Episodes
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The End... Again?
Godfrey's back, Richard's leaving and we're not sure about much else. Oh also the NFL Draft is this week.
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PAPN Talks: App State’s Shawn Clark on maintaining a winner
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...
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UAB’s Bill Clark on coaching through chaos (and more!)
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...
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#AskPAPN: Anyone wanna talk about college football?
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
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What happens to college sports after COVID-19?
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.
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How colorful is your college football team?
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...
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It's time to go to Klass about quarterbacks
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...
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PAPN goes to the NFL Combine
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.
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A conversation with the 2019 Piesman Winner and #AskPAPN
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...
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Let's talk about a former Idaho player who decided to rob a bank
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…
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#AskPAPN: What does Michigan State do now? And Signing Day questions galore
Bud and Richard come to you on this legacy Signing Day wondering whether the early signing period is in fact too late. Do players care how bad your team is? Who will join the Blue Chip Ratio club next? In the wake of Mark Dantonio's retirement we talk the context of what he leaves in East…
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The (Almost) All XFL Episode!
Richard and Godfrey preview the BIG GAME LOL NOPE they're gonna scour the XFL rosters (debuting next week!) for the most college football friendly rooting interests possible. The official PAPN XFL team will surprise you. It surprised us.
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#AskPAPN: USC is still a mess, Auburn is still changing play-callers
Richard and Godfrey dive into some offseason #AskPAPN, featuring fun and weirdness with North Dakota State, Boise State, Auburn, Ole Miss, Kent State and why your coach should ABSOLUTELY agree to be interviewed on this show. (NOTE: Some audio issues popped up on this episode. We did our best)
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PAPN goes to AFCA
Richard, Bud and Godfrey are huddled in a bachelorette party themed hotel room to talk about weird rumors they heard while drinking with football coaches in a former country music theme park. This is all very normal.
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Emergency Conference Call: Mississippi State hires Mike Leach
When news broke that Mike Leach (and not Billy Napier, Steve Sarkisian, Todd Grantham, or a number of other possible hires) was getting the Mississippi State job, Godfrey and Richard hopped on the phone with Banner Society colleagues Brian Floyd, Alex Kirshner, and Ryan Nanni to try and figure…
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PAPN: Oh Look, It's Baylor, Mississippi State, the NFL and MORE Silly Season
Richard and Godfrey pick apart Mississippi State's firing of Joe Moorhead, the timing of its next hire and what Baylor will do after Matt Rhule. There's also some suggestions for the Pac-12 and CBS to start dating, FSU's great assistant hires and a minor national title preview.
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A PAPN New Year: Ohio State's TV ratings, Kentucky's ascendance and 'Harbaugh Or'
Godfrey is joined by noted Twitter user and Banner Society EIC Ryan Nanni to discuss the playoff, the good bowls, the bad bowls and TV ratings. New year, new me? Hell no, we're gonna talk length about K State and Louisville instead of Clemson and Ohio State.
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It's a Wonderful #AskPAPN, Part 2
Hope you're good and sluggish from all that holiday'in. Richard, Bud and Godfrey wanna figure out if Wisconsin can run the triple option while Army and Navy go shotgun. Also how screwed is USC's recruiting? Why cant' UCF close the gap in Florida? And why are most head coaches that aren't Dana...
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It's a Wonderful #AskPAPN, Part 1
Richard and Bud join Godfrey for the first of two #AskPAPN installments to help ease your holiday travels. Is Paul Johnson coming back to coaching? How bad is Georgia's offense, really? Will Barry Odom throw shade at Missouri recruiting for Arkansas? Can a Clemson-less ACC beat the AAC straight uP?
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BOWL SEASON STARTS NOW! (It's not great but we'll get through it)
Bud, Richard and Godfrey plow through the entire bowl slate and uh, well... it's football. At least some of it. Helping things out is a very intriguing 2/3 match in the playoff, so we spend a lot time trying to figure out how to feel about Clemson and Ohio State. We also find sleeper picks for…
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CROOTMAS COMES EARLY! Your Early Signing Day Guide
Bud joins Godfrey to break down the trends, winners and surprises of Early Signing Day. Spoiler: It might as well just be the actual National Signing Day. All the power programs you expect are doing quite well - Clemson, Alabama, LSU, etc. - but there's plenty of unexpected stuff happening at…
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All Silly Season: Lane Kiffin, Mike Norvell, and YESSIR SAM DAMN PITTMAN
Richard and Godfrey recap, explain and pick apart the searches that finished up over the weekend and the variety of jobs still left open. Oh, and the NFL hasn't ended yet, so don't act like this mess is ending anytime soon.
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The Selection Sunday Hurry-Up: Let's Start Narrative Building
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex Kirshner sit down to discuss the semifinal pairings and the rest of the New Year's 6 games, including what Memphis might do in a transition period, who should be happiest they didn't grab the fourth playoff spot, what Oregon's future looks like, which playoff outcomes...
