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The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

Realignment fallout, coaches poll + mailbag

The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

The Athletic

Sec, News, Sports News, Football, College Football, Cfb, Big Ten, Sports

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Stew and Bruce are back to further discuss conference realignment aka "consolidation". Details about the Pac-12's demise were uncovered over the weekend. What's next for the four schools left behind? The 2023 Preseason Coaches Poll is released! Plus, mailbag questions and comments from Pac-12 fans who feel conflicted about the past, present & future.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Audible presented by Trayor Joe's.

0:17.7

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as, by Bruce Feldman on Monday.

0:21.6

Hopefully you guys got to listen to our emergency episode on Friday the day the Pac-12

0:25.7

died for all intent purposes.

0:29.5

Obviously, we want to talk more about the very still fresh, still developing situation

0:36.5

with realignment.

0:37.9

There was also a, the preseason coaches poll, Bruce came out shortly before we were recording.

0:43.8

So what we're going to do is start with some realignment, react to the coaches poll,

0:49.6

and then I had put out a call on Saturday for emails.

0:52.9

And we're going to turn, we're going to do a big

0:54.6

long email segment and some of it's going to be event session for some of the fans who were affected

0:59.4

by this and then, of course, a lot of good questions as well. So that sounded like a good plan.

1:04.0

Okay, Stu, you had some reporting over the weekend. Let's, I want to get into about what exactly

1:09.3

led to things falling apart for the pack 12 and its deal with

1:15.3

apple you had some some of the numbers and figures into it as well as some behind the scenes

1:20.8

um behind the scenes dealings as this thing is so So for people who haven't seen the story,

1:28.7

and we encourage you to look at it if you haven't yet on the athletic,

1:32.7

give us the lowdown.

1:35.1

Yeah, so I was able to get the actual terms of the deal

1:39.4

that George Kleeovkov presented on Tuesday morning.

1:42.4

Keep in mind, he'd been spending months updating the

1:46.4

presidents, telling them a great shape they were in, saying, you know, and others said this

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