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3 Things We Learned From Ryan Day's Press Conference · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, November nineteenth, time
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  Speaker 1: your host Tom or the Rutgers game in three days,
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  Speaker 1: Joined by Tony Gerdaman here on the Woody Hayes Athletic
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  Speaker 1: Center indoor field. Just got a chance to talk to
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day. Tony, we got to talk about injuries. Now,
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  Speaker 1: not everyone in this baid he wants to talk about injuries,
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  Speaker 1: but we are going to bravely soldier on and talk
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  Speaker 1: about it because it feels like that is sort of
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  Speaker 1: the top of doujour. Let's start with Carnel Tate and
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith. They're kind of getting umped in together here. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: of all the things that Ryan Day said about their
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  Speaker 1: status for Saturday and beyond, what was your favorite part.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to actually rack my brain for the legitimate update,
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  Speaker 2: but there's it was just we don't I'm not talking
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  Speaker 2: about it not Basically, we've got an injury report. We'll
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  Speaker 2: say for that. If you start talking about one person's injury,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna want to talk about other people's injuries. And
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  Speaker 2: so he kinda he does this every now and again,
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  Speaker 2: where at some point he has to put his foot down.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, we're just not gonna talk about it. And
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  Speaker 2: he got asked about it later on he's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get into that. They are around. They're good,
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  Speaker 2: good spirits. That was one of the things I said.
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  Speaker 2: They're in good spirits. Medical staff is on it, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, everybody's happy. Will they play? Tom, Look, there's
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  Speaker 2: an injury report. What the injury report says may or
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  Speaker 2: may not tell you whether they are will or will
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  Speaker 2: not play, because there's questionable, there's doubtful, and then hey
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  Speaker 2: there's sometimes there's a surprise. But to answer your question, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: they're in good spirits. Will they play this week? Tom?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: As the person who was monitoring the live feed on
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  Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, the reaction to in Good Spirits was basically, oh, no, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is terrible new Like people are doing everything but
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  Speaker 1: wanting a picture of them holding Today's newspaper. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that felt like a non answer to me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you can, you can sometimes do the reading the tea
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  Speaker 1: leaves with him and it's like, oh boy, that's really
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  Speaker 1: this was just if I answered this question about one person,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna, like you said, he's gonna have to answer
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  Speaker 1: it about everyone, and it's like, well, why aren't you Well,
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  Speaker 1: if I answered about one person and I don't answer
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  Speaker 1: it about another boy, everyone's gonna wonder about. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: there's a certain amount of that. If you were a parent,
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  Speaker 1: you were familiar with that that you know, why why
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  Speaker 1: well he gets to do this, why don't I get Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's nothing new. This is not the first time
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  Speaker 1: that stuff has been handled like this, and this is
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  Speaker 1: by far the not the only program where stuff is
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  Speaker 1: sort of handled like this, especially now when you're coming
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  Speaker 1: up on the end of the season and you're coming
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  Speaker 1: up on you know, the the the portion of the
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  Speaker 1: season where everyone starts really caring. The people who are
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  Speaker 1: the most angry about this right now are the people
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  Speaker 1: who start, you know, no one cares that. They're tend
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  Speaker 1: to know, I only care about moving forward, So okay,
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  Speaker 1: this they're handling it as if they don't care about
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  Speaker 1: ten and O, they only care about what's moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we can sit here and have speculation hour,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't feel like that's super productive. I will
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  Speaker 1: say I have not been told anything at any point
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  Speaker 1: that is like this is a real long term concern,
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  Speaker 1: like not once. So I think you can take all
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  Speaker 1: the worst case scenarios and probably push them to the
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  Speaker 1: side for you know, for now. Could something terrible happen later, Sure,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely you can. You can only hope as people online
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  Speaker 1: seem to be trying to do right now. Boy boy,
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  Speaker 1: if there's something I can get mad about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, have you heard about these interstellar space
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  Speaker 2: asteroids coming? You know, like so there's always something, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that can ruin your day.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. So there was a little more clarity
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  Speaker 1: around Julian saying where Julian Saying had a you know
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  Speaker 1: kind of like got hit weird and just sort of
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  Speaker 1: stumbled and twisted his ankle a little bit and came
