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Ohio State Transfer Portal: Buckeyes Add An Offensive Lineman · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Thursday, January twenty ninth.
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  Speaker 1: was safe to go back in the water and the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal season was over, Nope, nope. Transfer portal may
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  Speaker 1: be closed, but of course you can still add players
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  Speaker 1: to the portal, and the Buckeyes did just that on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Bring in an offensive lineman from the IVY League, joined
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  Speaker 1: by our favorite IVY League grad, Tony Gerderman if bucke
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  Speaker 1: Huddle dot com, Tony, tell everyone a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: the Shawn Washington, Ohio State's newest offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Shawn Washington from Springfield High School in Springfield, Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: originally a fourth year that'll be a true senior this
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  Speaker 2: coming year or your senior this coming year. Sorry, And
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six, but started at right tackle this
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  Speaker 2: past season for Dartmouth. No sacks allowed, spent, he could
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  Speaker 2: play all over the place. He started three games at
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  Speaker 2: left guard in twenty twenty four, and I think in
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  Speaker 2: his career he's allowed just one sack and over seven
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  Speaker 2: hundred snaps on offense. So we go back to what
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about in the past when we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: what Ohio State is adding, and it's experience and versatility.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got somebody that I don't know that he's
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  Speaker 2: going to play this year, but somebody who has played,
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  Speaker 2: and that's something that is different than maybe what they've
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  Speaker 2: added in terms of depth in the past. Like I
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  Speaker 2: equate this to the Justin Terry edition last year from
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia. He didn't play at all as a true
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  Speaker 2: freshman and then transferred in for a year and then
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  Speaker 2: transferred out. This to me, I wonder if this is
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  Speaker 2: a change in terms of what they're looking for and
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  Speaker 2: rather than bringing in a developmental guy, you bring in
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  Speaker 2: somebody who has one year left and you'll see if
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  Speaker 2: it works.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that's kind of it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: interesting to think, you know, I think everyone is probably wondering. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so where does he fit into the depth chart? Is
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  Speaker 1: he going to be the starting right tackle? Is he
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  Speaker 1: going to be a depth guy? Is you know where
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  Speaker 1: where do you see him? You know, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: with his with his positional versatility, where you see him
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  Speaker 1: positionally on the line, maybe a little bit of an
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  Speaker 1: open question where you see him? Is he challenging for
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  Speaker 1: a starting job? Is he guaranteed a start a job?
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  Speaker 1: Is he coming in? And you know, you'll just sort
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  Speaker 1: of see where he is and he can at least
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  Speaker 1: provide veteran depth if nothing else. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think the bigger picture question is, Okay, you're bringing
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  Speaker 1: in a guy like this, what does that tell you about?
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  Speaker 1: You know, number one, how Ohio State views their offensive
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  Speaker 1: line right now? And number two maybe how Ohio State's
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  Speaker 1: trying to construct that offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've talked in past shows that I think they're
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  Speaker 2: just a little under in terms of their numbers on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line, and so this increases that. And we've
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  Speaker 2: talked in past shows that don't be surprised that if
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  Speaker 2: they brought in somebody for depth like they late, like
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  Speaker 2: they did last year, and now this gives them I
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  Speaker 2: think a sixteenth offensive lineman and they want to be
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  Speaker 2: around sixteen or seventeen. And you've got somebody that, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, has played, can play all over the place,
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  Speaker 2: can play tackle, can play guard. In terms of where
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  Speaker 2: I see him for Ohio State, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: that depends on what the rest of the offensive line
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  Speaker 2: looks like, because when I do my too deep recently,
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  Speaker 2: I've got five guys that could slot in at right guard,
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  Speaker 2: and yet you know, two of those guys are guys
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  Speaker 2: who are probably going to be starting to tackle. So
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  Speaker 2: after all of this shakes out, I could see him
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  Speaker 2: being in the too deep possibly or pushing for the
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  Speaker 2: too deep at say a guard position. I don't I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe he's the fourth tackle we'll see. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's a little early to say what he will be.
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  Speaker 2: But the good new thing about him is he could
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  Speaker 2: be a couple of different things. And what he probably
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  Speaker 2: isn't is coming in with unrealistic expectations. But yet a
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  Speaker 2: guy who has played and would like to continue playing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if we always talk about these guys in terms
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  Speaker 1: of raising the ceiling or raising the floor, what are
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  Speaker 1: you looking for in this edition? This to me feels
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  Speaker 1: very much like a raising the floor thing, where you've
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  Speaker 1: got someone who has done this before, who has spent
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  Speaker 1: several years in a college strength program, and who you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to Dartmouth, you are probably a fairly
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  Speaker 1: intelligent individual. They don't just let anyone in the Ivy
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  Speaker 1: League schools. And you know this is also this will
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  Speaker 1: be this will be a lot of fun to ask
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day about bringing in a Ryan Day, of course,
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  Speaker 1: a New Hampshire grad. Brian and New Hampshire and Dartmouth
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  Speaker 1: are in state rivals there, so Ryan, they obviously willing
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  Speaker 1: to overlook that to make this addition, which is a
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  Speaker 1: you know, certainly a fun, fun sort of side portion
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  Speaker 1: of this of this story may get some Granite State
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  Speaker 1: football smack talk in the Woody Hayes Athletics Center. I
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  Speaker 1: think it probably not happened a whole heck of a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I was also, we were talking right before the show started.
