What's going on, y'all? This is the cover free podcast, and it's our recruiting hour special,

of course. We come to you every week on Tuesdays. I'm Bud Elliott. That's Andrew Ibs of 24-7 sports.

Drew, what's going on, man? Not much, bud. T-minus one month until national signing day,

or I should say the early signing period. Busy seasons upon us, right?

And I think it's going to be a fun few weeks just given the state of college football,

right?

All these coaching changes.

We got schools gunning for flips.

We got schools that are going to be assembling recruiting classes.

And let's not forget, like, there used to be in-home visits with head coaches.

There used to be these big monster recruiting weekends in December, but the calendar has set it up.

We're going to go from, like, Thanksgiving week right into signing day.

So it should be interesting, fun times ahead.

Yeah.

As someone who covers college football, but we also have, like, lives and families.

It would be interesting if we could spread this out a little more like the NFL does it, right, to where we keep some interest in the sport year round, but instead, no, we want to do every single thing in like a 60-day period here. Let's have the playoffs and free agency and the transfer portal at the same time. Love it. One thing if you are loving though, if you're a Buckeyes fan,

is the play of this team on the field.

I mean, Julian Sane, former five-star, elite 11 winner,

just absolutely just darting it up out there nonstop.

And it turns out when you put the ball on target,

guys like Jeremiah Smith and Cardinal Tate are pretty good dudes

to ride for the catch, go up and make some winning plays there in the red zone. But this is the recruiting show. And of course, those guys were all five stars. And Ohio State seems to like the conversion rate seems to be pretty high there in Columbus, if you're a five star. They might have two real studs coming down the pipe here.

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