Stars Matter: Michigan's recruiting philosophy + college football demographics

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🗓️ 11 December 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Mitch and Ari are joined by Yahoo Sports columnist Dan Wetzel to dive into the larger discussions about college football recruiting. What is Michigan's ceiling? Can Miami keep recruits home? What is wrong with Texas? And are there any programs that are "sleeping giants"?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Stars Matter, a recruiting podcast from The Athletic.
0:22.1	I'm Mitch Light, college football editor with The Athletic, and I'm joined by Ari Wasserman,
0:26.4	our national recruiting writer for the athletic.
0:29.5	Today, Ari, we've got a very special guest.
0:32.6	Dan Wetzel, columnist from Yahoo Sports, author of several books.
0:37.3	I think I have a few up there in my bookshelf.
0:40.4	Dan, welcome to the show.
0:42.4	Thrilled to have you.
0:43.7	I'm going to dive in.
0:44.9	First question, what is your interest in college football recruiting?
0:48.6	I love it.
0:49.3	I've always been into it.
0:53.1	So just like as a casual football fan, just liking to know where the top,
0:56.4	in some ways I like recruiting better than the games sometimes.
1:00.3	Yeah.
1:00.6	So when I started in journalism, I did college basketball recruiting back in, you know,
1:08.1	a long time ago now.
1:09.1	And I just, so recruiting to me, football or basketball, it's the least covered,
1:17.9	most important thing in sports.
1:20.1	Like nobody really covers it as a, as an actual thing.
1:25.1	It's all where you go, who would visit you taking,
1:28.5	where you go into school,
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