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Ohio State Football: 2 Offensive Linemen Commit To The Buckeyes · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning. From Monday, November third, I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting a little bit of a breaking news episode. I
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  Speaker 1: had a whole other episode completely laid out, ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: You me and you'll get that tomorrow. Maybe it'll be
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  Speaker 1: a bonus show. We'll see how it goes. But there
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  Speaker 1: is breaking news, and breaking news comes in two's, in
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  Speaker 1: this case good news for the Buckeyes as they land
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  Speaker 1: not one, but two commitments from in state offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 1: I'm joined by Tony Gerderman at Buckyhuddle dot com. Tony,
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  Speaker 1: these are two guys who were on campus on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess the win over not Perdue goodness gracious,
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  Speaker 1: they play Penn State. The win over Penn State obviously
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  Speaker 1: helped seal the deal.
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  Speaker 2: Did and it's always interesting when you will take twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven early commits, although I guess it's getting less
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  Speaker 2: and less early as they get Mason wilt to commit
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  Speaker 2: from Saint Clairsville and Kellen Wymer from Liberty Center. As
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  Speaker 2: you said to in state offensive lineman in a twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven class, where you know what, we've waited long
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  Speaker 2: enough and you can go ahead and commit. We'll take
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  Speaker 2: your commit We've offered you a real offer capital capital F,
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  Speaker 2: capital F capitol ee capital R offer, you can commit,
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  Speaker 2: And so they did, and now you continue to build
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  Speaker 2: and build. You've got your quarterback, you've got a receiver,
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  Speaker 2: and now it's about securing I guess securing your quarterback
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  Speaker 2: and protecting him down the road, but also securing the
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  Speaker 2: state and protecting the state. And you get to the
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  Speaker 2: best offensive linement in the state. And frankly, that's probably
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  Speaker 2: something that they should do every year. And now with
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  Speaker 2: nil and the expanded rosters, it's you know, it's I
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  Speaker 2: think it's part of the plan, as Ryan Day has
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  Speaker 2: talked about with you know, like the developed mental guys
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  Speaker 2: or things of that nature. I don't think it's crazy
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  Speaker 2: to just go in and try to lock up as
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  Speaker 2: many of the best offensive linemen in your state as
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  Speaker 2: you can.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that that makes a heck of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of sense right now for a bunch of reasons.
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  Speaker 1: One is, I think we've all seen what a really,
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  Speaker 1: really top level offensive lineman will command in NIL. And
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  Speaker 1: even if you have a great relationship for multiple years,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes someone can swoop in and the big bag with
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  Speaker 1: the dollar sign can win out. And you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: not the only reason guys are signing with places, but
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  Speaker 1: it is a position where there's a lot of need.
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  Speaker 1: It's also a position where guys aren't necessarily getting on
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  Speaker 1: the field right away. I mean you talked about taking
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  Speaker 1: developmental players. Virtually everyone who's an offensive lineman is a
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  Speaker 1: developmental player, and when you combine that with you know
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  Speaker 1: you probably have a little bit of a head start
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  Speaker 1: with Ohio natives. You figure, you know, it's not a guarantee,
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  Speaker 1: and we certainly see guys go elsewhere, but you figure
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  Speaker 1: you have at least a little bit of a head
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  Speaker 1: start with those guys. To me, as you said, I
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  Speaker 1: think it makes a lot of sense to find these guys,
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  Speaker 1: identify them early, build relationships early, and really just try
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  Speaker 1: and get locked in because you can go chase, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you go chase your five star tackle from California or
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  Speaker 1: Georgia or whatever it is. And that's fine, like by
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  Speaker 1: all means, that's still part of a viable recruiting strategy.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have some of the classes that they've had,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think of them as the stud classes
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  Speaker 1: where it's like, well, we're going to get these five
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  Speaker 1: guys who are all five stars across the country, and
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  Speaker 1: then you end up with none of them, and then
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  Speaker 1: you've got like two and a half guys in a
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  Speaker 1: recruiting class and an offensive line room. That's a disaster.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to have deep classes and I think that's
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  Speaker 1: something that they really started to rectify under Justin Fry
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  Speaker 1: And it feels like that's you know, the strategy is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, paying off right now on the field, and
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  Speaker 1: it feels like it's now continuing to pay off for
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  Speaker 1: the future.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and with the understanding the players themselves have the
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  Speaker 2: understanding that it's going to take time and that bakes
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  Speaker 2: in and breeds in the patients that you need and
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  Speaker 2: from Ohio that also you would expect some loyalty as well.
