Welcome into the latest episode of Recruiting Down South, the Saturday Down South

podcast. I'm your host Michael Bratton. You can give me a follow on Twitter at Michael W

Bratton where I'm constantly tweeting about SEC football news and this time of

year of course recruiting news with National Signing Day just around the corner.

The latest episode of the podcast we wanted to bring back Corey Long, the Saturday Down South

recruiting expert, just kind of get his thoughts on the overall

National Signing Day as we head into it. I wanted to ask him about official visits,

why they're so important, particularly as we get closer to signing day, if there's

really a benefit to programs to land that final official visit, it seems oftentimes that that's the key one that the coaching staffs are looking for

So we just kind of want to ask him why he thought that was

What is we seen other coaches like Jeremy Pruitt take a different approach this year.

We kind of go into that as well.

So hope you enjoy our conversation with Corey Long.

All right, the latest guests on the SDS Recruiting Down South podcast is

Corey Long of Saturday Down South, formerly of ESPN recruiting.

Thanks again, Koy for joining us. The last one was a big hit, so it was great to talk to you once again.

Oh, it's great to be here. We got about 72 out, about 48 hours before things get a little crazy.

So, not as crazy as they have in the past, but crazy enough.

And how many of, you know, these elite prospects that aren't committed?

There's about 12 to 15 that are really high profile all American type guys

that are not committed in considering SEC schools.

How realistic is it that you think that a lot of these guys have not made up their mind at

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