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Ohio State Basketball Suffers Big Transfer Departure · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Monday, April twenty second, I'm your
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  host, tom or the Akron game in one hundred and thirty one days,
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  the game against Michigan in two hundred and twenty two days, and we wrapped
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  up at the end of last week. I thought, certainly we will have
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  more transfer portal news, undoubtedly for the football program at some point over the
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  weekend. We did not. However, there was transfer portal news for the
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  Ohio State basketball team. That's we're gonna be talking about. Today's gonna be
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  joined by Tony Gerderman of bucke Huddle dot Com and Tony. After the end
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  of the season, there was a group of Ohio State players that hit the
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  portal and announced they were leaving. There was a group of Ohigos Date players
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  that announced, okay, I'm coming back. And Felix Aparo had initially put
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  his name in the I'm coming back category. Course he did that in April
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  first, So perhaps this was just a really elaborate April Fools Day prank because
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  now Felix Acpara on Sunday announced in fact he would be entering the transfer port
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  Yeah, and maybe the saddest thing in all of this is that the idea
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  that I can't believe players after nuts they're coming back has now been converted to
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  yeah, they've announced it, but what does it mean? You know,
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  are they really coming back? I know they've said they have and they've come
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  to an agreement with the collective, but we won't really know until the window
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  is closed. And so yeah, that's whole chapter of Hey they've announced,
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  is now out the windows. So yeah, Felix Acpara announces he's on his
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  way somewhere else and boys, sure seems like a coincidence based on what has
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  happened recently and what they've brought in. But yeah, you think it's all
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  done. You think you've got okay, you got your center, you've got
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  your point guard, you've got a ford in Devin Royal, and then now
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  you can start building around them, and you start doing that and then one
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  of them leaves and so it's a, I guess, as we say,
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  an interesting time to be alive. It definitely is. And Para last year
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  was I think six point six points and six point four boards per game,
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  and you know he was you know, he was not someone they were running
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  the whole offense through by any means, but was you know, he was
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  one of those players that was consistently growing, and every year felt like he
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  was a more effective and more efficient player than he had been in previous years,
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  and you were kind of looking forward to, Okay, let's see what
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  the next year looks like, because it feels like he was becoming a bigger
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  and bigger part of the team. So to lose him, definitely, this
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  is definitely a little bit of a blow for them because that is not you
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  know, size like that is not the easiest thing to just conjure unless you
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  were Matt Painter and you can just sort of, I don't know, like
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  just summon these people out of thin air, these seven foot four guys.
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  So we'll see what the Buckeyes do. They did add some height earlier in
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  the month between the time that ak Para announced it he'd be coming back and
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  now when ik Para announced he was leaving. It was the addition of center.
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  Aaron Bradshaw out of Kentucky. Talked about him on a show a couple
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  weeks ago, and you know, it feels like it's probably not entirely a
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  coincidence that Bradshaw's arrival happened between a par saying I'm definitely staying and now I'm
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  definitely leaving. Feels like that's probably not entirely a coincidence. Yeah, I
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  don't think it can be, and I'm sure maybe there may be other reasons.
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  But when you have essentially a seven footer on the roster and you bring
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  in another seven footer, it's one of those things where I don't think this
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  town is big enough for the both of us, and I don't think this
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  paint is big enough for the both of us. And they talked about,
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  you know, there's gonna be some high low action, some things like that,
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  and it just I don't think it. I don't think Felix that far
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  aliked the addition. That's that's my sense of things. And so when you
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  still have your options open, I just wonder how much of this does this
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  feel like a personal affront, where I how dare you move somebody into my
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  spot when I'm here? And I agree, he has been getting better each
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  year, and I think we've seen that offensive development get better. The defensive
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  stuff is continuing to get better. But like as a shot blocker, he's
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  pretty elite, and and so when you bring somebody else in and and he
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  had he put z Key on the bench essentially this year, so you would
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  think like, hey, I have established myself. I am a key piece,
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  and they the collective signs him as such. And then you go out
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  and you know, you see somebody else come in and you're thinking, well,
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  maybe now my minutes aren't going to be as easy as I thought.
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  Maybe I should go somewhere else. And you know, you see, like
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  what happened. Jane Ledie goes and go somewhere else and he does very very
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  well for San Diego State. So just the nature of the game now,
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  I guess. But yeah, and it was a guy, felixech Parr,
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  who we had heard that was looking as a possibility to transfer after the season,
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  maybe had a destination something of that nature. And and so if if
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  you're Ohio State, you know, like maybe there's a half a foot out
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  the door, how confident are you that it won't be a situation next year
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  as well? But then also how confident are you that this is every single
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  year is every single player is on a one year deal. Felix lock Parr's
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  latest deal was a one week deal, a one month deal, and now
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  you know it's the transient nature of the sport. I guess it does feel
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  like this has just become the new norm, and you know the old line
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  you can't tell the players about a scorecard. It kind of feels like that.
