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BREAKING: Ohio State Legacy Mason Wilhelm Commits To Buckeyes · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeye tomorrow morning for Saturday, November eighth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom More. The Perdue game is today, the
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  Speaker 1: so the setup's a little different, so you're probably figuring
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  Speaker 1: out we're probably in a hotel room. Yes, Tony Gerdaman
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  Speaker 1: and I are in Indiana for the Ohio State and
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  Speaker 1: Perdue game. But we have a little bit of breaking
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  Speaker 1: news for you. Mason Wilhelm, twenty twenty six offensive lineman
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  Speaker 1: has committed to Ohio State. Was previously committed to UNC.
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  Speaker 1: He got an Ohio State offer on Thursday, de committed
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  Speaker 1: from them, and then committed to Ohio State on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, there's some pieces of Mason Wilhelm story
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  Speaker 1: where even before he was born, you know, he was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit destined to end up at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is a Buckeye legacy, the son of former
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  Speaker 2: All American linebacker Matt Well hell so grew up being
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  Speaker 2: a Buckeye fan. I'm going to assume probably probably yes.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw him at him and his dad at
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  Speaker 2: the national Championship celebration watching on from the corral where
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  Speaker 2: we all were, and so yeah, it's not a shock
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  Speaker 2: to see. Once that offer gets handed over to you,
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  Speaker 2: you're like why wait? And I know he still got
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  Speaker 2: like playoff football going on, and so yeah, you get
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  Speaker 2: in and this is something that you've been striving for,
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  Speaker 2: you've been fighting for, you've wanted, and then when the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity finally arises, why hesitate? Why why play time? At
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  Speaker 2: that point hard to get where you're like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like when players like take offence to being offered late,
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  Speaker 2: You're like, you know, well, I'm gonna make you sweat
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  Speaker 2: this one out. And there's no sweating this one out.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, this this probably was a relatively easy decision
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  Speaker 1: for him once that offer did come, and we he's
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  Speaker 1: someone we've seen around campus. I think the the photo
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  Speaker 1: that we'll have on this as the as the thumbnail
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  Speaker 1: is going to be in, I find a more recent
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  Speaker 1: one from a twenty twenty three visit to Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: So He's someone that Ohio State has been obviously aware
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  Speaker 1: of in tracking quite a bit, and we've seen him
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  Speaker 1: at summer camps at various points over the years, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, he is someone who feels like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's like, well is this going to be a
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  Speaker 1: tackle and music, he feels like he's probably a pure
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  Speaker 1: interior line prospect.
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  Speaker 2: And what I really like is he's already playing on
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  Speaker 2: the interior. We've talked in the past where all offensive
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  Speaker 2: linemen that their prospects want to play left tackle in
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  Speaker 2: high school and they're the best, And I think with
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  Speaker 2: Mason Wilhelm, they're coming from a place of reality in
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  Speaker 2: terms of he's like six', four you, know two eighty
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  Speaker 2: five something like, that where you're going to be on the,
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  Speaker 2: interior so why waste, time you, know doing something other
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  Speaker 2: than that high? School so he's he's been in. There
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  Speaker 2: he plays defensive tackle as, well so he's very involved
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  Speaker 2: in the scrum and you, know watching some of his
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  Speaker 2: recent highlights and recent, games he's got quick, feet he's,
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  Speaker 2: mobile which is exactly what you want at. Guard and
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  Speaker 2: he's still you, know he's still growing and all those good.
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  Speaker 2: Things BUT i just like the fact that he understands
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  Speaker 2: reality and is already embracing that.
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  Speaker 1: Well and another thing that sort of helps there is
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  Speaker 1: he plays for Stets up In, cleveland And denned's is
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  Speaker 1: a program that produced The armstrong twins who are At
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  Speaker 1: Ohio state right. Now But michigan has pulled players out
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  Speaker 1: of their offensive linemen out of. There that's a program
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  Speaker 1: where the offensive line is generally loaded With division one.
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  Speaker 1: Talent so this is not something, where, well they would
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  Speaker 1: certainly be better off having him play left tackle when
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  Speaker 1: he's selfishly choosing to play. Inside they've got plenty of
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  Speaker 1: other prospects there as, Well so you, know this is
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  Speaker 1: a school where one of the deepest offensive line rooms
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  Speaker 1: probably anywhere in the state Of. Ohio basically year to,
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  Speaker 1: year you can just sort of rely on saying it
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  Speaker 1: having that kind of an offensive line. ROOM i got
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  Speaker 1: to give this explanation about a week ago when we
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  Speaker 1: did a show on two into in State ohio players Committing.
