ACC, Big Ten & Pac-12 discuss potential alliance
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Stew & Bruce react to the release of the preseason AP Top 25 poll. The guys debate and discuss! The ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 are discussing a possible alliance in response to Oklahoma and Texas joining the SEC. TV rights and viewership is a big part of the equation. The Athletic's preseason All-American team was published on Monday. Plus, all eyes were on former Ohio State QB Justin Fields in his debut for the Bears.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman |
| 0:22.5 | on Monday, August 16th, Bruce, this was a big day. Do you know why? I think I know why, but |
| 0:28.7 | why don't you fill us in? No, I'm going to pull a misdirection on you. You think I'm going to say |
| 0:34.4 | the release of the AP preseason top 25, but no, more personal at home. |
| 0:41.0 | First day of kindergarten. |
| 0:42.6 | Oh, yeah, very nice. |
| 0:45.1 | So you dropped her off? |
| 0:46.4 | How did that go? |
| 0:47.4 | Were you super, super emotional? |
| 0:51.1 | My wife came with me, and she definitely got super emotional as soon as she got out of the car |
| 0:56.1 | I was just more proud like I feel like okay we did it we got through the first five years we |
| 1:01.9 | we got her to kindergarten and she's super confident and excited so I don't know I don't |
| 1:08.1 | know if you can relate to that I just felt proud um I remembered ours was two years ago and I think I don't know if I don't know if you can relate to that. I just felt proud. I remembered ours was two years ago. |
| 1:13.2 | And I think, I don't know if it's because we have twins and it was two of them that it was just like it seemed to go by pretty quick. It was like, let's get them in. And then all of a sudden, you know, they're out. so i i don't know if that it's weird because it's a lot's happened in those two years and so i don't know if that, it's weird because it's, a lot's happened in those two years. |
| 1:29.5 | And so I don't honestly, like I remember taking pictures and I remember the little bit of it, |
| 1:34.7 | but the day that went pretty fast. |
| 1:37.9 | That was probably your last normal first day of school. |
| 1:42.6 | Not right, because last year would have been at remote. |
| 1:47.1 | And this year, you know, going to school, but she's wearing a mask and everybody's wearing |
| 1:51.0 | masks there. |
| 1:51.8 | And, you know, we aren't allowed on the campus yet. |
| 1:54.7 | So it's not quote unquote normal just yet. |
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