Texas A&M's "nightmare"; should Big Ten poach Pac-12 powers & which conference bites the dust?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
MORE REALIGNMENT MADNESS! Andy and Ari pinch their noses and plunge into the ever-changing college football waters, breaststroking towards Texas A&M's "recruiting nightmare". How would Texas and Oklahoma joining the SEC affect the Aggies' recruiting endeavors? Big 10 faux-commissioner Andy Staples unveils an earthshaking plan that would benefit the Big 10 and Pac-12. Why is college football quickly transforming into a Power 2 system? Andy and Ari pull out the history books, reminding us of the impetus behind the last major college football realignment. What addition should the ACC swiftly make? Which conference might bite the dust? Plus, could Arizona State be the next dominant West coast power?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show, Realignment Emergency Edition. |
| 0:14.7 | That's what all of these are going to be for the next few weeks. |
| 0:17.4 | We're recording this Sunday night. |
| 0:19.3 | I am here with Ari Wasserman. |
| 0:21.7 | So far, Texas and Oklahoma are still in the Big 12. |
| 0:24.8 | By the time you listen to this on Monday, they may have announced their intent to leave at a future date. |
| 0:33.2 | But Ari, I think we have a lot to talk about because the fallout from this thing |
| 0:38.0 | is going to be absolutely massive. |
| 0:40.6 | This affects everybody. |
| 0:43.0 | You got all of the Aggies mad at you, |
| 0:45.9 | which is amazing to me, |
| 0:47.3 | because I didn't think they could be mad at anybody, |
| 0:49.9 | matter at somebody else than Greg Sanky, |
| 0:52.7 | but they got mad at you too. Yeah, I, uh, it's funny. |
| 0:57.3 | The emergency episode, it's two weeks of emergency or a month of emergency straight. Oh, it's going to be like, |
| 1:03.4 | right, basically till toe meets leather until we have actual football games to talk about, |
| 1:08.5 | because if I've learned one thing covering multiple rounds of realignment, |
| 1:13.1 | you guys want to talk about realignment. |
| 1:15.2 | You just do. |
| 1:16.4 | You love it. |
| 1:17.6 | Because it's fascinating if your team is in that conference. |
| 1:22.8 | It's fascinating if your team is going to that conference. |
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