Brendan Sorsby Fallout Continues, and a Sizing up of the Big 12
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 11 June 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The fallout from the Brendan Sorsby ruling continues to send shockwaves across college football. On this episode of The Audible, Stewart Mandel, Bruce Feldman, and Ralph Russo discuss the growing backlash to the Texas Tech quarterback's injunction, why Big 12 administrators are furious, and what it could mean for the future of NCAA eligibility, conference governance, and the College Football Playoff. Is this simply a Texas Tech issue, or a defining moment for college sports?
The crew dives into reporting from Big 12 athletic directors and administrators following the ruling, including questions about Texas Tech's relationship with the conference, potential responses from the Big 12, and whether Commissioner Brett Yormark faces the biggest challenge of his tenure.
Then it's time for Big 12 win totals. With Texas Tech viewed by many as the conference favorite, how much does the uncertainty surrounding Brendan Sorsby impact the Red Raiders' outlook? The guys debate whether Texas Tech can still win the Big 12, whether the controversy becomes a distraction, and if the program's loaded roster is enough to overcome the noise surrounding the quarterback situation.
Stew, Bruce and Ralph also make their favorite over/under picks across the conference. Which teams are being overlooked, which programs are primed to surprise, and who has the clearest path to Arlington and the Big 12 Championship Game?
Plus, listener mailbag questions spark discussions about the most valuable assets in college football, whether Ohio State's program model is the gold standard in the sport, and which historic rivalries deserve to be revived.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman and Ralph Rousseau. |
| 0:14.5 | We're going to be doing big 12 win totals today, and yes, we realize the irony of doing that on the week that the Brendan |
| 0:22.9 | Sorsby News is all the rage. We're going to get to your mailbag questions. We're going to start |
| 0:27.3 | with the latest on Sorsby. You know, we did an episode earlier this week that we recorded actually |
| 0:32.8 | right after that decision came down. And I said to somebody, I think that was the first episode |
| 0:39.2 | in a long time where all three of us were angry at the same time. |
| 0:42.7 | Ralph, you just got back from Vegas, |
| 0:44.4 | where I know you went on a total bender, just kidding. |
| 0:47.9 | And no, it was, tell us why you were there |
| 0:50.0 | and kind of why it ended up being probably pretty convenient |
| 0:53.5 | to be around the people you were around |
| 0:56.2 | right after this news dropped. Yeah, there's a, and I do have Vegas voice, so I want to apologize to |
| 1:06.5 | our listeners and viewers. I swear I did not go from a slot machine with a drink and a cigarette |
| 1:12.7 | in my hand to my plane last night, but I did take a red eye, so I'm just low on sleep, and it's |
| 1:18.4 | giving me a little bit of a hoarse voice. Yeah, the convention out there is NACTA, NACDA. It's a |
| 1:26.0 | convention of athletic directors, mostly, but other athletic |
| 1:30.0 | administrators. And, you know, it's not as, like, highly attended, like a lot of events that |
| 1:37.0 | we go to involving administrators as maybe it might have been 10 or 15 years ago, because a lot of |
| 1:41.7 | people got a lot of stuff to do, so they don't get a chance to do these conventions like they used to. But it did turn out to be a good place to be because |
| 1:49.4 | you got a pretty good read on much as it, much like we were all dismayed and shocked and |
| 1:57.0 | maybe a little angry, some angrier than others here. |
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