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Phantom Island — 123 episodes

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What's really happening between private investors and college sports?

2

RE-RELEASE: A (mostly) Jordon Hudson-less Assessment of UNC

3

Let's Fix Week Two of the CFB Schedule (PREVIEW)

4

Why are sports teams becoming landlords?

5

RE-RELEASE: The Sports and Politics Venn Diagram

6

The Single Wing: On Bias and Braves Hats (PREVIEW)

7

Will Connecticut ever keep a pro sports franchise?

8

How to write a coach profile (and how to quit doing them) (PREVIEW)

9

Can a pro wrestler succeed without WWE?

10

The Single Wing: Usurper Edition (PREVIEW)

11

Why can't we trust stadium attendance numbers?

12

What can golf do about its addiction to Tiger Woods?

13

The President, the Second Circuit, and Alabama walk into a bar (PREVIEW)

14

The Single Wing: The Drop-Down Dilemma (PREVIEW)

15

Is Ohio State's media stranglehold an outlier?

16

Sports Courts, AFCON, and the Philosophy of Overturning Games (PREVIEW)

17

What if we merged the men's and women's Final Four?

18

The Single Wing: A Surprisingly Football-Heavy March Episode (PREVIEW)

19

Should the United States change how it funds its Olympians?

20

How did the sports world respond to the death of Martin Luther King Jr.?

21

A frantic tour of the G5's scheduling chaos (PREVIEW)

22

The Single Wing: Let's Remember Some Viruses (PREVIEW)

23

Who's winning the SEC-Big Ten war outside of football?

24

The Sports and Politics Venn Diagram (PREVIEW)

25

How does the College Sports Commission actually work?

26

The Single Wing: The Honolulu Springboard (PREVIEW)

27

Can This Podcast Change Your Team's Future?

28

Putting All-Star Games Under the Microscope (PREVIEW)

29

What Makes An Offensive Line Coach Good?

30

The Single Wing: A Farewell To WaPo (PREVIEW)

31

How do college football fans feel at the end of the 2025 season?

32

Your Earliest Look at 2026's Coaching Carousel (PREVIEW)

33

Why don't the Winter Olympics add more events?

34

Numbers & Words: The Roster Lessons to learn from Indiana and Miami with Parker Fleming (PREVIEW)

35

What does passing for 4,000 yards really mean?

36

The Single Wing: The Search for Stability (PREVIEW)

37

Should the NBA shorten its regular season?

38

70,000 Indiana Fans (and Ryan) Attend Their First Rose Bowl (PREVIEW)

39

The FCS Championship Finishes Its First Nashville Year (PREVIEW)

40

What's to be done about the Group of Five and the CFB Playoff?

41

The Single Wing: Your 2025 Holiday Non-Football Questions (PREVIEW)

42

Who benefits and suffers under college hockey's new eligibility framework?

43

Not-An-Emergency Discussion: Michigan Unexpectedly Opens, Kyle Whittingham Unexpectedly Finds A New Job (PREVIEW)

44

The Single Wing: Your 2025 Holiday Football Questions (PREVIEW)

45

Was SEC Speed Real? (Live in Athens)

46

Why did Jon Sumrall get assigned a premium seat on the coaching carousel? (PREVIEW)

47

What do open records laws have to do with balloon displays?

48

Why do coaches claim to be victims of threatening fan behavior without evidence?

49

Not-An-Emergency Discussion: Final Decisions in the Big Ten, Big 12, and G5 (PREVIEW)

50

Not-An-Emergency Discussion: The Penn State Hiring Adventure Reaches its End (PREVIEW)

51

A (mostly) Jordon Hudson-less Assessment of UNC (PREVIEW)

52

Where did all the sports movies go?

53

Not-An-Emergency Discussion: Expected Candidates in Unexpected Landing Spots (PREVIEW)

54

Numbers & Words: The Pleasant Surprises of 2025 with Bill Connelly (PREVIEW)

55

How would an NFL franchise in the United Kingdom work?

56

Not-An-Emergency Discussion: The Many Domino Runs of Lane Kiffin (PREVIEW)

57

The Single Wing: This Episode Will Self-Destruct (PREVIEW)

58

What's the officiating problem dragging the WNBA into turmoil?

59

How coaches actually think about potential new jobs

60

What's changing about Canadian football and why?

61

The Single Wing: Let's Empty The Notebook (PREVIEW)

62

What's it like to restart a college sport?

