Listen, put me in the parking lot, you know, with bears and I go out there and play.

It don't matter.

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going to be our best week ever. So thank you so much for tuning in and doing that. I'm Zach Blackerby.

I'm solo today. I am going to play a lot of Kevin Steele audio. So get ready for that.

We'll talk about early signing day yesterday. We're in that

period. Auburn will also get a guy tomorrow officially. And then we'll talk about coaching search

stuff as well as Mark Anthony Richards entering the transfer portal. And as far as coaching stuff goes,

I think we'll have a good idea by the end of the day to day.

I've been off with this whole timeline,

but I think I've got good reasoning as far as what on the Oregon side of things with crystal ball.

If nothing happens today, I think it's actually a pretty good sign for Auburn getting Mario Cristobal. All right. So Kevin Steele, he is Auburn's head coach currently, the interim

head coach. And as always, the head coach comes out and talks about the signing day period.

And so he was the guy yesterday. He talked about the impact on the recruiting process and, of course, the change.

Here's his opening statement, or at least the first half of his opening statement.

This exciting day for Auburn, I'd like to address kind of the recruiting process and some uniqueness of this process.

I think probably the biggest thing was,

you know, Auburn is a family place. It's built on family and the challenges of recruiting

without being able to bring prospects to the Auburn campus so they can feel Auburn, because

Auburn is very much about the feel once you get here.

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