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Ohio State Transfer Portal: Where Did Nine Former Buckeyes End Up? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 2: I don't like that.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, that's on me. We are here talking about the
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  Speaker 1: buck Eyes who have left via the transfer portal this year.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're gonna be talking you just about the guys
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  Speaker 1: on offense. This is a little bit of like an
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  Speaker 1: almanac show almost where it's like you can sort of
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  Speaker 1: refer back to this where it's like whatever happened to
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  Speaker 1: this guy, Like, well, we'll tell you where he went?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of just some general thoughts on where he went,
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  Speaker 1: and you kind of maybe wrap up on where this
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  Speaker 1: all leaves Ohio State after the year, and welcome welcoming in,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerdman Fuckheadle dot com, Sonny. We're just focusing on
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  Speaker 1: the offense day and we're just going to do this
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  Speaker 1: position group by position group. This is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a check in because a lot of this happened
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  Speaker 1: while people were focused on Ohio State actually making me
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  Speaker 1: run to the national championship. Now the transfer portal windows closed,
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  Speaker 1: this list is kind of locked. Almost everyone has found
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  Speaker 1: a new home already, so we're going to take a
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  Speaker 1: run through this. We're going to start with the quarterback room.
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  Speaker 1: Two guys who transferred out from Ohio State, Devin Brown
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  Speaker 1: and Air Nolan. Both of them landed in power for
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  Speaker 1: conference schools. Devin Brown at CAL, Aaron Noland at South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and Devin Brown landing in a place where he's
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  Speaker 3: going to have an opportunity to compete to start, because
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  Speaker 3: Cal is losing their quarterback for Nanda Mendoza too, I
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  Speaker 3: believe Indiana, So that job is wide open for the
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  Speaker 3: taking and he'll go in there and be one of
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  Speaker 3: the more experienced guys in that room, because there's not
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  Speaker 3: a lot of experience in that room. So he will
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  Speaker 3: have an opportunity to finally get to play and show
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  Speaker 3: everybody why he was a top prospect way back when.
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  Speaker 3: The The air Nolan thing, I think is interesting because
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  Speaker 3: of the play of South Carolina quarterback Leonora's Sellers, who's
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  Speaker 3: a red shirt freshman and so like he was with
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  Speaker 3: the someone say, the offensive freshman of the year nationally
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  Speaker 3: in college football, the same college football that Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 3: plays in. But now you're you got a true freshman
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  Speaker 3: transferring to a place where a red shirt freshman has
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  Speaker 3: been starting and Leonora Sellers he's is does does air
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  Speaker 3: Nolan see Sellers leaving in two years for the NFL
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  Speaker 3: and then he can start for a couple of years
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  Speaker 3: because it it's closer to home for the for the
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  Speaker 3: Georgia kid. But you've now landed at a spot where
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  Speaker 3: there's an established starter for probably two more years, And
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  Speaker 3: so what does that mean for him and you?
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  Speaker 1: If you are one snap away from being the starter,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's not such a bad thing, because he was
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  Speaker 1: probably not going to be one snapway for being the
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  Speaker 1: starter if he state at Ohio State, and also you've
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  Speaker 1: got you take one year this year to figure out, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: learn the system, all that kind of stuff. There's not
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  Speaker 1: a ton of pressure to be a starter immediately. But
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  Speaker 1: also how confident are you that any second year starting
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  Speaker 1: quarterback at a not elite elite school is going to be.
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  Speaker 2: There the third year.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of you know, everyone knows how much eligibility
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  Speaker 1: has let you know, everyone has left that has almost
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  Speaker 1: no bearing on their likelihood to be at a school
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  Speaker 1: and you know in two.
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  Speaker 2: Or three years.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know that there's a clear, clear path,
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know coming in as a second year
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  Speaker 1: player who did not get a ton of run He
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  Speaker 1: was really fifth string at Ohio State last year, so
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  Speaker 1: you really are not getting a ton of snaps during
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  Speaker 1: practice during the season. So you know, he may be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit behind where you would sort of hope
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  Speaker 1: to be after a full year in college, so you
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  Speaker 1: may have a little bit of a ramp up time
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  Speaker 1: at South Carolina. But either way, you know that's landed
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  Speaker 1: an SEC squre and is probably one of the top
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  Speaker 1: two quarterbacks in the depth chart. That is probably not
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  Speaker 1: a bad spot for him next up to the running
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  Speaker 1: back room and only one transfer out there for the
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  Speaker 1: buck Eyes, and that was Sam Williams Dixon, who was
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  Speaker 1: the fourth string running back this year, played just a
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  Speaker 1: couple games, only got what five or six touches something
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  Speaker 1: like that, and he headed out out the door immediately.
