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2 Phenoms Who Earned Ohio State Offers Before Starting High School · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, June twelfth. I'm your host,
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  Tom Moore. The Akron game in eighty days, the game against Michigan
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  in one hundred and seventy one days. Back at Ohio State football camp along
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  with Mark Gifler of bucke Huddle dot Com. Mark obviously a full camp with
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  every position group, but it felt like Tuesday's camp was the quarterback and wide
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  receiver day. Some really really talented quarterbacks and wide receivers working at at Ohio
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  State on Tuesday. Let's start with dia Bell class at twenty twenty six quarterback.
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  That's one where you know, the Ohio State has their twenty four obviously
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  in house, they're both of them. They're twenty five well in hand in
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  Tavian Saint Clair. He was here, and then twenty six is kind of
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  the next class that we've been sort of wondering, Okay, who's it going
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  to be. We've seen a bunch of guys come through, heard a bunch
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  of names, and then Diabell was here. Looked very impressive and you know,
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  let's get your thoughts first on Diabell as a player as a prospect.
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  Yeah, I mean he looked really good. We watched him on Southern Swing,
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  so we've we've been able to see a bunch of him the last twelve
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  to eighteen months and through a beautiful deep all today and one on one's had
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  a lot of deep connections. Can zip it and has that basketball athleticism dad
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  played in the NBA's He's still a high school basketball player, so a lot
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  to like Barry. He's got good size, very smart kid, very kind
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  of a lead by example type of kid. So I think this is a
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  guy that very well could end up being the quarterback in this class. And
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  you never want to read too much into things, but I'm always interested in
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  who's going first in drills, who's going second in drills. And as they
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  were going through a lot of the drills, Tavian Saint Clair was here,
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  and tavan Saint Clair's obviously basically has his own parking spot out front at this
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  point, he's here so much, so he was going first, but Deep
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  Bell was pretty much always the next guy up, which is always kind of
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  interesting to me. Always. I don't know if I want to read too
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  much into that, but it's always just kind of one of those things you
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  just sort of look for. In addition to all the on field stuff,
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  it sounds like the Da Bell Sweepstakes is not going to drag on all that
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  much longer. Where where do you see that headed? Where do you think
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  Ohio State stands in there? And maybe how long we're gonna be waiting on
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  that? I'm expecting a decision before the season starts. If you look nationally,
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  the quarterback dominoes are starting to fall. We've seen Will Griffin commit to
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  Florida. We've seen no Grubs commit to Notre Dame. You know, I'm
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  sure I'm missing a few, but the dominoes are starting to fall this summer,
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  and so ultimately I believe d Bell's purpose this month is to get out
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  to the schools he wants to consider and then make a decision before the season
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  starts. They're gonna leave Ohio tonight and they're gonna fly to LSU, and
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  so they're gonna LSU tomorrow and then that'll that should end their little trip here,
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  and then I think they're probably gonna sit down. He's gonna get back
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  those high school obligations with his team. But it wouldn't shock me if we
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  see something here. You know, in the next two two and a half
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  months. Do you have a sense for is it an Ohio State LSU battle
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  or there other schools in there. I mean, I think those are probably
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  the two to watch right now, just because yeah, I think Miami probably
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  could throw in there. I like the trend right now for Ohio State.
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  I think this was a quarterback who initially was very high on the Black Eyes,
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  came up here to camp last year, didn't get offered by Corey Dennis.
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  Quite frankly, Corey Denis didn't do a lot to further the relationship in
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  the final six months he was here, and so things kind of hit a
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  reset button. But Ryan Day and Chip Kelly and those guys have really started
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  to push, and I think they've got this thing back on the rails,
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  and I like where they're at right now. I think they've done a very
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  good job here the last few months. And so that's twenty six. We're
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  gonna skip completely over the class of twenty seven for a moment and talk about
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  twenty twenty eight. Now. I will do the math for you. If
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  you are a twenty twenty eight prospect, you have not had your first day
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  of high school yet. You have probably not had your first day of high
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  school practice. Yes, in most cases at least organized practic this. But
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  then Neemon Lawrence was out here, and it's you know, you go through
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  the kids who have been like really stood out and looked like look the part
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  before they step on a high school field at these camps over the years,
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  and the list is not very long. We'll get to another one in a
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  minute, but you know, I think back to like Tyler Atkinson a couple
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  of years ago, the defensive lineman, Chris Henry, Chris Henry, very
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  much Chris Henry, you know, but that list is not very long.
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  So Neiman Lawrence was not yet, not yet officially a high school student and
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  out here, and you know, it seemed like that was a good positive
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  first impression. So he was tremendous. And I don't like that we're talking
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  about him, But I don't know how we in good faith talk about this
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  camp and don't talk about him. He was one of the best handful of
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  players I saw here today. He's already got half a dozen offers. Miami's
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  offered, West Virginia's offered. Would it shock me if Ohio State offered,
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  No, they may want to wait and see some film in the fall,
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  but this is kid's getting off already, huge arm athletic kid. Really.