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  Speaker 1: out later and was wrapped. That one was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the status of Julian Saying seemed like there was no
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  Speaker 1: ambiguity there at all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no concerns there. In fact, Ryan Day wasn't even
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  Speaker 2: sure the ankle was impacting his second half accuracy. That's
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  Speaker 2: as much a product of who you're throwing to pass
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  Speaker 2: rush all of these different things, and so I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to just chalk it up to my ankle was sore.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that doesn't seem like anything, which we spoke
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  Speaker 2: with Julian saying afterwards, generally, when we talk with somebody
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  Speaker 2: after an injury, that's a very good sign that they
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  Speaker 2: are fine and there's no concern.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was kind of that felt like sort of
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  Speaker 1: a check the box kind of question, and it was
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  Speaker 1: very you know there, there was really not much question
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  Speaker 1: there in terms of, you know, his status because obviously
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  Speaker 1: you saw him continue to play and was fine and
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  Speaker 1: like as you said, talked to him after the game.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. You can cross that off of
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  Speaker 1: your list of concerns. One answer that I thought was
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  Speaker 1: very interesting was, you know, there's questions obviously the status
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  Speaker 1: of Josh Padilla, who's missed the last couple of games,
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  Speaker 1: and he was rotating in with Tiger Shabola at right
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  Speaker 1: guard and felt like, boy, he was poised to maybe
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  Speaker 1: make a run at that starting position and then has
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  Speaker 1: missed the last two weeks. He you know, we don't
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  Speaker 1: know his status yet for this upcoming week, but in
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  Speaker 1: his absence last week, Ga van Zickel had a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good performance in at right guard when he was subbing
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  Speaker 1: in for Tager Shabola at times. What does Rianday think
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  Speaker 1: about the chance? Okay, if you get Josh Pidia back,
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  Speaker 1: would they just play three guards? What's the answer there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably not. They would just stick with two
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  Speaker 2: unless the reps became so many that there's an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: But at this point they don't. He doesn't envision going
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  Speaker 2: to three, which it took. It was a hard enough
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  Speaker 2: pill to swallow for a two man rotation last year,
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  Speaker 2: and then now it's become the norm. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: we're ready for a three man rotation at any one
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  Speaker 2: offensive line spot. But yeah, it doesn't look like that's
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  Speaker 2: gonna happen anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were happy to rotate three guards between two
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  Speaker 1: positions during the playoff last year, or three guards one position.
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  Speaker 1: You know, at some point these guys need reps. If
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  Speaker 1: it's if it's Tegra, then it's Tegra. If it's not Tagra,
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  Speaker 1: then whoever is replacing Tegra does not have nearly as
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  Speaker 1: many reps as everyone else on the offensive line, so
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  Speaker 1: you need to get them reps. Now you are running
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  Speaker 1: out of weeks to do that before you get into
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  Speaker 1: the postseason and then you get into the deep water.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that was that was not a surprise. We'll see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if Josh Pitty is back number one and
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  Speaker 1: number two, if he is okay, who is the who
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  Speaker 1: is the odd man out there? Because a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, Gave Van sickele he talked about him as
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  Speaker 1: the fourth guard behind Luke Montgomery, Tager Shabola and Josh Padia,
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  Speaker 1: So then Van Sickle is behind Josh Pettia at that point.
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  Speaker 1: How healthy is Padia? Is he going to come back
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  Speaker 1: at one hundred percent? Is he going to be out
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  Speaker 1: of practice after not having practice for a couple of weeks?
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  Speaker 1: Has Van Sickle jumped him? I mean these are all
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  Speaker 1: open questions.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and there could be questions with different answers depending
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  Speaker 2: on the week. Like if this is Josh Pidia's first
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  Speaker 2: week back, we don't know that it will be. He's
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  Speaker 2: probably not in front of gave Van cycle yet, but
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  Speaker 2: if he's back for his second week next week, maybe
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  Speaker 2: he is back in front, So this could just be
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  Speaker 2: a fluid situation as it goes. But again, no idea
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  Speaker 2: if he's gonna be back, and you know, we'll be
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  Speaker 2: in here Wednesday night and we'll all be looking at
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line. We'll be looking at the receivers probably
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  Speaker 2: like while Ryan Day is talking, nobody's gonna be listening
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  Speaker 2: to him. We're all gonna be looking at the players,
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  Speaker 2: like spying and seeing if we can find anything out.
