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Chris Landry on the Big 12 Conference · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Andrey. Landry Football dot Com is the website Landry Football on X on
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  your radio Mondays during uh well most every Monday. Last week we were off.
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  I was on vacation, So Chris, glad to have you back,
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  sir. How are you. I'm doing good, Jake, hope you're doing
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  well. Oh yeah, yeah, we're hanging in there. You know,
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  we're getting down ten saturdays left until college football, so you know when the
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  game time start coming out and uh, you know you're starting to see you
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  know, like Tom Brady make an appearance yesterday in the booth on the UFL
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  ball games. I mean, you know we're getting close. Yeah, It's
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  it used to be. You know, when you get kind of that fourth
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  of July, you can get fast fourth at July. You know it's coming.
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  But now it's getting sooner and sooner. Where the couchdowns start, no
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  question, Chris will start with Little College. But first off, I want
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  to get your thoughts. So we didn't get a chance to talk with you
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  last week about and I don't think it really shocks anybody, but the fact
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  that the Big Twelve is looking at selling off the naming rights to its conference
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  and then even a private equity crip company coming in to purchase a percentage of
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  the conference. Now, you know, I don't know if there's ever a
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  way in this world, in the day that we are, that the Big
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  twelve would ever be competitive with the SEC or the Big ten monetarily, but
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  that's one way to do it. Yeah, you know, I give a
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  lot of credit for Brett or Mark, you know, a lot. You
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  look at the big pen SEC commitsier obviously they greg gets a lot of credit,
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  and deservingly so. But when you look at a conference like the Big
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  twelve that's lost the two big name brands, and look what they've done.
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  You know, while the others have collapsed under good leadership, they've regrouped.
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  No, no, they're not gonna be what they were with Texas and Oklahoma
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  that that's over done with. But they have said, we're gonna go and
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  get numbered and we're gonna take advantage of other conferences that are not as organized.
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  Uh, and we're gonna take advantage of it. And you know what,
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  We're gonna have to be creative. We're gonna have to try to sell
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  the fact that we're great basketball league. And they floated ideas and they've not
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  done it, probably won't do it of getting Gonzaga in Connecticut in as basketball
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  and you know the fact that they've created they think outside the box and now
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  they're looking to Shay, we're gonna sell naming, right, that's what we
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  should do. I mean the other the other option is just to I guess,
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  call up in the theatal position and die. I give them a lot
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  of credits because they are not the fake brand big elague, but they are
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  maximizing what they are. You look at it in terms of football and coaching.
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  You know, taking a program like what you know Alance flack Bull has
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  done at Kansas to some places. They look at what they've done and still
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  you know, they don't have great resources for football, but look, they
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  maximize what they have. I think that Brett deserves a lot of credit for
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  what he's done with the Big Club. Chris Landry on your radio Monday edition
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  in the program Landry Football dot com is the website and of course Landry Football
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  and act and Chris, I agree with you hundred scent. I've said that
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  for about a year now that when Brett Yarmark started can it games south of
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  the border, Hey, can we play games in Mexico? Can we play
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  games in other places? Can we have a day for the NFL Combine in
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  our conference. I feel like he is a very savvy, savvy, you
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  know, commissioner, and the Big twelve needs to try to hang on to him