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Ohio State Football: Do The Buckeyes Have Another Pair Of 1,000-Yard Running Backs? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyees tomorrow morning for Monday, August eleventh. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom Or the Texas game in nineteen days. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we are under three weeks away from the season opener,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in one hundred and ten days.
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  Speaker 1: On the show, you're going to get to hear from
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State running backs coach Carlos Lachlan. He is one
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  Speaker 1: of the more interesting and intense interviews on this year's
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State coaching staff and team on the whole. He's
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  Speaker 1: an interesting guy because you'll ask a question and you'll
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  Speaker 1: sometimes get an answer that's very clearly a response to
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  Speaker 1: the question that you're asking, and sometimes you get an
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  Speaker 1: answer where he rejects the premise of your question and
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  Speaker 1: he chooses to answer the question that he feels you
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  Speaker 1: should have asked. So you get some interesting answers where
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be a little bit bit of a disconnect.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to set these questions up with the way
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  Speaker 1: they were asked initially by various reporters during the pressed
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  Speaker 1: and availability towards the end of last week, and you'll
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  Speaker 1: see that some of them match and some of them don't.
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  Speaker 1: But the answers are all very interesting and one other thing,
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  Speaker 1: you get some of the deepest answers from him towards
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  Speaker 1: the end of this. This is just kind of sequentially
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  Speaker 1: going through that interview session with him late last week.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the best stuff towards the end, So do
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  Speaker 1: stick around for that. So all right, we're gonna start
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  Speaker 1: with just how frands for running back? CJ. Donaldson has
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  Speaker 1: some experience playing in various offenses in high school and
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  Speaker 1: obviously at West Virginia before he transferred to Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: but this is definitely gonna be the most advanced passing
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  Speaker 1: offense he's been in. So how does playing in a
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  Speaker 1: more advanced passing offense maybe potentially benefit him?
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  Speaker 2: He's come here to work on he knows the things
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  Speaker 2: he had to work on, bringing that intensity every day.
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  Speaker 2: But now of Coase, they said best Now they ain't
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  Speaker 2: just on the kid, that's on the coach. No, he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna play in my temperament the way the tippleman I
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  Speaker 2: coached him. That's what the kid gonna play with. If
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  Speaker 2: I come out there, luke Warm, he gonna play with
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  Speaker 2: luke Warm. Yeah, we don't do that here. You ain't
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  Speaker 2: allowed to have a bad day here at the Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: So he's gonna come out there, he's gonna play hard.
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  Speaker 1: And you got kind of another question here, and it
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  Speaker 1: was sort of related to that first one in terms
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  Speaker 1: of C. J. Jonaldson in terms of that passing offense,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, does that maybe open things up for him,
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  Speaker 1: give him a little more room to run than he's
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  Speaker 1: had before in his college career.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know what they do up there in Morgantown.
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  Speaker 2: I just know what we do in the Columbus. If
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  Speaker 2: he got a small hole, he better figure out way
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  Speaker 2: to get through there.
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  Speaker 3: If he got a big hole, same thing, run through it.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know what they do up there, but
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  Speaker 2: I know what the standard is here, has to run
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  Speaker 2: the day like that.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another one where he kind of rejects the premise
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  Speaker 1: of the question a little bit. The question is about
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  Speaker 1: whether they're looking at having a two running back rotation
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  Speaker 1: like they had last year.
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  Speaker 2: Last year's last year. I know, y'all he asking that question.
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  Speaker 2: Those kids, they're not queue and trade. They're themselves. That's
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  Speaker 2: how I want them to be themselves.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be nobody else. But themselves, be
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  Speaker 2: cause coach Locke only, I'm only trying to be who me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to be me.
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  Speaker 2: So they got to feel their own shoes. Those things
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  Speaker 2: will say to themselves. We compete out there every day.
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  Speaker 2: If you think you'll arrived in that room, you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get your feelings hurt because I'm gonna make sure I
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  Speaker 2: heard them. You got to come to work every day.
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  Speaker 2: You better if you don't humble yourself, I will.
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  Speaker 1: One of these signature things about last year's offense and
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  Speaker 1: running game was the pass protection. You saw some blitz
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  Speaker 1: pick ups from guys like Travian Henderson that were just
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  Speaker 1: absolute highlight, real blitz pickups if such a thing exists.
