Show Notes
Today on The Press Box, it's the August Issue. With college football season kicking off soon, Bryan and Joel discuss how we talk about college football and how it's changed over the years. They talk about how NIL has changed things, what's considered a scandal today, the most influential media members in the college football space, and much more. Then Bryan talks to John Henion, the director of 'Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young,' about the process of making this doc and some of the major characters in it (01:07:37).
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