63

Not-An-Emergency Discussion: Hugh Freeze Runs Out of Wool (PREVIEW)

64

Numbers & Words: How to Talk about Strength of Schedule with Bill Connelly and Parker Fleming

65

What's the early verdict on J.J. Redick, Lakers head coach?

66

How To Turn Over 40 College Football Jobs (PREVIEW)

67

The Single Wing: Welcome to the Coaching Panic of 1907 (PREVIEW)

68

Are/Were the Seattle Mariners the Perfect Team to Bandwagon?

69

Almost-An-Emergency Discussion: Florida Finally Opens (PREVIEW)

70

The Single Wing: Oops, All Coaching Carousel (PREVIEW)

71

How did the NFL eliminate injury faking in games?

72

Not-An-Emergency Discussion: Penn State's Domino Effect (PREVIEW)

73

We're Not All Like This - The Wisconsin Badgers (PREVIEW)

74

Have we entered the Era of the Superkicker?

75

The Single Wing: Sensitive Athletic Directors and Unlikable Coaches (PREVIEW)

76

Why do leagues love putting games in unusual venues?

77

Not-An-Emergency Discussion: Arkansas Enters the Petrino Proving Ground (PREVIEW)

78

Numbers & Words - Sorting the Big 12, Quarterbacks, and the MAC with Bill C. (PREVIEW)

79

What happened to Thursday night college football?

80

The Single Wing: Past Godfrey, Future Godfrey, VT & UCLA (PREVIEW)

81

Are the Athletics the Messiest Relocation in Sports?

82

Not-An-Emergency Discussion: UCLA and Virginia Tech Now Hiring (PREVIEW)

83

Rethinking the Team Talent Composite with Parker Fleming (PREVIEW)

84

Can the Ivy League reclaim its old legacy of football dominance?

85

We're Not All Like This - The Seattle Seahawks (PREVIEW)

86

Why do some bubble titles count more than others?

87

The Single Wing: Welcome to the Kiffin-Cristobal-Kelly Triangle - PREVIEW

88

How are college football fans feeling entering the 2025 season?

89

The Eyes List: Setting The Preseason Table - PREVIEW

90

Does this Florida fan really believe 9/11 knocked the Gators out of a title appearance?

91

Why Texas Tech Raided the Transfer Portal, with Shehan Jeyarajah - PREVIEW

92

How did Steven Godfrey pick one of the messiest La Liga teams to support?

93

The Evolving Art of CFB Roster Building with Parker Fleming - PREVIEW

94

Phantom Island's Guide to the 2025 Homefield Can't Miss Kickoff Tour, presented by Modelo

95

The Single Wing: So, what are we doing here? - PREVIEW

96

Do new athletic directors still spell doom for football coaches?

97

Numbers & Words - From Ole Miss to the Mountain West with Bill C. - PREVIEW

98

What do Hulk Hogan's death and legacy tell us about nostalgia?

99

Numbers & Words - Bill (AC)C and Forward Progress - PREVIEW

100

Can we accept head coaches who aren't workaholics?

101

We're Not All Like This - The NC State Wolfpack (PREVIEW)

102

What are the US Olympic Flag Football teams going to look like?

103

The Single Wing: Ignore One Of These Answers (PREVIEW)

104

Do wrestling fans need to know how the magic trick works?

105

Numbers & Words - A Multisport Survey of Thibodeaus with Neil Paine - PREVIEW

106

Does a college sport need nationwide interest to succeed?

107

The Single Wing: Finding The Appropriate Level of Fired Up Chips (PREVIEW)

108

Why does the NHL recycle so many coaches?

109

Numbers & Words - The Return of Bill C. (Part 2) - PREVIEW

110

Where have you gone, expansion franchises?

111

We're Not All Like This - The Texas Longhorns

112

Who is the Club World Cup even for?

113

Numbers & Words - The Return of Bill C. (Part 1) - PREVIEW

114

What does a successful spring football league look like?

115

The Single Wing: Answer This Ohio Riddle

116

Why do some WNBA rookies get cut almost immediately?

117

We're Not All Like This - The Chicago Bulls

118

Are the Dallas Cowboys on television too much?

119

The Single Wing: Single Wing Back??

120

Are outgoing coaches really a distraction?

121

Numbers & Words - How to build an NIL O-line with Parker Fleming

122

Is LIV Golf a success or a failure?

123

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