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Ohio State Football Recruiting: Commitments Coming After Official Visits? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: day at YouTube dot com slash at Buckeye Insiders. Today, though,
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  Speaker 1: we got to talk about week number two of official
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  Speaker 1: visits the Buckeyes had six official visitors over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: three already committed, three not committed yet, and a couple
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  Speaker 1: of their big names doing some official visits elsewhere. I've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about all of that with Juck Maletti of
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  Speaker 1: Buckeye Insiders dot com. Juck, let's start with Caylin Bailey,
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  Speaker 1: the linebacker out of Glenville. He is not committed to
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State yet, but where do things stand coming out
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  Speaker 1: of his official visit.
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  Speaker 2: This kid's so good, Tom, He's so underrated. They have
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  Speaker 2: moved him up now from the number one thousand, one
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  Speaker 2: hundred something player to number seven fifty, so trending in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction. But he's clearly a Blue Chipper, and
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  Speaker 2: that has nothing to do with the fact that he
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  Speaker 2: plays at Glenville. The dude is legit, and he has
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  Speaker 2: been being pursued heavily by Louisville, Colorado. They're trying to
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  Speaker 2: get him on campus. He already went to Louisville in
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia, really had a great visit at Louisville. Brian
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  Speaker 2: Hartline trying to get him down to USF. That's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to happen next weekend, and there was some thought that
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  Speaker 2: Louisville and Colorado were coming with some heavy offers, and
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  Speaker 2: that puts Ohio State in that position that they've been
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  Speaker 2: in many times where you got an in state guy
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  Speaker 2: who's a third option for Ohio State top dog there
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  Speaker 2: and he's in that conundrum now where he's got to
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  Speaker 2: decide what he wants to be. And it sounds like
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  Speaker 2: from everything I've heard coming out of that visit that
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  Speaker 2: not just the familiarity with everybody at Ohio State that
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  Speaker 2: he already has, but James Lernitis in particular, have made
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  Speaker 2: him feel quite comfortable. Then he had a discussion with
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  Speaker 2: Matt Patricia, who of course said he wanted to use
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  Speaker 2: him like Arvell, and that's just the buzz word. You
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  Speaker 2: say that to the kid, their eyes light up, and
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  Speaker 2: he can actually be used like Arvell. He did bring
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  Speaker 2: up Sincere potentially being used like that and took a
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  Speaker 2: little shot at Sincere that he's a better pass rusher
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  Speaker 2: than him. So but yeah, man, it sounds like everything
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  Speaker 2: went really good with Kaylin Bailey, which is awesome because
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  Speaker 2: that with with Prince Goldsby and Quentin Cipher, one heck
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  Speaker 2: of a three man linebacker crew. If they can pull
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  Speaker 2: that off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those Gloveville linebacker There's a long, long string of
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  Speaker 1: Glenville linebackers who have been pretty impactful players at Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: and Kiln Bailey could potentially be the next one in
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  Speaker 1: that list if he does commit at some point. Next
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  Speaker 1: up Jaden Miles. He is a running back out of Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you know there is another running back
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  Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty seven class that we've talked a
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  Speaker 1: bunch about, David Gabriel George. He was at Tennessee over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. But what have you hearing? What are you
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  Speaker 1: hearing about Jayden Miles and his visit?
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  Speaker 2: This one's a mystery to me. I can't really find much.
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  Speaker 2: But of course, this is such an awkward position that
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State's in here as he's visited Florida State, He's
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  Speaker 2: got still Kentucky and LSU left to go, and he's
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  Speaker 2: a kid from Louisiana. I don't know how hard LSU's
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  Speaker 2: pursuing him, but I know Florida State's coming really hard,
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  Speaker 2: and I know will Stein and Kentucky you are going
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  Speaker 2: to be coming really hard. Ohio State in a situation
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  Speaker 2: where while he is the backup plan to David Gabriel George,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be making his decision before David Gabriel George.
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  Speaker 2: Does he want to make a decision before David Gabriel
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  Speaker 2: George potentially commits to Ohio State. Who wants to be
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  Speaker 2: in a class with that dude? I don't know, but
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like he might think he's a little better
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  Speaker 2: than David Gabriel George. I saw him retweet somebody saying
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  Speaker 2: that he is the better prospect for Ohio State than
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  Speaker 2: David Gabriel George and listed all the reasons why that
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  Speaker 2: individual thought that, and he retweeted it, which you love
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  Speaker 2: the confidence in a kid like that. And he has
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  Speaker 2: six two, two hundred pounds. I mean, he's a dog.
