Big 12 and Pac 12 commissioners meet to discuss partnership
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Andy is joined by 'One True Pod' co-hosts Max Olson & Sam Khan Jr. to discuss the news that Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby and Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff are meeting on Tuesday to discuss potential partnership opportunities. The guys listen and react to some of Monday's Texas senate hearing about the Longhorns leaving the Big 12. No one mixes politics and football like the state of Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.4 | Realignment Palooza continues. |
| 0:14.6 | And I couldn't think of two more perfect people to talk about this with. |
| 0:19.0 | Then the hosts of One True Pod, which you can hear on Thursdays |
| 0:23.0 | on the Andy Staples and Friends podcast channel, or maybe we're going to call it the podcast |
| 0:27.3 | network, but Max Olson and Sam Khan, you guys, this is what you do. And oh my God, Max has a huge story up on the athletic right now max |
| 0:40.8 | you reported that bob bolsby from the big 12 george kliovkov from the pack 12 meeting |
| 0:47.3 | about a potential merger or maybe a scheduling alliance or something but it could be that the pack |
| 0:53.6 | 12 and the Big 12 |
| 0:54.5 | working together in the future. |
| 0:59.4 | First of all, I apologize to your listeners for having to hear from me again. |
| 1:02.4 | I feel like we've been doing this a lot, Andy. |
| 1:04.1 | A lot. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, you keep breaking everything. |
| 1:06.8 | A lot. |
| 1:08.7 | I think that, you know, Bob Bullsby kind of, as you heard yesterday, Sam, Bob Bullsby dropped |
| 1:14.8 | quite a few hints to this possibility yesterday during his appearance in front of the Texas |
| 1:19.3 | Senate that, you know, those politicians wanted a clear sense of what are your options? |
| 1:25.6 | And he floated, hey, we could potentially merge with |
| 1:29.3 | a conference. We could potentially have a scheduling alliance. We could even get into some sort of |
| 1:34.2 | deal where we are working together with a conference to negotiate our next TV deal together or |
| 1:39.5 | something like that. There could be other unforeseen possibilities here. The sense in the big 12 is like, we got to, there's no bad ideas right now. |
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