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Ohio State Football: Young Defensive Lineman Standing Out · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Thursday, March nineteenth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom or the ball State game in one
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  Speaker 1: All Right, obviously, you know we'll have a state men's
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  Speaker 1: basketball team tips off the Big Ten Tournament. They are
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  Speaker 1: literally the first game of the day on Thursday, right
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  Speaker 1: about twelve fifteen or so. They will be taking on
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  Speaker 1: the TCU Hornfrogs. We will have an instant reaction show
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  Speaker 1: for you after that one, and we'll find out if
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  Speaker 1: they will take on the Duke Blue Devils or, in
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  Speaker 1: the extremely unlikely event of a hilarious upset, not the
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  Speaker 1: Duke Blue Devils in the second round. We'll have that
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  Speaker 1: for you at some point on Thursday afternoon. But before then,
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  Speaker 1: we got to talk a little football. Everyone always loves
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  Speaker 1: to talk a little football. It is Columbus, Ohio. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna let you hear a little bit from senior Kenyata Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: We got a chance to talk to him last week
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  Speaker 1: while the Buckeyes were still in town finished up their
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  Speaker 1: second practice last Thursday. I get a chance to talk
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  Speaker 1: to Kenyada and Julian saying after that, you've already heard
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  Speaker 1: from Julian saying, now I get to hear from Kenyata,
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  Speaker 1: And he had some plenty of different stuff what he
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  Speaker 1: was asked about. He was asked, first thing, why he
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  Speaker 1: decided to come back for his senior season rather than
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  Speaker 1: turning pro.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much. I came back just to be a
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  Speaker 2: more complete football player, not just on the field, you know,
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  Speaker 2: off the field with IQ and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm taking the leadership role. We have new
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  Speaker 2: guys in the in the room. I'm just taking them
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  Speaker 2: in and you know, just strowing of the ropes of
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  Speaker 2: you know, high state football to standard well high state footballers.
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  Speaker 1: There are a whole lot of new faces in that
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State locker room. You have heard the number fifty
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  Speaker 1: one new faces, fifty one new guys on this year's team.
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  Speaker 1: You will undoubtedly hear it again a whole bunch of times,
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  Speaker 1: even in this show. But what are some of his
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  Speaker 1: early impressions of those news guys. He's going to just
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  Speaker 1: use some first names. I know these are probably people
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  Speaker 1: you are not any first name basis with. So he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be talking about John Walker and James Smith to
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  Speaker 1: transfer defensive tackles on this year's team.
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody actually, especially like the interior guys with
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  Speaker 2: John and when James, they move really well during back drills.
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  Speaker 2: I can't say, I can't, you know, pick one individual person.
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  Speaker 2: All of them look good to me.
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  Speaker 1: When you come back for your senior season and had
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  Speaker 1: the option to turn pro, usually personal growth, personal development,
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  Speaker 1: developing term of your game. That's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to improve your draft stock for next year.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, what are some of the areas where
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  Speaker 1: King Yata Jackson is looking to improve himself personally this spring?
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  Speaker 2: Number one, I've been focusing on my body, probably game
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  Speaker 2: like eight and a half, you know, pounds of lean mass,
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  Speaker 2: you know, drop couple of you know, percentage of fat.
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  Speaker 2: I've been focusing on my body pretty much, just trying
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  Speaker 2: to get stronger, more explosives. And you know number two
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  Speaker 2: is just you know, pass rush. I'm taking that you
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  Speaker 2: know that next up in my development with my pass rush. Probably, uh,
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  Speaker 2: they put me in situations where I can win, and
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  Speaker 2: that's what I'm just taking advantage of.
