Big 12 kicks off media days season. Mailbag!
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Bruce joins Stew from Dallas where Big 12 media days will take place this week without Oklahoma QB Spencer Rattler. Why did Lincoln Riley leave his star QB at home? The guys discuss whether the true sophomore can live up to the hype in 2021. What are the storylines heading into the Big 12 season? The former Ohio State players who were penalized for "tatoo-gate" want their records restored now that NIL legislation has passed. Fair or foul? Plus, mailbag questions!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:25.2 | Back from a week off, Bruce, I was in Dallas a few weeks ago now. |
| 0:29.8 | You are in Dallas. |
| 0:30.7 | I can't believe it, but it is Media Day season. |
| 0:34.3 | It is. |
| 0:35.7 | We are less than 24 hours away from Big 12 media days kicking off at AT&T |
| 0:41.6 | Stadium, which is the Cowboys Stadium, can't wait. So, interesting year in the Big 12. I would |
| 0:48.7 | think you would agree with me that the biggest story for the next two days here will be Steve |
| 0:54.0 | Sarkesian taken over at Texas. |
| 0:56.9 | What else would you be interested about if you were here? |
| 1:00.8 | I saw where Lincoln Riley decided not to bring his quarterback Spencer Rattler to media days. |
| 1:07.2 | That's always one of those things that only reporters care about. |
| 1:10.0 | Nobody's going to take much sympathy on you guys. |
| 1:13.0 | He's not going to be there. |
| 1:13.9 | But it was interesting to me, |
| 1:16.8 | and you and I talked about this a little bit offline, |
| 1:18.6 | is how he's only played one season. |
| 1:22.0 | And it was a pretty good season, |
| 1:23.6 | though it got off to a shaky start. |
| 1:25.5 | And now he's already being labeled as the possible number one pick next year. |
| 1:31.8 | He was one of the first guys to announce a whole bunch of NIL deals. |
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