{"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":"Utah and the Folly of the Coach-in-Waiting: April CFB Mailbag","slug":"utah-and-the-folly-of-the-coach-in-waiting-april-cfb-mailbag","published_at":"2026-04-17T08:02:18+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379/utah-and-the-folly-of-the-coach-in-waiting-april-cfb-mailbag","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379","url":"https://www.splitzoneduo.com/p/kyle-whittingham-utah-michigan-coach","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/194471755/df2eaffa0a9b90acb3ca4a8b2fa458dc.mp3","summary":"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com SUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Richard and Alex take subscriber questions! As the college football offseason hits more or less its halfway point, it’s mailbag time. Among the many questions we answer in this episode, you will find * 0:55: Utah did not envision that Kyle Whittingham’s departure would go down like that. Was the Utes’ fate foretold by what happened at … Maryland? All the way back in 2010? * 22:03: Who could be the next Texas Tech? * 50:15: Does basketball really have more portal activity than football, or does it seem that way because of small roster sizes? (Yes.) * 52:34: Why doesn’t Richard believe in the sanctity of the one true portal window? * 54:00: How big is the talent gap between a G6 and P4 position coach? * 58:43: Was Greg Sankey born on third base? Plus a longer chat about the way college sports media talk about conference commissioners. * 1:04:13: Why do we express skepticism about USF’s finances? * 1:11:23: If we could cover any sport other than CFB for a living, what would it be? Producer: Anthony Vito This is a subscriber episode, but everyone can hear a nice big free preview To get this episode and many, many more (as well as a whole back catalog of evergreen college football history shows, reporting on the coach carousel, and more), become a paid subscriber today.","meta_description":"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com SUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Richard and Alex take subscriber questions! As the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1529,"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/utah-and-the-folly-of-the-coach-in-waiting-april-cfb-mailbag/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/utah-and-the-folly-of-the-coach-in-waiting-april-cfb-mailbag.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}