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

I'm Mitch Light. He's Ari Wasserman and Ari. I think this is, we're going old school today. I think this is our first

quote unquote home game where we're both in our respective home offices

recording this without a guest in about a month. Pre-wedding.

Yeah, I see that you're in a different room right now and it's kind of freaking me out.

Not in a different room, different setup. Different setup. Okay. Yes, I put, I put, I put, I got my little card table out. I've got, um, just, the computer's facing a different way. So, you know, just shaking things up. Class of 1993. That's cool. Yeah. Oh yeah. So you can be reminded how old I am every time you see this. So when were you born? Eighty-seven. Okay. So you were six years old. I mean, I'm getting to the point now where the young thing is coming to an end because I'm turning 35 in July. And like my first, you know, 10 years in the industry, I was always like the 26 year old, 27 year old and a room full of, you know, 50 year olds.

And like now it's just like I'm, I'm getting up there. So, you know, and all the life. Yeah, we'll only be 15 years apart in a little bit. So that's not bad. You know, it's a kind of a sad way to look at things. And I don't know if this is the way you, but like I'm married now, have a child, bought a house and graduated college,

got my drivers.

I mean,

I don't know what other life milestones there are.

I mean, I don't know what other life milestones there are. I guess the, the next one is when our baby has a baby in hopefully 20 or 25 years. So I, more like 25. But, you know, I've had a good run so far. So, but I'm not going to make fun of you for being old anymore because I'm going to blink my eye and I'll be your age too. Well, that's what happens. But good show today. Hopefully be as handsome as you by then. Thank you. I appreciate that, Ari. We're going to talk about a Big Ten school that we don't often discuss on the pot,

had a huge week on the recruiting trail. LSU did what you'd expect from a recruiting power.

This is sort of like what you say. They landed an in-state star, and then they went out west to grab

another four-star. We'll talk more about LSU and what they got done this week. We'll talk about

other notable commitments and some

great mailbag questions and as always trivia. So, all right, let's start with LSU. When LSU gets

two four-star commitments in a week, it's not really that big of a deal. That's what teams like LSU do.

But I just thought it was sort of significant because you use the phrase like in your

mailbox a lot, like that's what recruiting at the highest level is, or that's what

recruiting powers are supposed to do.

And I just thought it was interesting.

They stayed in state, got four-star running back, Trey Hawley from Farmerville, Louisiana,

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