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

I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman.

Ari, we have a special guest.

Another recruiting writer at the athletic, Grace Rainer.

Before we say how to Grace, Ari, are you threatened by the addition of another national

recruiting writer and the fact that it's Grace?

The fact that you asked me that question is hilarious.

I was going to say, yeah, and welcome to the show.

The person who's going to take my job.

Grace Rainer. every single time we have this podcast, he brings up your name at least twice, Grace.

And every single time we're having-

As a model writer.

Yes, in a good way.

And every time we talk every day on Slack about what I'm working on, he always uses you as an example of what I could do better. So like we're... Grace, do know what an adverb is? I do know what an adverb is. You're ahead of the game. No idea. It's okay. They're kind of hard. Yeah. What's the point of knowing that information? Grace, how are you doing today?

I'm doing well.

How are y'all? Good, good. I don't know how it helps you. It's like either you know how to write a sentence or you don't. A lot of editors hate adverbs, right? Do you like them, Mitch? Yeah, they're fine. You don't want to ever do it. Okay. Okay. Okay. Well, let's dive in.

It was another light week of commitments, but... want to overdo it. Okay. Okay. Well, let's dive in.

It was another light week of commitments, but still a ton to talk about.

We're going to check in on several programs as we do.

Just see what's going on there.

We're going to discuss Ari's column that ran Monday, I believe, earlier this week, I should say, just that he promotes a candidate for the Arizona State job, very strongly promotes a candidate. So we're going to go

dive into that. I've uncovered some evidence that suggests that possibly that the curve is

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