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  Speaker 1: So how was that pass pro coming? Along with this
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  Speaker 1: year's running backs.
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  Speaker 3: They're getting better, they're getting bell.
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  Speaker 2: No, you had one of the best guys to do
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  Speaker 2: it last year, and Trey and James is getting better
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  Speaker 2: at it. CJ, the young fellow, Bo Jackson, all of them.
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  Speaker 2: They know that's a priority. Now two things in that room.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna own the ball and you ain't gonna give
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  Speaker 2: up six, and you got to take pride.
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  Speaker 3: That's the stand up. So they're all getting better.
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  Speaker 1: At Here's another one where the answer is not quite
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  Speaker 1: directly addressing the question, but it's an interesting answer. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: last year you had two Ohio state running backs with
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  Speaker 1: John Jenkins and Travion Henderson, who each finished the year
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  Speaker 1: with a thousand yards rushing. Is that the standard again
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  Speaker 1: this year? Two guys rushing for a thousand yards each.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody keep saying two different guys. It's six guys. Now
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  Speaker 2: you better compete. Every day you keep saying it's two
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  Speaker 2: different guys. Ain't nobody in that room or Ryan, They
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  Speaker 2: ain't done the damn thing here yet, So everybody in
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  Speaker 2: there competing. I don't want my kids having that in
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  Speaker 2: their head. They need to come out, well, I don't
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  Speaker 2: have I'm not on the field. I got to compete,
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  Speaker 2: got to come to work every day because they ain't
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  Speaker 2: nothing gonna be giving here. So their mindset is, I
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  Speaker 2: better come to work every day. I better be on
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  Speaker 2: special teams. I better be forty six eighty B plus two.
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  Speaker 2: That's the mindset, coach, they want. I better do that
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  Speaker 2: every day. So that better be their mindset. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: worried about, Oh, it's a two man rotation. You better
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  Speaker 2: be worried about Hey, what I'm showing on film every day?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So't want to talk about to guys. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: talk about six guys. So how many of those six
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  Speaker 1: guys is he comfortable with playing? Right now?
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  Speaker 3: Them things take care of themselves.
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  Speaker 2: If all six on, good all six on play, because
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  Speaker 2: if they're good enough, they would they're old enough you
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  Speaker 2: put them on the Them things take care of theirself.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's a lot of problems with these young kids.
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  Speaker 2: They come here and they want their microwave success. You
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  Speaker 2: got to work here. You gotta work. I tell you
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  Speaker 2: all the time. These kids don't take on my mindset.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still working like I'm the guy changing the dog
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  Speaker 2: on bathrooms and parkalizing Memphis. Still working the same way.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta work. It's about working. If you work, those
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  Speaker 2: things take care of themselves.
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  Speaker 1: The guy who's sort of presumed to be the starter
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  Speaker 1: this year is James Peoples. What's the biggest difference in
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  Speaker 1: his game from this time last year to now?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's more knowledgeable of the game, but that
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  Speaker 2: comes with coaching. You know, he still he knows things.
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  Speaker 2: He still got to work on. But nobody played meaning
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  Speaker 2: for minutes in the game yet, So I can't really
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  Speaker 2: tell you that. You know, we all assume this is
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  Speaker 2: what's gonna be and my mindset, and that's not his mindset.
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  Speaker 3: He know he better work every day.
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  Speaker 2: But I've seen growth in him and how he prepares,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being on time for meetings. You know, all
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  Speaker 2: my guys they take the field together, they buying into
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  Speaker 2: one another. So I see growth in that aspect of
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  Speaker 2: him trying to grow in as a leader.
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  Speaker 1: Is that mindset something that he came to Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: with or is that something that developed since he's gotten
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  Speaker 1: to Columbus.
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  Speaker 2: He ain't got no choice who mindset he's taking on mine?
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  Speaker 2: So he ain't got he ain't got no. He ain't
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  Speaker 2: got no choice either he gonna take on my mindset
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  Speaker 2: or I'm gonna go at him every day. If he
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  Speaker 2: tell you, he'll tell you that he gonna go at
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  Speaker 2: you every day. He gonna take on my mindset. If
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  Speaker 2: the kid, if the kid come out there with like
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, luke warm enthusiasm, no passion, play for
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  Speaker 2: the game. It ain't the kid who it is the coach.
