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Music Welcome to Stars Matter, a recruiting podcast from The Athletic.

I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman.

All right, busy day for you today at the Athletic.

Yeah, yeah, firing people up. Got some people on my side got some people who think i'm a moron and that's the perfect balance of sports journalism so thanks for helping me on the on the column about the playoff expansion and the price we pay to have it i encourage anybody to go read it if they haven't read it yet and you might like me more or you might hate me. So it's up to you and what you thought. I would hope that someone wouldn't form an opinion on you as a person based on your opinion on playoff expansion. That would be you have in the comments sections on my stories in the last few years I guess have you. I'm scared of the, I'm scared of the comments, actually. Yeah, it's,

it's a,

it's a dark place sometimes,

but I weed down into them a little bit. And, I mean, it's good to, it's good to, uh, correspond with, with rational people who have, well, there's this one guy who got on my case on Tuesday for the recruiting mailbag about not having specific numbers of the NIL deals that Miami is offering.

Sorry, dude. on Tuesday for the recruiting mailbag about not having specific numbers of the NIL deals that

Miami is offering.

Sorry, dude.

I'm like, I, nobody does.

Like, said I'm a shitty journalist.

Well, I mean, not because of that, but yeah.

No, but good column today.

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