Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always, by Bruce Feldman.

It is the middle of June, Bruce, which is usually one of the quietest times in college football

of the year.

And I'm, you know, I've been as busy as I've ever been.

I know you are, too.

It's just been an explosion of news in college football.

And let's talk about a pretty explosive story that emerged on Wednesday in terms of recruiting violations at Arizona State that you and our ASU writer, Doug Haller, have been on top of.

So, Herm Edwards, obviously, has had an interesting time as the head coach at ASU.

And look, I think he really has handed the keys of his program largely to his defense

coordinator Antonio Pierce, who I think has been promoted four times there.

And there has been a lot of chatter on the West Coast, especially over the last week, about some questionable recruiting tactics.

And one of the things that has come to light is we reported at the athletic was that

Arizona State was hosting recruits on campus and in their building during the dead period

that was imposed related to COVID throughout. And this was like, it was interesting.

After our story went up, I got a call last night, which being Wednesday night,

from a coach who's in the AAC who said, who's like, we heard about this because we had

two kids we were recruiting or our recruiting who just matter of fact-factly had talked about how they had been at ASU.

And we're like, what?

You know, and this was back much earlier in the spring,

way before, you know, this month started, obviously.

And this coach made an interesting point.

He's like, you know, a lot of kids, most kids you recruit do not know the NCAA recruiting

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