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David Gabriel Georges Commitment: Tennessee Or Ohio State? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, on the menu for today's show, we got
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  Speaker 1: to talk about David Gabriel, George five star running back
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  Speaker 1: who will be announcing his college decision on Wednesday. We
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  Speaker 1: are going to make our final call on where he
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  Speaker 1: is going to be. I'm going to welcome in Juck Maletti,
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  Speaker 1: the recruiting insider for Buckeye Insiders dot com. Juck, this
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  Speaker 1: is a recruitment that Ohio State has been chasing very
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  Speaker 1: very hard for as long as they possibly can, and
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  Speaker 1: now we're finally coming to the end of that process.
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  Speaker 1: He's announcing on Wednesday. My senses Ohio State is not
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  Speaker 1: going to get the answer that they were hoping for.
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  Speaker 2: I feel the same sentiment, Tom, and it's one of
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  Speaker 2: those things, in my opinion, that was kind of a
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  Speaker 2: miscalculation on Ohio State's part where they looked at last
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  Speaker 2: cycle with the top backs of the class and Sabian
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  Speaker 2: Hyder Derek Cooper roughly getting about eight hundred thousand dollars deals,
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  Speaker 2: and they said to themselves, are we going to stop
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  Speaker 2: recruiting these guys and go all in for David Gabriel
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  Speaker 2: George next year, knowing full well probably going to cost
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  Speaker 2: us over a million dollars for a running back. They
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  Speaker 2: thought long and hard about it, and they said, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's worth it, and that's what they decided to do. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the miscalculation I believe happened was they thought that it
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  Speaker 2: would be over a million dollars, and it turns out
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  Speaker 2: the guy they were going up against wasn't bidding against
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State. Tennessee was bidding against Tennessee's future. And it
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  Speaker 2: certainly seems like from the time David Gabriel George left
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  Speaker 2: his Ohio State official visit and went to his Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: official visit. Tennessee didn't care what Ohio State had on
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  Speaker 2: the table. They immediately doubled it. It was right then
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  Speaker 2: that day they came with a two million dollar offer,
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  Speaker 2: and ever since then, more perks and benefits have been
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  Speaker 2: leaking from that offer. And that's the kind of stuff
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  Speaker 2: that Ohio State doesn't get in the muck with. Now
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  Speaker 2: you can look at this and say, Ohio State knew
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  Speaker 2: that's how Tennessee was going to play this because they
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  Speaker 2: just did this with David Sanders. They already knew ahead
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  Speaker 2: of time. So why get involved in a head to
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  Speaker 2: head with these guys. If you know that's the way
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  Speaker 2: they're going to operate, you can't cry about it later
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  Speaker 2: and say, well, they are offering private jets. We know
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  Speaker 2: this is how they operate, and some people are going
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  Speaker 2: to be bitter about that and say, Ohio State had
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  Speaker 2: some egg on their face at the end of this,
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  Speaker 2: but they took a swing. And the big picture is
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  Speaker 2: this class has the best offensive and defensive line class
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  Speaker 2: combination we've seen in the modern recruiting era. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't think anybody would trade this Ohio State class for
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  Speaker 2: the Tennessee class with David Gabriel George, which has seven
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  Speaker 2: four stars and ten three stars. I certainly wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I looked at the recruiting rankings and this is
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  Speaker 1: before David Gabriel George commits. But Tennessee right now is
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  Speaker 1: right behind Minnesota in the class rankings, and Minnesota has
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  Speaker 1: a lot more players committed, but in terms of average
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  Speaker 1: star rating, Tennessee is kind of behind South Carolina right now,
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  Speaker 1: around Missouri right now. So you know, this is a
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  Speaker 1: team where and you know, the Tennessee people watching this
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  Speaker 1: are going to say, you know, oh, this is sour grapes,
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  Speaker 1: But if you're Ohio state, you'd much rather have David
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  Speaker 1: Gabriel George at Tennessee than somewhere like Georgia or somewhere
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  Speaker 1: like Notre Dame or somewhere like that. Just this is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is Tennessee trying to get over the hump,
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  Speaker 1: and they haven't gotten over the hump yet. And I
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  Speaker 1: think I think Tennessee thought they were going to get
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  Speaker 1: over the hump two years ago and very much did
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  Speaker 1: not in Columbus, Ohio in December of twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, is this the thing that makes the
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  Speaker 1: difference and finally gets them over the hump and turns
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  Speaker 1: them into a legitimate national championship contender. We'll see. The
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  Speaker 1: next question is, okay, assuming he does go to Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: what next for Ohio State? Because they took favor Aki
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  Speaker 1: last year, they took Legend Bay last year. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: so you brought in a couple guys last year, not
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  Speaker 1: top top, top of the board, thirty carry a game
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  Speaker 1: kind of guys necessarily, but you brought in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of guys last year. Now this year you're getting it's
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  Speaker 1: getting late a little early for Ohio State in the
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  Speaker 1: running back chase this year. Who are other people that
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  Speaker 1: they may sort of turn their attention to this cycle
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  Speaker 1: or do they just kind of turn the page and
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  Speaker 1: look at twenty twenty eight eighty eight and go, well,
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  Speaker 1: we got our guy there and start the start the
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  Speaker 1: conversation with that.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly do got your guy in twenty twenty eight. And
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  Speaker 2: Elijah Newman Hall, who I think is just about as
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  Speaker 2: sure of a thing as you can have for a
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  Speaker 2: guy committed that far out, which is great news. What
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  Speaker 2: I can say, I don't think is going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And I know this would make a lot of Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State fans happy is if they went all in now
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  Speaker 2: on trying to flip a common Spell who committed to
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  Speaker 2: Georgia or get back in on a Landon Williams Callis
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  Speaker 2: who is right now between Texas and Texas A and M.
