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2026 Big Ten Media Days Preview: 4 Stories To Watch For · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeye tomorrow morning. From Monday, July twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerdaman of Buckeye Insiders here in Chicago, Illinois. Because
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten Media Days kicks off on Tuesday, Tony, every year,
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  Speaker 1: this is an event where we spend the whole summer going. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it's almost Big Ten Media Days. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: that's right around the corner, and now is here. This
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  Speaker 1: is always sort of like the unofficial start of college
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  Speaker 1: football season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it goes by really quickly, and these are
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  Speaker 2: long days that start. We'll get we'll get registered by
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  Speaker 2: like eight in the morning and then doing stuff and
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  Speaker 2: then once the press conference wis start and then you
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  Speaker 2: get the breakouts. You're just you even with Ohio State's
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  Speaker 2: not here until Wednesday, but it's just constant movement and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff to take in. And then when
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  Speaker 2: we're done, it's like the season this year, even though
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  Speaker 2: it's still like a week until camp, but there's no break.
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  Speaker 1: So just let's run people through just a typical day
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  Speaker 1: at Big ten Media Days. Tuesday, for example, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to get there, as you said, registration opens at eight
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  Speaker 1: that's eight Central. So in case you're thinking I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to come to the hotel lobby, don't done. Embarrass yourself
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  Speaker 1: and be there an hour early eighth Central time registration opens,
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  Speaker 1: we'll kind of be walking around.
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  Speaker 3: We'll try and get you some behind the scenes video
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  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But then a few hours later we get a chance
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  Speaker 1: to start with mister Tony Pettiti.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the one time he talks a year, almost talking
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  Speaker 2: for forty five minutes, and you'll be able to watch
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  Speaker 2: all this on a Big ten network as well. But
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  Speaker 2: it's some big picture stuff that he'll be asked about.
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  Speaker 2: Marcus Hartman has been planning a sabotage or an attack
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  Speaker 2: of some sorts and terms of getting a question answered.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's it's an opportunity to touch base and
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  Speaker 2: get some questions in. And in forty five minutes these
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  Speaker 2: are going to be he should get quite a few questions,
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  Speaker 2: although he's got to have some long winded answers with
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  Speaker 2: everything going on. So it'll be interesting to see all
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  Speaker 2: of the pushback, whatever pushback he's getting, and maybe his
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  Speaker 2: pushback and his confidence and getting all of the College
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  Speaker 2: Sports Act and all of that taken care of, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, hey, Sarah, do you think it's going to
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  Speaker 2: go through the Senate? You know, all that sort of stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and well, you know, it's too soon to say. And
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  Speaker 2: what they're wanting to hear from like the language that
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  Speaker 2: they keep talking about when they want to see the
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  Speaker 2: language in the act before they you know, sign on.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the first part of it. And it used
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  Speaker 2: to be some of the most dry stuff when it
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  Speaker 2: was Jim Delaney. I'm not saying it's not dry now,
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  Speaker 2: and certainly Kevin Warren was like, can we wrap this up?
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  Speaker 2: But it's a start.
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  Speaker 1: It's a start. And Greg Sanki made a lot of
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  Speaker 1: news during SEC media days. SEC Commissioner we will see
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  Speaker 1: how Tony Petiti pushes the news cycle forward. That's the
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  Speaker 1: start of the day. After that, we get a sequence
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  Speaker 1: of head coaches. There are going to be six on
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  Speaker 1: each day. They we get them for fifteen minutes each
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  Speaker 1: at the podium. That's the part you get to see
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  Speaker 1: on Big ten network. That is almost always the least
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  Speaker 1: interesting part of the entire day because they'll go up
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  Speaker 1: there and they'll talk for seven and a half of
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  Speaker 1: the fifteen minutes, and then they'll get four questions and
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  Speaker 1: three of them will be either overly specific or overly broad,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, so that's the part that people see
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  Speaker 1: at home. The interesting part of the day really starts
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  Speaker 1: right after that.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not talking about latch oh.
