Welcome in to Heartland College Sports. I'm Pete Mundo. We are always excited to welcome on various guests on the program, on of the show, whether you're taking us through YouTube, through our podcast, through our radio show, all different platforms. We appreciate you being here and really appreciate the time of Travis Gough, the athletic director, of course, for the Kansas Jayhawks, joining us on Heartland College sports. Travis, thanks for being here.

Appreciate it, Pete. Thanks for the invite and looking forward to the discussion.

Yeah, absolutely. Well, we have a lot to talk about with what you guys have going on there at

KU. You've got a ton of renovations going on. Football, basketball, two programs that find

themselves on the upswing right now.

Before we get to that, of course, you know we cover the Big 12 and there's a lot going on there on that front.

So let's just start off.

You know, you come in as AD in 2021 and at the similar time, the Big 12 is turning over.

Bob Bolsby is heading out.

Brett Your Mark is coming in.

So you and Brett Your Mark in many ways, he's really the only Big 12 commissioner that you know. How do you go through this process of getting to know him? And then of course, what's your relationship been

like and his leadership as the Big 12 commissioner the last nearly two years now? Yeah. I mean, I think, you know, rewinded back two years ago,

I'm just kind of getting here, getting unpacked.

And we know that summer, right out of the gates, the OU and Texas release breaks, right?

They're exiting the SEC with Commissioner Bololesby in his role at the forefront.

You know, it certainly was a daunting time for the Big 12.

It was a concerning time for the Big 12 in terms of stability and viability.

But credit to Commissioner Bolesby at that juncture to act with, you know, I think strength and act with

decisiveness and got the board together, the presence of the chancellors, the 80s, and went out

and identified what we believe firmly are the best board, and still even to this day today,

the best for to add to the conference.

And that gave a bunch of stability to the league.

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