Join me as Derek Doolittle, General Manager at the Rose Bowl, and I reminisce about growing up watching the Rose Bowl and the mystic the stadium and game hold. Derek also walks us through his career and the steps he made leading up to his position at the Rose Bowl. He then details what makes the Rose Bowl so great and all the historic events hosted at the stadium. Also, no episode would be complete without the weekly wildcard.

Join me as Randy Philipson and I take a deep dive into stadium design, construction, and staffing. Randy goes into detail about his involvement at Baylor’s McLane Stadium, Tulane’s Yulman Stadium, and his role at the Superdome with the managing company. While at the Superdome, he oversaw operation for numerous Sugar Bowl games, along with three BCS National Championship games and provides a few of his favorites memories from those experiences. As always, the episode ends with the Weekly Wildcard.

Join me as I get Jennifer Rushton’s perspective on collegiate athletics and college football. She currently serves at the Director of Athletics at Albion College. During the episode, Jennifer goes into detail about her experiences working football games as a women’s basketball student-athlete and administrator at her alma mater, Trine University, when they restarted football in 1995. She also discusses her philosophy on running an athletic department as an AD, and the importance football has for a community and a coach has in a student-athletes world. As always, the episode ends with the Weekly Wildcard.

Join former colleague from UTRGV, Tony Forina, as he guest hosts this week's episode of The Weekly Walk-On. I appear as his guest and work through my life trying to shed light on my passion for college football. I discuss my high school career, my recruiting experience and trials and tribulations as a walk-on at the University of Kentucky. Tony then leads me into discussion about my career as a collegiate administrator and how I worked my way up the professional ladder. Of course, Tony has the weekly wildcard questions for me, and they have a Rio Grande Valley twist.

Join me, as David Taylor describes how the lessons he learned at Texas State have helped him manage 100,000+ passionate college football fans at LSU and Texas A&M. He also provides valuable career advice for anyone just starting out in the collegiate athletics industry. Of course, the episode ends with the weekly wildcard and there is an LSU/Texas A&M theme since they play this weekend.

Join me, as former UCF WR Tristan Reaves and I discuss his walk-on experience and how he navigated his playing career through three head coaches. We start with his recruiting process and go through the trials and tribulations to him earning a scholarship. We then discuss the lessons he learned playing college football and how he passes those same lessons onto current student-athletes in his present role of Assistant Director of Success and Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Emory University. Of course, we end the show with the weekly wildcard.

Join me as Dell Robinson describes his recruitment process in high school and his walk-on experience at Ohio University. We spoke about how the game has changed, why he decided to enter collegiate athletics as a career, and what role a conference office plays in college football. Dell then goes into detail about a few pieces of legislature he was able to get passed to improve college football and provides career advice for anyone who wants to enter collegiate athletics. Plus, you already know the episode ends with the weekly wildcard.

Join me, as Chris Pugh discusses his experiences hosting the CFB Roundtable on his YouTube show. He describes how he got started with the show and how he prepares for the multiple shows each week. You also do not want to miss this episode's weekly wildcard.