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

I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman.

Ari, how are you doing today, bud?

I'm doing okay. How about you, Mitch?

Good, good. It's a day early. We usually record on Wednesday, but we're recording Tuesday this week.

I'm going to be tied up with some meetings, editor meetings.

If something major happens on the recruiting front was signing day only about a week away,

nine days away, we might come back with a later episode later in the week or if not,

we'll just come back.

Maybe Monday, we haven't really talked about it.

Maybe Monday or just signing the night of signing day.

We'll figure something out.

But good show today.

Nothing earth shattering in the past week.

Ari just like a lot of little things, a lot of big

commitments, a lot of big flips, more movement on the coaching carousel. We're going to get

into Dion. We're going to get into your story on Dion's big flip from Saturday night and we'll

have some trivia. So yeah, before the two biggest things I think that happened over the week,

and we'll get to them are Ruben Owens, Flip, and Kean-Keeley to Alabama.

But did you ever think you would be texting someone?

And the response would be like, I can't talk now because I'm eating dinner with Coach Prime.

Yeah, I know.

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