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Cotton Bowl Insider: What We Learned At Ohio State and Missouri Practices · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning for Wednesday at Sumber twenty seventh. I'm your host,
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  Tom Moore. The Cotton Bowl game against Missouri in just two days,
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  the game against Michigan in three hundred and thirty nine days. We just wrapped
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  up our first full day on the ground in Dallas for the Cotton Bowl,
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  and we got to see a little bit of Ohio State practice, we got
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  to see a little bit of Missouri practice. We got to talk to the
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  Ohio State defense, we got to talk to the Missouri offense. There's a
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  whole lot to talk about coming out of the day. We talked about a
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  bunch of it on the Buckeye Weekly Live episode that aired on what day is
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  it? Tuesday afternoon. It's already I'm already lost. It's fine. So
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  we're going to try not to step on too much of this stuff from that
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  show, because that's a whole that was close to an hour of content,
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  especially focused on the Buckeyes. But I did want to get touch on a
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  little just sort of the big news of the day, Kevin which is oh
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  joined by Kevin Noonopuckehuddle dot com. We're all professionals here I'm doing great.
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  Thanks for asking. The big news of the day, Kevin Marvin Harrison not
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  practicing presumably not playing, which is I mean, this is it's big news,
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  except it's kind of news we sort of anticipated. But I think maybe
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  the bigger news is, boy, sure looks like a whole lot of other
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  guys that were sort of up in the air are practicing as if they're going
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  to play exactly. And that was the thing we were all talking before they
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  led us in to see practices, like, all right, this is our
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  list, we have to see and we went right down the list and we
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  found everybody, and they were all out there practicing. I mean, some
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  guys were not maybe moving as quickly as others, but you don't go out
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  there a couple of days before and go through the motions just not to play
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  at this point. I mean, obviously we do remember Chris Olave, but
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  you know, that was a very much kind of a one off type of
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  situation. So I think that Ohio State really is going to go into this
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  game almost with all of its weapons. Yeah, and a couple of guys
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  who were maybe a little bit more if the Tommy Eichenberg was out there doing
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  some stuff, but not necessarily all that. It was sort of off to
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  the side a little bit at one point, so maybe keep an eye on
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  him. Cade Stover was getting a little bit of extra attention at one point.
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  Maybe keep an eye on him. But you know my call, Tyler
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  Williams, j T tweet, Olowow Jackson are all. They were all out
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  there. So that was that was all. I think, probably very encouraging
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  news for Ohio State fans. Going to make this a very interesting game to
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  watch because I think three weeks ago I was thinking, boy, they might
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  have five six optouts, so they might have won two opt outs. I
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  mean, just not that in many So that's going to be a gonna be
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  a very interesting game. We got, you know, we got to watch
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  a bunch of practice and they were just you know, little little bits and
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  pieces. Not you know, you didn't get to watch eleven on eleven or
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  anything anything like that. Were you down at the receivers. Did you watch
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  Brandon Innis at all? No? I made it over there, but I
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  was so busy making sure I sprayed everything because we get two periods and stretching
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  out, and while we get to see so little practice, I want to
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  make sure, I get as many things out there that I can, So
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  I'm just like get and everything. Yeah, Brandon in his had a you
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  know, in the little bit of practice we got to watch Brandon and this
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  had a nice day. Carnel Tate had a nice day. And Denzel Burke
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  talked about Carneal Tait. You know, he Denzil Burke is a very very
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  honest guy and will give you you know, he does not just give you
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  the happy talk about everyone. And you know, said Brandon and it still
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  has some more work to do before he's ready to be that dude. Man
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  oh man. So when he's willing to say that about someone like Brandan and
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  Hiss, and he's willing to say, you know that about Jeremiah Smith who's
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  coming in next year and other guys, when he says Colonel Tate is that
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  dude, that is pretty intriguing to me. It makes me think maybe this
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  is going to be the Carnel Tate breakout game this week. Well, let's
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  not forget. Let's go back to the beginning of the season when Marvin Harrison
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  talks up Carnell Tait and says that Carneal Tait is further long now than he
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  was going into, not into his freshman season, but what was enjoyed,
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  I guess saw season. So there is a lot of praise for Carneal Tate
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  and I had the opportunity to see a decent amount of his high school film
