Welcome on into Lockdowne Auburn. I'm your host, Zach Blackerby. Thank you so much for making us your first listen every single day.

I'm going to structure this show a little bit different. I'm going to talk for a little bit here at the beginning.

We recorded a recruiting episode with Brian Smith. He'll join me in a few minutes whenever I'm done with this.

But that was a few hours ago. And then Hugh Freeze in this, since all that happened,

Hugh Freeze had a speaking engagement in Alexander City or, you know,

I guess he had a speaking arrangement at Lake Martin.

Justin Hocenton of On 3 was there.

And he's got a lot of quotes from both Hugh Fries and John Cohen discussing the recruiting

landscape at Auburn. And it lines up a lot of with what we've talked about earlier in the

week. And we don't really touch on it a ton later in the show. So I wanted to kind of get out in front of it on this show and talk about it.

And once again, there's a free article over it on three Auburn Live.

Hope does a great job with this.

But a lot of the quotes line up with some of the speculation of, okay,

Auburn feels that they are doing things the right way with this new house

settlement that they're in.

We've heard, you know, speculation and chatter and, you know,

maybe some concern of, you know, some of these offers that are on the table for some

of these guys that Auburn's losing out on,

there's questions on, okay, is that doable in this new world that we live in,

in this rev share environment?

And they give a few examples, and we'll touch on that in a second.

But one of the things freeze said when he was asked

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