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Chris Landry on the Big 12's amazing leadership · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry talking college football Monday edition of the program and of course find him
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  at Landry football dot com and Landry Football on X. You know, I
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  will give agree one hundred percent what you're saying. And we've talked about this,
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  Brett yor Mark. I mean, for you know, if you if
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  you went back when everything was power five and nobody had left, he said,
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  we knew Texas and Oklahoma were coming to the SEC, I would have
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  bet you the Big twelve would have folded before anybody. But it looks like
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  their leadership pound for pound, is as good as anybody in college sports,
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  particularly when you consider he doesn't have the best product. I mean it's like,
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  you know, it's like, uh, coaching Kentucky football and playing in
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  the SEC championship game, that's getting it done. So he loses Texas and
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  Oklahoma, you're right in every reason for everything to fall apart. So what
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  what he did was, Okay, we lose the two big boys. What
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  do we need to do. We've got we got to have strength and numbers,
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  and look, I think he was also in that the Pac twelve fell
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  apart because he was able to pounce on them. But he was able to
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  go to a Houston, which is an intriguing program with a big money booster
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  the Fortida guy and then great facilities, and certainly that's the stuff up for
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  them. So he was able to go and pick the best of the AAC
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  and then the good fortune of the bad fortune of the Pac twelve. So
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  now he's got really good numbers. And then the creativity, I mean there
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  was I don't know how serious it was, but they were thinking, look,
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  we're gonna we're gonna sell a lot of our basketball because hey, the
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  basketball league's really good and nowhere at Arizona anyway, it's even better. And
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  you know, it got Candace and then there was even talk about maybe we'll
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  bring in and have a basketball league within the Big twelve and a football league.
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  There was even talk about Gonzaga coming in. And you know, so
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  the creativity in the forward thinking this is really he saved them. And your
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  Mark deserves a lot of credit because look, I'm not saying he would be
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  the commission of the vig Ken of the Act. It's not. I mean,
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  it's a different level. But when you don't have what they have and
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  you can go out in a Bible in your own way, not a big
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  bible. That's the guy that's done a really good job. He deserves a
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  lot of credit and hopefully for them they can hold on to him because he's
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  certainly somebody that you know. At a bigger conference, I could see that
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  that that opens up, he'd be high on the list.