How to save the Pac-12 + spring football & a CFB super league
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Stew & Bruce are joined by The Athletic's Andy Staples! Can the Pac-12 become a better football conference in the post Larry Scott era? The guys discuss what's holding the conference back & how it can improve. Plus, takeaways from a busy weekend of spring games & a college football super league.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm Bruce Feldman joined by Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:22.0 | And today, Stu, we have one of our favorite guests, our colleague, Andy Staples. |
| 0:27.6 | We're going to get into a lot of things. |
| 0:29.7 | But one of the first things we're going to talk about is a story that you wrote and spent a lot of time on. |
| 0:35.1 | And it is about what has gone on with pack 12 football why is it |
| 0:39.3 | struggled so much and what the league can do now that larry scott is gone and out of the way |
| 0:45.6 | as the commissioner to read that story you can go to the athletic dot com slash the audible and you |
| 0:53.0 | can get 20% off thanks bruce that was a that was a heavy lift a lot of |
| 0:57.9 | work went into that story happy to talk about it and especially happy to have on the host of the |
| 1:04.4 | Andy Staples show himself Andy Staples so Andy you're friend here Mr.el, spent the last seven months working up this |
| 1:14.9 | Pac-12 story. |
| 1:16.0 | Two months. |
| 1:17.2 | We've heard about it and heard about it. |
| 1:19.2 | And so it went up on the site on the athletic this morning, Tuesday. |
| 1:24.7 | It's a very interesting piece. |
| 1:26.9 | He should be proud of it. We're proud to know him. There are a very interesting piece. He should be proud of it. |
| 1:27.8 | We're proud to know him. |
| 1:30.5 | There are a couple of interesting takeaways. |
| 1:32.4 | The first thing for me about, so basically the hook of the story is why Pac-12 football has |
| 1:38.7 | been floundering and what the league can do now that Larry Scott, in Stu's words, is finally purged. |
| 1:46.3 | So I didn't use those words at all, but you were thinking it. |
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