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  Speaker 2: Common Spell got an eight hundred thousand dollars offer that
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  Speaker 2: he committed to with Georgia. Landon Williams Callus will get
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  Speaker 2: roughly the same. And some will say, well, if they
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  Speaker 2: had this much for David Gabriel George, you can turn
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  Speaker 2: into that. I don't think Ohio State's philosophy on spending
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  Speaker 2: on running backs has changed. This was a David Gabriel
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  Speaker 2: George specific thing, so very unlikely to see them do
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  Speaker 2: that there. And when we look at guys that they
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  Speaker 2: were also kind of in on. They had two official
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  Speaker 2: visits scheduled. One of them showed up. That was Jaden Miles,
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  Speaker 2: and Ohio State kind of turned a cold shoulder on him,
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  Speaker 2: and it seemed like he made a real hasty decision
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  Speaker 2: to commit to Florida State the very next day. What
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  Speaker 2: are the odds of getting back in on that. I
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  Speaker 2: think they'll try. Personally, I am much more interested in
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  Speaker 2: them trying to get back in on Nigel Newkirk, who
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  Speaker 2: was scheduled to also come unofficial visit, the only other
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  Speaker 2: running back, but he visited Alabama the week before and
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  Speaker 2: Alabama locked him down. He shut his recruitment down. Now
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  Speaker 2: he's the twenty fourth ranked running back in the class.
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  Speaker 2: I strongly disagree Alabama does too. They paid him like
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  Speaker 2: a top ten back at roughly four hundred thousand dollars. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when you look at that, that's still a ton of
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  Speaker 2: money for a running back who's ranked the twenty third
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  Speaker 2: running back. And this brings us back to the conversation
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  Speaker 2: we've had for a couple of years now of well,
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  Speaker 2: now you're talking about bringing in a guy as one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty pound freshman making more money than the
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  Speaker 2: backs in your class right now that are on campus,
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  Speaker 2: and that doesn't work. So where do you go? Trenard
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  Speaker 2: Roberts name has come up Trinid Roberts is a three
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  Speaker 2: star out of Florida. That's pretty interesting. He's a guy
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  Speaker 2: who at one point was the number one, number two
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  Speaker 2: back in the state of Florida at IMG as a sophomore,
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  Speaker 2: looked really good and then transferred for his junior year
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  Speaker 2: to his local school and kind of dropped off the
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  Speaker 2: face of the earth. There's no film on him. I
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  Speaker 2: can't find anything. I've reached out to him, I can't
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  Speaker 2: get a hold of him. But currently it looks like
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  Speaker 2: the most motion with his recruitment is with North Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: but he's been a name that's been surfacing. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's really interesting. It could be one of those, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he slid kind of under the media radar, and if
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State could potentially get in on that, that could
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  Speaker 2: be something interesting. There are some other names of guys
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  Speaker 2: that they've been involved with throughout the process that would
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  Speaker 2: really interest me. Elijah Kimball out of New York, kind
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  Speaker 2: of kind of a smaller home run hitter, but he
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  Speaker 2: recently committed to Syracuse and that's a guy that Carlos
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  Speaker 2: Laughlin had a relationship with that I would love to
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  Speaker 2: see him double back on. Caden Went out of Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: another guy roughly now that is a three start number
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  Speaker 2: thirty back in the country currently uncommitted. So there's another
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  Speaker 2: one that Uhstate had a relationship with that we could
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  Speaker 2: potentially see them double back on. And there, of course,
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  Speaker 2: are you know those first three weeks of high school evaluation.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna evaluate everybody's film after those first three weeks,
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  Speaker 2: and what are the odds that they find somebody in
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  Speaker 2: that period versus somebody that they've already offered. And again,
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  Speaker 2: they did their due diligence time. They offered twenty three
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  Speaker 2: other running backs aside from David Gabriel George. It's not
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  Speaker 2: that they were all David Gabriel George and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: There are relationships built. Who do we see them double
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  Speaker 2: back on that. It's too early to tell, but those
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  Speaker 2: are a couple of names that stand out to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure the Ohio State fan base listening to this
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  Speaker 1: is probably in a worst case scenario kind of mood, like,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about, Okay, what's the worst thing that happens here?
