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I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman for our second episode of the week.

It is Red River Rivalry Week. So we want to have on Max Olson from The Athletic, who is very well-versed in that part of the country. And then we're going to get to some great mailbag questions from you guys. So enjoy the show. All right, we're pleased to be joining now by our colleague Max Olson. Max covers the transfer portal. He covers stock rate. He covers all kinds of stuff. But he's particularly well versed in the Big 12. It's the week of Red River, the last Red River in the Big 12. And that's my first question. How ticked off for people are on the big 12 that at least as of now it looks like

this may be a year where those two meet in the title game well they will sell i mean they'll

sell out the big 12 title game if it's those two and make a lot of money off it so there's that

upside at least that that would be not be about that does brett yormark want to hand the trophy to one of those two head coaches?

Like probably wouldn't be the top of his list of preferences.

But, you know, that would be, that would be an incredible sendoff for those two if they,

if they go all the way and do this again.

If I can't stand or anybody, I would just buy tickets to it just to boo them.

Just to boo the heck out.

Like you do the thing where it's like there's just an allotment for each school and then

the rest is like allotted to Big 12 fans.

Correct.

All right.

Thank you, Stu.

Okay, Max, this week I wrote about Texas and Sark and the evolution of this program,

especially in the trenches.

I am buying Texas as, man, who's the guy you do the podcast with the recruiting guy,

a lot of bluster?

Oh, Ari Wasserman.

I think Ari Wasserman might have been the first person to plant the flag about Texas as a

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