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Ohio State Recruiting Insider: Top-100 Corner Decommits From Buckeyes · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Friday, May seventeenth. I'm your host Tom
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  Moore. The Akron game in one hundred and six days, the game against
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  Michigan in one hundred and ninety seven days. We have some breaking ish news
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  on today's show. Blake would be the top one hundred cornerback right number seven
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  at his position by two four seven out of Saint Francis Academy in Baltimore has
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  decommitted from Ohio State. That happened on late Thursday afternoon. I guess this
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  is probably not a total shock. We're going to get into that though with
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  our buddy Tony Gerdaman off Buckehuddle dot Com. Tony, let's be real clear
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  on this. Blake would be a very good player, not a player Ohio
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  State wanted to lose by any means. But this was also not when when
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  you heard, hey, there was a decommitment coming, This would have been
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  pretty high on my list of possibilities. I think yeah, Blake would be
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  being a guy who committed to Ohio State last October and then since then they
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  have added a commitment from Devin Sanchez. I'm offered the numbers one and two
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  corners in the class. So you know, they've been talking a good game
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  about, you know, having everybody in the class, but this is kind
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  of what happens when things start to get a little too crowded. We've seen
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  it before happen. I do think it's interesting Tom that would be is now
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  the second cornerback to decommit from Ohio State in this class, first being John
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  T. Gilbert way back when, who was I think the first player to
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  commit in the class. Who is like the number twelve corner I think in
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  the composite. So it's been a fun time for Tim Walton. You know,
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  Tim Walton has had incredible success in recruiting, and maybe some of the
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  success is hurting him in other ways. Where if you have the number one
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  and number two corners as you mentioned in the class, that's the pretty good
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  base of pretty good base of a class to have top two guys at ranked
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  at the position in your class currently committed. This does remind me a little
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  bit of the decommitment of Javon Boggs. What a month, month and a
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  half ago, wide receiver out of Cocoa, Florida. He was someone who
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  you know, he tweeted and then deleted. But this is always a good,
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  you know, window into the decision making process. He tweeted, Go
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  where you're needed, not where you're wanted. And you know, I think
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  if you are a cornerback or if you are a wide receiver, it is
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  very easy to feel like there are probably places that need you more than Ohio
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  State based on how Tim Walton or Brian Hartline are recruiting. Yeah, they're
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  they're loading up the room. And when you're when you're a recruit of this
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  level, you're going to walk into a very talented room. But you don't
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  necessarily want to walk in with a very talented class. You know, you
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  want a better as as good at positioning onto the field as you can get
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  as a true freshman. You know it's not likely that you're going to play
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  much. But also if you can kind of limit the competition around you.
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  You see that a lot in recruiting, and it's rare to load up at
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  one position where you don't eventually lose somebody. I mean, you look at
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  you mentioned Brian Hartline in the class they were building last year, when you
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  thought they were going to bring in four guys at receiver and really it's down
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  to two and maybe you're throwing Tamar and Witten in there when he arrives in
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  June. So it's hard to stockpile and it's hard to convince players. Now
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  you can in an Ohio State's defense and modern defense now bringing in three quarters
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  is not unheard of. In fact, Ohio State did it last year or
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  this year in a twenty twenty four class with Bryce West and Aaron Scott and
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  Miles Lockhart. But they all have their positions, with West than Scott being
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  outside, Lockhart being a slot guy. I wonder how much you know,
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  maybe Blake would be doesn't want to be pigeonholed like that, Maybe he doesn't
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  want to just be you are the slot guy, and once thinking on campus,
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  still figure it out. You know, if he's if he's better outside,
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  he's going to be outside wherever he goes. So there's also that as
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  well, where it's some guys you talk about, well you're you're a nickel,
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  and it's like there's a strike to the pride almost And I'm not saying
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  that's what is happening here, I'm talking in generalities. Well, I mean
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  that was something that we heard a bunch when Sean Wade was at Ohio State,
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  and Sean Wade was part of a number one corner and number two corner
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  in the class recruiting class as well, he and Jeff o'cuda in the twenty
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  what seventeen class. I believe that would have been so you know that you
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  have seen that before. And Sean Wade played in the slot and then wanted
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  to go play outside, came back for one more year to play outside,
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  and really I think probably was ultimately a fit in the slot. So we
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  talked about them having the number one corner in the class. Devin Sanchez currently
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  committed boy. Based on his you know, what he's doing and what he's
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  saying, and based on what his parents are doing and what they're saying,
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  I would put him pretty high on the list of not real concerned about a
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  decommitment. He is. He is the you know, maybe the CJ.
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  Hicks Captain Buckeye of this of this recruiting class, Naim offered number two corner
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  in the class, number five overall player. Sanchez number three overall player.
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  Name offered number five overall player. He's coming out of the South. You
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  know there's going to be some drama. There are still some visits upcoming,
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  so that one's you know, we'll see where that one goes. But there's
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  also another corner out there who Dorian Brew. He is. If you look
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  at his recruiting profile, it says Texas. He is an Ohio kid,
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  just moved down to Texas last year, number twenty two player overall, listed
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  as a number four corner. We'll see if he ends up playing corner or
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  safety at the college level. But he's another guy who you know, Ohio
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  State was still pursuing Dorian Brew when you still had Blake would be in the
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  class. So that's another thing that Boy, yeah, you come in,
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  you're a top one hundred guy, as Blake would be. But boy,
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  if they end up with Dorian Brew, and that sounds like that is at
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  least a realistic possibility and maybe more of a realistic possibility now, that would
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  be he's out of the class. You know. Boy, that that is
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  if you get the number one, number two at number four corners in your
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  class, no matter where they end up playing at the college level, boy,
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  that would be Tim Walton doing some work, doing some work definitely for
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  the former Clayton northmontt guy we saw him in at OSU camp last June is
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  a big, long defensive back. And the size is one of the reasons
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  why you're like, I don't know if he's going to be a quarter,
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  just because you don't generally see quarters as big as he is. And he's
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  listened to like six two one ninety and that was as a what high school
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  or basically, so, uh, somebody definitely to watch. And with all
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  of these guys, you throw them out there corner first and if it doesn't
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  work, maybe you move them to the slot or you move them to safety.
