Welcome to a special National Championship Game Media Day edition of Andy and Ari on 3.

I'm Andy. He's Ari. We've been talking to Ohio State, Notre Dame folks, and we're about ready for game.

Feels good to be recording a podcast with you on a Saturday. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

It's great vibes in here. Two really good teams and the culmination of the season we've talked about all year. I can't wait. And one major takeaway from this, Marcus Freeman is very handsome in person. I've seen him many times, but he's a handsome man. Two takeaways from this. How does anyone cover Jeremiah Smith? I walk past him. I'm like, oh, my God. Yeah, the thing about Jeremiah Smith is that he is a, when you look at his body, it's like, oh, that guy's in the NFL.

And then you look at his body, it's like,

oh, that guy's in the NFL.

And then you look at his face and he goes, he's a middle school.

Well, we got a chance to catch up with the guy whose job it is to coach Jeremiah Smith from here to the NFL.

Brian Hartline, he's a fan of our predictions, as you'll see, knows them very, very well.

Here's Brian Hartline.

We are here.

With the number one receiver coach in the country, Brian Hartline, I've always wanted to ask you this.

Okay, when you're

recruiting a receiver at this point, do you just show on your phone how many dudes you put in the

first round and say, what are we even doing here? No. I mean, I think that, you know, it's still

coming down to relationship. The right guys are looking for the right, you know, path.

And I think that just making sure they understand that we are a little different.

We kind of, you know, over time, I've earned that right with the guys we have in the room.

Just making sure they know exactly the recruiting process, who we are, what we stand for, how we operate, so they can make a good decision on what

they're looking for.

The ability, from your standpoint, to look at a list of five to seven guys, know that

they're all physically capable of reaching a pretty high ceiling, but then being able to select.

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