Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

Hey, guess what, everybody?

We're doing two episodes a week now.

If you were with us last season, you remember we did the Audible Extra.

That was exclusive to the athletics app this year.

Thanks in part to the fact that Bruce isn't traveling out to a game every week,

we can do a second episode on Wednesdays.

So the plan is Sunday and Wednesdays.

We originally had a guest lined up for this little episode,

and then the Big Ten News finally became official about a couple hours before we were going to record.

So that guest has graciously agreed to wait until next week.

He is somebody, I'll just tease it a little bit.

Repeat guest on the Audible in the past.

It's been a while and somebody who is frequently requested.

So we'll just tease that up for one of next week's episodes.

Bruce, quite a morning here on the West Coast.

The Big Ten does not love waiting for us.

They love to put out their announcements first thing.

It is happening.

And at the end, after all the, you know, how much you and many other reporters have chased

the details of this, what they announced in the end was still a little bit different at least than what we thought

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