What's the Big 12's "Irate 8's" next move w/ Max Olson & David Ubben
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Andy accompanied by The Athletic's Max Olson and David Ubben, spit truth about Texas, Oklahoma, the Big 12, and the SEC in today's show. An awkward, uncomfortable college football divorce has the guys channeling their inner Yeezy, signing "we want prenup! We want prenup (Yeah!)". With Texas and Oklahoma out of the picture, what will the Big 12's middle class, the "Irate 8", do now that the Longhorns and Sooners are out of the picture? Will the Big 12 dissolve? Which teams could supplement the existing eight, allowing the conference to remain afloat? Should the remaining programs switch helmet stickers, and if so, which programs will wind up where? Could the AAC be a landing spot for some clubs? How do television ratings from past years affect the course of the realignment, and where does BYU fit into all of this?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.4 | We continue realignment paloza because it's still going on. |
| 0:16.3 | No signs of stopping. |
| 0:18.6 | We don't know where this is headed. |
| 0:20.2 | It's a careening freight train off the tracks. |
| 0:23.6 | We've got to talk about it. |
| 0:25.6 | And I've got David Ubbin here. |
| 0:27.1 | I've got Max Olson here. |
| 0:28.9 | David Uvin, the host of football and grits, our SEC podcast. |
| 0:32.9 | Max Olson, one of the hosts of One True Podcasts, our Big 12 podcasts. They're not going to fight it out. |
| 0:40.1 | There's nothing to fight about. It's over. Divorce has been applied for. The next marriage has |
| 0:47.2 | been applied for the marriage certificate. They've gone to the courthouse and they're waiting |
| 0:51.1 | for the Justice of the Peace to come back to them. But as we're recording this, it is Tuesday. |
| 0:58.2 | The Oklahoma and Texas have told the Big 12 they are not going to renew the grant of rights. |
| 1:05.8 | They have formally applied for membership to the SEC. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't know if there's an application process, |
| 1:11.3 | but they've said, hey, we want in. And now we've got to wait. Not long. The SEC presidents |
| 1:17.8 | meet Thursday, 11 to 14 votes gets them in. And Friday, you got a board of regents meeting at Texas |
| 1:23.6 | about conference affiliation. So just nice and tidy. But David, is this as fast as you |
| 1:32.2 | thought it would happen when you heard about this last week? Do you figure this was going to drag |
| 1:35.2 | out a little bit longer? Well, considering our experience 10 years ago, I definitely, I was |
| 1:41.0 | skeptical with our friend Brent Zorniman saying in the initial report, |
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