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Ohio State Recruiting: Buckeyes Land 5-Star Quarterback Commit · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, December fourth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom Moore. The game against Michigan is in
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty days early signing day to the
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  Speaker 1: class of twenty twenty five. Well that is today. We
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  Speaker 1: are going to be live at the Woody Hayes Athletic
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  Speaker 1: Center at noon. Get a chance to talk to Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Day about recruiting and oh anything else that happens to
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  Speaker 1: be in the news this week. We'll see how that goes.
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  Speaker 1: Should be lots to talk about as the Buckeyes try
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up one of their best classes in the nation.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, they are ranked third in the country twenty
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  Speaker 1: five commits, behind only Georgia and Alabama as of Tuesday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Big questions today and they flip five star tackled if
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  Speaker 1: David Sanders from Tennessee, can they hang on to five
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  Speaker 1: star corner?
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  Speaker 2: And I E.
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  Speaker 1: Mofford going against Auburn and Oregon for him. We will
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  Speaker 1: have coverage all day long at Buckeyehuddle dot com and
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  Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle. We hope to see
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  Speaker 1: both of those places. We are also going to have
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  Speaker 1: a live show coming up on Tuesday evening at seven,
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  Speaker 1: the College footballlayof Comittee issuing its final midweek rankings of
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  Speaker 1: the year. At that point, we should have a very
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  Speaker 1: good idea where the Buckeyes will play next, Where when
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes will play next, Who the Buckeyes might play next,
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  Speaker 1: So make sure you join us at YouTube dot com
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  Speaker 1: slash Bucket Huddle for that Tuesday night at seven. All right,
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  Speaker 1: for now, though, we are headed back to recruiting. This
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  Speaker 1: is actually an episode of the Skull Session recruiting podcast
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  Speaker 1: focused on the commitment this week of five star twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven quarterback Brady Edmonds. It is not easy to
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  Speaker 1: have a week where the news overshadows the commitment of
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  Speaker 1: a five star quarterback, but a bunch of stuff has
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  Speaker 1: been going on this week. As you probably are aware,
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  Speaker 1: just in the last two weeks, Ohio State has added
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  Speaker 1: commitments from Edmunds and Jamiir Brown, who's a wide receiver.
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  Speaker 1: They are both ranked among the top ten players in
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  Speaker 1: the class of twenty twenty seven. So here's the Skull
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  Speaker 1: Session Recruiting podcast breaking down the commitment of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven quarterback five star Brady Edmonds.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, everyone, Welcome, to the Skull Session Recruiting podcast, brought
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  Speaker 3: to you by Buckeyehuddle dot Com. I'm Mark Givler. I
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  Speaker 3: have Kevin Noonn with me here again today. It's a
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  Speaker 3: commitment episode and it's a big one, and it's an
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  Speaker 3: early one, but it's a big one still. Class of
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty seven Huntington Beach, California quarterback Brady Edmonds is
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  Speaker 3: a Buck Guy. Edmunds been a regular in Columbus over
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  Speaker 3: the past six months, visiting again for the Michigan game.
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  Speaker 3: Is a buck Guy. Top maybe ten to fifteen player
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  Speaker 3: in the class right now, super early, so you know
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  Speaker 3: we'll see all the ranking shakeout of the next two years.
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  Speaker 3: But he is trending very early as a potential five
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  Speaker 3: star prospect. He is a five star composite prospect right now.
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  Speaker 3: He is a top ten composite prospect right now in
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  Speaker 3: the twenty twenty seven class, and coming right after getting
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  Speaker 3: Jamiir Brown, a five star wide receiver from Hubert Heights,
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  Speaker 3: winning Ohio in the in the twenty twenty seven class,
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  Speaker 3: So unbelievable week. If you're interested in Ohio, say it's
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  Speaker 3: underclassmen recruiting. Kevin. I don't think we were shocked by this.
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  Speaker 3: Brady had told me recently that this was going to
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  Speaker 3: be something that happened. You know, he's going to commit
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  Speaker 3: someone by the end of the calendar year, kind of
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  Speaker 3: after a season, getting into probably in December, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a little early, but then maybe if he thought
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  Speaker 3: it the late you know, late December or whatever. But
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  Speaker 3: still huge gift for the buck Eyes, regardless of whether
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  Speaker 3: we saw it coming or not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ohio State took care of business with the visit.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's made as you said, he's it's not
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  Speaker 2: his first time to Columbus, but you know, everybody wants
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  Speaker 2: to get at least that one game day atmosphere type
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  Speaker 2: of situation. And picking the game obviously was you know,
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  Speaker 2: the right backdrop as Ohio State had a monster recruiting
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  Speaker 2: weekend with that. Huntington Beach not a not a program
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  Speaker 2: that I was familiar with growing up in southern California.