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  Speaker 1: So one thing we will be keeping an eye on
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  Speaker 1: this weekend is Senior Day, the final home game of
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  Speaker 1: the season. Buck guys honoring their seniors and last year,
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  Speaker 1: like man Oman, was that a spectacle because of all
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  Speaker 1: of the seniors who had come back This year, boy,
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  Speaker 1: it is a small group of seniors that are starters
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  Speaker 1: and major contributors on this team. It's an even smaller
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  Speaker 1: group of guys who have been Buckeyes for all four
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  Speaker 1: or five years of their time. But Brian Day said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, no matter how many seniors you have, this
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  Speaker 1: is the time of year. We talk about this all
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  Speaker 1: the time. You get to this time of year and
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  Speaker 1: it's like where did the season go for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these guys. You know, it doesn't feel like that
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  Speaker 1: long ago that some of these guys were coming in
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  Speaker 1: as true freshman. Sunny Styles. I remember Sunny Styles, true
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  Speaker 1: freshman phenom, Sunny Styles his first practice in the spring.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't feel like that long ago, but it was well.
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  Speaker 2: And Jim Tressel used to do the the marbles in
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  Speaker 2: the in the locker thing where you'd pull out a
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  Speaker 2: marble and that represented a game. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: you see the season leaving and going. And I asked
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  Speaker 2: Jermaine Matthews just a couple of weeks ago, he's a junior. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, how fast have this time gone for you?
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  Speaker 2: Like you can't believe how fast it all goes. And
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  Speaker 2: then for Sunny Styles, who has been finally in his
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  Speaker 2: third and fourth year at the same position, two years
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  Speaker 2: in a row, and there's just there are not a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guys here who have been here for four years,
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  Speaker 2: given the current state of the world. And even like
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  Speaker 2: Taiwan Malone has been here now three.
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  Speaker 3: Years years and it's like he's been around forever. But
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  Speaker 3: still it's a small number of guys who've been here
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  Speaker 3: for four years. And we'll see how many of the
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  Speaker 3: walk I assume Kenyana Jackson will walk. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if that was part.
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  Speaker 2: Of the game notes in terms. Sometimes they list it,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes they don't. I would assume he would walk, but
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  Speaker 2: he still has another year of eligibility if he would
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  Speaker 2: choose to use it. We'll see how he closes out
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  Speaker 2: the season.
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  Speaker 1: Though, right and generally it will be guys who have
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  Speaker 1: played four years who are walking now. I think we
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  Speaker 1: can all be grown ups and admit that Caleb Downs
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  Speaker 1: is probably not going to be back here for spring ball.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I don't know. Traditionally those third year
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  Speaker 1: guys have not walked. Is this his final game in
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  Speaker 1: the Horseshoe. It's impossible to say, Tony, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: to know, but will he walk? Will Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there are plenty of other guys who, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you've played four years, I think at that point a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times that's that's the okay. You know, you're
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  Speaker 1: you're sort of moving on. And there's lots of guys
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  Speaker 1: who have had red shirt ears who are maybe not
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  Speaker 1: as high in the depth chart, who are also sort
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  Speaker 1: of in that role. So well, we'll have a we'll
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  Speaker 1: have a probably more on Senior Day coming up. Later
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  Speaker 1: in the week, but that's probably not these single high
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  Speaker 1: priority on most people's dockets this week, so we'll have
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  Speaker 1: much more on the injury status. I may just do
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  Speaker 1: a whole separate injury or a whole separate morning show
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  Speaker 1: just with like the direct questions and answers to Ryan Day,
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  Speaker 1: from the reporters to Ryan Day, just so you can
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  Speaker 1: hear it, because that's not definitely not the way we
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  Speaker 1: normally do those morning shows. I feel like it might
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  Speaker 1: be important to just let you hear the direct questions
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  Speaker 1: and direct answers, so it's not well, what's your interpretation, No,
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  Speaker 1: this is what you know. This is the question. So
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  Speaker 1: I may try and throw that together for you, try
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  Speaker 1: and get together a Greg Ciano. By the way, they're
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  Speaker 1: playing Rutgers this weekend, and that didn't come up, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think on the show so far, but right at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning the countdown. So the second time, for the
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  Speaker 1: second time, we'll mention that they're playing Rutgers in three days.
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  Speaker 1: We'll try and get to a Greg Ciano press conference
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  Speaker 1: show if we can get that from that video from Rutgers,
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  Speaker 1: and of course Tony Tuesday night, it's the most wonderful
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  Speaker 1: time of the year college football playoff rankings reveal time.
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Have a great day. We will talk to tomorrow.