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  Speaker 2: And in terms of what the Buck guys are getting
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  Speaker 2: you know, we'll see down the road. You know, looking
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  Speaker 2: at Mason Wilt, they're both listed. Both both players are
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  Speaker 2: listed at six five. Both players play left tackle, which
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  Speaker 2: is what every every blue chip offensive lineman is generally.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a left tackle, like every blue chip basketball player is,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm a point guard. You know, you play left
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  Speaker 2: tackle in high school and then you get to Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State and you figure out where you're going to be.
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  Speaker 2: And for me, when I look at Mason will I
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  Speaker 2: see probably a guard. I think Kellen Weimer from Liberty Center,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm shocked. I'm going to say this, Tom because
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  Speaker 2: just to you know, take you behind the curtain here
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  Speaker 2: he plays at Liberty Center. Arch enemy, arch nemesis of
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  Speaker 2: my high school, Patrick Henry, And so I didn't have
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  Speaker 2: anything good I was going to say about him. I
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  Speaker 2: was going to tear him down. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: you watch a little bit of a huddle of his
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  Speaker 2: highlights and you see a guy who's pretty quick. Especially
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  Speaker 2: the first clips, the first highlights I watched, We're against
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Henry, and you know, fine, he did fine. They
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  Speaker 2: he's maudeling some people and showing some really good mobility
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  Speaker 2: and frankly to be able to handle people from Pat Patrick,
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  Speaker 2: Henry Tom. You know, it's like one he can block
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  Speaker 2: people who love their hamburger, helper, know what to do
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  Speaker 2: with you know, know how best to serve preedles, all
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  Speaker 2: of these things that you think about when you know
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for an offensive lineman. And so he's he
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  Speaker 2: can move pretty well, really well for guy who sixty's
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  Speaker 2: five still growing in terms of you know, getting bigger.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's like the two sixty five, two seventy
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  Speaker 2: kind of looks like it and is mobile, so I
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  Speaker 2: could see him being attackled. The only question I have
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  Speaker 2: is it's just we're talking small school football, and so
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  Speaker 2: again that's that takes some time. I think the last
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  Speaker 2: guy from the area to come to Ohio State was
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Cupp, offensive lineman. And it takes a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of time for some of some of the small school guys.
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  Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean they're not going to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: But two guys in state get locked up, get him
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  Speaker 2: in and get him ready, and get him into this
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  Speaker 2: culture as much as you can, so then that you
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  Speaker 2: can then they can go out and also recruits fellow
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  Speaker 2: linemen and start building that camaraderie that every offensive line needs.
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  Speaker 1: And so this right now leaves the Buckeyes with five
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  Speaker 1: commits for the twenty twenty seven class. Both of these
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  Speaker 1: guys are twenty twenty seven offensive lineman Jamior Brown out
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  Speaker 1: of Dayton. He is the right now. He's not technically
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  Speaker 1: a five star, but he is ranked as one of
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  Speaker 1: the top but ten ish players in the nation. Brady Edmonds,
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback out of California, Angelo Smith, the safety out
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  Speaker 1: of Florida, the younger brother of Jeremiah Smith, and now
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  Speaker 1: these two offensive linemen. It just this feels like the
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  Speaker 1: solid foundation. Ryan Day talks about building the foundation every
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  Speaker 1: day in terms of practic and they did the you
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  Speaker 1: know the thing with the brick by brick, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's been a thing that they've kind of made a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a mantra for them. This feels like
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  Speaker 1: a brick by brick thing where I think people may
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  Speaker 1: look at this and go a couple three star offensive linemen.