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  Speaker 2: I would say media last twelve to two. Now, one
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  Speaker 2: of the funny parts of the first session that you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about is to see the coaches who don't want
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  Speaker 2: to answer questions and they'll just talk for like twelve
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  Speaker 2: or fifteen minutes straight. I don't know that anybody's really
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  Speaker 2: in that situation on Tuesday in terms of like not
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  Speaker 2: wanting to talk. But then, yes, the better part is
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  Speaker 2: after that when everybody has breakouts, and that's when the
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  Speaker 2: three players for each of the teams tomorrow, each that
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  Speaker 2: that day are talking, and also the head coaches, and
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  Speaker 2: you can if you've got any type of question, what
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  Speaker 2: football or American girl doll? You can ask them and
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  Speaker 2: you know, you laugh. But there are some really stupid
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  Speaker 2: questions every every year. I've asked a few of them,
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  Speaker 2: and I've asked some more. But basically, anything you could
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  Speaker 2: want to ask, you can do it there and you
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  Speaker 2: may get an answer, you may not.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of times the most interesting conversations are
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  Speaker 1: the ones that you're having away even from the cameras
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  Speaker 1: and microphones, and it's just hey, let me grab a
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  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes it's a player. A lot of times
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  Speaker 1: it's just a administrator.
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  Speaker 3: Let me let me go talk to an.
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  Speaker 1: Athletic director and just kind of understand behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need you to put your name on this.
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  Speaker 1: I need you to help me understand how these things
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  Speaker 1: are changing, because everything is changing so quickly. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you grabbed Rich Clark, the CFE chair.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, the head of the College Football Playoff Committee.
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  Speaker 1: When Deshaun Foster did his legendary UCLA is in Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles thing, I completely missed that because I was talking
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  Speaker 1: to rich Clark about the selection procedure for the semi
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  Speaker 1: final teams and which how that would like. But you
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  Speaker 1: want to get your nitty gritty minutia questions answered, like
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  Speaker 1: this does not sound exciting, But then three months from now,
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  Speaker 1: people on our board are going to be asking, so,
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  Speaker 1: how do we know if Ohio State's going to this
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  Speaker 1: semi final or that some I fout. This is the
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  Speaker 1: week we get the answers to that. This is the
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  Speaker 1: week that we talked to the TV network executives.
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  Speaker 2: And new Heisel here today already.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we get to ask these people questions where they're like,
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  Speaker 1: no one could possibly care about the answer. It's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: trust me, we do their remembers on our board who
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  Speaker 1: care about this.
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  Speaker 3: This is the week we get a lot of those answers.
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  Speaker 1: And so on Tuesday it is they divide the conference
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  Speaker 1: into three separate days, six teams each, Michigan and Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State always on different days. Ohio State is on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: this week, Michigan's on Thursday this week.
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday is Penn State.
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  Speaker 1: USC, Rutgers, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois. So that's that's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good run of schools and it's also a number
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  Speaker 1: of schools that Ohio State is playing this year.
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  Speaker 3: So who is you know, who's someone.
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  Speaker 1: That you're maybe most interested in talking to this on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: I think Matt Campbell is going to be interesting because
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  Speaker 2: this is our first time up talking with him since
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  Speaker 2: we went to you know, old MAC media days, but
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  Speaker 2: just to get a feel for him, because that's one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that we do here is just getting
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  Speaker 2: a feel for the coaches. That's where we first met
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  Speaker 2: Signetti two years ago, and we're like, this guy is different.
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  Speaker 3: This guy knows something that we don't know.
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  Speaker 2: And I told you that day National Champs, don't sleep
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  Speaker 2: on it.
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  Speaker 1: I remember very clearly us having a conversation afterwards and saying,
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  Speaker 1: after listening to him talk, I think they might be
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  Speaker 1: like twelfth in the Big Tennis year, like way better
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  Speaker 1: than I thought.
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  Speaker 2: I think this guy believes it, like he's out there
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  Speaker 2: so and Matt Campbell is not going to be like
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  Speaker 2: that because he's always been like, as long as we
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  Speaker 2: do our best, then that's all you can hope for.
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  Speaker 2: I like, well, I mean, you know, you know from.
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  Speaker 3: Ten wins twelve wins that was true at Iowa State.
