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Ohio State Recruiting: Who Will Be The Next Elite Wide Receiver To Commit? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning. From Monday, May twenty sixth
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  Speaker 1: today at Grateful Griddle oh dot com. It is a holiday.
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  Speaker 1: We don't typically do shows on these big national holidays
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  Speaker 1: like Memorial Day, but we had a lot to talk
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  Speaker 1: about this week, so we're gonna do one for today.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be welcoming and our buddy Andrew ellis atpucke
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  Speaker 1: Huddle dot com and we just last week did a
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  Speaker 1: show on the running back recruiting for the class of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. We did a quarterback show before that,
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  Speaker 1: so you'll never guess what's up next. Yes, we are
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  Speaker 1: talking wide receivers. Wide receiver recruiting always a fun topic
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State fans, and this is I think a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a different time in recruiting because you
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  Speaker 1: used to look at these Brian heartline classes and it
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  Speaker 1: was just, you know, who are the top five wide
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  Speaker 1: receivers in the nation. Okay, he's gonna have three. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you can't necessarily do that anymore in the NIL world. So, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: I think last year's class, the twenty twenty five recruiting class,
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  Speaker 1: seems like it might be a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: hint at what these classes might look like moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Can you sort of explain how that might be true?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So last class, you know, you have the stud
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  Speaker 2: at the top with with Quincy Porter, who's already kind
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  Speaker 2: of flashing in his in his early part of his
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  Speaker 2: career in Columbus, and then you had a couple other
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  Speaker 2: guys that are you know, not in that top five
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  Speaker 2: national in the power rankings, all that star power. So
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  Speaker 2: I think that's probably, as you alluded to, the kind
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  Speaker 2: of the realistic approach moving forward as far as how
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be. You know, we did see Jeremiah
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  Speaker 2: Smith and myle and Graham both both five stars, but
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  Speaker 2: that's you know, not all that common, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be even more uncommon moving forward. And
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of set up right now with four guys committed.
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  Speaker 2: It's gets set up just like that. You've got Chris
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  Speaker 2: Henry Junior at the top. His ranking fell a little
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  Speaker 2: bit just because of some injuries last season, but everybody
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  Speaker 2: in the country is recruiting him. Obviously, Oregon is willing
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  Speaker 2: to pitch out, work out, god knows how much money
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  Speaker 2: to kind of flip him. His teammate Kayden Dixon Wyatt
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  Speaker 2: is committed as well. He chose Ohio State over Oregon
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  Speaker 2: and USC a few weeks back. They've got a kid
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  Speaker 2: from Texas, brock Boyd. Not a huge name, but this
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  Speaker 2: is a guy that Brian Hartline has seen and liked
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  Speaker 2: for a very long time. He was a TCU commit
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  Speaker 2: and then he's kind of their three guy right now.
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  Speaker 2: And then number four guy. And I don't mean number
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  Speaker 2: four like in the lists or anything, but just kind
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  Speaker 2: of local kid, Jayden Ricketts.
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  Speaker 1: You don't really hear.
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  Speaker 2: Too much about him, which I don't know if that
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  Speaker 2: means anything or not. I think he's maybe just kind
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  Speaker 2: of a low key type of recruitment. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: hear all we see stuff on Twitter all the time
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  Speaker 2: about Chris Henry Junior and about Caiden Dixon Wyatt leading
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  Speaker 2: up to his commit and then with brock Boyd and
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  Speaker 2: with Ricketts, you just you don't hear a lot, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's because they're not ranked quite as high, But
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  Speaker 2: those are the four.
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  Speaker 1: They got right now.
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  Speaker 2: Four very different type of players. Chris Henry juniors like
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  Speaker 2: six six and just kind of that freak who can
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  Speaker 2: go up and get the ball and pluck it out
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  Speaker 2: of the sky. Cayden Dixon Wyatt and brock Boyd can
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  Speaker 2: probably do a little bit of everything, and Jayden Ricketts
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  Speaker 2: is a local kid that Ohio State has seen countless times.
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  Speaker 2: So they've got four in the mix right now, and
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  Speaker 2: the class, honestly, it's pretty much set. It's it wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be a shock at all if come December these are
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  Speaker 2: the four guys that they sign, and Phil Knight in
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  Speaker 2: Oregon is going to continue to try to do their
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  Speaker 2: thing with those two top names, the matter day kids
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  Speaker 2: that we mentioned. But I would say right now it's
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  Speaker 2: probably more likely than not that these are the four
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  Speaker 2: guys they sign in December. But there's one more kind
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  Speaker 2: of local name who's kind of surging up the board,
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  Speaker 2: and he's I think it's I believe his ranking is
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  Speaker 2: even lower than in any of the guys they've got
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  Speaker 2: committed right now. But he's got a five star name,
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  Speaker 2: so that's always a positive. But jere quating Guilford, an
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  Speaker 2: Indiana kid is really surging up the charts right now.
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  Speaker 2: I saw Lane Kiffin and Old Miss just offered him today.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State is very much looking at him, and I
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  Speaker 2: think if he wanted to commit to Ohio State, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know right now.
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  Speaker 2: And we all love holiday announcements, right shout out to
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  Speaker 2: it was Marcellus Jones who committed on Christmas way back when.
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  Speaker 2: But I think if he tried to commit to Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State today that Brian Hartline would gladly take him. As
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  Speaker 2: the number five wide receiver in the class, he's about
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  Speaker 2: six to two. He's looking at Tennessee. I've seen some
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  Speaker 2: recent Crystal Ball RPM picks for Indiana actually, but I
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  Speaker 2: genuinely think Ohio State would take him right now, and
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  Speaker 2: he's just going to continue to rack in offers as
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  Speaker 2: time goes on. So really, if we're looking at national
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  Speaker 2: names right now for twenty twenty six or or local names,
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  Speaker 2: he's really the only one on the radar right now
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  Speaker 2: as far as a watch list between now and the
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  Speaker 2: early signing per so I would keep.