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  when he was at IMG Academy. And he's somebody that I think that really
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  could be that breakout guy we all want to talk about who is going to
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  be the breakout guy for Ohio State potentially in a game where there are going
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  to be almost everybody coming back, we seem to believe and Carnel Tait is
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  that guy in my opinion. Yeah, he seems like he might be sort
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  of the next guy in that line. And you know, you go back
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  a couple of years and the Rose Bowl end of the true freshman year for
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  Marvin Harrison three touchdowns, that was his sort of breakout game. It feels
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  like, you know, I'm certainly not expecting three touchdowns from Carnel Tate,
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  but you know, if he puts together a nice game and sort of becomes,
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  oh, Okay, here's the next guy up, that would not be
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  a surprise. The depth of the Ohio State wide receiver room because you know,
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  a Mecca Buka was practicing, so, you know, as a Meccha
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  Buca back next year. That's an interesting question that we're you know, it
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  feels like the answer is trending in a positive direction for Ohio State. But
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  you got Mecca Abuka, you got all these talented young receivers. You just
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  had Julian Fleming, who was the number one overall player in his recruiting class
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  by at least one service, transfer out because he just was not getting the
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  ball as much as he probably wanted to. They have also, you know,
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  there are a couple of guys at Missouri who are sort of part of
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  that conversation as well. Mookie Cooper, who had been at Ohio State for
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  one year transferred out now is a really effective weapon for Missouri. And Luther
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  Burden, who is a five star receiver who you got a chance to talk
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  to and who you know, ended up choosing Missouri over Ohio State. Right,
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  and Ohio State certainly made its pitch and Luther listened to a point,
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  but he saw how deep and talented the room was and he was quick to
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  say, I wasn't scared, but you know I was able. You know,
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  he's a Saint Louis guy, he was able to stay home, you
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  know, and and everybody wants to land every kid out there, But do
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  you really lose your mind when you see somebody stay home? No, I
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  mean Luther Burden stayed home and had a much easier path to you know,
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  to the field and has just really blown up. I mean, had huge
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  numbers, more than thirteen hundred yards receiving. I mean, he's just you
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  know, big time. But it's you know, it's a shame that Marvin
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  Harrison Junior is likely not playing because and I talked to the Missouri receivers about
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  this. Can you just imagine with Harrison Junior and Burden and Weese and Abuca
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  and you just the list goes on and on and on. And we talked
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  about how, you know, so many, you know, so many offenses
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  have really become more run first in a lot of ways. Well this this,
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  you know, Katie bar the door, this could have been awesome.
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  Yeah, And I think pretty good chance that this is still going to be
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  a pretty interesting explosive passing game. We'll see, you know. The Ohios
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  State has a new quarterback, Devin Brown was repping. Not unsurprisingly, Devin
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  Brown was repping with the ones, Lincoln keenholes with the twos. So as
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  expected, as we've been told, it's going to be Devin Brown's game.
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  And we were asked on the Buckeye Weekly Live show, is this like the
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  Devin Brown audition game? And I don't think it's the Devin Brown audition game,
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  because the coaches have obviously seen a lot more of Devin Brown than the
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  fan base has, or even then we have. But it feels like this
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  might be like the Devin Brown first impression game the for the fan base in
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  a lot of ways. And it you know, I don't think this is
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  going to be this one game determines whether Ohio State pursues another quarterback in the
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  portal or not. But this is obviously a real opportunity for Devin Brown to
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  He's not going to win the job for twenty twenty four necessarily, but maybe
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  to at least take a step forward from the rest of the group. Yeah,
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  and I think this could also be the Devin Brown overreaction game, because
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  if he can yeah, I know, right, And there ain't no action
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  like overreaction. And if Devin Brown comes out and tears it up. The
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  critics of Kal McCord will come out. It's like Sue, see I told
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  you, even though I mean it's not exactly apples to apples at that point
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  or anything like that. If Devin Brown comes out and he struggles in this
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  game, I think you're going to see the overreaction too of why didn't Ohio
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  State, you know, make a bigger push on cam Ward. I mean,
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  there's still a name with Will Howard out of k State being linked to
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  Ohio State by some people. There's a lot that could come out of this,
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  But I don't think that it is a one game audition or per se.
