Welcome to Stars Matter, a recruiting podcast from the athlete.

I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman.

Ari, how are you doing today, buddy?

I'm doing pretty well.

How are you?

I'm good. I'm good. We got a good show today. We are going to bring in Christian Capel, who covers the University of Washington for us at the athletic. We do actually talk about Washington a lot on this podcast for some of their recruiting misses. hot start in the field.

So maybe they will have some recruiting gets down the road.

But that should be a good conversation. of their recruiting misses, hot start in the field. So maybe they will have some recruiting gets down the road,

but that should be a good conversation with Christian.

Big week for Florida State.

Not a lot going on on the commitment front,

but Florida State got a huge commitment that kind of changed the tenor of their class.

We're going to talk about that.

Got a stat about some success of first year coaches on the trail.

Not a huge shock, Ari, because there's so many big-name coaches, but these guys are doing

very well.

We're going to take a look at the newest job opening, Georgia Tech, and see how that fits

in the pecking order of the open jobs already.

Mailbag and trivia.

Let's first, let's start with that Florida State commitment. Hakeem Williams, a number 22

overall, five-star wide receiver from Fort Lauderdale. Manning Navarro, our Miami writer, got in touch

with Hakeem and did a really good story on his commitment. Class up to number 16 overall, number three in the ACC.

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