Welcome back to the latest edition of the

Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

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

Stu, I just saw you yesterday for the first time in a while, probably over a year, at Pack 12 Media Days in Hollywood. There's a lot to

discuss. We've had a lot of media days. We've had, obviously, we did our emergency podcast over

the weekend about the Big 12 essentially blowing up and Greg Sanky deftly pulling out the two blue bloods and upsetting the apple cart.

So where should we begin?

Well, I think it says something about how hectic Pact 12 Media Day was and I really enjoyed it.

I really got a lot out of it, but it was so hectic that you and I couldn't actually find time

to do this in person to just find an hour

to record a podcast.

So obviously the story of the day there

and in college sports is what's going on with realignment.

And what was interesting is,

and I don't know that this is the case

in a lot of the other media days,

but you have, you had not just the coaches and players, but the ADs were there, some TV people,

and they're all just kind of milling about, and you could make small talk to people you knew.

And so I just want to try to set the picture for people.

As much as we in the media and the fans are just like trying to make heads and tails of this right now what's going to be the next domino etc the people who actually work in college athletics aren't exactly the same position nobody knew this was coming and they don't have the answers. It's going to take a long time to

sort everything out. And it was interesting. Like when I checked into the hotel on Monday, a lot of the

coaches were just hanging out in the lobby. Their rooms weren't ready. And I could overhear a group of

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