Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by Stuart Mandel, and we have got to the latest edition of The Audible present is by Trader Joe's. I'm Bruce Feldman,

joined as always by Stuart Mandel, and we have got a lot to talk about today, Stu, because we're

going to dig into the big realignment retrospective on the athletic. It's been a fun week.

We've been working on this for months, but finally getting to put this out into the world, this realignment revisited blitz. We often talk on here about how realignment is the subject that college football fans can never get enough of. And we get questions about it on our audible email all the time. So we decided to, you know, between the staff, we spread it out. There's about 20

stories coming this week, some of them you've seen already. And I think the one that we knew would

get probably the most interest is David Oven's deep dive on what exactly happened in those two weeks

in June of 2010 when the PAC 16 seemed like it might become a reality. So, you know,

there's a lot of other angles. I encourage people to go on there and check it out throughout the week.

But let's run on David. We are pleased to be joined now by our colleague at the athletic David

Oven. David is our Tennessee writer. That's his day job, but he covered the Big 12 for a long time

before that. And so when it came to this realignment, revisited series that we're running

this week, it was a no-brainer to get him involved. And it ended up with a very well-done story

on the, I guess it would say the rise and fall fall or the near-birth and then death of the Pact 16.

David, what was it like reliving this period?

Because I know you were right at the center of it when it was actually happening in 2010.

Yeah, it was funny when I would give somebody a call and I would, you know, start the conversation. You know,

I remember Dan Beebe was like, you're going to give me hives talking about this again. And I think

Ian McCaw, Baylor's old AD was talking about, you know, my stomach hurts just thinking about

this again, sort of long days. And so I think that's, you know, this thing has had a lasting impact in the actual

world of college sports, but the people involved, you know, this was as crazy as it looked

on the outside. Probably even crazier if you read the story and sort of getting a sense of

what the days looked like and what that summer was like when you're in charge of an athletic

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