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  Speaker 2: Not anywhere near the level of DGG as a prospect,
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  Speaker 2: but he's certainly in Ohio State caliber back. But as
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  Speaker 2: far as what they're going to do here, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's really interesting. They don't want to take two backs.
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  Speaker 2: They could take two backs. What do you do if
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  Speaker 2: you miss out on DGG and he's already committed. Now
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  Speaker 2: you're looking, you know, kind of just to fill a number.
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  Speaker 2: And last year taking in favor of a key who
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  Speaker 2: looks to be pretty legit, certainly on a top echelon prospect,
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  Speaker 2: but he looks like a legit Ohio's date back. It's
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  Speaker 2: just an interesting spot here that they're and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how they're going to navigate it. It sure would be
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  Speaker 2: very helpful if DGG made that decision before Jaden Miles. Now,
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  Speaker 2: David Gabriel George was at Tennessee over the weekend, and
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  Speaker 2: he was at Tennessee and had a great visit, of course,
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  Speaker 2: and coming out of that thing, everybody from Tennessee and
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  Speaker 2: the inside sources the staff feels great about him coming
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  Speaker 2: out of that. So this one reinvigorated with DGG, and
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  Speaker 2: this is going to come down to that decision date
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  Speaker 2: with him on July twenty second.
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  Speaker 1: So that'll be definitely one to watch. That is probably
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  Speaker 1: the highest profile of recruitment for the twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: cycle for Ohio State. Definitely one that they are very,
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  Speaker 1: very very interested in winning. Next up, we got Jayden
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  Speaker 1: Kerry cornerback out of Saint Thomas, Aquinas, another South Florida
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  Speaker 1: kid visiting the Buckeyes last weekend. How did that one go?
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  Speaker 2: Really great? Comes up with teammate Cowboy junior, Wyatt Smith,
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  Speaker 2: and Jayden won a four cornerbacks on Tim Walton's board
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  Speaker 2: and one of them, Bryce Woods, off the board, not
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  Speaker 2: coming in for his official committed to Virginia Tech, which
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  Speaker 2: drops it down to three. Jaden Carrey, Deontae Malone, and
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  Speaker 2: Montanta Torbert to Ohio Kids, and those are the three,
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  Speaker 2: with Jade and Carey coming in first. There was a
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  Speaker 2: question when Bryce Woods was still on the board, would
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State be ready to take him because of the four,
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  Speaker 2: he was kind of thought to be the low man
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  Speaker 2: of those four, So would they take him or would
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  Speaker 2: they potentially hold off. Well, now that Bryce Woods is
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  Speaker 2: off the board, he was going to come in next
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  Speaker 2: weekend with Torbert and Malone, all three of them. Now
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like he's really like in Ohio State took
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  Speaker 2: a visit to Miami. I don't think he's really on
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  Speaker 2: their board, but Auburn certainly is, and he's got them
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  Speaker 2: next week. So it looks to me like all systems
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  Speaker 2: go with Jade and Carrey. I think he probably ends
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  Speaker 2: up in this class, and hopefully Malone and Torbert do
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  Speaker 2: as well. But if I was ranking him in order,
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  Speaker 2: I go Malone, Torbert Jade and Carey, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that'd be a heck of a cornerback class for a
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  Speaker 2: cycle where Ohio State is saving money and you can
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  Speaker 2: do that smartly doing that after bringing in Dominic Kelly
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  Speaker 2: adding him to Devin Sanchez for the twenty twenty five crew,
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  Speaker 2: then you come back with Jay Timmins and Jordan Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: two excellent cornerback classes in a row. Now you can
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  Speaker 2: hold some money or put it towards the defensive line
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  Speaker 2: and go try to shoot your shot at some local kids.
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  Speaker 2: That'll pan out hopefully, all right.
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  Speaker 1: And then two guys who were definitely prospects of note
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State, prospects of interest for Ohio State who
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  Speaker 1: were visiting elsewhere over the weekend. The first one is
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  Speaker 1: Brady Edmonds, the quarterback who is committed to Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to make a visit to Ohio State this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: but who was at UCLA last weekend. So how did
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  Speaker 1: that visit go for Brady?
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  Speaker 2: Brady dropped a bomb on us. Tom Brady dropped a bomb.
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  Speaker 2: So we've all speculated for a while as to what's
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  Speaker 2: really going on. How's Brady feeling about the way Billy
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  Speaker 2: Fessler and Ryan Day were moving with all these other quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 2: and Brady so far publicly is really only said if
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State starts bringing in guys for official visits, then
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  Speaker 2: he'll have to kind of respond in kind. Well, Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State hasn't done that, has none scheduled. But Brady did
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  Speaker 2: schedule this visit very quickly and went to UCLA immediately
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  Speaker 2: for that official visit. It was his third time on
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  Speaker 2: campus in the last month and a half and Brady
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  Speaker 2: had an unbelievable visit that blew him away. And then
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  Speaker 2: he discussed in an interview about Ohio State not feeling valued.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't care about the second quarterback. It's the fact that
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  Speaker 2: he was feeling a lot of love from them that
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  Speaker 2: he no longer feels, and he feels it at UCLA Now.
