Welcome to the Audible.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman.

It is Monday morning, and you finally made it home from Phoenix.

What, Saturday?

Yeah, Saturday afternoon.

It was an interesting week.

I got to tell you.

The vibe was very different than it has been.

You and I have gone to these meetings for years.

First of all, it's the first time the Big Ten was there, which I think that also, you know, kind of ramped up.

You see Urban Meyer, see Mark Dantonio, James Franklin around, and all those other coaches.

I think that that added a little more intrigue to everything there.

But also, it felt different.

We don't want to go down this road too much.

But, you know, in past years we would see 15 sports writers cover in it.

And this time there was about five.

And I think that reflects on just kind of the direction of the industry at this point.

Yeah, but also some of it was that there was no new, like the year before a bunch of

Big 12 writers came because the Big 12 was, you know, we thought possibly going to come out of that meeting deciding whether to expand or not. So there was news to track. There really wasn't any this time. But any other takeaways since the last time. I mean, the last time we recorded, I think we'd only been there about a day. So obviously, we talked for a lot more people since then.

You know, not too much.

You know, I had a good dinner with DJ Durkin, the head coach at Maryland, who's in a second season.

And, you know, one thing we talked about a little bit was, you know, they have a, they had a big recruit last year, Kassim Hill, who's a quarterback who will just be getting there, I think next at the end of this month or beginning of next month. And he's, you know, it's been a while since they've had a really good quarterback. But talking to him and talking to a handful other coaches, I feel like

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