Pac-12 TV deal drags on + Chris Fallica joins the show!
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Stew has an update on the Pac-12 TV deal negotiations that are taking longer than expected. The perception is not good for the league and now The CW is in the mix.
Plus, Special guest Chris Fallica talks CFB, sports gambling, Miami football & goes inside his decision to move from ESPN to Fox.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Aududible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined, as always by my colleague from the athletic Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:29.4 | We are taping this Monday afternoon. |
| 0:34.1 | Stu, we have a really good guest today. |
| 0:38.1 | He's in fame. |
| 0:43.3 | A lot of our listeners will know is Chris Felica, former... The Bear. |
| 0:44.6 | The Bear from college Game Day fame, who is making a big move. |
| 0:48.2 | He's joining me at Fox. |
| 0:50.7 | We're going to get into his move, what it was like to leave ESPN. how's that transition been going, and a lot of stuff you're going to want to hear about whether it relates to how he looks at gambling for college football, but also we're going to jump full in on some spring football, some quarterback battles, what to look ahead to for the fall. |
| 1:09.7 | But before we go to him and some on the field stuff, you and our buddy Max Olson had a story |
| 1:17.0 | over the weekend about the latest on conference realignment as it relates to the PAC 12 |
| 1:25.0 | and it's TV deal and whatever, it's broadcast deal. What do we need to know? |
| 1:31.4 | This was, yeah, more specifically about the TV deal, which continues to drag on and on and on. |
| 1:36.5 | And you see various reports and, I mean, it's, it's basically the main takeaway for me was that I'm less than a month after we saw |
| 1:48.6 | several Pac-12 presidents go on the record. |
| 1:51.0 | This would be mid-March. |
| 1:52.6 | They all kind of, you could tell us a little bit coordinated. |
| 1:54.7 | They all decided to finally go on record, these, the four corners presidents and say, |
| 1:59.7 | that deal is imminent. |
| 2:02.0 | You know, we're really close. We're really close to the end um and then they do a total 180 and you know i talked to a source um |
| 2:10.1 | i guess that was on thursday who i was like hey it's early april now nothing's happened yet what's |
| 2:16.4 | going on and he said yeah now we're talking late spring, early summer. |
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