Texas and Oklahoma appear to be SEC bound
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Stew and Bruce dive into the latest news of Texas and Oklahoma leaving the Big 12 for the SEC. How quickly can this move happen? What would this mean for the future of the Big 12? Will the Big Ten be impacted?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a special Friday edition of The Audible. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:26.7 | We just couldn't wait until next week, guys. |
| 0:29.2 | There's too much going on in college football. |
| 0:32.1 | Bruce, since the last time we did an episode on Monday, |
| 0:35.4 | everything we know about the sport has changed. In fact, I can't |
| 0:39.8 | believe it was only 48 hours ago, as of this recording, it was only 48, maybe 50 hours ago |
| 0:44.5 | that the Houston Chronicle broke the story, I would say the story, the scoop of the decade |
| 0:50.2 | that Oklahoma and Texas are attempting to join the SEC. |
| 0:56.2 | And, you know, so as of this, things move fluidly. |
| 0:59.1 | Hopefully they're not completely outdated by the time you listen to this. |
| 1:01.4 | But as of this moment, Bruce, what do you expect to happen next week? |
| 1:07.1 | So I'd expect that, you know, by Monday that Texas, I know you would submit a letter announcing |
| 1:17.1 | that the grant of rights is not going to extend beyond 2025, freeing them up to be able to go to the SEC and hold the Big 12. |
| 1:26.6 | And then, you know, look, there's going to be a lot of, I think there's going to be a lot of really messy litigation that's going to go on as attorneys dig into the grant of rights and figure out how quickly could they get out of that. I mean, I think that's what's going to, what's going to start. I mean, at least that's my read on it from talking to a bunch of people, |
| 1:50.8 | 80s and people around the sport in the last, really it's been a crazy last 48 hours. |
| 1:57.5 | And especially if you're in the Big 12, I mean, the story that we did on the athletic Friday, |
| 2:06.1 | you know, one of the words that to me, there was a heavy word, and there was the word betrayal. And that's what a lot of people in the Big 12 right now feel about Texas and OU. |
| 2:12.9 | Isn't it crazy how this is just 2010 all over again? I mean, except that this time I think it is going to end with the Big 12 being dismantled. Just the secrecy, the backstabbing, |
| 2:20.8 | and as we start to unwind, kind of look back now |
| 2:24.0 | at some of the signs that maybe we should have seen coming. |
| 2:27.6 | I did think it was very weird that the playoff expansion |
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