Welcome to On The Bench. I am Brendan Sonone. I am joined today by Josh Newberg,

Chris Ney and Zach Blostin. We are the superheroes of On The Bench. I just collided my hands together,

like the Wonder Twins. You know, they did the ring thing. Josh, the superpower was staying up

past midnight the other day. Josh, how did that go for you? Good. I was able to jump on Facebook.

You guys kept me alive. I'm talking to the listeners out there. I hopped on Facebook live at midnight,

had a good crowd. We had like over 200 people in there on a on a Monday night at midnight.

Just hanging out, talking up and see recruiting. That sounds like a blast. Meanwhile,

Christopher and Zachary were leading the charge of Noelle's 24-7s recruiting coverage on The Bench.

Chris, how did it feel to be asked on seat there on the actual bench again? Long time come,

felt good to be back out there. It was good to have human interaction and to not only talk to

products of seated coaches, meet some people. Yeah, that's how this job was supposed to be done.

You got to hang out with me too. That was a low light.

Zachary, how you feeling? You've been on the bench not just for that midnight,

but then the next day and then the day after. So you've gotten plenty of OTP time.

Yeah, it's been tiring, but it's exactly what I've been looking forward to,

surprisingly, for the past couple of months. I've just had a lot of fun, like you said, Chris,

getting that in-person interaction is really important.

All righty, so we have a lot to get to. Unless you've been into the ditch the last few days,

you probably have a pretty good understanding that FSU recruiting and just recruiting world in

general has gone bonkers because for the first time in 15 months on campus visits are allowed.

Organized recruiting visits and tactics can be utilized and there's strategy again and

there's recruiting. So that's what we're going to talk about here on On The Bench today.

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