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And Barton, you have been put through a whirlwind of takes.

We were just talking. I mean, this is like as the National Director of Scouting for 24-7 Sports, you carry a 12 month, a year responsibility that on a day like today, it bubbles up to the surface in a way that is truly impressive.

So first of all, in front of all of our listeners, great work to you, Trey, the whole 24-7 Sports team.

I was there as a viewer and as someone who has taken the content in, I thought you all did a good job.

Well, and not to make this some sort of acceptance speech, but I mean, what I do is sort of become the mouthpiece for our network.

And, you know, mining out info from guys like Steve Wilfong and Keith Nieber and Rusty Manzell and, you know, just our network of experts on sort of the boots on the ground is, you know, those are really the guys with all the inside.

I dig it all out and have my sources here and there, but I've gotten to where, with all the college football stuff, I have such like a 60,000 foot view of it that I'm not in the guts quite as much.

And so those guys are the ones that just crush it on a day like that. And so it's fun to work in the 24-7 Sports network on a day like that where all the news is circulating and popping.

Okay, so to just to go ahead and give a quick preview, Barton, we have not gotten to talk about the Justin Fields news yet. I want to make sure we hit that before we get out of here.

Also speaking of Steve Wilfong, Jiren Williams from Miami will be transferring. So we need to get to that as well. But I wanted to start with this question.

And the under France watch too, huh?

Oh, potentially, potentially maybe pop the brakes a little bit. Yeah, all right. So we're sitting here record. It is almost 11 Eastern time on Wednesday night. Did you see he called into the Orlando Sentinel to straighten it out?

Oh, well, I guess I didn't I didn't find out specifically what he said. I was on the impression that the door was left open for him still to be to transfer or go pro.

But it was is that not what happened where where I think we left it is that it was going to be GoPro or come back to Florida state.

Okay, okay. Yeah, which and hey, Deandre Francois as a talent could absolutely end up declaring for the NFL draft going and having a pro career. So yeah, yeah, we'll see around there. So here we go.

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