Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I am Bruce Feldman, joined once again by my colleague from the Athletic, Stuart Mandel.

Stu is back in the country. He was away for a long time. And we will get Stu's thoughts because he was not with us last week when Ralph Russo and Justin Williams and I had a discussion about now what happens in regards

to the house settlement and how college football especially moves forward. We'll also talk

about the Heisman odds and which quarterback, which players we think are going to break out stars

and have a big 2025. and we will get back to your

questions in the mailbag but first guess who's back in town stew uh it feels like you've

gone since almost spring football i heard that talk on the podcast last week about you know justin saying i I'm, I'm setting up an office in the AlmofiCosis.

That sounds great, but it was gone two weeks.

And, you know, they give us the vacation time.

We should use it.

I know that's not your philosophy.

But, yeah, two weeks.

And it was great.

I don't think I did as good a job disconnecting, though, as I usually do on these trips

because of two things that were going on.

As people listening know, I'm now a huge softball guy, and it was right during the

College World Series.

I now have anybody who's listening internationally today. I really have a lot of

sympathy now for you guys about how hard it is to actually watch college sports abroad. I mean,

I hardly saw anything live either because it was overnight or because I just couldn't. It's not,

they don't have the rights to those ES ESPN games and then of course the house

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