in state recruiting may be falling apart but that might not necessarily be a bad thing

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Yes, I'm Zach Blackerby, joined by Brian Smith,

locked on recruiting expert and insider.

He also hosts the portal, Lockdown's Daily Recruiting Transfer Portal and NIL show.

We'll talk about Auburn's quarterback situation.

Tristan Tia's impressive A-Day change how we talk about the future of

Auburn's quarterback room, George Lamont's junior, Auburn's tight-in commitment from over the weekend.

But I want to start things off, Brian.

You actually just did a show about Auburn and Alabama and the in-state recruiting dynamics that's happening throughout a lot of schools and a lot of states throughout the Southeast.

And you're seeing more and more folks seem to pay less attention to that and place less of an importance.

And by folks,

I mean football programs, head coaches, GMs.

There seems to be a shift happening here.

Absolutely.

They want to make the best business decision, not just keep players inside the state borders.

I won't go into a ton of specifics, but there are several recruits. Some within the state of Alabama that while they would love to have them at either

Alabama or Auburn, they're like, you know what?

Good luck to you if you're going to take twice as much money somewhere else.

I get it.

But we'll go take another kid that will develop and we'll just do that over and over again. We'll spend a handful of kids so we don't break the bank and look stupid here. And that's, Georgia's been doing that for quite a while. So this is not a new model. I think more people are just looking at what Kirby does. It's easier to recruit to Georgia than most schools.

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