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We have the return of the Dean cast today after a bit of a hiatus and what better way to return than by having

longtime West Coast recruiting insider and friend Brandon Huffman on our show Brandon like myself

has been doing this a long long time we both wrote back in the days of Super Prep magazine for Alan Wallace.

Brandon did the West Coast, I did the Midwest, and that shows you how far we go back.

But welcome Brandon, and how many years have you been doing this now?

So I'm in my 18th year now doing this going back to

started in the spring 2003 come right at the end of the 2003 class,

from entering into a 18 full season

of covering recruiting on a national scale.

And I'm sure like. scale.

And I'm sure, like myself, you could name more than a few changes in this business over those years.

Just a few, I mean, it's funny because every two or three years you see some kind of

cyclical change, you see some kind of communication device make things change, and it's been fascinating to watch yet you know we

still have some things that remain the same from when the first got into the

industry to now they just seem to become fewer and far further between because there's so much new that comes into things.

And, you know, with that, let's kind of bring us all up to the present time, so to speak.

And the present time in regards to Ohio State and the Buckeyes are recruiting the State of Washington really

really well and you know Brandon's out in the State of Washington you know let's

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