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Week 15 Tasting Menu: Of Course We Knew We'd Be Discussing Baylor And Not Alabama This Week
Godfrey, Richard and Bud close out the 2019 Tasting Menu with a lengthy, well-rounded trip through 1. Actual football games, 2. Tons of coaching news and rumors and 3. Playoff conjecture galore. Everything and anything is a topic this week. Enjoy it.
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The Week 14 BLACK SUNDAY Hurry-Up: Playoffs. Bowls. Firings. Begun, The Silly Season Has
In a special MEGA SHOW, Richard and Godfrey wrap up Week 14 by anointing LSU, Ohio State and Clemson as the realest of the real-ass playoff teams. There's also the weird fun of back-to-back Memphis vs. Cincinnati games, Iron Bowl nonsense, Utah's potential to be the most interesting No. 4 seed…
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Week 14 Tasting Menu: TURKEY IS NIGH. SO ARE THE RIVALRIES.
Bud, Richard, and Godfrey pick through the holiday rivalry week and look for the quality games (A&M vs. LSU! Cincy vs. Memphis! The Commonwealth Cup!) while trying not to frame everything around that pesky playoff.
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PAPN Special: everything you'd ever want to know about search firms
On a special episode of PAPN, Richard and Godfrey interview search firm veteran Chad Chatlos of Ventura Partners. No longer a fad, these firms are now a fact of life in coaching searches.
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The Week 13 Hurry-Up: Oregon Died, Georgia Just Looks Like It
Richard and Godfrey heap praise on Michigan (this is true), make fun of Georgia's continued "offense" (this is true), enjoy a laugh on how they weren't part of the anti-Herm campaign (this is true) and rationalize Cincinnati's ability to win close games (this is false, they're lucky as hell)
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Week 13 Tasting Menu: How To Survive the SoCon Saturday Diet
Richard, Godfrey and Bud pick through the especially slim SoCon Saturday and find Indiana vs. Michigan, Texas A&M and Georgia, some high quality G5 and THE RETURN OF #ASKPAPN.
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Silly Season, Round 4: Let's go ALL HOG
Richard and Godfrey debate Arkansas' place in the SEC, it's value as a program outside of it and where the Hogs could go after almost a decade of bad coaching moves.
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The Week 12 Hurry Up: LSU's defense, Georgia's offense and other things that aren't as important as you think
Richard and Godfrey can't seem to find the HUGE LOOMING MATCH-UP quality in the SEC title game despite LSU allowing a buncha points versus Ole Miss and Georgia winning a boring, defense-y game vs. Auburn. Also: Iowa will Iowa you at Iowa, Cincinnati is SUSPECT and Baylor led a big game by a...
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Week 12 Tasting Menu: Baylor, Let's Figure You Out. Wake Forest, RIP
Richard, Bud and Godfrey sort through a Week 12 that starts strong in the morning and uh... maybe do a date night or volunteer in the evening or something. Louisiana Tech is cool, Georgia vs. Auburn will be a SEC brand of cruddy and Penn State probably won't lose to Indiana, but hey... Minnesota!...
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The Week 11 Hurry-Up: LSU Wins, Alabama Survives(?), And Mea Culpa Minnesota
Richard and Godfrey ditch the hurry-up and go long on LSU and Bama's latest game of the century, how the playoff culture is already shortchanging the football parts of good football games and whoops oh hey maybe we should've been nicer about Minnesota and Baylor. And hey, WKU got Chad Morris…
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Week 11 Tasting Menu: It's LSU and Bama. There's Other Stuff, Too
Richard, Bud and Godfrey can't ignore the magnitude of LSU at Bama, but there's still some other stuff to pick at. Is Boston College running an all jet-sweeps offense? Will Western Kentucky's QB cause a job opening at Arkansas? Will undefeateds Minnesota and Baylor actually earn our respect?…
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Silly Season, Round 3: Arkansas Is Historically Bad, Rutgers Is A Tangled Mess
Richard and Godfrey share coaching rumors about the cratering in the Ozarks, how Greg Schiano is believed to be the only one who could undo Rutgers' mess, what USC might do with or without Urban and where the Silly Season stands as of early November.
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Florida State Fires Willie Taggart
Godfrey and Bud talk through the breaking news on Florida State's firing of Willie Taggart after just 20 games in Tallahassee.
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The Week 10 Hurry-Up: The Pac-12 Is In The Playoff Conversation. Make Peace With Your God
Alex Kirshner joins Godfrey to round-up a bye-laden week that saw Oregon and Utah DO GOOD GOOD PLAYOFF CALIBER FOOTBALL THINGS. Seriously, they belong in the conversation now. Also Georgia beat Florida on third down and also on the scoring more points part, and FSU is back to being a big old…
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Week 10 Tasting Menu: It's Pac-12 Elimination Week and an SEC East RECKONING (it's just Georgia Florida actually)
Bud, Richard and Godfrey are telling you to SKIP THE MORNING GAMES in Week 11 and dive into a bounty of Florida vs. Georgia, USC vs. Oregon, Washington vs. Utah and a host of other narrative friendly affairs. Is Pitt gonna Pitt itself? Is Miss. State vs. Arkansas a certified Anxiety Bowl? IS THAT...
