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T-Epsey Max, Dusty for More. All right. This is a special edition of the state of recruiting. We'll call it an open mic, and I'm joined by a good friend and one of the best in the talent evaluation game. He is one of our national recruiting. We'll call it an open mic and I am joined by a good friend and one of the best

in the talent evaluation game. He is one of our national recruiting analysts and evaluators here

at 24-7. It is the great Gabe Brooks. Gabe, how's it going? It's going. I appreciate you

having me. I'm, you know, I was thinking I had those, had some, some good time

off there at the end of December. I think a lot of us did and knew what was coming. And even

though the end of December was not that long ago, uh, between all American bowl and all of the,

you know, the end of cycle ranking stuff and, you know,

all the usual stuff on top of it. Like it's, it's, it's, I think it's already time for maybe a

couple of days here or there. Yeah. To take it easy. You've got that, that end of the cycle

fatigue. I know you guys did a great job putting together

the top 247 in the last week, and now you're going through and doing some more. We're going to

talk about that. I really wanted to get you on, A, to talk about the Texas class and what that

class is bringing in, but also just a little rankings education for our listeners and readers.

You know, I think that there are a lot of questions about what goes into the process.

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