Welcome to the Audible.

I'm Stuart Mandel, and it is signing day 2017.

My regular co-host, Bruce Feldman, is out on the road.

I am manning the ship. But fortunately, I've got all

kinds of guests to talk to. I've been bringing you coaches throughout the day. If you missed

some of our earlier episodes, please download them on iTunes or Stitcher or Google Play.

In this episode, we are going to combine three interviews I did, and that's going to start, first of all, with Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly.

We talk a lot about recruiting, but frankly, it's the first chance I've had to ask him about last year's four and eight season, and all of the changes he's made on his coaching staff since then.

He also gets into a little bit about Brandon Wimbush, the quarterback who will be taking over for Deshaun Kaiser next year.

I also talk to Texas coach Tom Herman, who just finished his first full class at Texas that, frankly, is being panned.

Usually everybody's all excited about their recruiting classes.

Texas fans are a little bit miffed at a class that is going to

finish outside the top 25. We talk about that and frankly, some of the challenges he's

dealing with on the recruiting trail so far. And finally, Georgia coach Kirby Smart, that's a short

interview, but we're happy to have him and he will talk about a class that all of the experts have ranked

in the top five in the country and as high as number three behind only Alabama and Ohio State.

So let's get to those interviews now.

Pleased to be joined right now by Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly here on signing day.

He literally just announced

his class there in South Bend. Brian, I'm going to definitely get into this class with you,

but this is the first chance I've had to talk to you since the season. I know you've got a good

sense of humor, so I'm just going to say, what happened last year? Poor job on my part.

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