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  Speaker 2: We did not I went to Irvine, we did not
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  Speaker 2: play them. You know, I'm certainly aware of Huntington Beach.
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  Speaker 2: Just a really good looking kid out there. I mean
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  Speaker 2: already you know, six five, two fifteen is what he's
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  Speaker 2: listed at. You know, he's that makes him what about
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  Speaker 2: like a foot taller than Julian, saying, according to fans,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, just you know, a big body
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  Speaker 2: has some room to to to to fill in. But
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  Speaker 2: you know what I found really interesting was the schools
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  Speaker 2: that were kind of trending at the top of his list.
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  Speaker 2: None of them were the California schools, Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've got to play defense on him and the
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  Speaker 2: fact that he has made so many trips to Columbus,
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  Speaker 2: and I would expect those to continue. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not here to sit there and say, you know, within
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  Speaker 2: within minutes of the commitment coming out, watch out for
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  Speaker 2: this one. But you know, I feel pretty good about
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  Speaker 2: it sticking. But it's it's a couple of years out.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, last I looked, it's still twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it's it's it's a hot minute.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna have to hang on this one for
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  Speaker 3: two years. But this is a kid who I think
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  Speaker 3: almost sought out Ohio State to an extent. He was
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  Speaker 3: on their radar so early. That usually doesn't happen on
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  Speaker 3: a kid from California unless he is kind of seeking out, like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you're a school I'm interested in. So this was kind
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  Speaker 3: of a deal that I fell on their lap. Had
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  Speaker 3: to work at it, but like this is this was
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  Speaker 3: a natural fit. Brady Edmonds really a big fan of
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  Speaker 3: lottal Hive State stunt the quarterback position lately, and so
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  Speaker 3: made several visits to check things out, multiple fall visits
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  Speaker 3: Like this is just he did all the right things,
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  Speaker 3: showed all the right signs you'd want to see for
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  Speaker 3: a kid who is fully invested in being a Buckeye.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I again, two years. I know a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things can happen in two years. We've certainly seen
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  Speaker 3: this in the past. So I'm not sitting here and
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  Speaker 3: just telling everyone that every twenty twenty seven commitment they
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  Speaker 3: get right now should just be like ironclad. But this
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  Speaker 3: one feels really good. You know, quarterback, you need to
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  Speaker 3: lock in your spot, like there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: kind of going in here. But let's let's roll the tape.
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  Speaker 3: You let you guys get to look at him, as
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  Speaker 3: Kevin's mentioned, really big body, tough kid there. Just look
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  Speaker 3: at him standing there and take that hit and deliver
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  Speaker 3: the ball. But yeah, just a big kind of proto
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  Speaker 3: type quarterback frame. And he can move, folks. Yes, he can.
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  Speaker 3: He can run, he is, he is mobile. He is Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's maybe not. He's not a quick, twitchy guy like
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  Speaker 3: a like what they've had in the past, like with
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  Speaker 3: guys like you know, Braxton Miller or even like a J. T.
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  Speaker 3: Barrett who is probably more quick than fast. This Brady's
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  Speaker 3: a little more fast than quick. I mean he can. Really,
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  Speaker 3: he's almost like a c. J. Stroud when CJ wants
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  Speaker 3: to run type of thing where people get surprised how
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  Speaker 3: fast he is when he actually gets out in the open.
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  Speaker 3: He kind of has those long strides, but a much
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  Speaker 3: more willing runner, I think than maybe someone like CJ was,
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  Speaker 3: but a big time arm, big time frame, toughness, leadership.
