Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by Stuart Mandel.

We have upgraded from Ralph Rousseau.

That spot next to us is a different colleague, Mani Navarro, much more rosier disposition,

much more even keel,

probably a better youth sports coach than Ralph would be.

Mani, thanks for joining us today.

We're going to get to the mailbag later.

Mani's had a bunch of interesting stories that he has done over the last month.

A couple will get to in a bit tie into his

team-by-team portal rankings and the grades that he gave each school and the power for. It's a

great way, if you haven't checked it out, you should because it's a great way to kind of get up to

speed on who went where and how it seems to have played out for them. But before we get to that,

you had a story, I think, in the last week where you looked back at the 20, 23 recruiting rankings,

and just from the first glance of it, it really looks like there's a pretty good batting average

of hit rates in that crop.

And just by going by this, as you detailed, in our friend Dane Bruegler's latest mock draft,

20 of the 23 projected first round picks are members of that 2023 recruiting class,

and 14 of them were ranked in the top 100.

Manny, what jumped out to you when you started digging into all this? Well, I think really when you think about high school recruiting the last few

years and how people have said, you know, it's not as important as it used to be because of

the transfer portal and the amount of older players you can get, right?

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