All right, as I start this show, I need to start off with an apology.

That's where I need to start.

By the way, it's great to be with you for another week.

I'm Pete Mundo.

We're Heartland College Sports Weekly, part of

Heartland College Sports.com. You're independent, big 12, digital media outlet. It's great to be here

with you. So last week, we started off the show talking about the recruiting rankings.

That's what we talked about last week. And a lot of you got on me, email,

social media, talking about the fact that I misinterpreted the rankings and I didn't talk

enough about how the transfer portal is a bigger deal, and the average recruiting ranking is more important

than the total number of points in the recruiting rankings. And those are all true. And if I did a

bad job of explaining that, I know I mentioned it, but if I didn't spend enough time on it,

then that's on me. I'll take that heat. I do not mind doing it and taking that

heat. So I'm here to take it and to admit yes, the recruiting rankings are not even what they were

five years ago. They aren't because the transfer portal has changed the game so much.

It is such a bigger deal that you can't just look at a team and say, okay, who have they

recruited, who's coming in, and that is kind of it. Like, it's so much more than that now. And that's

true. And the transfer portal has changed things. I know I talked last week, and I heard myself say it,

talk about the fact that the total number of points in the recruiting rankings

that like 247 sports uses is not entirely the best way to do it because the more recruits

you have, the more points you have. So it skews towards that. Example, Kansas 6th and the

Big 12 in recruiting, their average recruit is an 84.77, which on an average basis, would be last in the

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