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That's my man, Andrew Ivins, all things recruiting and scouting for 24-7 sports.

Ivans, this is the cover three recruiting hour, which is kind of growing in popularity, man.

People are asking for it.

They're excited. They're

excited. They told them we're moving it up a day this week, do some scheduling stuff, and they're

pumped, man. How you been? Doing good, bud. Yeah, I'm just going to do this every week until it happens.

T-minus three weeks till signing day. What is that? Like over 21 days. We are in crunch time. It's fun, fun time, silly time, right?

Once we get these coaching hires as well, but a lot of movement here over the past, you know,

few days with commits flipping, visits taking place. Certainly no better place to be than right here.

I think as we try to,

you know, paint a wide brush when it comes to the national perspective.

100%. So we don't always deep dive teams, but like one team that is squarely in the playoff hunt, a team that's won a whole bunch of games in a row, including at 1.4 against

ranked teams. That's Kalin-Divore's Alabama Crimson tied, and they

are really killing it, recruiting, and starting to pick up a lot of steam. They beat LSU 20 to 9 in what

was probably a little more uncomfortable than they wanted. They still covered the spread.

Like, LSU still has real athletes. They had a good plan for them. Like, I think Bama is a team that has struggled a lot in Blitz pickup this year.

And LSU probably saw that and exploited that, but still LSU couldn't score any points. That's a bit of an issue if you're going to win in Tuscaloosa. But we're here to talk recruiting. Let's talk a little bit about who they had in the recruiting section and what kind of class they're building here as they looked at Close Strong in 2026.

Yeah, bud, I mean, I'm sure you had eyes on the game. recruiting section and what kind of class they're building here as they looked close strong in

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