We include the Wulff press conferences in the podcast distribution because we figure some people like it and there’s really no other place to get it. If the athletic department did its own podcast distribution of all their press conferences (which I think they should), then we would just embed the audio and you could subscribe from them.

However, you aren’t “forced” to download any podcast. In iTunes, you can set up your feeds to not automatically download. This is what I do, because I subscribe to a ton of feeds, but I don’t want every piece of audio. What it will do is show you the audio title and such, and then you click “get” to download the specific audio. This comes in handy with the KJR folks, who often like to interview people I have zero interest in.

As for the other audio we embed on the site, it belongs to other people, and they haven’t given us permission to distribute it. So, we just give you the audio that’s freely available on their page, and link back to them.