Godfrey joins Richard and Alex for a discussion about college football history. For understandable reasons, people all cautious about calling for teams to make coaching changes when the incumbent is a legend in the job. How careful should we be, though? In this episode, we go through the past 40-ish years of coaching transitions from living legend to … someone else. How do schools do when they either fire an all-timer or need to replace him in retirement? The answer isn’t great, but it’s not as bad as you might think.

* 2:04: Why Dabo Swinney got us thinking about this subject

* 16:20: The rare cases of the “guy after the guy” arguably doing a better job than the coach he replaced, or at least winning more games for a while

* 21:15: The maintainers who kept the train on the tracks, like Ryan Day

* 39:13: The long, slow declines, like Virginia Tech post-Frank Beamer

* 59:52: The tank jobs, like Ron Zook or Ron Prince

* 1:24:16: The cases where the jury is still out, like Kalen DeBoer. (Is that jury still out? We have a mini-debate.)

* 1:31:15: Lessons for Clemson heading into another fraught season

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Virginia Tech has had a rough decade. Has the cavalry finally arrived to save the program from irrelevance? Tech hired James Franklin and appears to appears to be throwing huge sums of cash at his program in the hopes of stopping a backslide that started late in Frank Beamer’s career and then spun out of control under Justin F…

How are things going for all 16 teams in the SEC? Let’s discuss which way the arrow is pointing. Alex and Richard head to the Southeast on this latest Offseason Vibe Check, a chance to talk about actual football teams during the long, cold offseason. In this episode, the crew covers …

* 1:25: Texas’s offensive line problem and whether a nice finish to the regular season and a bowl win can be a springboard

* 5:16: Ole Miss’s Pete Golding era and the window that’s still open

* 9:41: LSU’s Lane Kiffin honeymoon period

* 13:45: Texas A&M’s opportunity depending on Marcel Reed’s growth

* 16:57: Arkansas’s Tyson money, Ryan Silverfield’s rough PR start, and a transfer class that makes you raise your eyebrows

* 22:18: Mississippi State’s reunion with an old friend

* 26:15: Vanderbilt’s post-Diego Pavia reset with five-star Jared Curtis

* 28:05: Alabama’s Ryan Williams retention and a quiet case for quarterback development. But what else is there?

* 33:29: Auburn’s clear and immediate upgrade at quarterback

* 36:26: Oklahoma’s OL portal haul

* 39:47: Florida’s Georgia Tech offensive import and Buster Faulkner’s fresh start

* 41:09: Kentucky’s CEO-style setup under Will Stein

* 44:14: Missouri’s dip down the prep recruiting rankings and whether Eli Drinkwitz can reverse that trend

* 48:49: Georgia’s spurning of the portal world

* 52:12: Tennessee’s latest blue-chip QB moment

* 58:27: South Carolina’s crossroads under Shane Beamer

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