David Shaw had Stanford rolling for 7 years.
Then some key assistants left... the renowned strength coach got fired .. the transfer portal became a thing. The identity eroded.
Shaw resigned Saturday. How it all went down.
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Stewart Mandel
@slmandel
Editor In Chief for college football at The Athletic. Co-host of The Audible podcast. Husband, dad. Honest, and unmerciful. Emails: stewart@theathletic.com.
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It's my annual column where I'm never wrong and none of these statements ever come back to haunt me.
Grading the 2022-23 coaching hires.
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The Jaden Rashada-Florida $13M fiasco has put a spotlight on just how badly the NCAA f'd up NIL.
How on earth did we get to where coaches and ADs' entire recruiting operation is at the mercy of an unsupervised third party?
This week's Mailbag.
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Fun little exercise in this week's Mailbag:
What would be the ideal 12-team field solely for TV ratings?
Also:
Will the Florida/Jaden Rashada fiasco be a wakeup call for how schools deal with collectives?
How often will Oklahoma win an SEC title?
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Joe Burrow is "from Iowa" the same way he "played at Ohio State."
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Jon is all over this.
The Pac-12 thought Comcast was underpaying them, turns out they were being *overpaid.*
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What happened with the #Pac12 financial mess? How could it possibly owe Comcast $50 million? We cracked the code:
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Interesting story by revealing one NFL team's unflattering draft scouting report of Brock Purdy.
These guys put WAY too much emphasis on measurables. Who cares how high your QB can jump?
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Seeking some more questions for this week's Mailbag.
Submit them here:
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In "Only Murders in the Building," they think there's a murderer in their building. ... So why do they still live in the building?
And why do they always open their door when someone knocks??
And go up and down the elevator all day?
Serious plot holes.
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The Audible:
-- Revisiting Brock Purdy and Jalen Hurts' college careers.
-- What the heck is going on at Michigan?
-- Is LSU a Playoff team in 2023?
LISTEN:
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Purdy and Hurts faced off in a 2019 Oklahoma-Iowa State 42-41 thriller. Hurts won when OU stopped Purdy's last-second two point conversion, but not before he threw 5 TDs.
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Jalen Hurts vs. Brock Purdy next week for the NFC championship.
There's a world in which they would have shared the same QB room.
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Grateful to have received a full ride offer to the University of Alabama!!
#RollTide
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Joe gets the spotlight, but the Bengals defense is 🔥
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Maybe the reason college replays feel like they take forever is that they don’t cut to commercial.
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Now you’re cutting away during this!
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They ruled that a touchdown while they were in a commercial break.
Kind of a big moment!
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Ken Dorsey: 38-2 as a starter at Miami, including a 34-game win streak.
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Football Weather!!
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Chad Henne is so old that the first NFL game he played, the opposing QB was Kurt Warner.
Who's been retired for 13 years.
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Chad Henne is so old he faced Vince Young in the Rose Bowl .. the year before THAT Rose Bowl.
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Chad Henne is still old he was Michigan's QB when they lost to Appalachian State.
16 years ago.
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Do we think Kliff is watching this game from Thailand?
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The Pac-12 fired two senior executives Friday after an independent investigation concluded they failed to disclose overpayments by a distribution partner dating back to 2016.
More details:
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The Pac-12 has fired 2 senior executives (one believed to be the president of Pac-12 Network) for failing to disclose overpayments by a network partner of "more than $50 million" since 2016.
First reported by .
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Sounds like ... a bowl game?
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The NFL is thinking about making neutral-site conference championships the norm. The evidence is hiding in plain sight. wp.me/pbBqYq-cvZb
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Could be that.
Or, could be it's the only school where the head coach interviewed for an NFL job, is under NCAA investigation, and the co-OC is under police investigation and got fired.
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Replying to @KGoBlue10 and @slmandel
I think at least 25% of Mandel and Forde’s tweets lately have been about Michigan. These guys know where their bread is buttered.
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Never a dull moment with Michigan football these days.
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Michigan has fired co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss.
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NFL draft early entries (underclassmen + graduates with eligibility remaining):
2019: 135
2020: 115
2021: 128
July 2021: NIL goes into effect
2022: 100
2023: 82
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BREAKING: Five-Star CB Cormani McClain has flipped his commitment from Miami to Colorado!
The No. 1 CB in the ‘23 Class had been committed to the Canes since October
Deion Sanders has flipped No. 1 CB’s in back to back cycles 🤯
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TCU's Sonny Dykes has officially announced Kendal Briles as new OC.
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Just a first team All-Pac-12 defender transferring to an SEC contender.
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First-team All-Pac 12 linebacker Omar Speights has signed with #LSU, a source confirmed to @TheAthletic.
LSU gets its clear star at inside linebacker and fills its biggest roster hole. @JacquesDoucet had it first.
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Interesting topic, and also informs why the SEC is so good.
You can't fake D-line, and they have the most D-line talent.
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The average star rating of the defensive players on the NFL All-Pro team is 4.5 stars. On offense, it’s just 2.0. I asked some of the sharpest minds in the NFL and college football worlds why they think there’s such a disparity in the evaluation game: theathletic.com/4105045/2023/0
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You could tell this season they didn’t have much confidence in Jaxson Dart. Now he’d have to beat out Sanders.
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An extremely favorable slate, as the Bruins miss both Washington and Oregon.
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UCLA’s 2023 football schedule
9/2 Coastal Carolina
9/9 at San Diego State
9/16 NC Central
9/23 at Utah
10/7 Washington State
10/14 at Oregon State
10/21 at Stanford
10/28 Colorado
11/4 at Arizona
11/11 Arizona State
11/18 at USC
11/25 Cal
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Quite a start to Deion's first season at Colorado.
Sept. 2 – at TCU
Sept. 9 – Nebraska
Sept. 16 – Colo. St.
Sept. 23 – at Oregon
Sept. 30 – USC
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Nick Saban always tells exactly what the injury is. He must realize he's not a medical claims processor.
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It's amazing what people think HIPAA is vs. what HIPAA actually is.
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One thing, though, Coach Whittingham: You are not bound by HIPAA.
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Interesting interview with Kyle Whittingham, who's not ready to retire yet but has his successor in mind.
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