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Ohio State Football Camp Preview: What To Expect This Week · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 2: week of summer camps, which is always really really good
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  Speaker 2: content about future years of Ohio State recruiting going to
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  Speaker 2: be hosting. They are wrapping up their second weekend of
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  Speaker 2: official visits as we record this. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a ton of about that in the coming days, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll have podcasts about that. But a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: camp videos that's only going to be on YouTube because
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  Speaker 2: video of guys running through drills doesn't really translate well
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  Speaker 2: at Buckeye Insiders. So all right, what are we going
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  Speaker 2: to see at those camps this week? Well, Tony Gerderman
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  Speaker 2: of Buckeye Insiders dot com is here. Me and I
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  Speaker 2: are going to be there along with I think Juck
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  Speaker 2: will be there for some stuff this week as well.
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  Speaker 2: Going to be a lot to watch, a lot to
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  Speaker 2: see and Tony. These camps if people haven't been to
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  Speaker 2: these before, I always tell people this is sort of
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  Speaker 2: the first chance for a lot of people to see
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  Speaker 2: the stars of the future, potentially years before they're actually
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  Speaker 2: on the field in college.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you don't know who is going to
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  Speaker 3: be there and what they like look like, you won't
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  Speaker 3: know who you're watching. And so that's another part of
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  Speaker 3: the mystery. You better go ahead prepared in terms of
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  Speaker 3: looking for somebody that you want to watch. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this is it's two hundred you know, kids of ninth
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  Speaker 3: to eleventh grade or so, and you're running. They're all
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  Speaker 3: split up in their own positions, and they're running drills
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  Speaker 3: and individual drills, and then they'll be running one on
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  Speaker 3: ones and it's It's interesting because I think anybody that
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  Speaker 3: has done this for any period of time can go
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  Speaker 3: back and like any superstar Ohio State player, the chances
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  Speaker 3: are you saw them at camp first and like that's
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  Speaker 3: your first memory of them, and stars at other colleges
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  Speaker 3: as well, because these aren't just guys that end up
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  Speaker 3: signing with Ohio State. There are guys that will sign
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  Speaker 3: all over the place. D Bell, who is the Texas
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  Speaker 3: true freshman quarterback this year, we saw him a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years ago throwing, and so Ryan Montgomery, who is
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  Speaker 3: now at Georgia as a red shirt freshman, saw him
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  Speaker 3: for three years throwing at these camps, and so it's
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  Speaker 3: it's interesting to in Brady Edmunds, the quarterback, commit to
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  Speaker 3: see watch over the of a couple of years, watch
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  Speaker 3: the players grow as well. So it's always interesting. You
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  Speaker 3: never really know what you're going to see, but you
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  Speaker 3: know you're going to see something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And generally if you don't know who someone is,
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  Speaker 2: the guys who are Ohio State caliber prospects are really
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  Speaker 2: easy to pick out. There are a lot of normal
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  Speaker 2: sized people or people who, oh that guy, you know
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  Speaker 2: that everyone's kind of running the same basic speed, and
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  Speaker 2: then like, oh, this guy is way bigger and also
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  Speaker 2: way faster, and so it is. You can generally from
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  Speaker 2: across the field pick out a lot of those guys
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  Speaker 2: who end up being top prospects. I go back a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years. I remember seeing Caleb Downs at one
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  Speaker 2: of these camps, and he didn't end up signing with
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State, but ended up playing for Ohio State being
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  Speaker 2: a really big difference maker. Javian Saint Clair, you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: someone sort of growing over the course of a few years.
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  Speaker 2: We saw him go from a little skinny dude to
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  Speaker 2: who is that guy who looks like taviean Saint Clair
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  Speaker 2: but six inches taller and about thirty pounds heavier and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden is winging the ball all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. You see real, real growth from these guys.
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  Speaker 2: And then a couple of years ago it was David
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  Speaker 2: Gabriel George. I think he was there two years ago,
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  Speaker 2: and we you know, we had people just sort of saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's the guy that.
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  Speaker 1: Locke you know, just really really really loves.
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  Speaker 2: And now here we are in about a month and
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  Speaker 2: a half or so away from Davi Gabriel George announcing
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  Speaker 2: his decision. So you know, these are guys, and these
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  Speaker 2: are guys we've been following for quite a while. And
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  Speaker 2: then you know, the path to follow these guys starts
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  Speaker 2: this week. There are not a lot of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: sevens who are going to be working out this week.
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  Speaker 2: It's mainly twenty twenty eights, twenty twenty nine, even twenty thirties.
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  Speaker 2: So like, for example, ty Snell has tweeted out he's
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  Speaker 2: one of the top quarterback prospects in the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: nine class. He's set to camp on June eighteenth, so
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  Speaker 2: he's already posted that he's going to be there. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to be there Tuesday and Thursday. This week Wednesdays
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  Speaker 2: they have eleven they have seven on seven camps, So
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  Speaker 2: those are kind of seven on seven comp tians, so
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  Speaker 2: you get a chance to see guys in different settings.
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  Speaker 1: But Tony kind of run people.
