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2026 Ohio State Football Spring Game: Date & Ticket Information · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, January thirty first time,
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  Speaker 1: on today's show, we're talking about the Ohio State Spring game.
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  Speaker 1: Spring is I promise eventually going to get here with
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  Speaker 1: it the spring game? The countdown to the spring game
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  Speaker 1: officially seventy seven days. Our good friend Tony Gerdaman if
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  Speaker 1: Fucky Huddle dot com is here, he has done the
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  Speaker 1: math to work out exactly when seventy seven days from Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: January thirty first is Tony let the good people know
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  Speaker 1: when they can expect to be sitting out in the
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  Speaker 1: sunshine watching Ohio State football inside Ohiostatum.
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  Speaker 2: Yes you will be sitting out in the SunShot watching
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  Speaker 2: the sun gleam off of the snow that is still
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  Speaker 2: stuck around in Ohio on Saturday, April eighteenth for the
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State Spring game. So you'll have your sunglasses, you'll
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  Speaker 2: have your umbrella, maybe maybe a toboggan, who knows what,
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  Speaker 2: but yes, we do have sunlight and an end in sight,
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  Speaker 2: something to look forward to. April eighteenth, your twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: sixth Ohio State Spring.
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  Speaker 1: Game, and then working back that's sort of the traditional
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  Speaker 1: spring game weekend, give or take. It's always right around
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  Speaker 1: tax Day, which seventy seven sounds like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: days to fill for a daily Buckeye Football podcast between
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  Speaker 1: now and then, but it also sounds like, boy, that's
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  Speaker 1: not very many days until I have to get my
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  Speaker 1: taxes done, and that's even a couple days before that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's all in how you look at things. But
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  Speaker 1: backdating from there, we also know when springball is going
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  Speaker 1: to start, and I think there was some question as
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  Speaker 1: to whether they were going to slide this a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a little bit of talk about do they
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  Speaker 1: want to move spring ball back a little bit? The answer,
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  Speaker 1: you know, seems like it's sort of on a more,
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  Speaker 1: you know, more or less a traditional schedule this year.
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  Speaker 1: So when will the buck guys be opening spring practice?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I checked with the Ohio State on this one
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  Speaker 2: because we had the same question. Are they gonna do
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  Speaker 2: what they did last year, which was a later opening,
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  Speaker 2: or since they didn't make it as far as they
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  Speaker 2: did last year, will it just be more of the
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  Speaker 2: customary And it is the customary opening. It will be
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  Speaker 2: March tenth, Tuesday. That's when spring camp will open. It's
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  Speaker 2: later than most times just because the way the calendar
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  Speaker 2: has aligned this year. But yeah, what you'll have here
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  Speaker 2: is they'll open on March tenth, that's a Tuesday. They'll
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  Speaker 2: practice on Tuesday. Then they'll practice on Thursday, and then
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  Speaker 2: that's basically it for the first week, and then it's
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  Speaker 2: spring break the week after that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's not unusual. That's how it's been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of years for Ohio State. Last year was again
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  Speaker 1: sort of the exception. But most years you get a
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  Speaker 1: couple days right at the beginning, and then they go
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  Speaker 1: on spring break and then when they come back then
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  Speaker 1: it really kind of kicks into sort of the more
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  Speaker 1: serious The first couple of days are always it's a
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  Speaker 1: little like syllabus day in a way when you're you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you're showing up for the first day of class
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, all right, this should not be too strenuous.
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  Speaker 1: You just kind of get those first couple of days
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  Speaker 1: just sort of get the freshmen up to speed on
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  Speaker 1: how things are going to work and all that. But
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  Speaker 1: we will, we'll be there for that. Those are always great,
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  Speaker 1: you know, great to sort of see just sort of
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  Speaker 1: where get a little bit of a sense for where
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  Speaker 1: things stand at the beginning of spring ball. Now, I'm sure, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of people waiting to uh with
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  Speaker 1: baited breath, refreshing the ticket master website to buy their
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  Speaker 1: spring game tickets. When how soon? How soon can those
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  Speaker 1: dreams become true? For those folks trying to get those
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State spring game tickets.
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  Speaker 2: Those tickets will go on sale Friday, February twentieth, and
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  Speaker 2: if you if you can't get them on the twentieth,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry. You'll have opportunities and the following days as well.
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  Speaker 2: I don't expect it to sell out in the first week,
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  Speaker 2: but who knows if if the snow is still on
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  Speaker 2: the ground and it will be There're gonna be one
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of people wanting to just look forward
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  Speaker 2: to being out in the sun, because, as we know,
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  Speaker 2: growing up and being around Ohio State football, they always
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  Speaker 2: fought like the spring game was your first opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: go out, sit out, get a sunburn, watch some football,
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  Speaker 2: and just experience it's like the first It's not the
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  Speaker 2: first day of spring, but it's your first, Like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we've made it. And because tom as you know, covering
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  Speaker 2: spring ball, it starts in the winter, but when it's
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  Speaker 2: over it's usually pretty nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, usually for it has generally worked out pretty well
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State over the years. They had a thunderstorm
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago that they had to wrap
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  Speaker 1: things up a little earlier. They sort of sped things
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  Speaker 1: up in the you know, like running a podcast on
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  Speaker 1: one and a half speed. It felt like they kind
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  Speaker 1: of did that in the second half, like make that
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  Speaker 1: clock run a little faster to get out of there.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, generally it has been a lot of fifties
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  Speaker 1: and sixties and they every once in a while seventy
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  Speaker 1: degrees and sunny for that spring game. One thing that
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  Speaker 1: I thought was interesting this year is. Last year, there
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  Speaker 1: was sort of a little bit of a well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know how much of a spring game it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be, and so they called it a spring showcase.
