The Flagship: Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby weighs in on Texas-OU move to SEC + MUCH more

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4.8 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It's a special interview edition of The Flagship Podcast this week as we welcome in Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby, who weighs in on everything from his decision to walk away from his commissioner role, the future of college football and the Big 12, his raw take of Texas and Oklahoma leaving the Big 12 for the SEC, plus much more!

College football fans won't want to miss this exclusive interview with Bob Bowlsby on The Flagship Podcast.

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0:38.1	Interview very excited and appreciative to be joined by Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bullsby.
0:46.6	Bob, how are you doing?
0:48.8	I'm doing fine, Chip.
0:50.5	It's been an interesting couple of weeks, but I'm doing fine.
0:57.2	Yeah, I mean, obviously on April 5th, it's announced that you will be stepping down after a decade as the Big 12 commissioner.
1:08.6	You know, I know you have known you for've known you for years, uh, since you've been the
1:14.3	big 12 commissioner. You're a, uh, a former wrestler, uh, conference champion, right?
1:20.2	It, uh, Minnesota State Morehead. Long time ago. You've done it all. Um, you've been the AD at Iowa, the AD at Stanford, now a conference commissioner.
1:32.3	You're 70 years young.
1:35.3	And why was this the right time for you, Bob, to step away from college athletics, at least in this role?
1:46.7	Well, I don't know if there ever is an exactly right time.
1:51.2	Perhaps it was the absence of being a wrong time.
1:54.7	I certainly wasn't going to leave the conference high and dry in the middle of COVID.
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