Who could succeed Bob Bowlsby as Big 12 commissioner + Bowlsby's impact & the future of the Big 12
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Max react to news of Bob Bowlsby planning to step down as Big 12 commissioner. The guys chew over Bowlsby's impact on the Big 12 and college football as a whole. The pair then dish out potential candidates who could fill the void left behind by Bowlsby. Plus, what criteria must be met by the next B12 leader?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show. |
| 0:11.0 | Big News Edition. |
| 0:12.8 | Bob Bolsby has stepped down as the commissioner of the Big 12. |
| 0:17.8 | This is being presented as a retirement. |
| 0:21.1 | Max Olson, our buddy, the Big 12. This is being presented as a retirement. Max Olson, our buddy, the portal authority himself, |
| 0:26.9 | talked to Bob Bolesby on Tuesday. |
| 0:30.7 | Max, Bob Bullsby's life the next few weeks sounds kind of awesome. |
| 0:34.4 | Like he's headed to Turks and Caicos. |
| 0:36.6 | He is heading to Turks and Caicos. He is he is headed to Turks and Caicos. |
| 0:39.2 | This is a man with 10 grandchildren and lots of relaxing ahead of him. Yeah, going out there for |
| 0:48.3 | seven, eight days. And I asked him, what kind of vacationer are you? Are you going on adventures? Are you reading a book? Are you just trying to drink? What are you trying to do? And he said, you know, he'd love to read a book. But yeah, 10 grandkids, that's a lot of pool time, a lot of beach time. So Bob Bullsby is getting out of the rat race and taking some time to recharge here. And it's interesting as this happened. |
| 1:11.1 | You saw a variety of reactions across fan bases in the Big 12 and obviously soon to be not the Big 12 with Oklahoma and Texas. |
| 1:21.9 | Very mixed reviews of Bob Bolsby's tenure. |
| 1:25.3 | Some people saying, oh, I guess they got rid of him. Some people saying, |
| 1:29.0 | you know, he clearly got sick of all this stuff. You talked to him on Tuesday. I've talked to him |
| 1:36.0 | over the years about this stuff. I get the sense that this is, hey, I've done all I can. |
| 1:43.8 | You're probably not real happy with me about the whole Oklahoma, Texas thing. |
| 1:47.7 | Let's just, let's just end this now. |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah, I, you know, I, I, I'm not surprised by the decision. |
| 1:57.9 | You know, kudos to them for keeping this under wraps until they put it out. Until after a big 12 team won the national title in basketball on Monday. Yeah, and I asked him, did you tell a bunch of people in New Orleans or did you kind of keep this close to the vest? And he didn't want to, he knew, especially among that community when you're around all those administrators, the words going to spread pretty fast. For sure. So he, you know, they did a good job keeping this one under wraps and not letting |
| 2:22.3 | it get out. But, you know, it was interesting. Even the release they put out was interesting because |
| 2:28.0 | I don't know. If it's a retirement, you don't really necessarily see the board chair sort of putting his name on it and |
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