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  Speaker 1: These are the building blocks that you know, by the
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  Speaker 1: time the class is done, you got a long way
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  Speaker 1: to go till signing day twenty twenty seven, but these
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  Speaker 1: are the building blocks where you get these guys locked
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  Speaker 1: in as you said they can help build a class.
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  Speaker 1: But also then if they're in state guys and you
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  Speaker 1: know they're excited to be Ohio state players, those are
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  Speaker 1: not guys that you probably have to worry about Miami
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  Speaker 1: swooping in with a big bag with a dollar sign
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  Speaker 1: on it at the last minute or whatever. These are
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  Speaker 1: guys who you can probably feel pretty good about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, stay uh, you know, take your bridem in,
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  Speaker 1: say your prayers, and you know, get good grades and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see you in a couple of years. Kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's really now, with as much uncertainty as there is
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  Speaker 1: in recruiting, that feels like something that has a tremendous
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  Speaker 1: value for all hives.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's still other good offensive linemen in the
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  Speaker 2: state as well. So I'm on board with going ahead
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  Speaker 2: and securing commitments from the guys that you will take,
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  Speaker 2: that you believe can play, and then you know what,
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  Speaker 2: then you go out and you go big game hunting
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  Speaker 2: for the top offensive linement rather than in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the national one hundred national offensive lineman, rather than doing
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  Speaker 2: that first and then finishing second, third, or fourth and
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  Speaker 2: then being like, well, I guess we got to go
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  Speaker 2: back in State and see what we can find. I
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  Speaker 2: saw an interview the other day with Felix Ojoe. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, High State finished second. Well that's great,
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  Speaker 2: but it doesn't mean anything now unless it's like the
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Downs finishing second or the Julian sayin finishing second,
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  Speaker 2: where it's okay to finish second as long as that
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  Speaker 2: person hits the portal and comes back to you. But
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  Speaker 2: the portal is also you know, it's a market as well,
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  Speaker 2: So finishing second is fine and maybe you can turn
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  Speaker 2: it into something, but you can't make a living off
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  Speaker 2: of finishing second.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and both of those guys were on campus, as
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  Speaker 1: I said, for that Penn State game. Another guy who's
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  Speaker 1: an in state guy for twenty twenty seven, COLLEL. Johnson
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  Speaker 1: out of Molar High School in Cincinnati. He was on
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  Speaker 1: campus as well, So they may be able to bring
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  Speaker 1: in three or more guys in state. And you look
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  Speaker 1: at the offensive line for Ohio State right now, and
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  Speaker 1: there's guys who I think people were not. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Luke Montgomery was definitely someone who people were very excited about.
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  Speaker 1: Philip Daniels didn't even get an Ohio State offer coming
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  Speaker 1: out of high school, but an Ohio offensive lineman. Hagar
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  Speaker 1: Shibolo was an Ohio offensive lineman. Josh Padilla was an
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  Speaker 1: Ohio offensive lineman. Austin Syrabel was an Ohio offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, none of those guys were Paris Johnson
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  Speaker 1: coming out of high school and they have still developed
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  Speaker 1: into a very very good offensive line for Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: this year. So there you go, two new commitments for
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes for the class of twenty twenty seven. Will
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  Speaker 1: have much more on the recruiting impact of the Penn
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  Speaker 1: State week and a Penn State game and a busy
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  Speaker 1: recruiting weekend there, plus buck Eyes heading to Purdue this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be talking about that as well at bucke huddle
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Of course, you can find us at YouTube
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  Speaker 1: dot com slash bucke Huddle. A new episode of Michigan
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  Speaker 1: Monday coming out for you as they'm talking about Michigan
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  Speaker 1: and their game begins Purdue, and then we'll have plenty
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  Speaker 1: more coming up this week as the Buckeyes get ready
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  Speaker 1: to take on the Boilermakers themselves. So that'll do it
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  Speaker 1: for today. Thank you guys all for joining us. Have
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  Speaker 1: a great day.