The Beat of Sports

Yesterday we saw Washington Huskies head coach Chris Petersen announce that he is stepping aside from coaching to take a job within the administration. This lead many to assume that Petersen is just burned out. Marc brings up a number of coaches all around the same age have stepped aside from the sideline and citied 'being burned out' as one of the reasons.

While the Magic have fixed some of their offensive issues they are still struggling without having a consistent go-to scorer. Marc looks at who could be a potential trade partner for the Magic and if trading for D'Angelo Russell would make the most sense.

We make a phone call to the west coast to talk with David Pingalore about the latest on USC coach rumors and is Frank Vogel the coach of the year in the NBA?

Jeff Anderson and The Anderson-Hester computer ranking was part of the BCS. What if we still had the BCS today? Jeff and Marc discuss what the BCS would look like today and if anything would be different.

Josh Robbins covers the Orlando Magic for The Athletic and joins the show in his weekly visit to give an update on the team. He and Marc discuss how the team will handle the latest injury news, plus if Evan Fournier has turned the corner after a down shooting season last year.

The New York Knicks suffered a humiliating loss to the Milwaukee Bucks last night and usually Marc will talk about how the teams and players just aren't good enough to win. But now he has found a new way to justify things: the players don't represent the Knicks, they just wear jerseys that say Knicks on the front and play in New York City.

The weekend began with a wild Egg Bowl that was marred a bit by controversy, Florida easily rolled over Florida State, and then in the Iron Bowl the upset happened when Auburn took down Alabama. Houston Nutt joins the show to recap that weekend of football plus he weighs in on the coaching vacancies around the SEC.

Black Sunday took over college football as a number of schools fired their head coaches. USF and Ole Miss joined FSU as teams looking for a new coach while Texas decided to get rid of the entire staff minus Tom Herman. Marc talks about how the schools that made changes need to remember who they are especially when it comes to their expectations.

This past weekend was a marquee one for a college football fan, it was rivalry weekend. Marc does his best to recap what a wild weekend it was with upsets, blowouts, and then an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the Egg Bowl.

This weekend was Rivalry Weekend all across the nation for college football teams including in Orlando with another edition of The War On I-4. Unfortunately the game was never really close and the biggest moments were the pre-game scuffle between players from both teams. Marc gives a recap to the game and it what it means for fan expectations.