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  I was impressed talking to him very much. Sure for his age. Actually
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  visited Ohio State in March with the rest of the South Floor Express crew on
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  that visit, so he's very familiar with Ohio State. So South Floor Express
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  kid, of course, so definitely worth watching moving forward. I don't say
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  that a lot about twenty eight kids or you know, guys going into the
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  freshman year. This is one. This is when people should watch. Yeah,
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  and the South Florida Express ties. When when the South Florida Express guys
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  come up, they're always well represented. There's always a ton of talent,
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  and there's always a ton of current Ohio State buck guys, former South Florida
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  Express guys here waiting to welcome them. So you know, yeah, it's
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  a South Florida kid, but there's gonna be plenty of familiar faces here another
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  twenty eight. We're just gonna stay in the class at twenty twenty eight because
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  sure, we're just gonna we're gonna fight through this. Eric McFarlane wide receiver
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  and he is already has an Ohio State offer already has a Georgia offer,
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  has not yet started high school, I will remind you. And then you
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  watched him and it was like, yeah, okay, I can see it
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  might have been the best player at camp today. Obviously, Tavian Saint Clair
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  was phenomenal. Da Belle was very good as well. I don't know that
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  anyone dominated to the level that Eric McFarlane did today. No one could cover
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  him. It was just a force in one on ones already very strong,
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  not tall, but very strong, very explosive, great hands, great body
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  control, went up stairs a couple of times to go get the ball.
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  So you know, he plays bigger than his height. Yeah, I mean,
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  he's the first kid Ohio State's offered in twenty twenty eight, so he's
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  special. It's gonna be an IMG in the fall. And again, I
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  don't love that we're talking about him, but you can't do an honest assessment
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  of the camp and not talk about him. He was. He was unbelievable.
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  Yeah, you know, once Ohio State has offered the kids feel all
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  right, you know, listen, listen, I it's not my fault.
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  It's there. No, I know, I'm not believing it's his fault.
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  Yes, exactly what he did, and he was You're right, he was
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  in the one on one session, just dominant. I think there was one
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  pass that didn't get to him, but it was not a very good throw,
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  and yeah it was. It was impressive. One other wide receiver of
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  note, Brody Keith twenty twenty six. Can we can safely talk about twenty
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  ten L six press fair game? Let's talk a little bit about Brodie Keith.
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  Yeah, another really good day. There's another guy we've seen a lot
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  of He's been at camps here, We've seen him, we saw him on
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  Southern Swing. We've spent a lot of time around Brody. Just a very
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  short handed kid with with good size, getting faster, really solid performance today.
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  I know Heartline was keeping close eye on him. He's got the offer
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  already. This is early still, but I would give you guys the field,
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  and I would take Ohio State or Tennessee and give everyone else the rest
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  of the field. I think that's what this is going to come down to
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  ultimately, with getting him back on campus again is important. He's been up
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  here a few times now, and as they start to kind of sort out
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  their twenty six board, because I still don't know that they've got that all
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  figured out yet. We'll kind of see what goes from here. But I
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  think they've got a great chance of Brodie Keith as well. So those are
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  They were a couple other wide receivers of note one, I will just mention
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  Angelo Smith younger brother Jeremiah Smith was at camp as well. But yeah,
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  a lot of a lot of talented quarterbacks. Cameron Cruz from twenty seven had
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  a great dance for twenty six. Yeah, it was a couple of wide
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  receivers just to keep an eye on. Braden Robinson had a nice day,
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  Peyton Cook had a nice day. They were there were a number of talent.
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  And you know, wide receivers never exactly a big position of concern for
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  Ohio State fans and recruiting, but the talent pipeline continues. There's plenty of
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  plenty of talent here. Brian Hartlin continues to be quite a draw in terms
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  of wide receiver talent. These camps really good receiver group today. The quarterbacker,
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  you know, even like Michael Clayton, the second he's back in there
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  talking to Rine Day when he's a twenty six kid, you know, is
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  there going to be is he gonna be able to enter the derby, I
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  don't know, but he had a great day. I thought there were three
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  future five star quarterbacks like Coke was between Saint Clair, Bell and Lawrence.
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  Yeah, I think we're talking. I think we saw three five star quarterback
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  prospects today and I think I said Brady Lawrence. It was Brady Palmer was
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  from out of California. He was here as well. So that was the
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  story here. The names kind of to know from that camp, and yes,
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  some twenty twenty eight names to know. Sorry, it's not our fault.
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  this week. Lots of great insight on high state recruits. Someone maybe should
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  be on commitment watch, a big offensive recruit could be on commitment watch of
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  the buck Eyes very soon. M'd be might be doing a breaking news show
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  Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk
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