Stars Matter: How to build a championship roster + recruiting mailbag
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ari Wasserman and Mitch Light discuss recruiting news and storylines that are taking place during the 2022 season.
A huge 2024 prospect has reclassified to the 2023 class. Where will he land come signing day?
Florida flips a FSU recruit. LSU flips a Baylor recruit.
Is Texas A&M's on-field struggles impacting Jimbo Fisher's recruiting?
When coaches are building a roster, should they prioritize up-front players or skill?
Mailbag questions on developing talent, the college football playoff, the white out's impact on recruiting, transfer portal and coaching buyouts.
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| 0:29.9 | Music Welcome to Stars Matter, the recruiting podcast from the athletic. |
| 0:48.8 | I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman. |
| 0:51.0 | Ari, how are you doing today? |
| 0:52.2 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:53.6 | Second podcast in as many hours. So, |
| 0:56.3 | you know, I'm warmed up for you, Mitch. Yeah, usually it's the other way around. Usually you're trying to get out of this one to go do another one. Yes, now I have, you have my undivided attention for as long as you want it. Okay, maybe an hour, hour and five. We'll see. Let's go an hour. yeah yeah we'll see how we feel there it's usually an hour it's a big week or not not a big week |
| 0:54.6 | usually an hour. Yeah. We'll see how we feel there. It's usually an hour. It's a big week or not a big week, usually an hour. But I think we got a good show. A lot of stuff going on. |
| 1:17.1 | A highly ranked 2024 prospect has reclassified. There were a few significant flips. And we can talk about, I think this might, you know, we're near flipping season as signing day approaches. |
| 1:29.2 | Flip's. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah, we'll talk some Texas A&M, of course. |
| 1:32.2 | I don't think we can do that a pod without talking Texas A&M. |
| 1:35.5 | I want to ask you a question about roster construction. |
| 1:38.8 | And we got mailbag and trivia as well. |
| 1:42.1 | So real quick, kind of one of the big news items of the week was Desmond Ricks, |
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