Welcome to the Audible presented by Trey or Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by

Bruce Feldman on Monday. Hopefully you guys got to listen to our emergency episode on Friday,

the day the Pac-12 died for all intent purposes. Obviously we want to talk more about the very

still fresh, still developing situation with re-alignment. There was also a, the preseason

coaches poll, we just came out shortly before we were recording. So what we're going to do is start

with some re-alignment, react to the coaches poll, and then I had put out a call on Saturday for emails,

and we're going to turn, we're going to do a big long email segment. Some of it's going to be

event session for some of the fans who are affected by this, and then of course a lot of good questions

as well. So that sounded like a good plan. Okay, so you had some reporting over the weekend. Let's

I want to get into about what exactly led to things falling apart for the Pac-12, and it's deal

with Apple. You had some some of the numbers and figures into it as well as some behind the scenes.

Behind the scenes, dealings as this thing is. So for people who haven't seen the story and we

encourage you to to look at it if you haven't yet on the athletic, give us the loadout.

Yeah, so I was able to get the actual terms of the deal that George Cleopov presented on Tuesday

morning. Keep in mind, he'd been spending months updating the presidents, telling them

the great shape they were in, saying, you know, and others said this as well,

a media day that some new new bitters had emerged. He said, the longer we waited, the better our

options have become. Well, Flash 4 to Tuesday, he's got one deal to present and one deal only.

I was told there was, by multiple people, there was an expectation there would be two deals to

choose from, and the other one was more quote unquote, traditional. It had streaming in it, but

it wasn't all streaming. So the deal he had to present them was a streaming only on Apple.

There was no guarantee that they would, you know, they do simulcast games on Fox with MLS,

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