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It is Sunday night, March 14th, The Year of Our Lord, 2021.

We've got a jam-pack show. A little bit different flavor

tonight. It's something you guys have asked for. I said, we're not doing that September.

We're not doing that in December. January? No. But here we are in March. There's a lot of other

sporting interests out there. So I figured, you know what? Our die-hards are going to be here.

We're going to give it to him tonight. What I'm talking about is a little bit different show. I want to talk some recruiting tonight, but I'm not talking about a specific recruit. Like we're not taking you into the home of a four-star offensive guard from Salt Lake City and talking about his top 10. What I wanted to do is I went and got Steve Wolfgang and I went and got Brandon Huffman from the West Coast for a really

specific reason. And I said, you know what? Let's just go as long as we want to go. I'm going to accumulate all the stuff you guys always ask about. Some behind the scenes recruiting stuff, maybe sort of the inner workings of the recruiting industry. Like how are rankings formed? What about this kid? what about that kid? And we're going to talk about it. And it's not going to be Q&A. Like it's not

going to be kind of compressed. recruiting industry, like how are rankings formed? What about this kid? What about that kid?

And we're going to talk about it. And it's not going to be Q&A. Like it's not going to be kind of compressed into two or three minutes. We're just going to dive in. And so that's what we're going to do on tonight's show. Now, because there's broadcast scheduling conflicts, I pre-recorded this. It's a really, really good conversation, though, and I think you get a lot out of it. So this is my extended talk with Steve Wolfong and Brandon Huffman.

Hope you enjoy it.

Wolfong, what's it like talking to me on a Sunday night?

My man, I've been wanting to be on this show since for years. So to finally be here on this show, to be on the main event, our largest

platform show in the network is big for me and big for my career.

Yeah, it's, I look for. My wife asked me if I was nervous. I said, no, I don't know. Josh makes

you feel at ease, but I feel good and I'm ready to rock and roll. My Sunday show isn't complete until I get the Monday morning text from Wilfong critiquing the Sunday night show. And then that's when we really put a wrap on the Sunday night show. But here we are. You're finally on the Sunday night show. You can't watch live at the Wilfong house when I got kids that are six and three. We watch a little America's funny some videos and maybe there's a game on and then it's

bedtime. So I watch Monday morning. I got you. I got you. So I've got stuff that's just piled up. A lot of people ask questions. They've just piled up. So I figured, hey, middle of basketball season, but folks want to college football. Let's just talk about this. There's going to be a free flowing format here. Let's start with this. I did a segment a few months back about the word bust when it

comes to recruiting. A lot of people look at a kid if he's rated four stars, five stars, and he doesn't completely meet expectation. He gets labeled a recruiting bust, which in some cases, okay, maybe there was a mis-evaluation. But to me, Will Fong, you can tell me if you disagree, you're intimately involved in the process. I think far more times than not, especially in

modern day where you have so much observation of a kid, so many camp interactions, so much

more film. Everything about the kid is known or as much as can be known from a physical standpoint,

and that is what a star ranking is, that

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