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  Speaker 1: When the Buckeyes brought in three freshman running backs in
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  Speaker 1: this year's recruiting class, plus C. J.
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  Speaker 2: Donaldson from West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: No word yet on where Sam Williams Dixon is headed.
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  Speaker 1: He's kind of the last remaining guy who we have
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  Speaker 1: kind of a question mark on. You know, He's someone
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  Speaker 1: who I feel like is probably going to find a
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  Speaker 1: home at you know, a step down kind of school,
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  Speaker 1: whether that's a Cincinnati or somewhere in the MAC or
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  Speaker 1: somewhere like that. He feels like he could be really,
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  Speaker 1: really dynamic, but the path of the playing field at
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  Speaker 1: o'hi State was just that was not going to work
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  Speaker 1: for him, probably in the short to medium term.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, clearly that's how he felt. And you do wonder
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  Speaker 3: does he take the the Evan Pryor route to Cincinnati
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  Speaker 3: or you know, chip train and went to Kentucky before
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  Speaker 3: going to Toledo. So is that the level we're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Is he shooting for something higher because we don't often
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  Speaker 3: see a elateral move for guys leaving Ohio State to
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  Speaker 3: go to another like top five, top ten program, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that I'm expecting that here as well.
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  Speaker 3: It is interesting that he hasn't found a place yet,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, you assume it'll be somewhere in the
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  Speaker 3: Midwest based on being an Ohio kid. But we will
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  Speaker 3: see it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I look forward to watching him, just like we did
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  Speaker 3: with Evan Pryor, to see these guys that are talented
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  Speaker 3: get an opportunity to play somewhere anywhere really, and that's
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  Speaker 3: the case for Sam Williams Dixon. We'll see where he
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  Speaker 3: ends up and what he can do for an offense.
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  Speaker 1: And Evan Pryor, just in case you were not following
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati this year, fifty six carries, four hundred and eighteen
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  Speaker 1: yards seven and a half yards per carry, six touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: and then also fifteen touches for one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: one yards, so basically six hundred yards of total offense,
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  Speaker 1: seven touchdowns. You know that's not starter stats, but that's
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  Speaker 1: that's a substantial step up for him and you would
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  Speaker 1: figure that Sam Williams Sixon might be able to do
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  Speaker 1: something similar like similar to that next year. It you know,
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  Speaker 1: wherever he ends up. A couple of transfers out from
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  Speaker 1: the wide receiver room, Jayden Ballard and Kojo Antwi. Ballard
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  Speaker 1: did not stay with Ohio State for their playoff run.
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  Speaker 1: Antwi did. Ballard is headed to Wisconsin, Anti headed to
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  Speaker 1: Colorado State. And you know, those are two more guys
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  Speaker 1: where they were never They just never quite got on
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  Speaker 1: the field with any consistency at Ohio State. Both of
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  Speaker 1: those guys skill wise, you know, in certainly intriguing. We've
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  Speaker 1: talked for years about Jayden Ballard. If Jaden Ballard can
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  Speaker 1: just get together, boy, he could present a really exciting
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  Speaker 1: downfield threat, and it just kind of never happened at
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State. It's going to be a different offense at
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin this year. Phil Longo is gone. I know, they've
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  Speaker 1: transferred their quarterbacks out and in. Once again, I cannot
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  Speaker 1: for the life remember who who is their quarterback now
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  Speaker 1: this year. But it's going to be a new Wisconsin offense.
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  Speaker 1: A year when Luke Fickle would be well advised to
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  Speaker 1: win some football games and score some points, So.
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  Speaker 2: You know that that seems like an exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Opportunity for Ballard. And then Antwy in Colorado State, again,
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's a program that's kind of moving, it
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  Speaker 1: moving its way up in the Mountain West, and you
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  Speaker 1: know that that whole area of the country is sort
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  Speaker 1: of shifting around a little bit right now in terms
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  Speaker 1: of conference alignment and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I was, I was frantically scrolling as well.
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  Speaker 3: It's Billy Edwards who is going to be the Wisconsin
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  Speaker 3: quarterback because they lost at least two quarterbacks to the Portal,
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  Speaker 3: including returning starter Braydon Locke and injured starter Tyler Van Dyke.
