Welcome back into the Alliance 24-7 podcast. I am Tyler Don Hugh coming to you on a really busy week. We're starting to cross that bridge right now between the summer off season and the pre-season across college football and that always a mile marker in that journey is heading over to Indianapolis for the big 10 football media days event. Myself, Mark Brennan will be doing that.

We both have flights scheduled for Tuesday.

We're both to be sticking out there for a few days.

18 conference members now represented out there.

James Franklin, three different Penn State players,

athletic director Pat Kraft making the trip

on behalf of Penn State University here.

We got a lot to dissect, look forward to. We also just recently got a peak at

Penn State basketball practice, some newcomers on the court, some veterans who've come along in their

second season with the second year coaching staff.

So we'll do a little bit of a progress report from the hardwood for Penn State Hoopes later on,

but without further do we bring back on my colleagues Daniel Gallen and Mark Brennan from lines 24 7.com.

For those watching at home I'm still getting situated with the at home studio spot as

again a new house will be coming to you actually from Indianapolis, Mark and I,

with episode 2 this week.

And Daniel, we had hope that you'd be joining us.

We had planned on you joining us,

but a family situation came up.

Some things are bigger than football. Some things are bigger than this beat, obviously. So glad you can tend to those. We'll handle business and indeed you'll do some stuff remotely. But glad to get you guys on board for as I said in the intro there.

Mark this is always a spot on the calendar where you feel like you're taking another

step forward after a July that doesn't have a lot of events on that calendar.

Yeah, this is where the whole PAC 12,

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