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

I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman.

Ari, how are you doing today?

I'm doing well.

We had a few stories that worked on together that ran this week, so I'm excited to talk about those.

Yes.

We're kind of in a lull on the recruiting action calendar right now, so some bigger picture theory

and discussion about some recruiting thoughts, I think is going to be fun.

It's kind of the reason why the show exists, to be honest.

It never was meant to be, you know, here's what happened every five seconds.

It was to talk about big picture stuff, and I think we're going to get into that today.

So you just stole my intro.

So I guess you're the host now.

You just take over.

So as I was going to say,

Ari, we're going to talk about the normal things we always talk about. We're going to do

recruiting commitments. We're going to have mailbag. We're going to have trivia. But we're going

to spend a large portion of the show today, as Ari alluded to, some stories that we published on the athletic. We both worked on them together. It's perfect like fodder for podcast or talk radio, whatever. So I'm looking forward to that. So first, Ari, a couple notable things happen. Like you said, there weren't, you know, there are some commitments we need to get to, but what do you make of Keon Keeley?

He's a guy we've talked a lot about, former Notre Dame commitment. He will be in Columbus, Ohio, this weekend for the Notre Dame game as a visitor for Ohio State for Notre Dame. He's going to Florida next week. is you haven't done it a while, but the big board where you go the most influential

uncommitted

recruits, I would think Keon Keeley has to be, would be at the top of that list. Yeah, you know,

and it's like Alabama is the team to beat right now. So when Alabama is the team to beat,

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