Welcome. Welcome back to the latest edition of the audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm

Bruce Feldman joined as always by my colleague from the Athletics

Stuart Mandel. We're taping our second episode of the week. It is Wednesday.

Some news around the sport, not just related to the games on the field.

We have an interesting story coming out in Knoxville

this week, we'll get into in much more detail in a bit.

There's more conference realignment chatter as it relates to the ACC and all. War Conference, Re alignment, Chatter,

as it relates to the ACC and all the drama

drama connected to Florida State and Clemson

and their involvement there.

We also answer your mailbag questions. Later on,

Stu, I think we should start with Tennessee. It's a program that, like three years ago,

not even full three years ago, I even full three years ago.

I thought you had a big story on this.

It involved Tennessee and their collective,

Spire Sports, plunking down $8 million for what would be a five-star

quarterback recruit out of California. That five-star quarterback recruit was the

MVP of their bowl game and it's now started a couple of games and

is looking like a good bet. This latest move by their AD, Danny White is

a is also a very bold move and I think it's a very shrewd move.

So what they have done is up season ticket prices 10% and it's basically been transparent saying it's going to be part of the increase as part of a talent fee and that's about getting players and as well as what you know they see as potential money they have to bring in for

revenue sharing that is coming down the pipe and what they think is going to be

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