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  Speaker 3: You have a new you have a new zip code, right,
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  Speaker 3: And then.
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  Speaker 2: Brett Bielleman is always great and even it is I'd
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  Speaker 2: say Colbert he's called believe it or not, he is
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  Speaker 2: Calbert now, but he still throws like he's confident enough
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  Speaker 2: to throw shade at other coaches and that's good. And surprisingly,
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  Speaker 2: Kirk Farence is always good at this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kirk Farence Will Kirk Farrance has been doing this
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  Speaker 1: long enough that he does not have to carry it more.
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  Speaker 3: And well he's got a lot of perspective. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm interested also to hear from Lincoln Riley just
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  Speaker 1: because you know, the Ohio state heading out to USC
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  Speaker 1: this year, that's going to be a really interesting game.
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  Speaker 1: And boy, this is a big season for Lincoln rally.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a pretty talented roster. You know. I think
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  Speaker 1: of all the coaches on the docket for Tuesday, you
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  Speaker 1: would look at Luke Fickle from Wisconsin and go, that's
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  Speaker 1: the guy who's got the most on the line this year.
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  Speaker 1: But this could be a big year for Lincoln Riley
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, because there are more expectations now and it's
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  Speaker 2: like you haven't been able to do it yet and
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  Speaker 2: now it's like you've got enough, You've we've I think
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  Speaker 2: people have been patient, you know, so it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: show us something, and I think I'm expecting them to
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  Speaker 2: be pretty good. I think they're going to contend for
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, which they absolutely should. But with Luke, the
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  Speaker 2: entire story there, for me, is just something he can't answer. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's Culton Joseph, your quarterback going to stay healthy this year? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because he's never been to have that. So now I
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  Speaker 2: feel like he shouldn't be judged like as harshly for
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  Speaker 2: everything going on because he's never had a quarterback that
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  Speaker 2: can stay healthy that he has planned to have to
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  Speaker 2: be his quarterback. So like, imagine anybody losing their starting
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  Speaker 2: quarterback like four straight years, three straight years, and also
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  Speaker 2: sometimes the backup quarterback, you know, how do you think
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna do? But also, like you know, there's certainly
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  Speaker 2: not as much as excitement as there used to be
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  Speaker 2: there for him.
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  Speaker 3: No, definitely not.
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  Speaker 1: So there go a little prey for you of what
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  Speaker 1: we're we have coming on Tuesday. We have a we
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  Speaker 1: barely got to Chicago and we already have a really
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  Speaker 1: long and very active, big Ten Media Days thread on
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  Speaker 1: the Insiders board at Buckeye Insiders dot com.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna we invite you to join us there.
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  Speaker 1: We have that's a fun place to talk to us
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  Speaker 1: to get questions answered.
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  Speaker 3: We have started, so there was a thread there tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I was very excited.
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  Speaker 1: Our scheme guys, you know Michael Pettit, you know Ross Fulton,
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  Speaker 1: you see them on the shows every once in a while.
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  Speaker 3: They have some fun new tools. Dan Casey, who is.
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  Speaker 1: A great follow on Twitter, just released a new app
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  Speaker 1: where you can really diagram plays and it is really
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  Speaker 1: made that an easier process. There's gonna be a lot
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  Speaker 1: more scheme content on our board at Buckeye Insiders dot com.
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  Speaker 1: So if you enjoy those shows, this would be a
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  Speaker 1: good time to join because our scheme guys are going
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  Speaker 1: to be very very busy the next few weeks. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be very busy the next few days as well
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  Speaker 1: as we kick off big ten Media Days on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have plenty of coverage for you on YouTube. We'll
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  Speaker 1: have plenty of coverage. We're planning to upload some videos
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  Speaker 1: sort of exclusive to our members, so some of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that you don't worry you'll be able to watch
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  Speaker 1: the Ryan Day press conference at our YouTube channel, but
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  Speaker 1: you want to see some of the other coaches, We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna put a bunch of that stuff up there for
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  Speaker 1: our members. We'll have some behind the scenes stuff for
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  Speaker 1: you as well. Lots of stuff for you there all
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