Welcome in everybody to the CFB Nation All-America podcast. I'm Bill Trochi, senior editor at

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Today, we got a three-man screen here. We're welcoming in John Garcia Jr. from Rivals.com.

One of the best recruiting analysts in the business. He spent what I'm guessing was a very hot

week in Jacksonville last week. However, you did say that you had

access to the indoor facility, thankfully. So at the, the rivals five star, formerly the

rivals five star challenge, which is what it was called when I was there. Now it's just the five

star. John, welcome in. And how was the week?

Good to be on with you guys.

It was great.

It was sort of the unofficial final exposure camp of the summer.

And what we sort of sold this as to recruits, you know, that we wanted to compete, invite only, of course, was, hey, the regional

camps were for breaking out, making a name for yourself, creating some buzz, if you will. This

one is for us. This one is good on good, allowing us to help separate, you know, the great from

the very great, you know, the great from the best.

Invite only, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. More than 100, four and five star recruits,

you know, battled all day long in different elements, which was fun. So we got to see not only,

you know, skill-wise, who was among the best of the best,

but you really learn a lot about each kid from a competitive standpoint.

And I think that's really where just like a college coach, where that in-person evaluation

is so critical to saying, hey, can this kid cut it at Ohio State?

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