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  Speaker 1: An eye on that one. But it's hard to get
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  Speaker 1: a receiver to be the fifth.
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  Speaker 2: Guy in the class. I mean, that's going to be difficult.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he probably would, without question be the top
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  Speaker 2: guy at Indiana. I haven't seen Tennessee's class, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure they don't have four committed now that are ranked
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  Speaker 2: higher than him.
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  Speaker 1: So we will see.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the one to watch moving forward for the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty sixth class for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about news breaking on holidays, every Ohio State beat
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  Speaker 1: guy from twenty eleven just started twitching a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: That was the day that Memorial Day twenty eleven was
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  Speaker 1: the day that Jim Tressel officially stepped down and ruined
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  Speaker 1: a lot of cookouts among the Ohio State beats. So
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  Speaker 1: a little Memorial Day flashback for all the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: football writers out there. You mentioned obviously some Indiana guys there.
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  Speaker 1: There are some really really talented receivers in and around
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  Speaker 1: Ohio and Indiana and Michigan in the twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: class as well. We've really been mostly focusing on the
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  Speaker 1: twenty two six classes on these shows, but since the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six wide receiver class seems like the hey
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  Speaker 1: is largely in the barn. Let's talk real quickly about
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  Speaker 1: three guys, one in Ohio who's already committed, one in Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: and one in Michigan. Who are some really, really top
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  Speaker 1: of the board kind of talent that Brian Hartlin is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be looking at for twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jamiir Brown, I mean it starts there. The number
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  Speaker 2: one wide receiver in the country for the class of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven, committed to Ohio State. He's taken a
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  Speaker 2: few other visits. But you know, if I were a
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  Speaker 2: fifteen sixteen year old kid, I would do the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: All kinds of talk about Oregon for some reason for
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  Speaker 2: a kid that has a block o literally tattooed on
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  Speaker 2: his arm, So that's that's kind of interesting. But having
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  Speaker 2: him in the fold early is huge. He's, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: the number one wide receiver in the country right down
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  Speaker 2: the road in Dayton, and then other local names. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you look up in the state of Michigan, you got Dakota.
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  Speaker 2: I believe his last name is pronounced grant grand. I
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  Speaker 2: know Michigan feels good about the standing with him and
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  Speaker 2: he's a local kid, so I get that. But Brian
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  Speaker 2: Hartline's all over that one. I know Burms talked a
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  Speaker 2: lot about him too, and then over in the state
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  Speaker 2: of Indiana, and again it's just so weird having all these.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, all these guys locally.
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  Speaker 2: If if Brian Hartline could take three for twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven that are all within the Tri state area, I
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  Speaker 2: mean I think he would.
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  Speaker 1: He would gladly do that.
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  Speaker 2: But in the state of Indiana, Monshaan Sales, he's an
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  Speaker 2: Indianapolis kid, Lawrence North, same high school as Greg Odin
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  Speaker 2: and Mike Conley junior from.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: So you just don't see talent like that in the
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  Speaker 2: Midwest in a given class. I mean, it's rare, especially
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  Speaker 2: at wide receiver. Usually you're looking down to Florida or
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  Speaker 2: California or Texas. So it's kind of a special group
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  Speaker 2: of guys for twenty twenty seven in the Midwest. They've
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  Speaker 2: all been offered. Obviously, one of them is committed already,
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  Speaker 2: so it's I think the twenty twenty seven class could
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  Speaker 2: be very different. Maybe it'll have a bit more local
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  Speaker 2: flavor to it. I don't think anybody's going to sit
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  Speaker 2: here now and say Brian Hartline's gonna get all three
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  Speaker 2: of them. But this is Brian Hartline, so you know
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  Speaker 2: who really knows at this point. But yeah, just a
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  Speaker 2: special group of wide receivers in the Midwest for the
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven class.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we started the show talking about how you're not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily gonna be able to just stack three of the
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  Speaker 1: top five wide receivers in the country, and then you
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  Speaker 1: kind of get to but if anyone can do it,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Hartline is the guy who can do it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you can do it, but if anyone can,
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  Speaker 1: it might be Brian Hartline. So we will see whether
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  Speaker 1: he can do that. We'll see whether they add a
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  Speaker 1: fifth wide receiver to the twenty twenty sixth class as well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be talking about all that stuff as well
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  Speaker 1: as some official visits coming up. That starts this week
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  Speaker 1: at Ohio State, and it starts the coverage that's been
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  Speaker 1: going on for quite a while already at Buckeyheadle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: We've got our whole team of recruiters recruiting coverage guys,
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  Speaker 1: Mark and Burm really really working overtime the last few
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  Speaker 1: weeks and the lead up to official visit season and
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  Speaker 1: camp season. This is a very, very busy time on
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  Speaker 1: the recruiting calendar. Lucky Yes, we've got two of the
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  Speaker 1: very best in the business working at the same place,
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  Speaker 1: and that place is Buckeye huddle dot com. Tons of
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  Speaker 1: great recruiting coverage. Mark and Kevin just got back from
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  Speaker 1: their Southern Swing trip talking to a bunch of really
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  Speaker 1: really elite prospects all around the South, going from Virginia
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  Speaker 1: down into Florida and all the way across to Texas
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  Speaker 1: and lots of points in between as well. You can
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  Speaker 1: find all that coverage at Buckeye huddle dot com and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those interviews as well at YouTube dot
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  Speaker 1: com slash Buckeye Huddle. That'll do it for today. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.