled a game with Tennessee State, which it very much wants you to think of as purely an HBCU rather than also an FCS team. Alex and Richard play a round of “Fantasy Big 12 Commissione…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago