Ralph D. Russo

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Been a busy week already.

We are recording this Wednesday afternoon.

I'm staying like an hour north of Austin just to make my drive back easier.

But I'll be there with Ralph Russo and Cam Teague.

Ari Wasserman's going down there, so I'll see him there.

We'll figure some stuff out.

They're not gonna get it.

So Ralph Russo, friend of the show and my coworker at The Athletic, got ahold of the memo that is now going out for the NCAA.

I can paraphrase it for you like this.

That shouldn't have happened, they screwed up, it has never happened before, it will never happen again, but Western Michigan, you're screwed.

Last night, I also saw this report.

This is from Ralph Russo, a memo obtained by The Athletic from the NCAA secretary rules editor expected to go out to conferences and officials clarifies the protocol to be used when a replay review requires time to be restored in a game.

They said you use the televised version of the game.

This is what Mike Pereira told us on Joel Klatt's podcast.

Now, here's the part that I found more interesting.

This is from Ralph Russo over at The Athletic, formerly with The Associated Press.

I'm going to go ahead and pull this up on our YouTube stream yard about the replay mechanisms and which clock are we going to use.

Okay.

And that's what they're doing i- with the 2014 playoff.

They're giving, they, like the, uh, I, I think it was David Ubben, either him or Ralph Russo, some- somebody at The Athletic, you know, wrote the piece, uh, from one point with a spotlight on NC State.

That if NC State-

Right

Now, let me just say this.

Um, Ralph Russo, for a long time, was the AP Top 25 editor.

And Ralph, who, who've been a guest on my show before, now works for The Athletic.

If you sent in a ballot, Ralph looked at your ballot.