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Well, we roll right along on Heartland College Sports Weekly, part of Heartland College Sports.com, your independent Big 12, digital media outlet.

And we're now talking to a guy that many of you read all the time.

He is Derek Duke.

Find him on Twitter at Derek Duke 25.

Does the mailbag every week for us.

And Derek, I want to start off with a big picture topic here. It was announced this past week that the Big 12 is bringing in $38.8 million in revenue that's behind just the SEC and the Big 10.

You know, I think this conference, and I talked about it earlier in the show, is as healthy as

it's been in over 10 years.

What do you make of these massive numbers and what it means for the conference moving

forward?

Well, not only just, you know, on the field itself, the Big 12 is starting to prove itself

on the field more and more each year.

You see Oklahoma, you know, with multiple trips now to the college football

playoff and while other conferences like the Pac-12 and the Big 10 have been kind of on the

outside looking in.

So from that perspective, it's been great.

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