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That's Shopify.combeek slash special offer. Welcome back to this week's episode of the state of recruiting, your weekly

Horned 24-7 recruiting podcast.

I'm Mike Roach, and I'm joined as always by Nick Harris. And before we get

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So Nick, you've been really busy, I guess, all week.

Before we get into everything, how's it going? It's going pretty good,

yeah. It's been a, it's been kind of a busy week, but we love busy weeks in this business.

So Friday night, we had a really busy weekend scheduled for football recruiting. There was a big

tournament in town that was going to kick off Friday night

with an event. We have pass-rush school Saturday and Sunday. We had the USA Football Combine,

which we were trying to figure out how to cover all those events. And while I was on my way,

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