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  You know, I still always go back to like Jordan Fuller was at
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  quarter for about an hour and then was moved to safety. Christian Bryant was
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  a quarter for maybe a practice or two and move to safety. And so'll
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  you'll try them out there because that's the premier position for these guys. If
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  you can find a six to twoh quarter, you know, you look what
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  Davis Andigunosen who was able to do last year for the Buckeyes, and and
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  watch what he'll be able to do this year. But it's when you can
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  find those unicorns. You got to see if you see, if you can
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  put a saddle on them, Tom, Yeah, and this is a class
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  that could end up with a lot of unicorns. Currently with twelve commits after
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  the commitment of would be, that puts them second in the two four seven
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  composite right now as a class behind Notre Dame. But Notre Dame has twenty
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  commitments, eight more commitments than Ohio State. Ohio State the top team in
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  terms of average recruiting ranking of players currently committed three five stars, seven to
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  four stars, a couple of three stars in the class. So plenty of
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  talent there and there's plenty more potentially on deck to come into Ohio State.
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  We're getting ready to head into recruiting season and official visit season, camp season,
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  all that kind of stuff. So that's all still coming. But Tony,
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  we do have to let the good people know Friday there is news coming
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  on the EA Sports College football game as well. We have a live show
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  planned for Friday. They released some cover art, they released some details on
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  the game on Thursday. It sounds like the official game trailer is coming out
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  on Friday. You and I have a live reaction show planned as soon as
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  that happens. We don't know exactly what time it's going to be, but
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  they've typically drop this stuff sort of late morning ish, probably something around then.
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  What what have what have you learned? Real quickly, what have you
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  learned? What have you learned today or on Thursday about the the game that
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  we maybe didn't didn't know yet that they kind of released information wise, Well,
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  I think they confirmed some of the suspicions about the ultimate team stuff that
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  Madden does and I've never done because I don't play online, so I can
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  confirm some of the I guess the micro transaction stuff. But you don't need
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  to do that. I'm guessing you can still just do yourself contained dynasty where
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  we just sit in a room by ourselves. We tell people to leave us
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  alone. We get very angry when you know we need a receiver and you
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  got this five star in state kid and you're like, this guy is perfect
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  and he doesn't even want to visit and it's the worst thing ever. And
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  so I'm looking forward to Friday, we'll see maybe some more information about what
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  exactly is it involved, and uh, you know we're gonna be like breaking
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  down. You see all these people who screen screened by screen, frame by
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  frame of these things breaking down every little still and you know, it's like
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  this one is a picture of the transfer portal, and then you're gonna be
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  looking and it's like, what are the pitches that you can throw at them?
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  And why are people coming after my players? All right, I've already
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  landed them, you know. I uh, Tom, just imagine all of
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  the work that you put in to go get your five star quarterback, you
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  know, and you build him for three years. He's a Heisman finalist as
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  a as a sophomore, and you're like, I am loaded for next year.
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  His junior year, he's gonna light it up. And here comes like
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  Miami in Florida, and he's like, you know what I'm mentioned in how
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  they how they break it to the user, like I'm thinking about hitting the
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  portal, and you're like, my collective sucks. All right, I've neglected
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  them. I have not schmoozed them. I don't schmooze. I'm too busy
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  recruiting, I'm too busy game planning, and I have not allocated enough news
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  points. Tom, I can't wait. Yeah, I'm hoping schmooze points are
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  not another micro transaction in the game. We will see how that goes.
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  One really fascinating thing that they dropped was, in addition to some little bonus
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  stuff that you can get if you pay the upgraded price of I think it
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  was one hundred and fifty bucks, you can also get the game three days
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  earlier than the typical street release date, which is July nineteenth, So you
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  can get it three days earlier July sixteenth, I believe. So, yeah,
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  that will I'm going to guess there will be more than a few people
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  looking to pay for that. Maybe we'll start adding the countdown to NCAA twenty
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  five release date on the at the beginning of this show. Every day we'll
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  see I'm guessing there's some folks that'll be excited for that. So we will
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  have plenty of coverage of that coming up on Friday, when that all drops,
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  we'll have plenty more coverage of recruiting. Mark and Kevin right now,
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  Chris crossing the South on their Southern Swing tour, talking to a lot of
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  the big name recruits that we have been talking about on this show and many
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  other shows, Meeting with them, talking to them, talking to the people
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  around them, getting to know them, getting to understand them as players,
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  as people. And as recruits. This is incredible information. And this is
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  one of these things that we keep having people on our board saying I can't
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  believe no one else does it, and it's like, well, no one
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  else does it because it is a lot of work, it's a lot of
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  time in the car, but it is you get a real payoff. There
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  lots of great insider information all at Buckeye huddle dot com, and we talk
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  about a little bit on these shows. We'll probably have a morning show with
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  Mark and Kevin coming up in the next few days, but we always have
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  much much more information on the Huddleboard presented by Jeff Ruby Steakhouse. That is
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  that, well, this is a great time to do it because we are
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  in just a few days probably, so if you want to jump on that,
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  this would be a great time to do it. Well. The fellows
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  are down South getting all sorts of great content for you all at buckeyehuddle dot
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  com. That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us,
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  have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.