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  Speaker 1: And then I think there was a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: reticence from some people to pay buddy to go watch
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  Speaker 1: a spring showcase instead of a spring game. I cannot
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  Speaker 1: help but notice, Tony, we are back to having the
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  Speaker 1: traditional spring game for Ohio State this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and in fact it does again have a sponsor.
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  Speaker 2: It is the twenty twenty sixth Ohio State Spring Game,
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  Speaker 2: presented by Union Home Mortgage. And that whole I forgot
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  Speaker 2: about the spring showcase thing. They tried to back off
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  Speaker 2: of that as ticket sales weren't going well and it
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  Speaker 2: was getting to be, you know, April or whatever, like
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  Speaker 2: the game is approaching. It's like, no, it's actually a
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  Speaker 2: spring game. Guys, there will be a spring game. Don't
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  Speaker 2: worry about that, the whole showcase thing. Don't worry about
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  Speaker 2: that X and day on the Okshay thing. And this
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  Speaker 2: is a spring game all the way. And I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's as much as a spring game can be a game, right,
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's what we saw last year, and look,
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  Speaker 2: it's always it's always great to look forward to, it's
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  Speaker 2: great to watch for a while, and it's part of
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  Speaker 2: your college football calendar, So why not look forward to
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  Speaker 2: it and get excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's just it's an opportunity to go out and
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  Speaker 1: spend time in the sun in the sun. And how
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  Speaker 1: many times do you really get to go to Ohio
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  Speaker 1: Stadium in a year, even if you have season tickets,
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  Speaker 1: it's generally, you know, eight, eight or nine times a
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  Speaker 1: year you get to go there. Unless the NHL is
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  Speaker 1: doing something there, or you know someone who's graduating, or
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  Speaker 1: you're going to whatever the big concert is that summer.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get a chance to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: do that very often. And it's also most of those
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  Speaker 1: are crammed into about a three month span, so to
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is a great way to fill the
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  Speaker 1: other nine months of your year with a nice day
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  Speaker 1: out in the sun. It's also this is also a
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  Speaker 1: good chance. You know, you never want to read too
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  Speaker 1: much into the spring game, but it is a chance
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  Speaker 1: to just sort of get get an idea for who
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  Speaker 1: you know, who is sort of where guys stand, which
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  Speaker 1: true freshman might be people to sort of pay attention to.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost, though, to me, more about when you see
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  Speaker 1: guys rather than what you see guys do. Because you'll see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hey, this walk on running back run for
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  Speaker 1: seventy five yards in the fourth quarter. It's like, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really mean anything. But when you see when some
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  Speaker 1: of those new faces come and you you know there
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  Speaker 1: are will be plenty of new faces this year on
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  Speaker 1: this Ohio State team, it's a chance to just sort
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  Speaker 1: of get a sense for where guys are really standing in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in that pecking order.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you see some of the new guys get
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  Speaker 2: a start and get about one or two drives and
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  Speaker 2: then get pulled off the field, that's a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: sign that staff already feels pretty good about them and
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want to risk any injury and they've seen all
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  Speaker 2: they need to see. So there's always that aspect of it.
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  Speaker 2: But the opposite is also true. If you're running with
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  Speaker 2: the walk Ons in the fourth quarter while the clock
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  Speaker 2: is running, it's like, okay, well you're probably a year
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  Speaker 2: away or so, or maybe you just really fin at
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  Speaker 2: that position. But it's it is interesting where you know
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  Speaker 2: the first half players okay, and then the second half players,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, all right, well that's the future. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the first half is the present. The second half might
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  Speaker 2: be the future of things. But yeah, it's always fascinating
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  Speaker 2: to watch who stands out who you know, who's the
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  Speaker 2: the Tory in Washington? Who who is you know, the
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  Speaker 2: guy that shines and but then you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't do much else after that. For a while it
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  Speaker 2: was the Michael Thomas Award, but then Michael Thomas became
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  Speaker 2: you know, before that, it was the Bam Childress Award.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's just fun to see who those guys are.
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  Speaker 2: They they show a little bit in the spring. But
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  Speaker 2: then also you can do nothing, absolutely nothing in the
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  Speaker 2: spring and then dominate. Let's all remember the panic of
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  Speaker 2: Justin Field's spring spring game where he was four of
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  Speaker 2: nineteen or something like that and turned out okay in
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  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. I mean, they didn't win at all, but
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  Speaker 2: it was okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it turned out just fine for Justin Field. So
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  Speaker 1: there you go, seventy seven days until the spring game
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  Speaker 1: and just over five weeks until the start of spring
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  Speaker 1: practice at Ohio State. We'll be counting down the days
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  Speaker 1: to that on this show, and we'll be counting down
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  Speaker 1: the days to the spring game as well. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of fun, fun stuff to cover this spring.
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  Speaker 1: It gonna be a lot of new faces on this
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  Speaker 1: year's Ohio State team, but the expectations, well they remain
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  Speaker 1: the same. It's Columbus Ohio that never changes. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: be there covering all of that for you at Buckey
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  Speaker 1: Huddle dot com and at YouTube dot com slash Bucky Huddle.
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.