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  Speaker 3: He's a great kid. I've had Cant talk to him
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  Speaker 3: several times already early in the process. Very mature beyond
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  Speaker 3: his years. So really it's i mean, quite frankly, everything
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  Speaker 3: you would want in a quarterback. And now they're going
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  Speaker 3: to show you have some tight window throws. I mean, right,
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  Speaker 3: he kind of splits three offenders there with that throw.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to show a back shoulder here. I mean
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  Speaker 3: he's got the whole arsenal on the on this film
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  Speaker 3: or show. And so if you're listening to this and
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  Speaker 3: maybe want to check us out at YouTube dot com
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  Speaker 3: slash Blucky Huddle. But just a guy who I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It just reminds me of kind of that just that prototype.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Hey, what do you want your quarterback to be? Well,
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  Speaker 3: I'd like him to be six y five. I'd like
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  Speaker 3: him to have some mobility. I'd like him to be accurate.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like him to have a strong arm. I'd like
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  Speaker 3: him to be tough. I'd like him to be a leader.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, well, check, check, check, check check. So I
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  Speaker 3: think this is a huge pickup. The fact that they
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  Speaker 3: are able to pair him with Jamiir Brown right now.
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  Speaker 3: If that stands over the next two years, really no
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  Speaker 3: reason to think it won't. But if that stands, that
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  Speaker 3: is a dynamic one two punch. I mean, that is
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  Speaker 3: what an incredible way to start your twenty twenty seven class.
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  Speaker 3: To have a five star quarterback and a five star
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver committed. How much easier should that make life
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  Speaker 3: on the rest of the offensive staff to go out
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  Speaker 3: there and add more receivers, add offensive lineman, at a
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  Speaker 3: tight end. Even add like defensive backs who get to
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  Speaker 3: go against this in practice. This is a big time
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  Speaker 3: tone setter for the bluck Eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it really is. I mean, you want
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  Speaker 2: to when you build a house, you have to build
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  Speaker 2: a foundation, and this is the foundation of the twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven class. And obviously we've seen quarterbacks come and go
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  Speaker 2: in classes before. Dylan Rala was a buck Eye, before
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  Speaker 2: he was a Bulldog, before he was a corn Husker.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, everybody's got to come to their own
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  Speaker 2: decision and what's right for them. And you know, I've
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  Speaker 2: not gotten the kind of you know, vibe from the
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  Speaker 2: Edmunds camp that he is looking to bounce around or
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  Speaker 2: anything like that. Now, of course, if things change, if
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  Speaker 2: the Ryan Day haters get their way or something like that,
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  Speaker 2: all bets are off at that point. But it's it is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, one of the biggest points as we were
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  Speaker 2: getting ready to record this was that I was going
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  Speaker 2: to just hammer how important this is for continued recruiting
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  Speaker 2: in this class of twenty twenty seven because it is
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  Speaker 2: a lot easier in Ohio State has shown that you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to be limited to just one five star receiver.
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  Speaker 2: In a class, Ohio State's going to continually keep churning
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  Speaker 2: through guys, whether or not it's that they run out
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  Speaker 2: of their eligibility or they go to the NFL, or
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  Speaker 2: they transfer out or whatever. In the previous class. You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have Chris Henry Junior in the twenty six. You know,
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  Speaker 2: provided all that sticking, which I expected to it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of ways, it's going to be easy
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  Speaker 2: to say, come on board and use twenty four as
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  Speaker 2: a roadmap. Carnell Tait is your third receiver, Carnel Tate
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  Speaker 2: that could probably be starting at ninety eight percent of
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  Speaker 2: the colleges across the nation. Ohio State has shown a
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  Speaker 2: way to be able to feed everybody in a year
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  Speaker 2: where teams are doing everything humanly possible to limit Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State's offensive possessions, and everybody's still getting a chance to eat.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's big. But of course, you know,
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  Speaker 2: let me, let me throw the one, the one, you know,
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  Speaker 2: wrench into the system. What are they going to do
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  Speaker 2: at twenty six, because now you have twenty seven and
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  Speaker 2: they still haven't necessarily determine what they're going to do
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  Speaker 2: at twenty six. And I'm not trying to hijack the
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  Speaker 2: piece by going into that. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: that that I can hear people watching the videos like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but what about twenty six is this kid going to reclassify? Well,
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  Speaker 2: he's still really young. We've not had any conversation, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not necessarily a huge fan of quarterback reclassification. I
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  Speaker 2: think that being the right physical age in line with
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  Speaker 2: your collegiate years is important. But nobody asked me.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you hijack my segue, But yes, that's what we
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  Speaker 3: were going to talk about next. So you know how
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  Speaker 3: I want to say concerning, but I guess I'll say concerning.