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  Speaker 2: So he gonna take on my mindset. And he has
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  Speaker 2: done that. He comes out there, He's physical, plays with passion.
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  Speaker 3: He does his job.
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  Speaker 1: One of the storylines with CJ. Donaldson is the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he's dropped a bunch of weight since getting to
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State. Coach Mick has had him busy in the
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  Speaker 1: weight room. He's lost twenty five twenty twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: pounds since getting to Columbus. Is that something that when
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  Speaker 1: they were looking at him in the portal? Is that
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  Speaker 1: something that they thought, Ah, we're gonna be able to
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  Speaker 1: do this or was that you know what? What else
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  Speaker 1: attracted them to him?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I know why I talked to you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I knew I could coach him hard, and
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  Speaker 2: he wanted to be coach hard because, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: that's the number one thing I got to find out.
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  Speaker 3: Because I'm gonna go at you.
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  Speaker 2: But he has a unique skill set, big guy, great
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  Speaker 2: for a boy, the name, good feet, good show, are
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  Speaker 2: your burst and thanks. He know the things he had
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  Speaker 2: to continue to work on. But I like the skill
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  Speaker 2: set and he's a bigger back. And then he's a
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  Speaker 2: very intelligent football player.
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  Speaker 3: He's smart.
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  Speaker 2: So now having conversation with him talking ball, that would
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  Speaker 2: impress me about him.
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  Speaker 1: Among the six guys in that running back room this
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  Speaker 1: year is Turbo Rogers. He got here over the summer,
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  Speaker 1: so he missed out on spring ball. So where are
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  Speaker 1: things with Turbo Rogers right now?
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, he's getting better.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna coach him hard, but you know, he just got
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  Speaker 2: here in June, so he's still getting acclimated to being here.
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  Speaker 2: But he has a he has a chance to be
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  Speaker 2: a good player. Uh, just gonna continue to coach him hard.
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  Speaker 2: But he has a skill set just like the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the guys. But he's gonna be good.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another one on CJ. Donalds, and he played received
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  Speaker 1: before being coming a running back, So how has he
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  Speaker 1: seen that? Maybe play out in CJ's game on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he catch football. I mean, ain't gonna tell you, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're doing this, doing that. We still got to play
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  Speaker 2: on the thirties. But he has a unique skill set.
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  Speaker 2: All of them can catch the ball, every last.
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  Speaker 3: One of them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna recruit you if you can't catch the ball,
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  Speaker 2: and coach Daymo definitely ain't gonna allow me to get
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  Speaker 2: you if you can't catch the ball. It's the first
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  Speaker 2: thing he's gonna ask. So but all of them catch
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  Speaker 2: the ball. He does a good job catching the ball.
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  Speaker 1: You've heard Lachlan talk about coaching these guys hard, So
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  Speaker 1: what does that actually look like on the practice field.
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  Speaker 2: When you when you truly you can't coach a kid hard,
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  Speaker 2: and you know until you know your heart that you
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  Speaker 2: love the kid.
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  Speaker 3: And if the kid know that, they gonna allow you
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  Speaker 3: to coach hard.
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  Speaker 2: None of my kids take offense to it because I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna wrap my arms around him after I got on
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  Speaker 2: to him and tell them, all right, this is what
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  Speaker 2: I this is what I want you to do.
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  Speaker 3: But can I demonstrate that?
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  Speaker 2: Nah, It's just when I crossed that scard line, I
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  Speaker 2: turn into a whole another person.
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  Speaker 3: But I go at them.
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  Speaker 2: They starts in the mean room there without my wife
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  Speaker 2: beat me up at home where I come at them
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  Speaker 2: in there. But I'm trying to set them. It's a
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  Speaker 2: mindset I'm trying. I don't even say nothing in the game,
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  Speaker 2: it's a mindset. No, they didn't come here for me
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  Speaker 2: to be nice to them. I told them I ain't
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  Speaker 2: your best friend. I'm not trying to be your best friend.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to be my friend, guess how you
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  Speaker 2: be my friend? Make place, do your job. We can
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  Speaker 2: be best friends all day. Then you told me you
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  Speaker 2: want to become the best runner back, you want to
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  Speaker 2: be developed. Well, guess what that takes. That takes me
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  Speaker 2: having tough love. Sometimes that takes me to have to
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  Speaker 2: get at you. Sometimes I'm not gonna teach you because
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  Speaker 2: I dance cheat myself. I'm gonna go at you. So
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  Speaker 2: that's where that comes from. So I can't demonstrate it.
