Welcome to Stars Matter, the recruiting podcast from the Athletics.

I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman.

Ari, you got some fancy new equipment there.

Better lighting.

You look more handsome than ever.

Yeah, got to get in the gym.

The lighting can only do so much.

The lighting can't help.

Yeah, I mean, ask some people, it's better to not have lighting on you.

But, yeah, yeah, I'm happy the podcasts. We're going to the moon with this podcast feed, and we're happy that everybody's here listening to it. The question is, should the show be called do Stars Matter this week? Well, that's what I was going to say. On the heels of Sunbelt Saturday, we're going to address that all-important question of Stars Mattering with Chris Vinini.

We're going to bring on Chris, our Group of Five expert, national, does a great job covering the entire landscape.

It really does a great job with the group of five.

Knows a lot of the coaches there, a lot of deep dives with those programs.

We're going to talk about some prospects that Ari's been talking to on the phone and going

to be writing about some good stuff there.

We're going to review the notable commitments of the week.

We're going to hit the mailbag and have some trivia.

I want to start with some news that happened yesterday.

We saw that Ruben Owens, the number one running back in the country, a Louisville

commitment since June, top 25 player, someone tweeted out that he's going to visit Texas A&M.

And we all kind of laughed. We were on a Slack channel, me, you, Max Olson, and Sam Khan,

because after that surprise commitment, he tweeted out something like 110% committed,

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