{"podcast":{"title":"Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast","slug":"split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379","podcast_index_feed_id":1366379,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2043967.rss","website_url":"https://www.splitzoneduo.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2043967/72da64487811d80138722fd59575f648.jpg","author":"Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner","episode_count":610,"summary":"An independent college football podcast that eats the whole hog. Led by Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner, featuring co-host emeritus Steven Godfrey and friends.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T02:18:06.015174+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379"},"episode":{"title":"Should Black Athletes Boycott SEC Schools?","slug":"should-black-athletes-boycott-sec-schools","published_at":"2026-05-26T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379/should-black-athletes-boycott-sec-schools","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379","url":"https://www.splitzoneduo.com/p/sec-boycott-black-athletes","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199243046/ebd8c8ffe9fdc4ab8033e1d492223369.mp3","summary":"Richard is joined by Joel Anderson, host of The Ringer Tailgate and The Press Box podcasts, for a conversation about the NAACP’s Out of Bounds campaign and the bigger question underneath it: What is fair to ask of Black college athletes and recruits at a moment when lawmakers and the courts are attacking Black voting power? They start with HBCUs and PWIs, move through the campaign’s specifics asks, and cover lots of topics from there: political education, NIL incentives, the transfer portal, the limits and power of boycotts, and why college football keeps becoming the platform for this kind of discussion. In this episode: * 0:00: The roles of HBCUs and PWIs in Black college life, and how generational experiences shape Richard’s and Joel’s views. * 12:01: The NAACP’s campaign and its asks of recruits, current athletes, fans, donors, and consumers. * 16:16: What is fair to expect of college athlete activism now * 26:55: Whether the idea of a “boycott” has lost force * 37:53: The role of the NAACP in 2026 Producer: Anthony Vito More on the story covered in this episode: * NAACP press statement: Black athletes and fans should withhold support from public schools in states attacking Black voting rights * NAACP: Out of Bounds * CBS Sports on the NAACP campaign If you like this episode, you’ll love a paid subscription. For $10 a month (or you can get a free month with an annual subscription), subscribers get about twice as many Split Zone Duo podcasts, as well as our coach carousel reporting, deep dives on college football history, Q&A opportunities, and many more goodies as we think of them. You also help keep this show independent and ensure we’re making a podcast that puts our listeners, not anyone else, first. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this wi…","meta_description":"Richard is joined by Joel Anderson, host of The Ringer Tailgate and The Press Box podcasts, for a conversation about the NAACP’s Out of Bounds campaign an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2765,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379/episodes/should-black-athletes-boycott-sec-schools/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379/should-black-athletes-boycott-sec-schools.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}