Let's welcome on and say hello to Ari Temkin.

He is a host of the morning show on Big 12 Radio, SiriusXM Channel 375.

He's joining us on Heartland College Sports Weekly, part of Heartland College Sports.com.

I'm Pete Mundo.

All right, let's start off on the football side of things.

This week, Matt Campbell inked the new extension through 2028.

I never thought he was going anywhere.

You follow this conference closely.

I imagine you didn't either.

But it seems like every offseason, no matter what Matt Campbell

says, no matter what Matt Campbell does, he's going to be linked to jobs. Is that just going to be

how it is, or is there a way to put an end of this conversation? First off, before we get started,

and that's a great question, and I want to talk about Matt Campbell. I just want to applaud you, Pete, for what you do.

I'm an avid listener of your podcast.

I love the website.

It's an incredible amount of work that you put in for this conference.

It's an incredible amount of great work that you put in for this conference.

And so I just, you know, I hope that on Sirius XM,

we're kind of an extension of what you guys do here with Heartland College Sports because there's just not enough coverage and content surrounding this conference,

despite how much this conference excels in football and basketball. So I just wanted to first,

you know, tell everybody listening that I love this podcast. I listen, you know, basically

at every episode because there's stuff in there that I use

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