Welcome to the Audible.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman.

And on Wednesday, a huge college football story rocked the nation.

Bob Stoops is retiring. Bruce, before we get into that,

let's take a quick listen back to an excerpt from our podcast on Monday. Wouldn't it be just the

Big 12's luck if Tom Herman gets it rolling in Texas, they're contending for national titles,

and Bob Stoops retires at Oklahoma and they fall

into to muck. Yeah. If Bob Stoops retires, I would imagine that, you know, Lincoln Riley will step in and they will,

I don't know if they can do everything Bob Stoops did with all the titles, but I think they have

some resources there that'll vote well for them. I think Bob Stoops goes completely underappreciated and I think maybe won't be fully appreciated

until the day he retires.

And by the way, he's been buying our property in Chicago.

I don't know why.

But, you know, that leads to conspiracy theories.

Okay.

Very prescient.

You are my witness.

I had no inkling, no idea that anything like this was coming.

Yeah, it created an interesting dynamic.

So we'll give our listeners a little taste behind the scenes here.

After that happened and it was late in the podcast and I'm sitting

there listening to and go oh boy this is interesting and then I told you something is going on

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