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Welcome back guys to a special edition reaction time with my co-host Ben Visser.

We took our little you know off, off-season break, but wrestling has been, I would say on fire

this off-season.

Yeah, a few different storylines to follow.

But the biggest story, I would say this week specifically is realignment and we finally have realignment news that specifically impacts wrestling.

So Ben and I were like what better way to handle this and

get together especially in our fancy new cyclin fanatic studio that you guys will

technically see since we're being recorded for once.

So yeah, Ben, before we really dive into the chaos of realignment, I just really want to start with you know how have you been? How have you

really been processing all of this off-season news? Oh my gosh it's the off-season news has been non-stop. I know Jackie and I have talked

about recording a few different podcast at a few different points about things that have

happened here, things that have happened there, and I think all of the topics will be

tackled at some point.

We have to just have to figure out when and where to do those,

but with realignment dominating the college landscape

both locally and nationally for various different reasons.

I do think it's important to have a wrestling-centric discussion on what realignment means for the

sport and where it could lead in the future and I'm excited to get that done because it is wrestling is obviously a very unique sport

There are only 70 80 programs something like that so it's a smaller scale

Realymic and impact it in a disproportionate way.

Obviously football is king when it comes to realignment that's all anyone ever focuses on but

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