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  Speaker 3: I can't really think of a better word. How concerning
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  Speaker 3: is it to have twenty seven before twenty six? Does
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  Speaker 3: that hurt in twenty six, because now whoever you're trying
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  Speaker 3: to get in twenty six is looking in front of
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  Speaker 3: them at Tavin Saint Clair, looking behind them at Edmonds.
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  Speaker 3: Just your thoughts on that and what that could mean,
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  Speaker 3: I guess for their twenty twenty six recruiting efforts, because
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  Speaker 3: they are going to try and take a high school
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  Speaker 3: kid like that, and I know people are like, well,
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  Speaker 3: just take one from the portal. Well that that typically
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  Speaker 3: doesn't really help because then you're just taking a veteran,
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  Speaker 3: so you're not it's not helping your roster spacing any
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  Speaker 3: All that's doing is cluttering the top end of your
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  Speaker 3: quarterback room. So I'm not saying they'll never take a
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  Speaker 3: transfer quarterback again. I'm just saying that their goal every
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  Speaker 3: year is to sign a high school quarterback, and then
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  Speaker 3: if they have to supplement that with a transfer with
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  Speaker 3: a veteran transfer, they.
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  Speaker 1: Will do so.
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  Speaker 3: But in terms of getting a high school kid in
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  Speaker 3: twenty six, this does make things a little interesting, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It does. I'll go back to something I've said for years,
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  Speaker 2: and if Mark had a nickel for every time he's
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  Speaker 2: heard me say it, he'd at least have twenty bucks
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  Speaker 2: by now. You know, elite competitors are not afraid of
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  Speaker 2: elite competition. But there is so much mobility in terms
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  Speaker 2: of transfers and everything at the quarterback position that I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that a quarterback should necessarily be that put
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  Speaker 2: off by it. You've got a year head start on him,
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  Speaker 2: and you'll know if I mean, you could come in
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  Speaker 2: and and suddenly cement your spot and you're not really
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  Speaker 2: going to be worried at that point. Now, does you
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  Speaker 2: know Ohio State certainly back in the Jared Curtis sweepstakes,
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  Speaker 2: what you know, what happens there? Does Curtis want to
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  Speaker 2: come into that room, you know, being sandwiched between Edmunds
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  Speaker 2: on one side and Saint Clair on the other, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Does Ohio State look to stay in state
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  Speaker 2: with like a Nathan Bernard, who you know, probably had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of dreams of being an Ohio State quarterback
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  Speaker 2: and might be a little bit more patient, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: and not to say that Curtis would be impatient, as
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  Speaker 2: I know that every word we say gets scrutinized left
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  Speaker 2: and right and trying to find, you know, meanings that
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  Speaker 2: are not there. I think, you know, I think they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be fine for landing you know, a quarterback
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  Speaker 2: in twenty six that they want. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: could it could it freeze them out on some top
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  Speaker 2: end guys. Maybe? But I think it just comes down
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  Speaker 2: to to the level of competition, because guess what, if
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  Speaker 2: you're a twenty six quarterback, you're still going to have
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  Speaker 2: to compete against the two twenty five quarterback in the
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  Speaker 2: twenty four quarterback. So nobody's coming in in twenty six
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  Speaker 2: into a program knowing that they're the anointed one. And
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  Speaker 2: if you are being told you're the anointed one, they're
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  Speaker 2: probably lying to you.
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  Speaker 3: I do think the current landscape bodes well for that
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  Speaker 3: for Ohio State to get to still get a really
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  Speaker 3: good quarterback in twenty twenty six, just because the freedom
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  Speaker 3: of movement players have right now. You can go into
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  Speaker 3: a situation and you can compete for two or three years,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, look if someone else wins the job
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  Speaker 3: by your third year, and it's it's become kind of
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  Speaker 3: clear to you that I don't know if I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to get my shot here.
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  Speaker 1: You've had two or.
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  Speaker 3: Three years of really good development at a school. It's
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  Speaker 3: put a lot of quarterbacks in the first round of
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  Speaker 3: the draft recently, and you can go somewhere else and
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  Speaker 3: you can be the guy and it you know, kind
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  Speaker 3: of no harm, no foul for anybody at that point.
