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Get To Know New Ohio State RB Coach Carlos Locklyn · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Friday, April twelfth, domm your host tom
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  Or the Akron game in one hundred and forty one days, the game against
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  Michigan in two hundred and thirty two days. The UHIS State Spring Game is
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  So today's show, we're gonna be hearing from own new Ohio State running backs
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  coach Carlos Lachlan came over from Oregon after Tony Alfred departed from Michigan. He
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  prefers coach being called Carlos, so just in case you see him out in
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  public, that's what they call them. Coach Locke, Coach Locke. What
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  has the first little bit of time at Ohio State been like for you?
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  I'm pretty excited. This has been a journey, you know. I'm pretty
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  sure most people have read about my story since twenty seventeen getting in the college
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  football. This has been I have to pinch myself every morning that I'm here
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  in Columbus, at Ohio State. It's kind of surreal for me. So
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  great place, great people, great young man. So I'm excited, but
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  just by being here, this is kind of a weird time of year to
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  be in the market for a new position coach. Most of that stuff gets
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  handled in December and January. So what was it like for Carlos Lachlan His
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  initial reaction the first time Ryan Day reached out to him. No, it
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  was a couple of other places had reached out earlier, and those things that
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  you know, come to play. I actually was getting up out of bed
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  and I was heading to go work out and I got a text and I
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  shook my wife. I was like, look at this. It's like I
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  don't know who that is. Let me get my classes. So I was.
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  I was excited, and man had like this like a kid on Christmas.
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  I'm like, okay, well, I wonder what they what? What
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  does he want? It was a pretty exciting text. Then when I called
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  him. When I called him and just to talk to him, I was
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  like, I was, I was pretty excited. This is a very talented
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  running back room for Ohio State. The veteran players, the very talented freshman.
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  How do you get the best out of running backs? If you're the
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  running backs coach? I get the best outum, because I love the young
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  man. My main focus is that changed the hearts and minds of them and
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  they'll play for me. I had just got through reading Coach Trestle's Winners Manual,
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  and it's something that I took from that book. You have your purpose
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  and you have your goals, all right, My purpose is to serve and
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  pour into the man. Now, my goals as a football coach, all
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  of them are take care of themselves. So that's one of the ways.
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  I'm just real relationship base and I'm very detailed at this position. I know
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  y'all heard me say before, and I'm gonna keep saying. This is the
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  worst coach position in football. It's terrible. Guys hire anybody to coaches position
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  and recruiters. Carls. Locker is not a recruiter. I'm an elite relationship
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  builder, but I coached this position. I'm a ball coach, so that's
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  who I am. So I'm gonna pouringt to these kids. I think they
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  kind of seeing it now, and I jumped in day one. I'm ready
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  to coach. He is obviously coming in right in the middle of spring practice,
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  so he missed what would typically be the sort of assessment period back and
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  watch a bunch of film and then see the first half of spring practice in
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  person. So how was he kind of playing catchup? Assessing the talent at
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  Ohio State? Me being a guy that loves the running back position, and
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  I already broke those kids down because I recruited them out of high school.
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  You know, Q is from where I'm from in Montgomery. I was one
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  of the first guys to offer him watching him great contact, balance, creative
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  runner, great hands and trey. I recruited him out of Virginia exceptional short
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  air, your burst and quickness and things that I'm gonna help him get better
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  on. And then I recruited James Peoples out of San Antonio, Texas.
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  I knew what he was going to what he was going to be TC and
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  Sam. Those two kids I'm getting to know and I'm going to help them
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  improve the game. But we got different runners in there. I like to
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  call myself, I'm in love with this position, so I get to break
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  down runners and help their game. So talented, talented and room very talented.
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  Lachlan's path to the coaching business has been definitely not exactly the traditional one.
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  Instead of coming out right after college and playing a little bit and then
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  getting a job at the bottom of the staff and sort of working his way
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  up, well, he spent almost two decades in law enforcement before he started
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  the working your way up from the bottom uh projectory or path. So how
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  did his career in law enforcement help prepare him for what he does in coaching?