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  Speaker 2: He says that he is going to play the process out,
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  Speaker 2: and we know that he'll be in town June seventeenth
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  Speaker 2: for a seven on seven June eighteenth for a camp
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  Speaker 2: and then his official starts June nineteenth, twentieth twenty first
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  Speaker 2: planning on coming in for a whole week. The question
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  Speaker 2: is does Ohio State repair this? I think they can
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  Speaker 2: if they want to. I think he publicly put this
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  Speaker 2: out there. I mean, they're obviously going to see it. Right,
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like he's hurting. He really it did? I
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  Speaker 2: mean it read like this is a kid who's kind
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  Speaker 2: of feeling shunned. I think they can repair it if
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  Speaker 2: they want to. Will they I don't know. I guess
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  Speaker 2: we'll know if he decides to or if that official
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  Speaker 2: visit happens, if he comes to Ohio State. I would
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  Speaker 2: say that they're trying to repair the relationship here that
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  Speaker 2: certainly seems strained and UCLA really opened his eyes as
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  Speaker 2: an option here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as a Southern California kid UCLA, obviously there's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot to light there for sure, especially with
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  Speaker 1: new head coach Bob Jesney. So that is going to
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  Speaker 1: be an interesting one to watch. And does he make
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  Speaker 1: that trip and then how does that trip go and
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  Speaker 1: is he committed at the end of that trip. That's
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  Speaker 1: all going to be interesting stuff to watch play out
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  Speaker 1: over the next week and a half or so. Last
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  Speaker 1: guy I want to talk about is Marcus focatoh He
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  Speaker 1: is the defensive lineman who visited Ohio State last weekend.
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  Speaker 1: He was visited. He sorry two weeks ago first weekend
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  Speaker 1: of June. Then he visit in Texas this last weekend.
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  Speaker 1: He's someone who was pretty high on Ohio State coming
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  Speaker 1: out of that visit. But of course Texas I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: putting on the full court press as well. So how
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  Speaker 1: did that one go?
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  Speaker 2: So Marcus and Marcus's family are absolutely enamored by Larry Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: They love him, But Larry, you know how State view
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  Speaker 2: him as more of an interior guy. Marcus wants to
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  Speaker 2: play on the outside. Now. Marcus is too big. He
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  Speaker 2: is six foot seven. He's gone on a cut recently
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  Speaker 2: and got his weight down, gotten as lean as he can,
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  Speaker 2: to tip the scales at about two sixty because he
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  Speaker 2: wants to convince everybody he's going to play on the edge,
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  Speaker 2: because that's what he really wants to do. But a year,
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  Speaker 2: nine months in a college strength and conditioning program, there's
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  Speaker 2: just no way you're going to keep the weight off
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  Speaker 2: this kid. He's just got too big of a frame. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 2: Texas and one Allan Clark have convinced him that he
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  Speaker 2: can play on the edge. And Lowen Clark was not
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  Speaker 2: just his hops but made a huge impression on Marcus
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  Speaker 2: at Texas because he comes from Larry Johnson and it
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  Speaker 2: continues the legacy. And Marcus talked about this extensively, how
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  Speaker 2: cool that would be because, like I said, they got
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  Speaker 2: so much respect for Larry. Well, now you've got the
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  Speaker 2: next generation of Larry here at Texas. The visit blew
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  Speaker 2: him away. We talked about how he was all spring
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  Speaker 2: everywhere he went, coming out of wherever he went. It
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  Speaker 2: was the best visit ever. And it sounds like this
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  Speaker 2: one hit the mark again. But of note, Georgia did not.
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  Speaker 2: They were in between Ohio State and Texas, so we've
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  Speaker 2: still got Notre Dame in Oregon to go. Not sure
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  Speaker 2: if those will happen. There's question as to whether or
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  Speaker 2: not they will, but right now it looks like I
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  Speaker 2: think this will be Ohio State and Texas to the
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  Speaker 2: finish line for Marcus Pacatou.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So there you go. Updates on five guys
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  Speaker 1: coming out of official visits to Ohio State and elsewhere after
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  Speaker 1: last weekend. We will have more coverage of this weekend's
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  Speaker 1: official visits coming up later on the week. Before then,
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