Hello and welcome to The Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Ralph Rousseau from the athletic joined today by my colleague Stuart Mandel.

Bruce Feldman is taking a little break, and who am I to complain?

Because I've barely been here for the last month.

So it's just Stu and I today. We will hit the mailbag, of course, because it's that time of the

week for that. We will talk a little bit about some coaching contracts being extended.

But first and foremost, coming off of, and the last show we did was before the national

championship game in March Madness, before the men's game, Michigan wins that.

The Big Ten is on a heater.

It's won the football championship.

It's won men's basketball, and's won men's basketball and it won

women's basketball this weekend. Stu wrote a little bit about, you know, why so much success

for the Big Ten right now. So we're going to talk about that before I throw it to Stu in his column.

And then we'll get into a little broader discussion of like just circling around back to football

and why the

Big Ten is the best conference or maybe not be the best conference. So Stu, it's been a while since we

had a chance to talk. What's going on? Big week for the Big Ten. No question about that. I thought it was a

pretty remarkable stat. They were the first. The SEC did that once when Florida was humming doing those three, but Florida had two of them.

It was the first time a conference has had three different schools win those national championships in the same year.

And even going further than that, Ralph, right, like two of them, Indiana, in football,

UCLA women's basketball, had never won the national championship.

So, and Michigan hadn't won a long time, right?

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