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Chris Fowler

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
601 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

Three postseason wins, beginning with Lee Corso in the Holiday Bowl, wins three postseason games this run and crushes teams in the doing of that.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

To me, it'd be hard to argue with this because they're still the team that until this year had the most losses in FBS, had the worst winning percentage all time of any Power Four team.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

I mean, they're not supposed to be in this position.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

That's why I think the storybook fits, but

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

It's not Hoosiers, the basketball high school teams, right?

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

It's not that.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

It's not a bunch of 5'8 guys wildly overachieving and knocking off the big city school because Gene Hackman measured the hoop and it was just the same as their home gym.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

It's not that.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

These are really good football players.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

They're doing it in the modern way.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

They're doing it with guys who have been at two, three, four schools, who are 24, 25, 26 years old in some cases, and they're using the portal and they're using NIL in a really smart way.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

So...

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

you know it's not like they're not good teeth they're not a bunch of good players who are wildly overachieving that's not what this team is it's the story is remarkable because of their historical futility but the way they've used the modern tools at their disposal which was never possible before that's why there's no comparable

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

Bill Snyder turned around Kansas State, obviously long ago, and they were the worst team in history.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

And they became competitive and came close to playing for a national championship in the late 90s.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

But Signetti did it in two years.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

And that's what you can now do with the modern tools.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

And if you use them brilliantly, which he has, this kind of thing is possible going forward, like we've seen in the NFL.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

Many times a team goes from last in the division to winning the division.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Chris Fowler's Game Prep (feat. Chris Fowler, Pablo Torre, Amin Elhassan, and Jason Tache)

It's almost common now.