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  I mean, if he comes out and does really well, it doesn't
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  change the fact that Ohio State only has three scholarship quarterbacks with him, Keenholtz
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  and Aaron Noland for next season. And if he comes out and he doesn't
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  do well, I don't think you're suddenly going to see Ohio State announce picking
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  up a a transfer frontline quarterback in the next twenty four hours. But you
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  know, Ohio State's probably going to have to pick somebody up regardless. It's
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  just a matter of is it a frontline is it We're going out to get
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  a justin Fields type or is it more of a situation of, you know,
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  we're going out to get you know, you know, a backup,
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  a Tristian Jevia type. Yeah, and you know, so far, it
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  seems like the inclination is that they're leaning towards the bringing a backup. But
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  it may depend on who's available, and it may depend on a little bit
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  on what things look like on Friday night. But again, I think the
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  coaches have seen a lot more of Devin Brown, and the reports out of
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  practice have been very positive this month for the most part, So I think
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  that's that's encouraging on the Ohio state side of things. On the Missouri side
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  of things, got a chance to talk to Brady Cook a little bit.
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  He's Missouri starting quarterback. This is a really big deal this game for him,
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  he said. He talked about the fact that the last time Missouri was
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  in the Cotton Bol was ten years ago and his family had a big party
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  because Missouri's in the Cotton Bowl and he would never imagined ten years later,
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  there he is, let's say, starting quarterback from Missouri in the Cotton Bowl.
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  So this is this is a very big deal, and you know,
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  this is a very very big deal in terms of a lot of guys who
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  you know, are trying to bring in a lot of you know, tickets
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  are I think at a premium for Missouri folks. You talk to Josh Procter,
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  tickets a little bit of a premium for him as well. Right,
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  Let's remember he's he's from the state of Oklahoma, from the Tulsa area.
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  Sixth year. We know that this is his final game as a collegiate player.
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  The league is ahead. He's going to have twenty two people here and
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  probably could have even done more if more tickets were going to be available to
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  him. He hasn't really had an opportunity to play this close to home,
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  in a large part being based in Ohio. But you know, he's very
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  excited about this opportunity and has already has so many fond memories of a very
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  up and down Ohio State career, but hoping to go out with that big
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  win in front of so many friends and family. And it has been an
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  up and down career for him. It started on this like meteorc trajectory,
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  and then you just kind of fizzled for a while and he had injury and
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  then he lost his starting job in twenty twenty two. But he's really made
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  the most of his final season. You know, it took a while,
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  but it feels like he has sort of turned into the player that they thought
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  they were going to get years and years earlier. Yeah, and you have
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  to wonder, I mean, if he has that type of season earlier,
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  that type of career earlier, we're not talking about him here in year six
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  because he's he's gone at that point. So sometimes things happen for a reason.
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  And you know, we don't necessarily know everybody's business in Gymnole's ohioseat defensive
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  coordinator alluded to the fact that, you know, there have been some ups
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  and downs in his life and you know, and you know didn't want to
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  get into that, and we you know, asked Josh about that, you
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  know, very delicately, and he's like, yeah, nothing, I really
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  want to get into somebody who holds everything in I don't really want to you
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  know, I don't really like to share a lot about myself. But you
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  know, he wouldn't do anything any different in terms of what his Ohio State
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  career is. And one other thing too that we had a good laugh about
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  is he was talking about the state of recruiting today and everything is at Man,
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  I missed all of that with like the nil and everything else and the
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  inducements. Yeah, that's crazy, but you know I'm still happy with you
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  know, how I went through this. Yeah, so well, he will
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  have the final game of his career on Friday as a Buckeye. A lot
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  of potential for first, you know, impactful game first, you know,
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  you know, notable game for several guys on the team. But man,
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  there's going to be more players taking part in this game than we probably thought
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  the lead up to the game. We'll be back at at and T Stadium
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  on a little later on today talking to the Buckeye offense. We'll get to
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