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  Speaker 1: When the twenty twenty five college football season started, Cayden
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  Speaker 1: Curry was the ohistate defensive end who really came out
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  Speaker 1: of the blocks like a house of fire, had some
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  Speaker 1: just dominant, dominant games, played really well throughout the course
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  Speaker 1: of the season. But as the season went along, it
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  Speaker 1: felt like Kenyatta Jackson ended up taking on a bigger
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  Speaker 1: role and putting up bigger numbers on the stat sheet
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  Speaker 1: as the season went along. So what led to that
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  Speaker 1: for him? And how does maybe how does he maybe
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  Speaker 1: carry that into the twenty twenty sixth.
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  Speaker 2: Season laden season, I just trusted myself. Probably in the
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  Speaker 2: beginning all the injuries, I was thought of myself, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, became healthy, stayed healthy. You know that confidences
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  Speaker 2: you know kept growing and coming into you know, this
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  Speaker 2: new season. Just trying to you know, just take it
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  Speaker 2: day by day, don't you know, worry about the future,
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  Speaker 2: just you know, staying where my feet are, worry about
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  Speaker 2: the president.
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  Speaker 1: You've heard us talking a bunch of about true freshman
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  Speaker 1: running back legend Bay. He is one of the true
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  Speaker 1: freshmen you're hearing a bunch about this spring. The guy
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  Speaker 1: who is kind of the legend Bay on the defensive
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball, that's probably Carry Wilder, true freshman
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  Speaker 1: defensive end. What are ken YadA Jackson's early impressions of
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  Speaker 1: Curry Wilder?
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  Speaker 2: Real quiet, but he keep his head down and he
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  Speaker 2: work real hard. I mean all of them do, all
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  Speaker 2: the freshmen, all the new guys. They come in real quiet,
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  Speaker 2: but they starting to come out to each other a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. But they work hard. They work really hard.
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  Speaker 1: Ken YadA Jackson is a fifth year senior, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to go back all that far in college
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  Speaker 1: football history to find teams full of fifth year seniors.
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  Speaker 1: This year, there are only two members of the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two Ohio State recruiting class left on the roster.
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  Speaker 1: It's just Kenyata Jackson and Carson Hinzman. That's it, one
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  Speaker 1: on each side of the ball. So what is that like?
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  Speaker 1: To look around the locker room and only see one
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  Speaker 1: other guy who you came into college with at Ohio State?
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  Speaker 2: Made me feel old, man. It's just what me and Carson,
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  Speaker 2: I think made me feel old. But I mean the
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  Speaker 2: older guys in the you know, on the team just
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  Speaker 2: trying to take new faces, new you know, freshmen, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, just lead them, pull them aside with.
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  Speaker 1: Us mentioned those fifty one new faces. So what does
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  Speaker 1: it like to work those new guys into the team.
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  Speaker 1: Between the freshmen and the transfers, it's basically half of
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  Speaker 1: your roster has never been through in Ohio State practice
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  Speaker 1: until the starter of spring ball last week. So what
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  Speaker 1: is that process like to sort of work those guys
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  Speaker 1: into what it means to play football at Ohio State?
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  Speaker 2: I mean a first start off off the field, I
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  Speaker 2: mean just pulling them guys together, people that I've been
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  Speaker 2: here and the you know, the new transfers or the
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  Speaker 2: freshman that came just hanging out together off the field,
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  Speaker 2: and then I mean that bond, you know, translates onto
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  Speaker 2: on the field. So I mean it's been pretty good
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  Speaker 2: to transition and being you know, pretty good. Coach A
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  Speaker 2: and the other coach have been making it pretty easy.