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  Speaker 3: And then another guy, so you know they're scrambling. But again,
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  Speaker 3: Jayden Balad is another guy. Let's see what he can
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  Speaker 3: do with fifty reps a game or fifty snaps a
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  Speaker 3: game and see if he can be more than the
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  Speaker 3: just I just run straight down the field that sort
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  Speaker 3: of thing. Again, he was he was ranked higher as
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  Speaker 3: a recruit than Marvin Harrison junior, so let's see what
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  Speaker 3: that can be. And then with Kojo Antwy, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: what is this with Colorado States? I'm like, I wonder
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  Speaker 3: who Colorado State's wide receivers coaches. Maybe there's a connection
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  Speaker 3: and their wide receiver coach I believe left for USC,
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  Speaker 3: so uh like there, you choose a school and I
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  Speaker 3: guess they'll they'll throw it around, but it is it
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  Speaker 3: is interesting to watch the a Georgia prospect go all
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  Speaker 3: the way to Colorado State. And he's not the only
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  Speaker 3: prospect that has gone west in this group that we're
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  Speaker 3: going to talk about. But again, the thing about Coacho
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  Speaker 3: antwe never played. All of his receivers loved him like
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  Speaker 3: they all spoke very highly of him at about his
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  Speaker 3: leadership and just the support that he provided. But another guy,
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  Speaker 3: the last guy of the twenty twenty two receiver class
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  Speaker 3: at Ohio State that produced all of about three catches
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  Speaker 3: I think in their combined issue history.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the fact that he was staying around for
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  Speaker 1: the whole championship run. There were a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: who did not do that. So the fact that he
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  Speaker 1: did that told you a lot about what his teammates
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  Speaker 1: and the coaching staff thought about him as a player
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  Speaker 1: and a person. So you know, certainly, best of luck
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  Speaker 1: to him with the Rams. Three offensive linemen hit the
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  Speaker 1: portal for the Buckeyes. All three have played tackle at
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  Speaker 1: various times. Zen Mahalski actually started at tackle for one
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  Speaker 1: game and then got hurt and then never really never
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  Speaker 1: really got back on the field. He's headed to Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: George Fitzpatrick, he's headed a little further west. He's headed
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  Speaker 1: to Kansas State. He of course a Colorado native, so
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  Speaker 1: that's a little closer to home for him. And then
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  Speaker 1: Miles Walker, a Connecticut native. Edited of course very close
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  Speaker 1: to Greenwich, Connecticut. Boise State, it gets to play in
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  Speaker 1: the blue turf. You know, all three guys headed west.
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  Speaker 1: All three guys headed to programs where there's a decent
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  Speaker 1: possibility that at least a couple of those guys, maybe
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  Speaker 1: all three of those guys are in starting roles. And
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  Speaker 1: you know those those are three programs. Indiana made the
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  Speaker 1: College Football Playoff this year, Case State won the Big
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  Speaker 1: Twelve Championship just a couple of years ago, and Boise
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  Speaker 1: State made the College football Playoffs this year. So these
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  Speaker 1: are three programs that are certainly it's a step down
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  Speaker 1: from Ohio State, but this is you know, these are
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  Speaker 1: three programs where you could be seeing these guys playing
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  Speaker 1: in some somewhat consequential games next year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think these are all good moves and good opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, for one, it was just good to
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  Speaker 3: see guys who are close to playing but not close enough.
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  Speaker 3: Now go find spots where you would think. Zen Mahwsky
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  Speaker 3: has just said, goes back to his home state, and
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  Speaker 3: he had interest from from several programs. So now he's
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  Speaker 3: going to have an opportunity to I say opportunity. He's
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  Speaker 3: also gonna have the pressure to win a job. Like
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  Speaker 3: when you were brought in from Ohio State. Guess what,
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  Speaker 3: now you're a starter, Like that's that's what you're being
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  Speaker 3: viewed as from the outside, maybe from the coaches, from
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  Speaker 3: the fan base, depending on how big the fan base is.
