Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandow, joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

Bruce, we got to talk Tennessee again. We can't get away from them. They're just dominating

the news right now, but I want to make sure people realize that later in the episode, we're going to get

into looking back at the lows and highs, the very few highs there were, of Larry Scott's

tenure at the Pac-12. We're going to highs there were of Larry Scott's tenure at the PAC 12.

We're going to talk about Steve Sarkisian's staff at Texas.

And guess what?

Unexpected, unplanned, we get into a little bit of realignment talk, which people are

always excited about, right?

Okay, Stu, we've had, I don't know, almost 10 days of sorting through the Tennessee searches, both

AD and head coach. If I told you last Monday that they were going to end up hiring Josh

Heppel, your reaction would have been that something went terribly wrong. I mean, you know,

you wrote your candidate's story, you know, as soon as the job opened up,

I don't believe Josh Heppel's name was in there, right?

No, it was not.

Even when they hired UCF's AD, that didn't lead us to all think, oh, he's going to bring Josh

Heapel with him.

I think we learned that, and look, you've been saying it for some time that this job is such a mess i don't

think anybody's going to want it and i was saying well yeah but it's still

cc big money it's still what it's still what like i still think it'll be attractive to some

people and it turned out the answer was no.

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