Stars Matter: ACC recruiting confidential & Cormani McClain's Colorado visit and the Deion Sanders Effect
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The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Mitch and Ari welcome The Athletic's University of Miami beat writer and ACC pundit Manny Navarro to Stars Matter! The trio detail the wild Cormani McClain recruitment timeline and discuss the possibility of him signing with Colorado. Staying in the realm of unpredictable recruitment stories, what could happen next with Jaden Rashada and Florida? Could Rashada pursue legal recourse, and what precautions might recruits, schools, and collectives install in the future based on this situation? Manny shares what insights he and Grace Raynor gained writing their ACC recruiting confidential; Mario Cristobal recruits at an SEC level, Dabo continues to be admired by many, and then there's the rest of the ACC's coaches. Are the Big Ten's and SEC's media rights deals threatening the ACC? Is there a future where an assistant coaching position at Purdue is more valuable than at Florida State? Which states produces the most ACC recruits? Plus, '24 QB news and Manny surprises the guys with a trivia question.
Follow Mitch on Twitter: @MitchLight
Follow Ari on Twitter: @AriWasserman
Follow Manny on Twitter: @Manny_Navarro
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| 0:29.9 | Music Welcome to Stars Matter, a recruiting podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman. |
| 0:50.3 | Ari, today, we've got a guest, Manny Navarro. |
| 0:53.6 | Did we come up with a nickname for him? Was he just Florida man? I feel like that's taken. So we kind of need a name for him. Are you any suggestions? Sexy works. Okay. Sexy for me. My wife bossing me all the time. Yeah, I mean, hey. Mani, I would say if you got it, flon it. So there we go. He's got all those hot Florida summers that help him shed the, |
| 1:14.5 | shed the weight around the face too because he's got a nice chiseled jaw because of all that sweating. |
| 1:20.9 | In Dallas, you have to pay like 50 bucks a month for a sauna pass. |
| 1:25.6 | In Florida, it's free. |
| 1:27.1 | And no income tax. Just open your |
| 1:28.9 | car door and let the hit hit you and you'll lose 10 pounds. So a good show today. We're going to talk |
| 1:34.1 | to Manny, just recruiting in the state of Florida. He did a recruiting mailbag a few weeks ago |
| 1:40.1 | just on recruiting the state of Florida, the big three there. |
| 1:45.6 | I guess is it a big four soon? |
| 1:47.4 | I don't know. |
| 1:47.7 | We'll have to talk to Mani about it. |
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