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  Speaker 2: It ain't like it ain't like it's an act. It's
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  Speaker 2: just when I'm out there on the field, I am
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  Speaker 2: going at my kids.
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  Speaker 1: At any point has Carlos Laughlan looked back at how
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  Speaker 1: hard he's coached these guys and thought, maybe maybe I
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  Speaker 1: went too far.
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  Speaker 2: Na because it came out of my mouth. Guess what
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  Speaker 2: I meant it now, I don't cuss my kids. They'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you that they get too I get two words.
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  Speaker 2: I ask God for two words. I don't coach that
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  Speaker 2: my kids. That's for two words. One of them might
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  Speaker 2: see hear damn every now and then I apologize. I
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  Speaker 2: asked God, please let me keep that one now forgive me.
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  Speaker 2: And the other one is they know when I get upset,
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  Speaker 2: they hit the word boy I'm country and it'll come
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  Speaker 2: out of my mouth. But other than that, I respect
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  Speaker 2: my kids. I love them. You never see talk back
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  Speaker 2: to me. They just say yes, sir. That's a sign
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  Speaker 2: of respect and love. They know I care about them.
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  Speaker 2: So but I love coaching, man, love pointing to these kids.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, is there any kind of like an acclamation
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  Speaker 1: process for guys or does he just dive right in
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  Speaker 1: on them on that first day they're they're on campus
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  Speaker 1: in terms of what it's going to be like to
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  Speaker 1: play for them and how hard they're going to get coach.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't no acclamation to start and recruit.
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  Speaker 2: I tell them when they when I'm when I'm recruiting,
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  Speaker 2: being in a relationship with her, I angel homeboy, you
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  Speaker 2: come here, I'm gonna coach you hard. But they also
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  Speaker 2: understand that you know and Turboil tell you and I
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  Speaker 2: been knowing this, he been thirteen board tell you and
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah and I had this conversation with them. It's bigger
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  Speaker 2: than football. It's bigger than football. They'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: With me, it's bigger than football. I'm trying to prepare
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  Speaker 2: you for life, trying to give you some tools of life.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna challenge you out there on the field. You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna feel uncomfortable, because gets what as people, we are
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  Speaker 2: uncomfortable in life. We all go through uncomfortable situations. How
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  Speaker 2: you gonna have diversity? If I just talk about football
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  Speaker 2: out there with them men, I'm setting them up for failure, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: It's bigger than bold. That ball going flat someday, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't want no young men to come across my path.
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  Speaker 3: And the only thing he learned from me is how to.
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  Speaker 2: Pass, protect, how to run counter, how to power. But
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  Speaker 2: I ain't give him the tools what it is to
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  Speaker 2: be a man of faith, to be a husband one day,
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  Speaker 2: to be a to see what it is to be
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  Speaker 2: a good father, to be just a good citizen. And
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  Speaker 2: only if that's all that I gave him was as
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  Speaker 2: a football and I pat him on the back, I
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  Speaker 2: ain't done my job.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna challenge him.
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  Speaker 2: In in those ways. So it starts through the recruiting process.
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  Speaker 2: They know what it is, but they know it's bigger
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  Speaker 2: than football. I'm trying to prepare them for life because
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  Speaker 2: the ball going what one day, it's going flat?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Hope you guys enjoyed that one. Carlos Laughlin is always
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  Speaker 1: one of the really really interesting interviews because you get
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  Speaker 1: some different types of answers from him then you'll get
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  Speaker 1: from a lot of other coaches. So we will hope
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  Speaker 1: you guys enjoyed that running back room definitely going to
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  Speaker 1: be one of the hot topics this fall as they
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  Speaker 1: look to replace Quinnhawn Judkins and Trevion Henderson with a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of new guys, a bunch of transfers, a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of first time starters. So gonna be a lot of
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  Speaker 1: interesting stuff to watch in that running back room. But
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of interesting stuff to watch
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