Alabama has a new athletic director, Tennessee might too.

Who's on your Mount Rushmore of college football?

We are going to get into that on this episode of The Audible.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. Bruce, what the heck are we supposed to talk about now?

The season is over.

Is it too soon to get into recruiting still?

I don't think you want to jump down that rabbit hole yet.

I mean, signing day is going to be here in two weeks, but it's tough. That know, it's tough that turnaround from the end of the season

to get focused on that. I know a lot of our listeners probably are focused on it year round.

You follow it pretty closely. I do. Yeah. I felt like I kind of weirded you out when we ran

into Charlie Strong and I started talking about specific players. You knew every single recruit in the whole class. I've gotten up to speed on it. I end up talking to a lot of coaches on it. And I think just because the whole meat market thing, it's something that's always going to be, I don't want to say a subject near and dear to my heart, but I am fascinated by it, which, you know, there's a, I feel like that's kind of an interesting

thing here is I have a ton of respect for the people who chase it every year and that's what

they, every day, every year, you know, and, um, but I do know that it's in an exact science

in the star system.

I feel like we're kind of on, like maybe on opposite sides of how we feel about the star system. Oh, yeah. Comes out. It's interesting. I am a huge believer in those recruits. I

think that they've become more and more accurate. And there is a definitely, we mentioned this last

time. There's definitely a direct correlation between signing the top 10

classes and contending for national championships. There are outliers, but there is, but I think

what I would always point out is there's a lot of cases. I think you can take it too much too far.

And I think sometimes people always like, okay, this guy's a five star. And that means he's

got great talent. And I think you overlook the aspect of why it's such an exact science. I'm not

disagreeing with you. Obviously, if I was a fan of a school, I'd rather have more five star guys than

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