Stars Matter: The $8 million recruit, schools that recruit themselves + Auburn's future

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🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Mitch and Ari start today's show discussing the important story in college football -- the $8 million recruit. How will this change recruiting moving forward? Plus, do great teams win because they have great players, or do great players go there because it is a great school? And, will Auburn suffer in recruiting if schools like Florida, Miami and USC reach their potential?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Stars Matter, a recruiting podcast from The Athletic.
0:16.0	I'm Mitch Light, joined as usual by Ari Wasserman.
0:19.6	Ari, we've got a lot to get to today. We're going to review some commitments from last week. There's a big NIL deal that we need to talk about. You went to a camp, I know, on Sunday. Well, a football underarmor camp. It's not like you went to a camp. I participated. You did. How's your 40 time nowadays? Well, we'll get to that.
0:37.6	We'll get to your 40 time. Nine seconds flat. Yeah. Good, good. We got some good, good questions in the mailbag. And then as usual, I will attempt to stump you with the trivia question. All right. Well, let's get to the big top. First of all, Ari, how are you doing today? I'm doing well. Yeah, yeah.
0:34.8	I'm excited to talk about this
0:36.3	stuff because... All right, well, let's get to the big top. First of all, Ari, how are you doing today? I'm doing well.
0:55.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:52.0	I'm excited to talk about this stuff because in the comments of Stu's story, I don't know if you went and read the comments, but someone was like, where's Ari Wasserman? Yes. Didn't you say I'm right here? Yeah, I don't even understand why. why don't you go ahead and introduce the story for people who didn't read it and then I'll try to figure out
0:54.0	what that was all about. Yeah, Stuart don't even understand why, why don't you go ahead and introduce the story for people who didn't read it, and then I'll try to figure out what that was all about.
1:13.4	Yeah, Stuart Mandel, our, I don't even know Stu's title, man.
1:17.5	He's not the main, our editor-in-chief, I believe.
1:20.9	Had a big story Friday.
1:22.6	Yeah, Friday afternoon.
1:24.8	I wouldn't call it a news dump because that's usually when news organizations, teams
1:29.1	release stuff that they want to get buried on Friday.
1:33.1	But Stu got this story.
1:34.8	It's been working on it.
1:36.2	Basically worked with a lawyer in California who was working on an NIL deal for a player
1:41.7	from California that is just sort of like the biggest, we knew this
1:46.0	was coming already, but it was kind of the biggest wow of the NIL deal.
1:50.2	Reported can go up over $8 million, I believe over the course of this athlete's career if he stays
1:56.5	at the school.
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