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  Speaker 3: Tom we remember the Tyreek Johnson transferring to Nebraska, former
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  Speaker 3: five star, and Nebraska fans are all excited. It's like
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  Speaker 3: they didn't understand that he never played at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 3: They only understood Ohio State, former five star commit. And
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  Speaker 3: it's more involved than that. And Zen Mahowsky has played,
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  Speaker 3: so he's guests mikesper he's going to have an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: George Fitzpatrick has been close. You know, he's been in
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  Speaker 3: the too deep at times, and maybe as a I
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  Speaker 3: think you talk to people, they feel good about the
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  Speaker 3: potential there. But he was still just young. And so
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  Speaker 3: at Kansas State, maybe he can step in there and
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  Speaker 3: and be a guy. And I don't know what they're
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  Speaker 3: replacing or what they need, but I think he's going
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  Speaker 3: to compete for a spot. Then Miles Walker, I thought,
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  Speaker 3: to me, you heard nothing about him at his time
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  Speaker 3: at Ohio State. So to me, it's just good to
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  Speaker 3: see that he wants to keep playing and it's going
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  Speaker 3: to a place that you can't really hide, and why
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  Speaker 3: would you go all the way out from Connecticut to
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  Speaker 3: Boise State to hide? So that's interesting to me as
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  Speaker 3: well that there is a desire there, because at Ohio State,
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  Speaker 3: if you're not heard from or seen and practices, if
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  Speaker 3: you're not running out there in the top three lines,
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  Speaker 3: then it's like, well there's something there, there's an issue there.
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes maybe it's numbers, but generally, if you're not
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  Speaker 3: running in the top three at really any point, then well,
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  Speaker 3: and you're never going to play at Ohio State too,
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  Speaker 3: you maybe college football isn't for you. So just the
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  Speaker 3: fact that a lot of these guys will enter the
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  Speaker 3: portal just to quit like this is like, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: planning on going anywhere. I'm just gonna enit the portal.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens. And then to end up in
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  Speaker 3: a major place like Boise State, I think that's a
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  Speaker 3: good sign for him. I'll be looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 3: what he can do there and hopefully he can earn
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  Speaker 3: a spot and continue playing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt like he got hurt.
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  Speaker 1: He hurt his I think shoulder his freshman year, and
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  Speaker 1: it felt like that really set him back and he
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  Speaker 1: never quite got back on track after that. So hopefully
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  Speaker 1: you get a fresh start at a spot like Boise State,
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  Speaker 1: you can be contributor and you know, potentially be someone
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  Speaker 1: who you see in the college football playoffs in the future.
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  Speaker 1: But certainly, you know, best of luck to all three
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  Speaker 1: of those guys. And also the last guy I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to talk about is tight end Patrick gird who was
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  Speaker 1: certainly a role player at Ohio State had it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: former walk on, but someone who played some pretty consequential plays.
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  Speaker 1: You saw him at the end of that last drive
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  Speaker 1: I think was the play right before the bomb to Jeremiah.
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  Speaker 2: Smith in the National championship game.
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  Speaker 1: They brought him in as a lead blocker, and they
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  Speaker 1: talked on the broadcast about the fact that, well, he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't carried the ball all year, so this is a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a tip off.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to be a quarterback run.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, but he if you're playing in one
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  Speaker 1: of the most consequential drives of the entire season, like
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  Speaker 1: that's someone who is a valued member of that team.
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  Speaker 1: He's headed to Cincinnati, He's got a chance to potentially
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  Speaker 1: take on a little bit of a bigger role there,
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  Speaker 1: maybe be not just a role player, but a full
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  Speaker 1: time player there. And he follows in the footsteps of
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  Speaker 1: Joe Royer, who did the same thing as a tight end,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a different tight end for Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: but he went down there a year ago and then
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  Speaker 1: had fifty catches, five hundred and twenty one yards and
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  Speaker 1: three touchdowns this year for the Bearcats. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: this seems like a great opportunity for Patrick gurd in
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  Speaker 1: his final season, maybe get to be an every down
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  Speaker 1: or close to every down player for the Bearcats.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think it's a very complimentary tight end and
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  Speaker 3: twelve personal package with Royer, who is coming back for
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  Speaker 3: his senior season. So you got a guy established guy
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  Speaker 3: like Royer fifty catches as you said, and a guy
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  Speaker 3: like Patrick Gurd who can be that blocker that can
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  Speaker 3: be can play full back, play tight end, can do
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  Speaker 3: a lot of different things, and as a reliable guy,
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  Speaker 3: a smart guy, and the guy that everybody likes and
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  Speaker 3: could be trusted and has worked his way up. So
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  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, you hate to see guys leave like that,
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  Speaker 3: but you're excited for the opportunities that they can get.