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  Speaker 1: So this next one is one of those kind of
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  Speaker 1: cliched questions you'll here during the spring. The answer goes
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  Speaker 1: a really interesting direction though, because the question was is
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  Speaker 1: there's sort of a sense of unfinished business around the
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  Speaker 1: team after the way last season ended, which sure, fair enough,
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  Speaker 1: good question. You expect there's a certain answer you're going
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  Speaker 1: to get, and this isn't it. You sort of get it,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't really get it because he kind of
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  Speaker 1: starts talking about some of those fifty one new guys
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  Speaker 1: because it may be a sense of unfinished business for
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  Speaker 1: the guys who were back, but half of the team
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there at the Cotton Bowl, wasn't there for the
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  Speaker 1: Indiana Big Ten Championship game.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say so yeah, I mean we say it around
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  Speaker 2: the Woodie, but you know, we just have fifty one
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  Speaker 2: new players come in and you know, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago we had to you know, really show them
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  Speaker 2: the ropes of the game, but they don't understand it.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, youah, the people that I've been here,
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  Speaker 2: we have a you know edge, you know, but trying
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  Speaker 2: to get those fifty one new guys to you know,
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  Speaker 2: tap into you know, what we're trying to do and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that, I mean, we for sure have to add.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so what is the message to those fifty one
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  Speaker 1: new guys on this year's team?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's coming at work. I'm not the type
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  Speaker 2: of person that you know, talk your ears off. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a type of person at lead by example. And those
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  Speaker 2: guys they over the course with six seven weeks, they've
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  Speaker 2: seen it and they're starting to, you know, buy into it.
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  Speaker 2: So just you know, come in, work hard, fight to
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  Speaker 2: be you know, one percent better. I'll feel better for
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  Speaker 2: your better self each and every day. And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And finally we're gonna get a little meta here. He
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  Speaker 1: gets asked a question about getting asked questions, and he
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  Speaker 1: has to answer a question about answering questions. So does
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  Speaker 1: Kenyata Jackson like this new role. He's a fifty year senior,
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  Speaker 1: He's a team leader, which means he gets to be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a team spokesman this year. Is
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  Speaker 1: he like taking on the role of being the guy
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  Speaker 1: standing up in front of the microphone, in front of
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  Speaker 1: the room full of media, being a representative and a
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  Speaker 1: public facing role.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how to answer that question, to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: and just taking on a new road pretty much. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: get you nervous. I mean they're used to it now, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm used to it. Yeah. I want to say I
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  Speaker 2: want to say, I don't like it, but I just
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  Speaker 2: don't like talking. So it's like, I mean, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: used to it, but I just don't like talking.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So he doesn't love that, but that's okay. Does
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  Speaker 1: it with a smile on his face and seems to
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  Speaker 1: you know, he understands the role, understands the job, and
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  Speaker 1: he's sort of working his way into a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a new role. This year, we'll be talking about
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  Speaker 1: him in that role, but of course much more importantly
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  Speaker 1: talking about him on the field this summer and this
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  Speaker 1: spring and this fall as the buck Eyes get ready
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  Speaker 1: for that twenty twenty six college football season. Lots of
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  Speaker 1: interesting stuff to talk about there. We've got a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of shows coming up on the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed
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  Speaker 1: this week with Tony Garduman. We've got some listener question
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  Speaker 1: shows we're getting to. We have some more of our
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  Speaker 1: spring preview series that we are kind of the first
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  Speaker 1: couple practices kind of sort of count but don't really
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  Speaker 1: count because there's no pads, So we're still kind of
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  Speaker 1: previewing the real kickoff of spring ball as the Buckeyes get
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  Speaker 1: a little more serious starting next week. Of that coming
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  Speaker 1: up for you in the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed and
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  Speaker 1: of course at YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle, And
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  Speaker 1: of course we will be back on Thursday afternoon with
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  Speaker 1: an an instant reaction show to the number eight seeded
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Buckeyes number nine seeded TCU Hornfrogs. That one
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  Speaker 1: tips off about twelve fifteen. You can watch it on CBS,
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  Speaker 1: and then you can watch us immediately after the game,
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  Speaker 1: Benny Gerderman and I breaking down what we saw, what
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  Speaker 1: we learned, and whether the Ohio State buck guys are
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  Speaker 1: moving on in the Big Dance. Round one of the
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  Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament starts today. Hope you guys are have your
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  Speaker 1: brackets filled out. Hope you guys are ready to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: a little basketball. We'll talk to you tomorrow.