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  H Yeah, well I just got through talking to somebody about that today.
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  When I first got in this profession, and I got my own room
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  at Western Tech. I was asked, No, how was I was gonna
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  be able to handle my room? I said, Man, I had a
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  part with fifty one inmates. You talking about me having got six or seven
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  guys? Are you kidding me? I'm talking about me having to do traffic
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  stops. So going on domestic virus calls, it's simple, easy. No,
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  people don't know what you care. Also know, you got to have
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  a certain demeaning about yourself. So when I walk into a room, it's
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  the reason why I go train every morning. This is when it's the same
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  thing when I was a police officer. You look a certain way kind of
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  deter people from doing certain things. So reason why I go train every morning.
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  I'm gonna look just as good as my boys look. So it helped
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  out a lot. In other words, one of the things that you will
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  see Lachlan say if you watch other interviews or if you read other articles about
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  him, is that the run is one of the worst coach positions in football,
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  maybe the worst coach position in college football. So why does he think
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  that I'm not gonna say revolutionary, it's some good running back coaches out here.
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  Everybody's different. It's some great coaches out here. I just want the
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  head guys who say that on these jobs to not just hire guys. You
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  know, all coaches on your staff should be great recruiters, not just some
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  running back coach. We coach a position, We developed players as well.
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  I just want the coaches to realize, Hey, you know what, let
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  me look and be thorough about this guy that I'm hiring for this job.
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  Is he teaching the position? Is he development the position? Because you're not
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  going to hire anybody just coach quarterbacks, are you. Well, it shouldn't
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  be like that for the running back position either. And I'm only passionate about
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  it because I played it. I love it, so it's the only position
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  I want to coach. Could I coach other positions? Yeah, I played
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  dB in college too, but I love the running back position so and I
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  just want to see it coach Well, Lachlan does not view himself as purely
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  a recruiter, and he you know, he's had some success on the recruiting
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  trail for sure, but he wants Brian Day has made it clear he wants
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  Lachland to develop the players in that running back group get those guys going.
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  So how is he gonna do that? I think he did his research on
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  me. He said he wanted the guy to develop the position. That's not
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  taking a shot at the coach that was here who I'm friends with. He
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  said that they want somebody to really get the guys going. I can only
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  be me, And I told him that because I'm gonna be me every day
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  now, Because see, my mindset is when I step in this building,
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  I got one mindset that's to do my job so well that the living dead
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  or unborn can't do it any better. So when I leave it, that's
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  what my mindset is. Hopefully I'm here for a long time, but only
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  God knows that. So, but that's my mindset. Every day I step
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  into the Wizard Hate soenter, that's my mindset. I'm gonna do my job
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  so well that living dead or i'mborn couldn't do it any better. So that's
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  what my mindset is. And finally, he had a perfectly good career in
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  law enforcement, probably getting close to pension time all that kind of stuff.
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  What made him decide to leave law enforcement and really start at the very bottom
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  of the college football ranks. I'm gonna share this with you, y' all
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  because I know a lot of people may not may not notice. When I
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  first got to Memphis, that's not the first school I went to try to
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  work at. I actually went to a small Libertar school there in Memphis called
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  Road College to try to get on this staff. I was told I ain't
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  have enough experience. I need to go back and coach high school. I
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  think at that time God was telling me I was thinking too small. The
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  decision for me to get into coaching football, that was God's deseason because this
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  is just an extension of my ministry to pour into people. So me getting
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  out of law enforcement. I enjoyed my life in law enforcement, but I
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  knew I could reach more people by me being able to coach ball. I
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  want to be a bridge builder. I want to help out young man.
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  Not just young men, but the coaches that I work with helped them achieve
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  their dreams and their goals. That was part of it. Lachlan definitely a
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  very interesting interview subject, very a non traditional path to the position he now
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  holds. Just a really interesting dude. Looking forward to talking to him more
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  as this spring, summer, and fall all lead it up to this year's
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  Ohio State football season. First steps of that going to be a little later
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  Then of course the spring game on Saturday, and then the off season
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  begins again. A lot of stuff to talk about. Going to be a
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