Conference realignment + Michigan's loaded roster
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Realignment is back! Colorado has officially joined the Big 12 and college football realignment is headed into overdrive. The lack of a Pac-12 TV deal is a major catalyst in this edition of realignment. Oregon and Washington could be the next two programs to make a move. Is the ACC a possibility?
Plus, Bruce discusses his story latest story on Michigan...
"Stars matter? Jim Harbaugh believes Michigan can win title … and break NFL Draft record"
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined, as always by my colleague from the Athletic Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:24.9 | It is Monday. |
| 0:28.0 | The whole circuit of media days is over, training camps at a lot of places are going, and |
| 0:33.4 | that is a great sign. |
| 0:35.0 | We have a lot to talk about. |
| 0:36.8 | I just got back from Big Ten Media Days in Indianapolis while I was there, something we, I think, |
| 0:42.2 | had expected. |
| 0:42.9 | And our colleague Max Olson had been reporting on for months and months. |
| 0:47.0 | Colorado is going back to the Big 12. |
| 0:50.6 | We're going to dig into that what it means for the pack 10. Pack 10. Is that right? Pac |
| 0:55.9 | 9. What is it going to be? Pack 9 now. Yeah, we'll see. We'll get into that. We're going to get |
| 1:00.9 | into a story I did that came out today on Michigan that I think will people be interested in. It started |
| 1:06.5 | out on this podcast about somewhere when you were in Italy, Stu, when our friend Ari |
| 1:12.4 | Wasserman was on the podcast doing as a star, I was going to say is Ari Matter thing, |
| 1:18.0 | as Stars Matter mantra and how it relates to Michigan. We'll get into that. But obviously, |
| 1:26.4 | let's get into the big deal of last week, which is the Big 12 and |
| 1:32.4 | Brett Yormark made another huge move. Is it a huge move in your eyes? Well, so people have been, |
| 1:40.9 | you know, asking or saying for the last few, there's a lot of people, if you, I've been living in realignment junkie world, right, for the last year where, you know, this, this possibility was always there. |
| 1:51.1 | People who are maybe falling a little more casually say, wait a minute, Colorado has been terrible in football for the last 10 years at least. |
| 1:59.4 | Why is, why is the big 12 doing this? Well, mostly two reasons. |
| 2:05.2 | One, obviously, they hope that it's the first domino to fall and that they can get more |
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