Welcome to Composite 2-Star Recruits, a USC recruiting podcast with a couple of one-star hosts,

Chris 10K Trevino and Gerard Hurricane Martinez.

Part of the USCFootball.com podcast family, the cilantro boys talk about everything from commitment breakdowns, game analysis, old

recruiting stories, and of course, some unsubstantiated rumors.

And now, here are your hosts, 18K and Gerald.

Welcome back to Composite Two Star Recruits.

I am your one-star host, Chris Chirvino, and as always, joined by my podcasting partner in crime, Hurricane Gerard, Gerald Martinez.

Gerard, this is our fifth consecutive podcast where we have a commitment to talk about.

I believe that is a podcast record for us.

I will have to go back and check, but maybe a little bit of piece of history being made here on this podcast, Gerard, with a fifth commitment podcast.

Yeah, we probably didn't have that run last spring

because I think those commitments were really close together,

and then it kind of went dry for a while.

So you see now with,

I think 22 commits in the 2026 class has been stringing it out here

all the way till April.

And, you know, this is going to be according to Chad Bowden, the new general manager at USC,

the biggest class that USC will have ever signed.

So if you're going to have 35, 36, 37 commitments in the single class, then certainly you're going to have to

have a majority of that class done before you even get to official visits. So that's basically

where we're at right now. It's going to be interesting to see what they actually close with when

you actually get in to July, which we are going to talk about a little bit later in the podcast,

...