Welcome to a bonus episode of The Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman for a Thursday edition for a few

reasons. We've got both have a story up on the athletic on Thursday that we wanted to talk about,

but first you were in Scottsdale for a few days, all the hobnobbing and the networking that goes

on there. I wasn't able to join this year. What were some of the highlights? As you said, there was

a lot of media there, maybe not as much as athletic people as we normally had, but it was Andy, Nicole,

and Chris Finini were all there as well, and I had a bunch of my Fox Sports colleagues, but it's

one of these things where this year there weren't as there were hardly any big 10 coaches there,

because there weren't big 10 coaches meetings as there normally are. There were still a few guys

who showed up from the conference. You didn't have coaches from Texas and OU. Yeah, at the big 12 meetings,

you didn't have Lincoln Brown and Chip Kelly from the Pac-12 meetings. You know, you did have,

they're already being shut out of here in advance. Well, it was like almost what's the point of that

at that point, because they are, you know, a lot of that stuff is looking long-term at different

things. Some of the discussions that I thought, you know, that I was told were interesting in these

meetings where everything from looking from the leadership of, you know, ADs looking about what does,

you know, what does the, what does the product on TV or on your computer look like? How are these

challenges streaming versus, you know, the traditional models that we were so accustomed to? I think

there's a lot of people who are in leadership both in the universities, but even in conferences

are trying to sort that out as it's been well documented. I don't know if it's been well documented,

but it's been documented about just all the machinations of what's going on with the Pac-12

broadcast and TV deal and where that's going and, you know, how that relates to potential

realignment issues. There's a lot of rumblings, a lot of rumors, and right now people are in

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