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  Speaker 3: Same with Joe Royer, like he's He's one of those
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  Speaker 3: guys that has benefited from leaving and benefited from playing time.
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  Speaker 3: He's making the most of it. So I think this
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  Speaker 3: will be a nice little marriage between the two of
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  Speaker 3: them and that Cincinnati offense as they they fluct away
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  Speaker 3: from eleven to twelve personnel because he can. Patrick Gerz
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  Speaker 3: the like almost a perfect compliment to a tight end
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  Speaker 3: like Joe Royer.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I think this is a great example of
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  Speaker 1: the fans for portal sort of working for everyone, where
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  Speaker 1: Joe Royer and Patrick Gurd get to go play somewhere
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  Speaker 1: where they're going to get a lot more snaps and
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State in the portal, brings in Wilkas America a
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  Speaker 1: year ago, who turns into one of these really impactful
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  Speaker 1: tight ends, especially as a blocker, and then brings in
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  Speaker 1: Max Clayer this year, who leaves Purdue and is potentially
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  Speaker 1: going to be tight end number one for Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: this upcoming season. So definitely, you know, so of a
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  Speaker 1: mutually beneficial thing in a couple different ways. One big
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  Speaker 1: takeaway though for me, Tony, as we wrap this up,
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  Speaker 1: is you run down this list of schools and it's
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  Speaker 1: cal South Carolina, Wisconsin, Colorado State, India, Kansas State, Boise State, Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: None of these guys are people who will get to one.
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  Speaker 1: There's one on the defensive side of all that we'll
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: get to the next time we do the defense.
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  Speaker 2: But none of these.
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  Speaker 1: Guys are at schools where you're looking at this and going,
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  Speaker 1: oh boy, this is someone who Ohio State is going
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  Speaker 1: to be, you know, facing in a college football playoff
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  Speaker 1: semi final.
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  Speaker 2: Game next year or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, guys are in good spots for them to
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: be able to continue their future, but this is also
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: not oh boy. Ohio State lost these completely irreplaceable, incredibly
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: crucial pieces of the team. Is this feels like a
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: lot of mutually beneficial separations more than anything else.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, completely agree. This is one where wish them well
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: on the way out. For most of these guys, and
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: even like Patrick gurd who they'd love to have back,
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: they've got a bunch of tight ends. So you know
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: how much of your roster can be tight ends and
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: it can't be twelve percent of your roster basically, so
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  Speaker 3: you know you've got to wish wish them well and
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: let them be on their way. And in terms of
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: like the lack of lateral moves, like how far back
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: do you have to go for an offensive lateral move
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  Speaker 3: that you're like, well, we're going to see him in
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: Quinn yours Jamison Williams. That sort of thing where it
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: doesn't often happen where somebody goes to a place that
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: has commensurate and then you're like, now you got to
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: face them again. And so we may be talking about
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: that on the defensive side in the next show. But offensively,
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to be okay given these losses.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Let's see see what it looks like in the spring though, right.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, And there may be the portal will open
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: up again after spring ball, and undoubtedly some more folks
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: will go in there, and we'll probably have another one
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: of these shows at that point. But just wanted to
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: kind of get.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: You guys updated on this. It feels like there's a lot.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Of stuff that's, you know, sort of while you were
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: busy watching the college football playoff, here's all the other
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: stuff that happened. I've been looking at other you know,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: sports or other college football beat folks and the stories
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: they're covering, and they're at the Senior Bowl and stuff
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: right now. It's like, why are you at the Senior Bowl?
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: The season only ended like six days ago. How is
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: this possible?
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it is. It is.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Other teams are a little deeper into the off season
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: than Ohio State is, So go to try and get
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: you caught up on what you may have missed on
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: a couple of these shows, and can get you caught
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: up on all the other stuff happening with the Buckeyes
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: at Buckeye Hudle dot com. Also some stuff happening with
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: the Michigan Malverines. We've done a bunch on that this
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: week as well. But there's plenty to talk about there
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: on the huddle Board, presented Jeff Ruby's Columbus.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: At Buckeye huddle dot com.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: We hope to see you there, and we hope to
• 17:37
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• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Slash Buckeye Huddle.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Got lots of coverage of the team, recruiting, transfer portal news,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and much more all at bucke huddle dot com and
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle. That will do it
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: for today. Thank you guys all for joining us. Have
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.