Hey, first time on the show, Matt Stahl from A.L.com.

Matt, I know you're busy. You're down there at Hoover, man. Thank you for making the time.

Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, freshman, just straight from the glory of the Hoover

Matt right now. It's Oklahoma and Kentucky going on, but I appreciate you having me.

Yeah, and I saw that you're calling it FOIA season. So, I mean, that is specifically why I wanted

to have you on because I stumbled across your article,

SEC football recruiting budgets for 2024.

And I was pretty stunned to see Tennessee top the list.

What made you want to do this?

And what stood out to you about SEC recruiting budgets?

So it's a big, it's sort of a project I do to get through the off season kind of content

desert here where, you know, every year right around kind of mid-January, I'll go around and

send like freedom of information request to every public SEC school and get all their financial reports that they have to send

the NCAA for each fiscal year. And yeah, I mean, it's just, it's categorized into a bunch of

stuff, recruiting, spending on football's one of them. Football's one of a few sports. They

break out separately on there. So yeah, I just, you know, I think it's an interesting thing every year.

And yeah, Tennessee, top in the list this year.

Obviously, not afraid to spend money.

Yeah, and just to clarify for some people that maybe don't understand what a FOIA request is

and all, not that you have to go deep into that, but this is not, Matt Stahl covers Alabama,

so he hates Tennessee, so he's trying to make Tennessee look bad. This is actually the numbers

that they have to report. I mean, this is all legitimate. You're not making up any of these figures.

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