Welcome to the Andy Staples show. It's been a long time since we did a Dear Andy show.

We answer your questions. You ask great questions. We provide medium to subpar answers,

depending on the quality of our day. But with me is one of my favorite people to help answer

your questions because he usually answers them in the most infuriating way possible and he really digs into our random rankings at the end of these

shows. He really appreciates that task and I appreciate him for appreciating it. The athletics

recruiting writer. That's right. No longer Ohio State Beat writer. Recruiting writer Ari Wasserman. Welcome, Ari. Feels good to just say it, right? Like, it took a while. We all kind of knew this was happening, but just scream it from the mountaintops. And so you know, the reason why I come on your show is for the random ranking, not to talk about football. Absolutely. Shoot, and so most people follow me for food rather than football. I mean, we probably should talk a little bit about football because there's been some news that's fairly relevant of late.

But yeah, I mean, I'm just going to let the cat out of the bag right now.

The random ranking tonight is top five cereals.

So you're going to want to hang around for that.

It might be one of these podcasts because Ari and I do these sometimes.

You know, the usual podcast episode runs 30 to 40 minutes or so, and that's us answering your football questions.

And then sometimes we'll spend 30 minutes on the random ranking.

So if it's, if it looks long, don't be intimidated.

A lot of that's going to be cereal chatter.

Yeah, well, I mean, especially considering the fact that it's food. Like if it's like random rankings, I think of the cars was the shortest amount of time we took. But when you start getting into the food, that's when we're passionate. So it's good to be a part of it. So everybody's got to eat. That's right. Not everybody has to play football, though. This is, we're entering a week where some things happened last week that

probably a lot of people thought they'd never see. The Big Ten, the Pac-12, have said

not playing football in the fall. We're going to try to do it in the spring. The Mac,

the Mountain West, they're on board with that plan, too. The ACC, the Big 12, the SEC,

Conference USA, the Sunbelt, and the American have all said,

all right, we're going to keep trying.

And that has inspired a lot of questions from the folks, sorry.

And I don't blame them.

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