The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

Bruce and Stew discuss the second half of Bruce’s cross-country spring football tour, including his visit to WVU (2:30); State College to check out Penn State and their star running back Saquon Barkley (4:30); and a few other stops. Stew gives a report from his visit to Stanford (18:00); and your emails answered in the return of The Mailbag (25:00).

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Bruce and Stew hit the road for spring football and discuss their visits to USC and budding star QB Sam Darold (7:00); UCLA and Josh Rosen coming back from injury (13:00); Ohio State and Urban Meyer’s thoughts on JT Barrett (25:00); MACtion at Toledo (33:30); Pitt and USC grad transfer QB Max Browne (45:30); and more.

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This week on The Audible Bruce sits down with Mike Kuchar of X&O Labs (https://www.hudl.com/footballtrends) , a great interview for hardcore football fans who really like to know the ins and outs of schematics on the field. Mike breaks down some of the offensive and defensive schemes of major programs in the country for some great insight into strategies. Then, Bruce and Stew dive into the mailbag to rank the current Power 5 conferences. Stock up for the ACC and stock down for the SEC? Plus, was Butch Jones a good hire at Tennessee? How much longer will he last at the program? What the NFL's move to Las Vegas could mean for college football bowl games and potentially the National Championship, and a debate if neutral site games at NFL stadiums are good for the college game.

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Bruce and Stew kick off the podcast with a discussion about the interesting Final Four matchups and discuss the huge difference between playoff systems in college basketball and football (2:00); If South Carolina leaving the ACC is really considered one of the 'worst' conference realignments of all-time (10:00); Michigan State now has a sexual assault scandal on its hands (25:40); Thoughts on Jim Mora potentially facing a make-or-break season at UCLA (36:00); and much more.

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Stew is finally back from hiatus and he joins to Bruce to talk about the NCAA tournament and the situation with the wife of Wichita State head coach Gregg Marshall, who displayed questionable behavior during WSU’s loss to Kentucky (1:00); The new Arkansas law that will allow concealed weapons at sports arenas (15:00); The long-awaited return of The Mailbag, including emails about Mitch Trubisky’s NFL Draft stock and where the other QB prospects should be drafted (20:00); How will former Texas OC Shawn Watson do in the same role at Pitt? (30:00); and more of your questions answered.

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Bruce is joined by former Florida State star and Rhodes Scholar Myron Rolle, who is about to begin a neurosurgery residency at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Rolle, who spent three seasons in the NFL, talks with Bruce about the brain injury problem in football (10:00); Whether he would let his kids play football (13:00); Should NCAA student athletes get paid? (25:00); And more on how his football career could help him as a neurosurgeon and vice versa.

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No Stew this week as he takes time off after plenty of NCAA Tournament work, so Bruce is joined by the great Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports. Bruce and Dan discuss really interesting storylines of the NCAA Tournament, plus they share stories on how college basketball recruiting has changed drastically over the years (5:45) and their craziest Bob Huggins stories (15:00). Penn State is back in the news, as both AD Tim Curley and VP Gary Schultz plead guilty to child endangerment stemming back from the Jerry Sandusky case over 5 years ago (23:00). Why are they pleading guilty now after years of proclaiming innocence, where we go from here with this case, and what does this mean for President Graham Spanier? Bruce and Dan explain. Plus, Baylor is back in the news after an official was let go for sending inappropriate text messages to a teenager - what is going on with the culture at that school? (38:40) And the possibility of a McGregor/Mayweather superfight continues to heat up (49:30).

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Bruce and Stew discuss Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly and the comments he made during his pre-spring practice press conference about overhauling the coaching staff and his commitment to improve after last year's dreadful 4-8 finish (1:00); How Tom Herman has gotten off to a rough start as new head coach of Texas (13:00); And your questions answered in The Mailbag, including … Which head coach entering his second season will make the biggest leap this year? (17:00); Why are many players' combine numbers so much lower than what their colleges have listed? (23:00); And more.

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Bruce is back from the NFL Combine and he gives Stew a full report on this year’s prospects, including potential No. 1 overall pick Myles Garrett (5:30); A list of surprise “freak” players (10:00); What to make of QB DeShaun Watson’s combine performance, as well as other top QB prospects (15:00); And your emails answered in The Mailbag (20:00).

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Stew returns to his alma mater Northwestern for an interview with head football coach Pat Fitzgerald to discuss the Wildcats’ basketball team and what an NCAA Tournament bid would do for the athletic program (3:00); Looking ahead to spring football (10:30); And the current state of Big Ten football (13:00).

Bruce and Stew then team up to answer your emails in the triumphant return of The Mailbag (28:00): They answer questions about their favorite college coaches to cover (35:30), which coach would be a good candidate for a career in politics (41:00); Quarterback competitions at Stanford and ASU (43:30) and much more.

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