Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague from the athletics, Stuart Mandel.

We were taping this Wednesday morning.

A bunch of stuff happened after our, we taped last Sunday morning, and one we expected,

which was Colorado firing Carl Dorell, one we did not expect.

And that was Wisconsin canning Paul Christ.

Let's get into that first.

We have a bunch of stuff to talk about, but obviously you and I are both caught very off

guard by this.

This did not feel like Dan Mullen getting fired and he wasn't entering the year on the

hot seat, but it went downhill in a hurry.

This thing just blew up.

It was one of the more stunning ones.

I mean, I had literally written that morning, hey, you know, I mean, it was bad losing to be a

and I was like, no, I was the first time that I even acknowledged like that firing him might be a

possibility, but I made a mistake. I made the mistake of thinking that buyouts still matter.

He had this huge, it actually ended up getting, you know, it was reported as many different

numbers. It ended up being 20 million was, it was reported as many different numbers.

It ended up being 20 million was the, what they were originally supposed to pay him.

And I just did not think of Wisconsin.

I don't think you did either, right?

That Wisconsin, which has had such stability for 30 something years, would be the kind of program that would pay.

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