Episodes

  • FCS Offseason Check-In with Zach McKinnell

    FCS Offseason Check-In with Zach McKinnell
    May 5 2025
    On this episode, Sam is joined by Zach McKinnell of FCS Football Central and The Bluebloods.
    They discuss:
    -Transfer portal
    -UIW additions
    -USD and SDSU outlooks
    -Sac State’s FBS push
    -W&M joining the Patriot League
    -Early preseason Top 5
    -And more
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • 1-on-1 with Harvard Head Coach Andrew Aurich

    1-on-1 with Harvard Head Coach Andrew Aurich
    Apr 15 2025
    On this episode, Sam is joined by Harvard head coach Andrew Aurich.
    They discuss:
    -Leading the Harvard football program
    -The Ivy League now sending its champ to the FCS playoffs
    -Recruiting to the Ivy League
    -Being protected from the transfer portal
    -The Game
    -Harvard's one captain tradition
    -2025 outlook
    -And more
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    21 mins
  • 1-on-1 with UIW Head Coach Clint Killough

    1-on-1 with UIW Head Coach Clint Killough
    Apr 11 2025
    On this episode, Sam is joined by UIW head coach Clint Killough. They discuss:
    -Offseason excitement
    -Retaining top talent
    -Making splash additions via the transfer portal
    -Chasing an FCS championship
    -QB competition
    -UIW football's growth
    -Being a young head coach
    -Non-conference scheduling
    -And more
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    25 mins
  • 1-on-1 with UTRGV Head Coach Travis Bush

    1-on-1 with UTRGV Head Coach Travis Bush
    Apr 4 2025
    On this episode, Sam is joined by UTRGV head coach Travis Bush. They discuss:
    -Helping build UTRGV football from scratch
    -Assembling his staff
    -Recruiting high schoolers and the transfer portal
    -Benefits to UTRGV's location
    -Community excitement and selling out season tickets
    -Practicing last fall
    -And more
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    24 mins
  • 1-on-1 with Montana State AD Leon Costello

    1-on-1 with Montana State AD Leon Costello
    Apr 3 2025
    On this episode, Sam is joined by Montana State Director of Athletics Leon Costello. They discuss:
    -Reflecting on the 2024 football season
    -National title chase
    -Opting in to the House settlement
    -Scholarship caps
    -Brent Vigen
    -Sac State's FBS move
    -Realignment in the West
    -College football landscape
    -12-game FCS season
    -And more
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    31 mins
  • 1-on-1 with SoCon Commissioner Michael Cross

    1-on-1 with SoCon Commissioner Michael Cross
    Mar 28 2025
    On this episode, Sam is joined by SoCon Commissioner Michael Cross. They discuss:
    -The SoCon’s approach to the House settlement
    -The vote to keep scholarship limits the same
    -How many FCS schools could afford to go above 63 scholarships
    -How many SoCon schools will opt in
    -The SoCon keeping its in-conference transfer rule
    -Governance changes in Division I
    -And more
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    31 mins
  • 1-on-1 with ETSU Head Coach Will Healy

    1-on-1 with ETSU Head Coach Will Healy
    Mar 26 2025
    On this episode, Sam is joined by ETSU head coach Will Healy.
    They discuss:
    -Healy's FCS roots, from being a QB on Richmond's 2008 national championship team to an assistant coach at Chattanooga to being the HC at Austin Peay and now ETSU
    -The differences and similarities between the G5 and FCS
    -What attracted him to ETSU
    -What he's learned as a younger head coach
    -Positives and negatives he's learned from recruiting the transfer portal
    -Landing FBS transfer QBs Cade McNamara and Jacolby Criswell
    -2025 spring ball
    -And more
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    32 mins
  • 1-on-1 with Idaho Head Coach Thomas Ford Jr.

    1-on-1 with Idaho Head Coach Thomas Ford Jr.
    Mar 20 2025
    On this episode, Sam is joined by Idaho head coach Thomas Ford Jr.
    They discuss:
    -Taking over as Idaho’s head coach
    -Ford’s rise in the coaching profession
    -Navigating the transfer portal
    -Idaho fans’ thirst for more success
    -A look at the 2025 squad
    -And more
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    26 mins