Shutdown Fullcast

It's our 200th episode recording with host Rodger Sherman, and we celebrate by discussing:

- possible non-conference upsets

- how you can bet actual money on teams like Rutgers and UNC to win the national championship, somehow

- Tampa/St. Petersburg and its burgeoning culinary scene

- other household items you could attack a quarterback with and call it training

- the 2001 film Driven starring Sylvester Stallone

- how there's nothing controversial happening in the CFB universe right now, nope, no sirree

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Things are totally normal on this week's Shutdown Fullcast as the usual cast of Steven Godfrey, Jason Kirk, and Ryan Nanni, discussing:

-- The Big 12's imminent expansion

-- The Big 12's imminent collapse

-- Living in Orlando: you can do that, apparently?

-- How nuclear winter leads to a reborn, hard-as-hell Big 8

-- How that same nuclear winter plays right into Bill Snyder's hands

-- Paul Johnson's Intervention/Recruiting

-- Godfrey's retirement business plan, Chick-fil-Agnostic

-- Canadian legal precedent. Shit, we've completely lost the damn plot.

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This week's edition of the Shutdown Fullcast throws all else to the side to discuss the time Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs allegedly got into a fight with the strength coach at UCLA and threw a kettlebell at him. You need nothing more.

Topics:

--Where Puff Daddy now stands among Rappers What Do Fightin'

--A description of a man that includes "his legs look like Kevin Smith's pants"

--Why you don't ever fight the best recruiter on a football staff

--Is George O'Leary the worst choice for AD ever? (A: probably not)

--Why DMX deserves his own Planet Fitness, and also a hug

--Steve Spurrier singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" at 41:00

--A discussion of how enjoyable it is to see senior citizens knocked out by t-shirt guns in Florida

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This week's edition of the Shutdown Fullcast gets right down to business by discussing realignment five years on, the least bad ways to break up with someone in college football, and the other following foolishnesses:

--how a lot of people still don't seems to know Mizzou is in the SEC

--The Big East's amazing investment strategies in turning 1.4 billion dollars in possible TV money into one hundred million dollars in just eight years

--Texas A&M's move to the SEC has been the second marriage your mom dove into with both feet and zero hesitation

--The various ways to dump a coach or player that involve both the most and least amounts of pain

--The time Auburn managed to divorce a guy and then date his best friend, aka the Chizik/Malzahn switch

--The invention of something called the "No Cuddle Offense"

--Reggie Ball fan fiction! (aka giving the people what they want)

--A hypothetical marriage between two coaches that results in someone being banned from a Kirk Franklin concert

--A Kirk Franklin reference on a college football podcast

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This week's Shutdown Fullcast is not only late, it's recorded on the road with relatively poor audio quality! Obviously you should listen to every terrible second of it.

Topics covered:

1. Rivalries updated, i.e. can you make up a rivalry out of thin air? Should you even have rivals? Which rivalries actually matter, and which ones do people even really care about? Why are the most intense rivalries between the most similar types of people? Remember that time South Carolina and Clemson had a head-kicking brawl that cost South Carolina a bowl game? You should probably remember that more often than you do.

2. Is Les Miles sort of doomed at LSU? Beyond the usual ambient level of doom one might associate with LSU?

3. What teams are you really, really unwilling to admit you enjoy watching? And not "oh, it's a guilty pleasure!" level watching, but "oh god please don't let even my wife know I enjoy watching them" kind of shame or discomfort.

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This week's Shutdown Fullcast comes in at a LEAN AND MEAN fifty minutes, indexed thusly for maximum listening efficiency.

0:00--12:00 We discuss Ryan's trip to West Virginia, Tudor's Biscuit World, the safety fair held in a funeral home parking lot in West Virginia, how Senator Robert Byrd is definitely not dead, and how difficult it is to pin down the West Virginia accent without talking like a camp cook in an old Western. Off the rails by the third minute, really.

