ACC, Pac-12 & Big Ten in talks to create alliance + 2021 hot seat
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Andy & Ari discuss news that broke on Friday about the ACC, Pac-12 & Big Ten potentially creating an alliance in response to the SEC adding Oklahoma and Texas. What would the Big Ten gain from this? Would this make the sport better and how does it impact playoff expansion? The guys debate. 2021 HOT SEAT: Scott Frost, Jim Harbaugh, Justin Fuente & Clay Helton.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. Best Day of the Week. It's Monday. Ari Wasserman is here. The best day of the week, by the way, is moving to Friday in a couple of weeks because remember, games will be starting very, very soon. And once week zero hits, we'll have a show for you reacting to the games coming out Sunday morning. |
| 0:39.2 | That's your make-you-breakfast show and send me your pictures of your breakfast. |
| 0:42.7 | And then Ari moves to Friday, and that's when we start taking bets. |
| 0:45.6 | That's when we have, well, we've got to figure it out, Ari, what our UCLA plus 15 bet is going to be. |
| 0:53.5 | I do like that I have to be your butler for a day. |
| 0:56.5 | Very 80 sitcom-esque. |
| 0:58.4 | Yeah, it would be great. |
| 0:59.6 | And I don't even know if Butler would be the right word, |
| 1:02.9 | but just a mentor for the day on how to do things. |
| 1:05.7 | Life coach, |
| 1:06.8 | we could do everything from how to swaddle a baby to how to re-shingle my roof. |
| 1:13.0 | How much do you think we had accomplished in 24 hours? |
| 1:14.7 | I've not done any roofing. |
| 1:16.1 | I grew up in Florida. |
| 1:17.8 | I stayed off the roof for a reason. |
| 1:21.2 | The swaddling the baby, have you seen them wrap your burrito at Chipotle? |
| 1:25.7 | Yes. |
| 1:26.8 | Very similar. Very similar. |
| 1:28.0 | Very similar concept. |
| 1:29.0 | So, because I've always wondered how they possibly can do that. |
| 1:32.5 | I think it's an art to be able to wrap a burrito the right way. |
| 1:35.6 | And I know they do it every single day. |
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