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  Speaker 3: So I think the freedom of movement now that players
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  Speaker 3: have makes this an easier task for Ohigo Estate. But
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  Speaker 3: I do wonder, as Kevin kind of alluded to do,
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  Speaker 3: they they will continue to recruit their curse. Like I'm
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  Speaker 3: not saying not going to recruit Jared Curtis. But if
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  Speaker 3: they do not, if they're not able to get Jared Curtis,
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  Speaker 3: you know, would they go with a Nathan Barrard, who's
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  Speaker 3: you know a little more I guess raw in terms
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  Speaker 3: of the competition. He plays mechanically, he's making stride, he's
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  Speaker 3: got kind of I got a basketball background, so he's
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  Speaker 3: just he's a developmental guy, but with some really high
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  Speaker 3: end qualities. Would they go with someone like that in
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  Speaker 3: state or would they continue to kind of star chase nationally.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe see what's going on with some of the other
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  Speaker 3: top quarterbacks have committed elsewhere, because we've got to figure
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  Speaker 3: some of those guys probably aren't gonna stick. There's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be coaching changes, there's any things that happen. So I
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  Speaker 3: think they've got time to I wouldn't get too worked
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  Speaker 3: up about it.
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  Speaker 2: C J.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud was a late ad.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's doesn't It's not always you know,
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  Speaker 3: the early commitment or the you know, a guy you
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  Speaker 3: need to have a year in advance. Sometimes you can wait.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you can get a late bloom, or sometimes you
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  Speaker 3: can get a flip late in the process. Dwayne Haskins
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  Speaker 3: was a late flip, So there are things you can
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  Speaker 3: do here that aren't super urgent. You can continue to
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  Speaker 3: kind of follow your process and do your evaluations. And
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  Speaker 3: I will look at this almost as a positive thing,
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  Speaker 3: as like, well, you can kind of stop panicking about
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six because you've got Saint Clair arriving on
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  Speaker 3: campus and you've got Edmunds committed. So now it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of I would almost argue the pressure is a little
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  Speaker 3: bit off now you've got these two great quarterbacks, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to just stick with our process on twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have to reach for anybody. We we don't
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  Speaker 3: have to like speed anything up. Let's just continue plugging
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  Speaker 3: away here in twenty six. So I look at this
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  Speaker 3: as as a positive thing. But we'll see how things
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: all play out. But again, huge pickup here. You cannot
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: start a twenty twenty. You cannot start a class better
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: than little High Stat's done here in twenty twenty seven.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: In down the stretch here of the season, you cannot.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: This is just a special start to twenty twenty seven.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: And now it's like, okay, let's go get some defensive players.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Let's go get some offensive lineman, but they have got
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: a great, great foundation here and again USC struggling right now.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Brady Edmunds out there in southern California receivers everywhere. You
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: can trip over a receiver on every block in southern California.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Maybe release Brady Edmunds into southern California and maybe bring
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: some guys with them. I mean, that could definitely be.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: You've now got Chris Henry Junior, Brady Edmonds out there
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: committed to the buck Eyes. This could get interesting in
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: southern California if us he continues to struggle as well.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Kevin, Yeah, we've gone as far west as Arizona for
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: the southern swaying. If we have to go to California,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: we're not driving. I mean, we'll drive in California, but
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: we're not driving to California. Maybe we can take the
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: train or something. I don't know, because that.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Munch skipper from somewhere in suburban Phoenix to yeah, La
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: or Irvine, or something.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's I mean, but yeah, there's always a lot
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: of talent in California. I mean, we do always have
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: the argument about the hierarchy states in terms of turning
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: kids and you know, North Carolina has really moved into
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: into the argument along with you know, along with Texas
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: and Florida and Georgia. You know, maybe not, maybe California
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: has lost a little bit of its of its street cred.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: But I mean there's still a ton of kids out there,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: and I you know, I put some of it on
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: SC and UCLA kind of being down some of these years.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: And you just Pete Carroll isn't out there maximizing these
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: kids the way that he used to. So Ohio State
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: always seems to do a good job of finding weakness,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: whether you know whether or not it's you know, the
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: premiere program or every program is you know, not as
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: strong as they should be. An Ohio State's national brand
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: moves in and and and plucks off three, four or
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: five kids. So I'm gonna I'm gonna go in with
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: my bull prediction. We're gonna call it a one pointer
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: or Ohio State will land at least one more California
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: kid in the class of twenty twenty seven.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: All right, do you have That's a good that's a
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: good ending point. So another huge commitment for Ohio State.
• 18:01
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• 18:04
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• 18:06
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• 18:09
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• 18:14
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• 18:20
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• 18:23
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• 18:26
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• 18:28
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• 18:32
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• 18:36
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