Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe.

I'm Stuart Mandel.

Joined, as always, by Bruce Feldman.

Apologies, if it's been not the greatest sound quality the last couple weeks, I had some

issue with my microphone.

I have a new one.

Hopefully today I sound crystal clear.

Bruce, a little bit later, we're going to be joined by our colleague, Seth Emerson,

who covers Georgia, for a bit of a unique perspective on what it was like to cover the story

that, or to be the competitor of an outlet that broke that investigation about Georgia

and his handling of sexual assault cases, only to find out that the reporter made some serious errors and actually got fired.

Of course, we want to also talk to him about Georgia's quest to three Pete.

But first, Bruce, we saw each other in person in Vegas last week.

We hit the second day of Mountain West Media Day and then Pact 12 Media Day, which is one day event.

Obviously, a lot of, I wrote my 18,000 story about the media rights deal, but that is a star-studded league this year.

And it was a little surreal.

First of all, they held it in a Vegas, like, you know, these Vegas hotels where you

just go straight into the casino.

So it was a little surreal for me to see the reigning Heisman trophy winner, you know,

walking straight through a casino to get to the interviews.

I feel like after all the years of this is a league that gets criticized all the time on and off field,

they haven't made the playoffs since 2016.

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