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  Speaker 2: Through and what a day at one of these camps
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  Speaker 2: looks like, because it's not just they're playing a game
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  Speaker 2: and you just get to scout them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: One of the fun things about the seven on seven
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  Speaker 3: days is that these are all different high school teams
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  Speaker 3: that have seven on sevens. And then also the unofficial
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  Speaker 3: visitors basically like they've come in and they visit, will
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  Speaker 3: sometimes create a house team where they're just put together,
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  Speaker 3: and so sometimes those are the more interesting teams to
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  Speaker 3: watch because those are the guys that the recruits that
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  Speaker 3: are there to visit Ohio State, they get put on
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  Speaker 3: a team. But when we get there Tuesday, the first
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  Speaker 3: thing that I will be doing is generally you get there,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, forty five minutes to an hour before
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  Speaker 3: it starts, before the registration starts. Because while in the
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  Speaker 3: past Brian Hartline would be putting the receivers, like the
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  Speaker 3: top receivers that were visiting, they'd be out on the
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  Speaker 3: field already working, and so you'd like to see him
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  Speaker 3: get his one on one work. And then once that's done,
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  Speaker 3: everybody gets called inside for the pre camp speech and
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  Speaker 3: the instructions and then they all split off, and so
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  Speaker 3: then you decide who do I want to go watch.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody likes to watch the quarterbacks, everybody likes to watch
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  Speaker 3: the defensive lineman and the receiver. So it just depends
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  Speaker 3: on what you want to go do that day. And
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  Speaker 3: then and then you're just kind of you you're watching that,
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  Speaker 3: and then you're like, well, okay, I'm watching I've watched
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  Speaker 3: the quarterbacks run through all of these drills and they'll
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  Speaker 3: go from drill to drill to drill. Quarterback will like
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  Speaker 3: they'll have four groups of ten quarterbacks, say, and they'll
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  Speaker 3: do this drill and then they'll do that drill, and
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  Speaker 3: then they'll do that drill. So you'll watch that for
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, and then you're like, let's go watch
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  Speaker 3: Locke yell at some high school kids, and you go
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  Speaker 3: do that for a little bit, and then you see,
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  Speaker 3: let's go watch Larry Johnson you not yell at some
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  Speaker 3: high school kids, and you go do that, and it's
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  Speaker 3: what like three or four hours and then that all
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  Speaker 3: gets done. And so then once that's done, and then
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  Speaker 3: we grab some players to talk to. It's say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know some of the top recruits, talk to them,
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  Speaker 3: get some thoughts on Ohio State, on what's next for
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  Speaker 3: them when they'll be back, and it's there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of stuff going on and you're trying to grab players,
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  Speaker 3: and there's ten reporters trying to grab the same player
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  Speaker 3: because you don't know that they're going to stick around
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  Speaker 3: for one on ones with eight different people. So it's
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  Speaker 3: it's a little bit of a mad house, which is
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of the Ohio State be in a way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, this is the time of year
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  Speaker 2: where it's like, oh, it's nice to be back in
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  Speaker 2: the woody for something, and we have we have been
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  Speaker 2: back in there since the end of spring ball, so
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  Speaker 2: we're back in there now and sort of a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a touching base and having you have some
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  Speaker 2: unofficial conversations as well, sort of in that interim between
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  Speaker 2: now and then the start of fall camp. The other
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  Speaker 2: thing that's kind of interesting, at the end of each day,
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  Speaker 2: they will do some one on ones where wide receivers
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  Speaker 2: will go up against defensive backs and offensive linemen will
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  Speaker 2: go up against defensive linemen and you get a chance
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  Speaker 2: to see these guys and they will sort of set
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  Speaker 2: it up where, hey, some of the top guys are
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  Speaker 2: going up against some of the top guys.
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  Speaker 1: So what does it.
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  Speaker 2: Look when look like when I don't know Brandon Innis is,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't remember who Brandon Innis was there
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  Speaker 2: on the same camp day, but Brandon and is going
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  Speaker 2: up against some future uh some future you know, Jermaine Matthews.
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  Speaker 1: Might have been there the same day that Brandon Innis
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  Speaker 1: was or something like that years and years ago.
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  Speaker 2: You can also one of my favorite things is the
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  Speaker 2: guys who come without offers, who really put on a
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  Speaker 2: show and you can see, you know, hey, Ryan Day
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  Speaker 2: is coming over to watch this particular guy, and does
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  Speaker 2: that end up with an offer at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day. That's that's always kind of cool because that
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  Speaker 2: that is you can watch someone really have their have
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  Speaker 2: their dreams come true, just right out in front of
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  Speaker 2: you on the on the practice field.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you'll see them get that offer and it's
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  Speaker 3: like the biggest thing in the world. And then you know,
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  Speaker 3: two years later they're committing to USC, like like Elver Hill,
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  Speaker 3: you know, an Ohio kid. We were there when he
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  Speaker 3: got his offer, I think maybe after his before sophomore year,
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  Speaker 3: and you're seeing all of these different guys and the
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  Speaker 3: number of quarterbacks that are now littered across the country
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  Speaker 3: that we've seen at Ohio State camps, like talented guys,
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  Speaker 3: four star, five star guys, and that includes some of
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  Speaker 3: the twenty twenty eights that we saw last year and
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  Speaker 3: the year before. That's one of the more interesting things
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  Speaker 3: to see just the sheer amount of quarterback talent that
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  Speaker 3: comes through. And you can say the same thing about
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver talent when heartline was doing and we'll see
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  Speaker 3: what that looks like moving forward. But and the defensive line,
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  Speaker 3: like Jaqiem Stewart two years ago. You talk about the
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  Speaker 3: guys that just stand out head and shoulders above the rest.
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  Speaker 3: He was one of them and now he's doing big
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  Speaker 3: things at USC. I think this year is a sophomore now.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: That's something to look forward to this week, and it's
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  Speaker 2: certainly something we are looking forward to this week as
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna have plenty to talk about for the next
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks as we go through camp season, got
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  Speaker 2: official what is it season going on right now as well.
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  Speaker 2: It'll probably have Chuck on the next day or two
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  Speaker 2: to talk about that. It's gonna be a lot to
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  Speaker 2: talk about coming out of the last weekend of official
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  Speaker 2: visits the previous weekend. Sorry, have official visits going into
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