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  Speaker 1: Tony why do you feel it's beneficial That Ohio state
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  Speaker 1: builds its offensive line recruiting class in particular with the
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  Speaker 1: foundation Of ohio.
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  Speaker 2: Players, YEAH i, think And i'm going to go way
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  Speaker 2: off from You i'm going to give the people the,
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  Speaker 2: accurate accurate reasoning. Why but this is a developmental position
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  Speaker 2: and it comes with the need for a certain amount of,
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  Speaker 2: patients and they have. That but then also with that
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  Speaker 2: certain amount of, patients there's a certain amount of loyalty
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  Speaker 2: that comes from growing up In ohio wanting to be
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  Speaker 2: a Buck. Eye and you combine patients and, loyalty and
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  Speaker 2: it's not like it's not, adding it's multiplying, almost and
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  Speaker 2: it gives you more time with. Them but, Also ohio
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  Speaker 2: a late developing state in terms of a lot of
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  Speaker 2: talent because you know spring football and other, things you,
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  Speaker 2: know multi sport, athletes things like, that and the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line you see them develop over time and. Overtime and
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  Speaker 2: we always talk about not expecting anything from an offensive
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  Speaker 2: line recruit for the first three years for most of.
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  Speaker 2: Them and sometimes get a guy Like Austin sierraveld who
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  Speaker 2: comes almost out of nowhere and surprises. Everybody that's not
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  Speaker 2: that's not the. Norm so you get these guys in
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  Speaker 2: state that want to be Buck guys want to stay
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  Speaker 2: Buck eyes and will stay as long as they see
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity for, them and some will stay even longer
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  Speaker 2: because this is what they, want this is what they've always,
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  Speaker 2: wanted this is what they've always thought about. Being so,
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  Speaker 2: yes there's value in. That plus you see all over
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  Speaker 2: The Big ten and in places in THE sec And,
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  Speaker 2: clemson why are there so many offensive linemen From ohio,
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  Speaker 2: Around so it's, like why not take as many as you?
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  Speaker 2: Can and right now they've got four in the.
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  Speaker 1: Class, yeah four From, ohio five, overall and you, know
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  Speaker 1: let's take a real quick run through that class just
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  Speaker 1: for people who aren't thinking about because last time we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about offensive line, commits we're turning about twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: seven so this is twenty. Six this is the current
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  Speaker 1: recruiting class right. Now Sam greer top seventy five player,
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  Speaker 1: Nationally Max riley top one hundred player. Nationally those are
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  Speaker 1: kind of the two guys WHO i think people just
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  Speaker 1: look at the rankings and get get excited. There but
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  Speaker 1: you've Got Tucker smith out Of arizona. Obviously you now
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  Speaker 1: Have Mason wilhelm And Landry breed as well From, Mentor.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio you've got you, know a lot Of Northeast ohio.
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  Speaker 1: GUYS i don't know Why Northeast ohio in, particular produces
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  Speaker 1: so many offensive, linemen but you go through the roster
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  Speaker 1: right now For Ohio state and it's, like are they
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  Speaker 1: settling for These ohio? Guys, well four of the starters
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  Speaker 1: on the offensive line right now are From ohio and a,
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  Speaker 1: couple you, know two to, three depending on how you
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  Speaker 1: want to sort out the two deep right, now two
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  Speaker 1: to three of the second string guys are From. Ohio
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  Speaker 1: and then you've Got Ben sikel who's from a bordering
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  Speaker 1: state In, michigan and you've Got Ian moore who's from
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  Speaker 1: a bordering state In, vienna and you, Know Carson hinzman From.
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin it's really the only guy who's anywhere close to
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  Speaker 1: the two deep who's from significantly further away is Ethan.
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  Speaker 1: Oneonline he was a, transfer not to. Recruit this is
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  Speaker 1: a part of the country, where you, know we drove
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  Speaker 1: past a bunch of on the way, here and maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's part of the, problem but this is a part
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  Speaker 1: of the country that produces a lot of offensive, linemen
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  Speaker 1: and you can't necessarily make your living just Recruiting. Ohio you,
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  Speaker 1: Know ohio native wide receivers or running. Back you'll certainly get,
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  Speaker 1: some but that's not you can't just pull everyone from
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  Speaker 1: there offensive. Line it feels, like, boy you could really
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  Speaker 1: build most of your class most years just out Of
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  Speaker 1: ohio and maybe you, know maybe going into bordering.
