The Beat of Sports

After a disappointing result for UCF against LSU in the Fiesta Bowl the focus now for Josh Heupel and the Knights is onto next season. The team how has to question things like depth at the offensive line, do they need to bring in another quarterback because they want to keep playing in big time bowl games and prove they belong in that conversation.

Yes things aren't going well for the Black and Gold but there is one BIG reason that the Pittsburgh Steelers aren't trading Antonio Brown. That reason of course being money.

The Dolphins and Buccaneers should each be looking for the same coach, and where those jobs stack up in comparison to the other 6 opening. Is finding a coach that can help fix the quarterback situation the biggest key?

Before the season the safe bet was to say that Alabama would be facing off against Clemson in the National Championship game and that is what happened, but is that a problem? Is the dominance of these 2 teams bad for the sport? Or does it just prove how much better they are compared to everyone else.

With Josh Gordon's latest suspension, Marc details a story written by Ben Baskin on the background of how Gordon got to be where he is and why he does what he does.

The Original Phillie Phanattic David Raymond joins Marc Daniels to talk about how the birth of the Mascot Hall of Fame came to be.

Kevin Armstrong joins Marc Daniels to talk about an article he wrote in the Wall Street Journal regarding a youth football league in Texas and describes his documentary along with Dan Wetzel titled "My Perfect World" regarding Aaron Hernandez.

Josh Robbins from The Athletic joins the show for his weekly Orlando Magic report and talks about his profile on Nik Vucevic. He and Marc discuss how Vuc wants to see the end of the rebuild and wants to be very loyal to the Magic. Josh also talks about the effort the team gave while in Mexico and what it means for the future.

Within the past week multiple Power 5 conference commissioners have been interviewed on record to voice their opinion on expanding the College Football Playoff. But as Marc points out they can't seem to agree on anything and that is why there is a chance no changes will ever happen.

Today is National Signing Day for college football and Marc talks about how although many fans were talk about where their schools are ranked he explains that the truest way to evaluate a recruiting class is after the players graduate because most of the NFL is made up of 3 star players.