Welcome to The Audible, a special edition of The Audible, an emergency version of The

Audible presented by Trader Joe's, coming at you on Friday morning, where a week's

worth of everything you can imagine in realignment came to a head. We did not

wait until the official word Bruce, but as of this recording, just to give people

a little time capsule, it is being reported by the athletic and others that

Oregon and Washington are going to accept invitations to the Big Ten. After a

brief like 45-minute period Friday morning where it looked like they might not. At

which point is expected that Arizona, Arizona state and Utah though Michael

Crow may still keep his you know he clearly doesn't want to do it would join the

Big 12 at which point you have four schools remaining in the Pac-12 and the

Pac-12 is dead. Even though this has been a possibility and has been talked

about ever since USC and UCLA Laf, which is now more than 13 months ago, I

don't know about you, but like I still can't believe it. I can't believe that

come not this football season but next. The Pac-12 as a conference just won't be

part of college football. I think Sue and we've talked about this a lot

internally you and I. This has been a wild week in this regard because I think if

you had asked me maybe on Tuesday when this started to get a lot more traction

is this really going to happen this being Oregon and Washington getting into

the Pac-12 and it working out financially for for them and everyone else. I

was like that seems like a long shot still to me you know in the end and then

you know as we got closer to it we're taping this Friday morning I think as

we got closer to it Thursday afternoon it was like oh boy this is actually this

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