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

I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman.

Ari, how you doing?

Dabo episode. Yeah, we're going to talk about Dabo Sweeney's interesting comments. I got to put a timer on because we were talking yesterday and you said, I'm going to spend 30 minutes on Dabo and we can't spend 30 minutes on Dabo. So I don't know, maybe it's... Yeah, put a timer on because I might give you six minutes or something, but we can't go 30 minutes. So we're going to talk about Dabo how that might affect recruiting. And then after we're done with that, we're going to talk about how Clemson just got a commitment from a top 60 national quarterback. So maybe it won't affect Clemson's recruiting. And that quarterback is from Birmingham. And I did a little research about

in-state quarterbacks not going to Alabama, which I found a little interesting. We're going to talk

about the ramifications of Josh Connerly's surprising. I guess that's a right word, commitment to Oregon.

We'll have some mailbag questions. And I really, really like my trivia question this week, Ari.

I think you got to-

Yeah, I can't wait to hear it.

What I'm starting to realize is that the further into the calendar year we get, the easier the episodes are going to be.

Like, there's so much, like, natural stuff to just talk about now.

Yes.

And if you've been listening to Stars Matter the last few months, I thought we've done a pretty good job of weathering the boredom storm. But like now when things start ramping up and, you know, there's just

natural occurrences that are happening in the form of commitments and dabit talking. Like, it's going to be a

pretty good, a pretty good run of shows here, I think, for the next few months and into the signing

day period, which will be here before we know it. Yeah, I'm glad you didn't call our shows boring before we recorded them.

No, I don't think they were boring. I thought it was harder to scrap something interesting. They were, they required more prep. I thought the shows were fascinating. If Dabbe would have just said what he said this week, every week, it'd be easy. And I think that it's funny because you're like, I'm going to put a timer on this.

Like I'm not that fired up about it.

I just find it interesting.

So we're going to put a timer on this.

Like, I'm not that fired up about it. I just find it interesting. So we're going to have like a nice measured discussion about like what you think about it. And I'm going to try to do the thing that I, or try not to do the thing that I always do, which is freak out and then like have to explain what I meant in the next episode because people misunderstood me because I was too fired up. Okay, well, let's backtrack. And you can read Ari's. I thought you handled it very well in your mailbag, which was published yesterday morning. Here are the quotes that got you especially

fired up. And it's, you can check out the interview with Chris Lowe from ESPN.com. It's up there. And I guess the question

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