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

I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman, as usual.

Ari, how you doing, bud?

I'm living the dream, man.

I'm excited to get into a little Texas today.

So you're teasing our guest already.

I stole your job.

Okay, go ahead.

Yes.

Very soon, we're going to be joined by Sam Khan, who is our tech expert.

I think it's a great job.

I mean, great title for Sam.

It's very accurate. It is a great job. He covers Texas, covers Texas A&M and has a background covering recruiting, covers recruiting now. All right, how do you feel about you? You're our recruiting, national recruiting writer, and you live in Dallas. Yeah, we hired a recruiting writer who lives in Texas.

Well, he writes about everything, and he goes to all the Texas game. So I guess that I'm inadequate.

Is that what you're looking for?

That was what I was, you said it, not me.

Sam has been a-

You guys compliment each other very well.

How about that?

Absolutely.

And he's been a tremendous help to me in the state of Texas since he started. So, um, he talked about someone who knows people, knows coaches. Yeah, yeah. This guy, this guy, if, if we're going to talk about Texas recruiting in like the Oklahoma debate and all the times on this show and on Andy Staples show that I've stood up for Texas and I'm like, why can't this

happen or what? This is the guy to listen to. So I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'm very curious to hear what he has to say about it. But good. We'll get to Sam in a few minutes. We're going to talk about some commitments, heating up a little bit, you know, it's, it's been slow last couple weeks, some more movement there.

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