Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel.

Join, as always, by Bruce Feldman. We're taking a little bit of a risk. We're recording our show early, which just assures that news is going to break between the recording of it and when the show goes live on Monday.

But we have the athletic staff retreat next week, so we're going to be traveling on Monday.

This week, we're pleased to be joined by our colleague Max Olson.

I think repeat guests in calendar year 2023, uh, Max on the on the audible, which doesn't

happen very often. So, you know, congrats, I guess. I don't know if that's an honor or a

nuisance that we called you again. Yeah, I mean,

it is an honor after how long I was like banned for me on the show, like just to knock out

a few in a row. It feels really nice. Why do all these people think they're banned from the show? I don't

understand. I don't know. Well, we brought you on because you and Bruce wrote this great article

that went up Friday, tampering confidential.

In college football, it's inevitable and impossible to stop.

You guys talk to a whole bunch of coaches, in particular group of five coaches, who have had their players poached in the transfer portal.

And, you know, it's not happening the way it's supposed to, right?

It enters his name in the portal.

Everybody can log in and then start contacting them.

We know it's a fact of life that these kids are being contacted and probably know where they're,

either where they're going or what schools are interested in them before they actually enter the portal.

But this is some really good descriptions, you know, in detail of how it all works.

One thing that was a before we get into tampering, you know, I've heard about this from talking to other coaches.

Maybe you guys can get into it a little more for the readers.

Like the level of sophistication at Power 5 school is now in terms of scouting other

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