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  It feels like we go into a house it basketball media day every year
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  and it's like, all right, I recognize four of these guys without having
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  to really think about it. And it just the roster just turns over so
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  much every year, and it's not really just an Ohio State thing. This
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  is not a uniquely Ohio State issue. Just in case you are scoring at
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  home. The portal additions this year center Aaron Bradshaw out of Kentucky, Guard
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  Meetcha Johnson out of South Carolina and previously also from Ohio State, and Ford
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  Micah Parrish, who was a teammate of Jade Laddie at San Diego State last
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  year. The five portal departures so far this year, Felix Ocpara obviously has
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  not landed anywhere yet. Forward zed Key he is committed to Dayton, so
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  he will be a flyer next year. Scotty Middleton still out on the market,
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  Roddy Gale still out in the market. There's been a lot of smoke
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  linking him to Michigan. Would that be a fun storyline to watch next year?
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  And then guard Bowen Hardman. And those are not including the guys who
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  just used up their eligibility Jamison Battle, for example, gone, he's he's
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  done it. It feels like Tony it is just sort of the norm now
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  in college basketball that half of the roster turns over. And I don't think
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  that's just an Ohio State thing. It just feels like between guys leaving and
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  guys transferring and so many guys entering the portal, it just feels like every
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  year you're not starting quite from scratch, but you're starting from closer to scratch
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  than you ever have before. Yeah, for sure. And it feels like
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  programs like like in Oakland or these mid majors are almost become Juco's. Now
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  you get two years maybe out of a player before they go up to the
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  main level of college sports. And and if I mean, I would hate
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  to be feel terrible for some of these mid major coaches to develop somebody for
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  two, three, four years and then lose them when you're finally gonna get
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  the best out of them and they go on and play for somewhere else,
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  and then at a place like Ohio State, you develop somebody and you have
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  to make sure you can keep them or else somebody else is going to reap
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  the benefits of that. But also, you know what, somebody else can
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  go develop a player for you and then you can go grab them. So
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  I guess all is fair as in love and the transfer portal. But yeah,
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  this is you go in knowing like, well, this is our team
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  this year, and our team next year is going to look awfully different,
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  and the team after that's gonna look awfully different. There's no longer a thing
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  where you can follow this class and watch them grow, like, oh,
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  you know, they brought in five guys. This is the foundation of the
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  future is right here, because you know, you bring into one class and
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  you have them look at each other and look to your left, look to
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  your right. Only two of you will be here next year, and that
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  that's sort of the way things are going right now. It does feel a
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  little bit like that, which is it's bizarre to see college basketball changing the
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  way it has. So the Buckeyes right now, as of right now,
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  have two roster spots left. We'll see if they bring anyone into the transfer
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  portal or have anyone else leaving the transfer portal. But right as of right
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  now, two roster spots left for the upcoming season feels to me like they
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  you know, you probably have to replace Akpara's size. I mean just absolute
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  bare minimum. Get get up a big you know, large power forward,
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  if not a center. You might not be able to conjure a seven footer
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  out the out of the portal at this point. But you know, what
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  do you what do you see them trying to do with those last two spots.
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  Yeah, I mean you got Bradshaw in the post and you probably want
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  somebody else there. I still think they need shooting. They really don't have
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  any right now. You bring in you mentioned Mike ah Parrish is like a
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  six to six wing you can play some defense, kind of replaces maybe the
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  Scotty Middleton thing, but it's not the shooter that Scotty Middleton is. Can
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  he become that you would hope for Ohio State's sake, but you know,
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  you lose some offense. And I still think they need a shooter, a
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  wing shooter that can catch and shoot, stretch the defense because right now.
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  You know they're they're missing some of that, and so can you get that?
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  Can you get a power forward, somebody in the paint that can score.
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  This is a very different looking team than what you lost, and losing
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  guys like Roddy Gale and Scott Scotty Middleton who were get better each year and
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  could become something perhaps NBA potential, And to lose those guys, you've got
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  to replace them with somebody that can score. And you know, I don't
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  know how much to expect from like a Parish next year. Is a nine
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  point scorer this past year at San Diego State. Can he do that at
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  Ohio State? Maybe he might have to well that. We'll be following that
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  for you, as well as all the other storylines surrounding Jake Giebler's first roll
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  season as the Ohio State basketball coach. But of course we'll also be following
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  a lot of football news as well. Tony and Mark and Kevin. We're
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  out scouting some future Buckeyes and potential future buck Eyes over the weekend where we
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  talking about that on tomorrow's show. Had a grand plan for that to be
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  today's show, but this news happened first. So we're doing this now and
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  we'll talk about the Ohio State quarterback of the future and other possible quarterbacks of
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  the future on tomorrow's show. Then we have plenty more coming up the later
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  this week, Lots of interesting recruiting news, more stuff coming at the end
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  of recapping of spring football, things we learned during spring football, dential portal
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  news coming out of spring football. All that coming up later this week on
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  Buckeyees tomorrow morning on the Buckeye Weekly podcast, and of course at buckeyehuddle dot
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  com that's where Tony, Kevin and I cover the team, Mark covers recruiting.
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  We had our whole team of ex'es and those gurus making you a smarter
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  football fan all at buckeyehuddle dot com. We hope to see you there.
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  That will do it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Have a great day. We will talk to you tomorrow