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  Speaker 1: If they don't get David Gabriel George and they don't
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  Speaker 1: get another running back, who's you know, even kind of
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  Speaker 1: conversation of being someone who could come in and be
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  Speaker 1: an immediate impact player a year, year one, or even
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  Speaker 1: year two, clear running back one kind of starter. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's worth sort of resetting the table here with
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  Speaker 1: who do they have on the roster right now? How
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  Speaker 1: much longer are those guys around, because you had like
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  Speaker 1: a bo Jackson last year who feels like bo Jackson's
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  Speaker 1: been at Ohio State quite a while. Bo Jackson still
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  Speaker 1: has two more years this year and next year that
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  Speaker 1: he before he can declare for the NFL Draft. So
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  Speaker 1: unless he goes somewhere else, they've got bo Jackson for
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, bo Jackson for twenty twenty seven. Same
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  Speaker 1: thing for Isaiah West. Legend Bay just showed up as
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  Speaker 1: a true freshman. You got three years of him. I
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  Speaker 1: think that, you know, the natural inclination is to immediately
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  Speaker 1: press the panic button and they are doomed at running back.
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  Speaker 1: But with the guys they've got on the roster, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's necessarily true.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State going all in on David Gabriel George, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they were sitting in a boziz in my view that
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  Speaker 2: they had the luxury of doing that. And they had
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  Speaker 2: the luxury of doing that because, as you said, last year,
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  Speaker 2: they brought in favor a key and now watching Legend
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  Speaker 2: Bay's physical transformation, you know he isn't thought coming in
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  Speaker 2: to be a three down back. Well, now all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden he's you know, he's Travian Henderson's size. Who's
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  Speaker 2: to say that that doesn't happen. You know, we all
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  Speaker 2: talk about pass protection. Travian Henderson as a senior was
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  Speaker 2: quite good at that. And in addition to favor a
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  Speaker 2: key in Legend Bay, you brought in three running backs
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  Speaker 2: the year prior in Bo Jackson, Isaiah West and Turbo Rogers.
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  Speaker 2: And Turbo, who we've not talked about, was a top
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  Speaker 2: ten back in the class and we've yet to see
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  Speaker 2: anything out of him, still four years of eligibility, so
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  Speaker 2: we're looking at five guys right there over the span
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  Speaker 2: of the last two years that is much more than usual,
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  Speaker 2: which gave them the luxury to take this shot, which
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  Speaker 2: to me was an all plus side kind of shot,
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  Speaker 2: meaning if you don't get him, doesn't hurt your roster.
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  Speaker 2: The worst case scenario isn't so bad. You wind up
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  Speaker 2: with a guy out of this class who's maybe a
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  Speaker 2: projecty type of guy, and you roll in the next
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  Speaker 2: year with the top five back in Elijah Newman. Hall
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  Speaker 2: All's well in Lando Buckeye in my opinion at running back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so probably not the end of the world. Not
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  Speaker 1: the decision that Ohio State fans were probably hoping to hear,
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  Speaker 1: but also not the end of the world for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll see what they continue to do with that
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven running back class. And of course, as
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  Speaker 1: he mentioned earlier, Elijiah Newman Hall already committed for twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight. We saw him this summer at some of
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  Speaker 1: the camps. He looks ready to play at the college
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  Speaker 1: level already. So it's still some bright days ahead for
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State Buckeyes in that running back room, But
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  Speaker 1: sounds like Wednesday may be a shade of Tennessee orange instead.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: There's an update on the recruitment of David Gabriel George
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  Speaker 1: what we're expecting to hear on Wednesday when he announces
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  Speaker 1: his decision. You want to talk to us about it more.
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