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  Speaker 2: States, yeah AND i like grabbing The ohio ins and
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  Speaker 2: then going and chasing maybe the bigger fish that are
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  Speaker 2: the national. Recruits and trust, me and There's ohio recruits
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  Speaker 2: that are national recruits as. WELL i mean Even Mason
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  Speaker 2: wilhelm had offers From big, twelve THE acc and you
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  Speaker 2: know so and The big ten as. Well so like
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  Speaker 2: he could have gone a lot of different, places but
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  Speaker 2: get the guys, in get them locked, in and then
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  Speaker 2: if you need to go and you, know search and
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  Speaker 2: like try to land big. Fish and we talked on
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  Speaker 2: a recent, Show Felix ojoe, Said Ohio state came in. Second,
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  Speaker 2: well good does that do For Ohio? State maybe down
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  Speaker 2: the road in the portal it does some, Good Like
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  Speaker 2: caleb downs finishing second, There julian sayin finishing second, There
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  Speaker 2: so like there's some positives to finishing, second but not
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  Speaker 2: if you strike out and don't fill that. Spot and
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  Speaker 2: so that's something they're able to. Do and in terms
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  Speaker 2: Of Mason wilhelm is breaking like the twenty four to.
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  Speaker 2: Seven composite has him at twelve seventy. Five Justin, terry
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  Speaker 2: who they took out of the portal From West virginia From,
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  Speaker 2: ohio he was eighteen seventy. Four Philip daniels seven seventy
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  Speaker 2: and he had not have aen off From ohio. State
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  Speaker 2: the one THAT i always like to go back to
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  Speaker 2: his pat elf line nine eighty, three and then of
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  Speaker 2: Course Dewang jones eleven twenty. Seven so if you average
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  Speaker 2: all of the average those four comes to about twelve. Hundred,
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  Speaker 2: yeah and so here you Got Mason wilhelm in the
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  Speaker 2: twelve hundred as.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Yeah and this is just a developmental, position and
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  Speaker 1: you can't just, go, well we'll recruit exclusively out of
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  Speaker 1: the calfinders an, average we'll get something between A padolf
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  Speaker 1: line And Dwan. Jones, no that's not. Right but if
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  Speaker 1: you evaluate, well and the trend line On Mason wilhelm
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  Speaker 1: has been very very very much up. Recently which guys
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  Speaker 1: are going to develop at different different, times as you,
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  Speaker 1: said no spring. Football that is a reason Why ohio
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  Speaker 1: guys are sometimes a little later developing than guys From
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  Speaker 1: texas Or florida or somewhere like. That so in just the,
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  Speaker 1: position the offensive line position in, general you can think
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  Speaker 1: of plenty of five star you, know it's IT'S i
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  Speaker 1: don't know if it's quite as difficult to a value
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  Speaker 1: to offensive lineman as it is, quarterbacks but it's not
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  Speaker 1: dissimilar and if you can do, it and it sure
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  Speaker 1: seems Like Tyler bowen has a pretty good and you,
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  Speaker 1: Know Tyler bowen And Charlie dickey and everyone else in
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  Speaker 1: that room because it's not just the one. Guy they
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  Speaker 1: have a really experienced and diverse staff. There that's a
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  Speaker 1: group that's pretty good at evaluation at sure seems like
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  Speaker 1: it's also a good group that's showing some real chops
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  Speaker 1: and development where you know guys Who Philip, daniels who
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  Speaker 1: last year was kind of maybe just almost okay At,
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  Speaker 1: minnesota comes To Ohio state and just boom immediately is
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  Speaker 1: starting right tackle on a team that's unbeaten and has
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  Speaker 1: been pretty darn good on the offensive line for decent
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  Speaker 1: chunks of the.
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  Speaker 2: Season, yeah you don't look at him as, like, boy
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  Speaker 2: are they in trouble because they're playing that guy at?
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  Speaker 1: All, right, Yep so there you. Go so there's your
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  Speaker 1: your breaking news Update masonvillehelm admits To Ohio states On
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  Speaker 1: Matt wilhelm always love to have A buckeye legacy in the.
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  Speaker 1: Program they have. Plenty we'll have play More buckeye legacies
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  Speaker 1: on the field In West lafayette. TOMORROW a couple of
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  Speaker 1: fellows on The Ohio state defense whose dad played linebacker
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