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  Speaker 1: You don't see a ton of Ivy League transfers to anywhere. Frankly,
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  Speaker 1: but going back over the years, Seth Towns is the
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  Speaker 1: only one I could really think of the basketball player
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  Speaker 1: who went from Harvard to Ohio State. Of course, they
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  Speaker 1: had a defensive coordinator who had gone to Cornell a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago. And Jim Knowles Scoony Penn not
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  Speaker 1: you know, unrelated to actual pen back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: Not a not a transition that you see a lot
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  Speaker 1: guys going from the IVY League to a power conference
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  Speaker 1: and a high level power conference team. But this feels
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  Speaker 1: in some ways like you're getting sort of you know
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  Speaker 1: what you're getting there where it reminds me not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: in terms of on field, but just bringing in someone
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  Speaker 1: like Jonah Jackson, for example, who was a team captain
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  Speaker 1: at his previous stop, and you sort of know, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is someone who's going to come in and probably
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  Speaker 1: be certainly off the field a net addition to the team,
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  Speaker 1: and then you sort of see what you bring on
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  Speaker 1: the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're talking about a guy who is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a graduate in March of an IVY League School's
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  Speaker 2: got the rest of his life ahead of him. What's
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  Speaker 2: he want to do? I want to go play for
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  Speaker 2: my home state, home team, you know, Ohio State Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's that's an interesting choice. It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of his gap year between IVY League and then going
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  Speaker 2: on and doing with you know, going prone something other
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  Speaker 2: than sports perhaps, or this is your chance to see
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  Speaker 2: what you want to do. Can you take that next step?
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  Speaker 2: Or does he want to get into coaching? And you know,
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  Speaker 2: you take this opportunity with Ohio State and whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is like you've already he's already a success based
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  Speaker 2: on what he's been able to do in college and
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  Speaker 2: he wants to continue doing some football stuff and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see what they get out of it. But the
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  Speaker 2: desires there, the I think, the intensity and the work
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  Speaker 2: will all be there. It's just you know, how talented
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  Speaker 2: are you? What's the depth chart? Can you stay healthy?
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  Speaker 2: Like there's a lot that goes into a guy playing
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  Speaker 2: and you know, could he could he be one of
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  Speaker 2: the top eight, one of the top nine, and then
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  Speaker 2: really get in there and play because I mean, we've
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  Speaker 2: seen true freshman make it into the too deep. He's
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  Speaker 2: got experience, he's played quite a bit the last two years.
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  Speaker 2: What does that bring to the team. What does that
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  Speaker 2: bring to the table, What does that bring to his
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  Speaker 2: ability to compete once he gets here, and being a
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  Speaker 2: March graduate, it will be interesting to see exactly when
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  Speaker 2: he does arrive. Does this is this a June thing,
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  Speaker 2: something of that nature. So we'll see on that one.
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  Speaker 2: But they need help on the offensive line in terms
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  Speaker 2: of numbers because right now, without him, they've got fifteen guys.
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  Speaker 2: A third of those guys are true freshmen. So that's
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of concerning. That's a little bit like ooh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so basically immediately, if you don't want any
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  Speaker 2: of your freshman into too deep, you're you're just you're
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  Speaker 2: stuck with what you've got as you're too deep. And
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  Speaker 2: that's that's kind of a concern in and of itself.
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  Speaker 2: So this gives them another guy, a versatile guy, experienced guy,
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  Speaker 2: and probably not very.
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  Speaker 1: Expensive, no, probably someone you can you can bring in
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  Speaker 1: and not have enormous expectations and not have an enormous
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  Speaker 1: price tag on. And they are probably not done adding
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  Speaker 1: to the roster either, because there are you know, theoretically
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  Speaker 1: you can have up to one hundred and five guys
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  Speaker 1: on the roster, and they're not there yet. They're kind
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  Speaker 1: of in the low nineties ish right now. Those numbers
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  Speaker 1: are all a little bit squishy this time of year.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I think it's safe to say that
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  Speaker 1: whether it's offensive line, this may not be the last
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman they bring in. This will almost certainly not
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  Speaker 1: be the last player they bring in because you just
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  Speaker 1: you're not necessarily going to be bringing in you know,
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  Speaker 1: huge headline names moving forward. But they probably do need
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  Speaker 1: to bring in another handful two dozen more players to
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  Speaker 1: really just sort of round out the roster at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and now things have calmed down, you can be
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more careful with what you're what you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for. And it feels like once you zero in
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  Speaker 2: on somebody, because they're still in there, it feels like
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  Speaker 2: this things can move a little bit more quickly in
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  Speaker 2: terms of getting a deal done because I know Ohio
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  Speaker 2: Ohio University was another one of its offers, and so
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  Speaker 2: you're going to run into that situation with quite a
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  Speaker 2: quite a few players where choosing between say Memphis and
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State, and that tells you kind of where where
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  Speaker 2: the level of the play is. But all so tells
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  Speaker 2: you if somebody wants If Ohio State sees somebody right
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  Speaker 2: now that they want, you can probably go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: grab them.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So there you go. Latest addition to the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Ohio State a football roster for Sean Washington,
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  Speaker 1: transfer offensive tackle out of Dartmouth will have undoubtedly some
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  Speaker 1: more more of these shows as the Buck guys continue
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  Speaker 1: to round out their roster and then head into there
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  Speaker 1: already in the middle of winter workouts and then heading
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  Speaker 1: into springball coming up in just over a month. Hard
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  Speaker 1: enough as it is to believe that I have coverage
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  Speaker 1: of all of that for you at bucke Huddle dot
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  Speaker 1: do for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.