Everybody wants a bigger role. Few people master the one they already have. Coach Shane Beamer explains why your next opportunity begins with becoming exceptional in your current one. “Find a role and then really work on your craft to be good at it, which leads to other opportunities beyond…
“Walk-ons are critical to our program. As long as I’m the head coach here, I’ll never let them go away.” South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer explains why walk-ons are the foundation of championship culture in college football. As a former walk-on himself, Beamer knows firsthand the value these players…
South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer shares one of the best leadership lessons you’ll hear: “Every day is a résumé builder.” Whether you’re an athlete, coach, or leader, this mindset can change the way you approach your work. 🎙️ Full interview on The Preferred Walk-On Show. #ShaneBeamer #CollegeFootball #Leadership #SouthCarolina…
South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer joins The Preferred Walk-On Show to talk about the road from walk-on player to leading a Power Four program, and why culture, core values, and resilience are the foundation of everything he builds. In this episode, Coach Beamer shares the leadership lessons that shaped…
Is Brawl of the Wild the best rivalry in all of college football? Pound for pound, it has as good an argument as any. Bobby Kennedy has coached in the Red River Shootout, the Cy-Hawk rivalry, the Apple Cup, and the Big Game, but the Brawl of the Wild is…
“I wanted to try to breathe life into other young men as I’m getting blessed to coach ’em.” There’s a specific kind of pride in watching a player you coached become a coach himself — and you can hear it as Geoff Collins talks about Fran Brown. Collins coached Brown…
Tell a tailgate in 2019 that by 2026, college football would look like this… they’d have taken your beer and called you a liar. In just six years, the sport got rewritten: — Players paid directly by their school (House settlement) — Texas and Oklahoma bolted to the SEC —…
For 100 years the NCAA was the sheriff. Now? Nobody’s in charge — and the fight to replace them is college football’s Cold War. NIL, realignment, the portal, the playoff… it’s all one battle over who controls the sport. 🎧 Full episode on the channel #collegefootball #cfb #nil #sec #bigten…
For 100 years the NCAA was the sheriff of college football. Today there's no sheriff at all - and the fight to replace it is reshaping the sport. This is college football's Cold War. NIL, the transfer portal, conference realignment, playoff expansion - they aren't separate crises. Host Seth Saunders…
140 teams 14 conferences True conference champions 24-team playoff 14 auto-bids 10 at-large Army-Navy keeps its own Saturday 2 rounds of playoffs on-campus Cotton, Sun, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange and Peach rotate quarters and semis Road to the Rose Bowl for the title game #cfb #collegefootball #cfbplayoff
College football is changing fast — and most of those changes aren't for the good. Between conference realignment, NIL, the House settlement, player compensation, TV money, playoff expansion, and the slow erosion of regional rivalries, the sport is at a crossroads. In this episode of The Preferred Walk-On Show, Seth…
The magic of college football is its regionality. Through realignment and greed, we’ve lost that. In my plan to restore college football to sanity, protecting regionality is the foundation. The Big Snow Conference would be part of that plan. The idea is simple: restore regionality, protect rivalries, create meaningful conference…
When you’ve spent your whole career on the sideline coaching, you don’t always get to see and experience college football the way we do as fans. Geoff Collins joined the show and talked about what he’s most looking forward to this upcoming fall - traveling the country, taking in the…
Former Georgia Tech and Temple head coach Geoff Collins explains the realization that shaped his coaching journey: “My value and my role was to make other people better.” A powerful lesson in leadership, teamwork, and finding purpose. Watch the full interview on The Preferred Walk-On Show. #CollegeFootball #Leadership #GeoffCollins #Coaching…
Former Georgia Tech and Temple head coach Geoff Collins explains why coaching at Division III Albright College became one of the most valuable experiences of his career. The lesson: sometimes the path forward starts with taking a step back. Watch the full interview on The Preferred Walk-On Show. #CollegeFootball #GeoffCollins…
Former Georgia Tech and Temple head coach Geoff Collins explains the walk-on mindset that shaped his entire career—from earning a scholarship at Western Carolina to leading Power 4 programs. Full interview on The Preferred Walk-On Show. #CollegeFootball #WalkOn #GeoffCollins #Leadership #CFB
Geoff Collins walked on at Western Carolina, earned a scholarship, became a three-year defensive starter — and turned that into a college coaching career spanning three decades that took him from DIII to the FCS to the head coach of multiple Power 4 programs. Seth Saunders sits down with the…
