National Signing Day Preview
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
With National Signing Day in sight, Andy and Ari posit their insights ahead of a frenzied Wednesday. Should recruiting rankings also reflect programs that hit it big in the transfer portal? After losing both its DC and OC, are Clemson and Dabo Swinney on the cusp of not being a perennial power? Jimbo Fisher has transformed recruiting at Texas A&M, and this class should silence his skeptics. Is Ari back on the Texas wagon after Sarkisian and the Longhorns earned a commitment from Quinn Ewers? Also, Andy and Ari discuss their next bet payoff - and it's one where you can help us give back.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to your favorite guilt-free podcast. |
| 0:12.3 | That's right. |
| 0:12.8 | It's the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:14.0 | Ari Wasserman is back. |
| 0:15.7 | Happy National Signing Day. |
| 0:17.5 | You may be listening to this on National Signing Day, Eve, but more than likely, you're listening to it on National Signing Day. Ari, this is your day. This is the, |
| 0:27.4 | Stars Matter Day. How you feeling? Yeah, I'm feeling pretty good. I, this day is always |
| 0:34.9 | kind of just a crazy whirlwind of a bunch of transactions, and then it takes a few days for the dust to settle and to really analyze who got who and who went where and all that stuff. But, you know, I think at the end of the day, you're going to be seeing the same five teams that, you know, we talk about incessantly on this podcast and, you know, maybe a few other ones that are going to be surprising. But, you know, I think that more so than any time, |
| 0:37.8 | you know, in the last 10 years, you know, maybe a few other ones that are going to be surprising. |
| 0:54.7 | But, you know, I think that more so than any time, you know, in the last 10 years, Andy, |
| 0:58.8 | the craziness of the transfer portal is creating spots. |
| 1:03.0 | The craziness of the coaching carousel is creating flips and changes. |
| 1:07.7 | I would say that right now, it seems things are a little bit more, is turbulent the right |
| 1:12.1 | word? It's all over the place. Yeah. More so than really it ever has been. And it's usually a |
| 1:18.7 | crazy day in its purest form. So I'm super excited about it. There's a bunch of five star prospects |
| 1:23.4 | that, you know, are out to, you know, announce and some other top 100 players that are going to as |
| 1:28.3 | well, you know, it's funny to me. And I don't know if we've ever talked about this on the podcast |
| 1:32.4 | that the early signing period is when it is. I don't really understand it on the calendar. It is the |
| 1:39.6 | new national signing day. There will be some holdouts because people are going to want to, you know, |
| 1:43.4 | take visits or think a little bit harder once coaching a carousel kind of slows down a little bit. |
| 1:48.7 | But like, this is signing day. And we're going to know about 85% of everything that we need to |
| 1:54.4 | know about who's going to get who. And it just has always been weird to me that it's not in July. |
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