Tom & Berry Show: College football's national epidemic

Tulsa World Podcast

Tom & Berry Show: College football's national epidemic

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Published on Oct 31, 2025, 3:36:41 AM
Total time: 00:32:11

Episode Description

Colllege football's latest epidemic? Firing coaches midseason. It's chaos — wrecking chemistry, killing recruiting, and exposing how desperate programs have become for instant success. Berry Tramel and Tom Shatel discuss how the landscape of college football continues to change as pressure continues to mount on head coaches.


About the hosts

Berry Tramel is a columnist at the Tulsa World in Oklahoma. Tom Shatel is a columnist for the Omaha World-Herald in Nebraska.

Tramel has been covering college football since 1979. Shatel has been covering Nebraska for the Omaha World-Herald since 1991 and has been covering college football since 1980.  

Friends from their days covering the Big 8, these two get together once a week to talk all things college football.


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