Podcast Ain't Played Nobody

Godfrey's back, Richard's leaving and we're not sure about much else. Oh also the NFL Draft is this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard and Alex talk with new Appalachian State head coach Shawn Clark about the unique way the Mountaineers have continued their success as an FCS power to become a Group of 5 elite. The group discusses how App State evaluates and recruits, how to schedule as a team Power 5 schools shouldn’t really want to play, and how the program has entrenched itself after jumping from FCS.

Richard and Alex talk with UAB head coach Bill Clark, who led the Blazers through a program shutdown and prolonged uncertainty a few years ago, about what it’s like to run a team through the COVID-19 pandemic. They also talk about defensive theory, a good Nick Saban story, and the Conference USA picture in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex and Richard take your questions in a mega ASK grab bag about COVID-19's ongoing impact on college football, but also a bunch of questions that have nothing to do with the coronavirus and a few at the end that aren’t strictly about football at all Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard and Alex talk to Matt Brown, proprietor of the Extra Points newsletter and longtime college sports person for SB Nation. Matt spends a lot of time covering college athletic finances, so he joined the show to talk about how programs and conferences of every size might move forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex and Richard are joined by Ced Funches to talk about the world of college football logo design. Yes, the press releases are banal and sometimes too bogged down in marketing speak, but there’s a lot more that goes into creating a program’s visual identity than simply picking a color that you like. Ced also settles for good and all some of the most pressing color pallette deb

Richard and Alex are joined by Derrik Klassen, of Rotoworld and Football Outsiders to talk about quarterback play. What makes a “big arm” so big? Have some of the best QBs in history ruined what we think about mechanics? And lightning round elevator pitches about about the 2020 draft class signal callers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh, you thought we were an NFL show before? You ain’t heard nothin’ yet. Richard and Alex Kirshner are joined by Charles McDonald of the New York Daily News to talk about the Combine that you do see and the Combine that you don’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard and special guest Ryan Nanni travel to Culver-Stockton College to talk to Andrew Rupcich, winner of the 2019 Piesman Trophy, about the play that won him the crystal pie. They then take your questions about the NCAA possibly granting every student-athlete a single transfer option, whether Joe Burrow can/will actually play for someone other than the Bengals, what our work wee

Richard has a conversation with Nate Scott of USA Today sports about his true crime podcast called “The Sneak” (which you should listen to right after this episode). Once that’s out of the way, Nate regales us with tales of Tulane’s football renaissance and what it was like to deal with the NCAA in post-Katrina Louisiana. He also plays the Godfrey part while we do therapy w