12:01--29:00 A discussion of something football-related! Charlie Strong poses with baby tigers named Bonnie and Clyde, an examination of states that will allow you to own a tiger without any paperwork whatsoever, Kliff Kingsbury remaking the "Tip Drill" video as a recruiting pitch, Texas A&M making up eight new exotic animal-based traditions in order to compete, a pitch for an SEC Network show called "Aggie Court," and Kevin Sumlin quietly wondering when he can take the Chargers job.

29:01--41:00 Where we discuss UAB coming back, how your school has never done anything wrong, Ryan making a dubstep highlight video of the 2014 Idaho/Florida game, how we really aren't saying the worst things you can say about Birmingham when we say bad things about Birmingham, Bill Clark is coming back to UAB for ROLL DAMN VESTED PENSION, and what college towns do not have a Joseph A. Bank and thus cripple college coaches' ability to purchase the same suits.

41:01--END Reader mail, including the saddest games you can watch in 2015, the seasick feeling of being in Tampa in October, and how global warming as a Big Ten domination plot might backfire on them spectacularly.

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This free-wheeling and extremely (even by our standards) edition of the Shutdown Fullcast covers:

--Why the cult of the Big Green Egg is mostly a lie

--How POINT BREAK IS MERELY GOOD AND IS CERTAINLY NOT ON A LEVEL WITH OH SAY SOMETHING LIKE THE CLASSIC "UNDER SIEGE"

--A description of the time Jason saw his youth group leader stage a mock kidnapping and execution to teach the value of church? Something like that?

--Which teams could go 8-0 to start the 2015 season and have it mean absolutely nothing (hello, Mizzou!)

--Can you witness to a zombie?

--What absolutely insane college football superstitions and beliefs do we believe are real despite all evidence to the contrary? For instance, why are all Friday games ABSOLUTELY CRAZY (even though there is no evidence this is even remotely true) and why do insane things always happen in Lubbock at night (like losing by thirty in dull fashion!)

--How Florida State could lose four games in realistic fashion, and possibly five if you like to do drugs and believe stupid things

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The Shutdown Fullcast for this week HEATS UP with HOT SEAT CONJECTURE. There's also talk about proper buttcrack maintenance in hot weather if you want to skip straight to the 42 minute mark, but otherwise we ask:

--Isn't the coach at Alabama always the fifth most endangered coach in the country no matter what happens on the field?

--Is Kliff Kingsbury too handsome to fire? (YES, YES HE IS)

--Big transfer news in the state of Florida with LUKE DEL RIO that's right LUKE DEL RIO and NO ONE ELSE

--Mike London is already fired right yes yes yes he is right?

--Does Mike Gundy have a horrendous, horrendous year ahead of him? Probably? Yes?

--Does Gold Bond Powder start a bakery in your pants on hot days?

--How does one get properly drunk for every game at every kickoff time on the college football schedule?

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This week's Shutdown Fullcast covers a veritable panoply of important topics including ACTUAL COLLEGE FOOTBALL.

The menu includes:

--A super important Bobby Bowden imitation which is totally not Foghorn Leghorn

--We review the starting quarterbacks for three conferences, and in turn reveal our total ignorance of who's actually starting at any position for any team at this point in the year.

--No really, go through the ACC and even try to know what you're talking about after you name "Deshaun Watson."

--A discussion of what decade you'd rather live in that results in Ryan saying: "Which is probably why I'm so sexual."

--The choosing of which game in 2015 will result in a 0-0 tie going into overtime. (Hi, Alabama/LSU.)

--Us calling Iowa/Iowa State "El Assico," which we repeat because that is the proper name for the game and we want everyone to know it.

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The Shutdown Fullcast returns and basically opens the college football season for everyone. Congratulations, everyone: It's May 6th, and football has started.

Important topics covered include:

--Jameis Winston is now the NFL's great joyous problem and we're sure they'll be fine with it

--More hot DRAFTPINIONS [whang] [whoong] [whoosh] [action noises

--Many reader questions, including a lengthy discussion of fast food franchises' varying degrees of honesty. (LITTLE CAESAR'S WE RESPECT YOUR HONESTY.)

--Maybe one of our wives talking in the background for easily half the podcast!

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