Extra Points with Matt Brown

Good morning! We have a little treat. Our sister publication, The Intercollegiate, publishes a very smart weekly podcast with some of the finest minds casting a critical eye on college athletics. Those interviews are sometimes so deep, so engaging, that we can’t cram all of the good stuff in there. We’ll be sharing those…uh…Extra Points with paid subscribers to this newsletter, but, as a treat, we’ll make this one free for everybody. You can subscribe for just $7 a month, or $70 for the year. Paid

Good morning, and thanks for spending part of your day with Extra Points.Today is a slightly different newsletter. But this is going to be a slightly different week. First, I’d really love it if you took a second and filled out this brief survey. Extra Points 2.0 launches next Monday, and I’m trying to get a better idea of the things my readers think are really important, so I can make sure we serve those over the coming months. Letting me know what you like and dislike about this current newsletter

So, one thing I wanted to do when I started this newsletter project was experiment with podcasting. The weekly rhythm of these emails will likely cover more administrative, business and political stories, but while I’m really interested in these things, I’m also interested in college football history. I’m a major advocate of the idea that events and storylines from decades ago, if not longer, really shape the CFB world of today. If nothing else, we’re certainly still arguing about the same stuff