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The Week 9 Hurry-Up: LSU finds a new way to win, Notre Dame's some dummies, and Ohio State's making their own schedule look terrible
Richard and Godfrey still don't totally know what to do with Minnesota, Penn State avoided any possible Dantonioing, it's time to lament what could have been as Utah rounds into form, and Godfrey says nice things about Michigan football. Oh, and Kansas State got Oklahoma to blink, hard.
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Week 9 Tasting Menu: Let's trick Penn State! Let's treat LSU! Let's throw eggs at Miami and FSU!
Bud, Richard and Godfrey pick up on yesterday's coaching discussion with a long look at what's going on with Willie Taggart and the 'Noles. Also there's at least some historical merit to worrying about Michigan State, at least if you're Penn State. Plus there's a MAC pop quiz and compliments…
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Silly Season, Round 2: Rutgers is STILL the most talked about program in college football. Yeah.
Richard and Godfrey make bets on Rutgers' pick for head coach, talk about the work needed to make Old Dominion a really good G5 gig and examine the cooling of many, many hot seats after Saturday. Temporary? Permanent? Both! Except for Arkansas, holy crap is that place going south...
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The Week 8 Hurry-Up: Oregon got bonafide, Wisconsin got ADJUSTED
Richard and Godfrey (well really just Richard let's be honest) roll around in the glee of Illinois Adjusted eating Wisconsin's slow, scared decision making alive. Alabama won ugly because they lost Tua and played Jeremy Pruitt's big dumb defense. Also the Pac-12 really isn't that bad because…
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Week 8 Tasting Menu: Can Oregon The Pac-12 Relevant? Maybe! Can Tennessee make Alabama watchable? Absolutely not, no
Richard, Bud and Godfrey want you to watch SMU and Temple because it's a "Gameday" quality affair that dumb old Michigan had interrupt. Also there's a lot of nail-in-the-coffin losses lurking this week, plus South Carolina's gonna try to be bigger and dumber than another better opponent.
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Silly Season, Round 1: Jobs are opening! Let's figure out which coach is going where
Richard and Godfrey look at college's football's sole opening - Rutgers - as well as the various hot and cold seats at places like USC, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, Ole Miss and Arkansas.
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The Week 7 Hurry-Up: LSU is exceptional, Florida is still very good, Georgia is a football team
Spencer Hall joins Godfrey to marvel at LSU's offensive efficiency and explosiveness, gag at Michigan State, notice Oregon's new competent style of defense and figure out how dumb the Georgia / South Carolina game was. It was real dumb. Sorry, spoilers.
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Week 7 Tasting Menu: CONSUME (almost) EVERYTHING! We've got us an ideal college football Saturday
Bud and Richard JOIN FORCES to prepare viewing, gambling and hollerin' recommendations for a fantastic weekend of games. We're talking Florida-LSU, Red River (appropriate noun here), Bama-A&M, Hawaii-Boise, Penn State-Iowa and all the other good ones. You don't even have to watch Notre Dame and...
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The Week 6 Hurry-Up: Michigan's offense is still broken, Cincinnati didn't blink against UCF, Tulane is a first down monster, and whatever Auburn-Florida was
Godfrey's on the road this week, so Ryan Nanni fills in with Richard to talk about Minnesota putting together its first non-nail biter, Washington stumbling hard against Stanford, the emotional roller coaster that was Miami-Virginia Tech, Bo Nix's Very Bad Day, USF doing what it had to against...
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Week 6 Tasting Menu: Auburn and Oregon could be like, really good you guys. Or not
The tasting menu warns you against ugly things like whatever Ohio State will do to Michigan State and tells you to spend some time with... Illinois and Minnesota? Is that right? Also Bud's just falling head over heels for the AAC (seriously).
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The Week 5 Hurry-Up: Clemson made mistakes! Baylor made us notice them! Penn State made a massacre!
Richard and Godfrey set the table of playoff teams, maybe playoff teams and everyone else after September. Auburn’s doing real good! Minnesota is too! So is Iowa! USF is not. (Note! This episode was recorded before Rutgers fired Chris Ash, in case you're wondering why that didn't get discussed.)
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Week 5 Tasting Menu: Let's figure out Baylor, Cincinnati, Maryland, Penn State and enjoy everything USC does
It's uh... another buffet! Yeah. But there's a lot of figuring-it-all-out this week, like whether or not Indiana or Michigan State will have a lackluster year WAIT WAIT COME BACK. We're also gonna talk a lot of Texas, UCF, Iowa State, Utah and Notre Dame. Promise.