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

I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman and Ari, today with a very special guest.

Austin Meek covers the University of Michigan for us at the athletic.

We have talked a lot about Michigan football on this podcast, about its recruiting, lack

thereof, why they aren't recruiting better.

So now we're going to bring Austin in.

He's going to answer every question.

We're going to solve every Michigan recruiting question.

Austin, first of all,

welcome to the podcast. You'll look back. This will be the defining moment in your career. I'm very

confident. I think this is the highlight to this point, yeah, of my four years at the athletic. It's a real

honor to be on the show with you guys. Well, good. Ari, would you like to welcome your former

Midwestern colleague? Mitch said, well, maybe we can have Austin on for a segment that we could talk about. I said, if we have Austin on, it's the whole show. You know, like this is, this guy is, this guy's big time and his beats big time. So I'm happy here, Austin. There's always, there's always stuff to talk about with Michigan recruiting. We can get the, we can get the couch out here and just settle in for the long haul. Yeah. So we're going to take a deep dive in the Wolverines recruiting, which Ari we talk about. Ari writes a lot about. Hasn't been great in recent years, but obviously the team's been very good. We're going to talk a little bit Ohio State recruiting in its pursuit of offensive linemen. Clemson picked up a running back commitment on Wednesday. We'll have trivia, and we might dip into the mailbag. I don't know if Austin knew this, but as a guest, you will be subjected to trivia. And I've done my research, Austin. Not only do we have Michigan trivia, we have trivia about your alma alma mater as well. So I've done my research. Okay. Well, if it's, if it's Kansas State trivia

circa like 1998, it's right in my wheelhouse. So, okay. So, Ari, you want to dive in first? You're,

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