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What Is Going On Behind The Scenes Between Jim Knowles and Ohio State? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All Right, So, one of the most popular episodes ever
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  Speaker 1: of the Daily Huddle podcast dropped just a little earlier
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  Speaker 1: this week. Garrett Seawright was talking about the behind the
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  Speaker 1: scenes story about Jim Knowles his move to Penn State
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  Speaker 1: and why he didn't attend the Buckeyees National championship celebration,
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  Speaker 1: and based on the YouTube numbers, there was a ton
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  Speaker 1: of interest in this story and we really honestly hadn't
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  Speaker 1: talked about it on this show or on Buckeye Weekly.
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  Speaker 1: The want to let you hear Garrett see Wright breaking
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  Speaker 1: it all down at the Daily Huddle podcast.
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  Speaker 2: So there's now another layer in the gym Noles to
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  Speaker 2: Penn State saga that I don't one hundred percent know
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  Speaker 2: that I believe if you haven't been following along, Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles is leaving to go to
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  Speaker 2: Penn State for the same job, except he's going to
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  Speaker 2: make roughly a million dollars more per year, which is
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  Speaker 2: not an inconsequential amount of money. By the way, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to pretend as if I'm hoopooing a million
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  Speaker 2: dollars a year. That's still a lot of money. And
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  Speaker 2: if you want to know my feelings on the idea
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  Speaker 2: of what that means for Penn State and Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: you can check out yesterday's episode of the podcast wherever
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  Speaker 2: you listen to podcasts or also on YouTube, and I
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  Speaker 2: look forward to having that conversation with you. But there's
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  Speaker 2: another wrinkle to this. The news came out on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: just after Ohio State celebrated its national championship at its
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  Speaker 2: stadium in front of its fans, and Jim Noles was
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  Speaker 2: not at that celebration, and people noticed began to wonder,
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  Speaker 2: and then the news came out that he was leaving
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  Speaker 2: for one of Ohio State's biggest rivals, and so there
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  Speaker 2: was a lot of pushback. There was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: negativity surrounding that idea that Jim Knowles was not there. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into the salacious stuff that
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  Speaker 2: Jim Knowles and Ryan Day hated each other and he
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  Speaker 2: felt I'm not going to get into that because I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that has like I have no way
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  Speaker 2: of knowing that I can speculate on that, and believe me,
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  Speaker 2: part of the fun of doing this is speculation, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't don't. I don't necessarily get my rocks off
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to like they hate each other or
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  Speaker 2: like anything that might have to do with real life.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's fun to speculate about, like, hey, this might
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  Speaker 2: have happened, and this is why they called that on
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  Speaker 2: third down. When you start talking about like people's personal
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  Speaker 2: and professional lives, like I don't do fire the coach radio,
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  Speaker 2: I don't do well. What I heard was it just
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  Speaker 2: is not my bag. So if you want to do that,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to sit in the comments and say
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  Speaker 2: Larry Johnson in and Jim Knowles hated each other and
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  Speaker 2: Jim Knowles then turned to god, you have at it.
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  Speaker 2: That's just not something I'm really all that interested in
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  Speaker 2: doing because I don't I just generally, and you might
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  Speaker 2: come to disagree with this. I don't like to just
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  Speaker 2: sit here and make an ass out of myself, So
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to start today. Now. You could probably
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  Speaker 2: argue that I've been doing it for a while, but
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  Speaker 2: that's neither here north there. There was a tweet that
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  Speaker 2: went some at viral on Monday morning from Ret McMurphy,
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  Speaker 2: a college football reporter for The Action Network, and it
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  Speaker 2: says Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles was asked by
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  Speaker 2: the school not to attend the Buckeye's national championship celebration
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  Speaker 2: while he deliberated his options. A source set Knowle's representation
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  Speaker 2: tried to reach a deal with Ohio State week before
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  Speaker 2: the title game and immediately after, but eventual offer was
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  Speaker 2: well below the competition. Noles signed a three year point
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  Speaker 2: a nine point three million dollar deal of Penn State
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday. So anytime you get in a situation like
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  Speaker 2: this where sources say and by the way, I think,
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  Speaker 2: so I do media work outside of this podcast where
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  Speaker 2: I deal with agents, which probably tips my hand of
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  Speaker 2: who I think released this. And anytime you're fed information,
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  Speaker 2: you have to ask yourself who does this benefit something
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  Speaker 2: that Sometimes that doesn't matter, right, Like sometimes it's just
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  Speaker 2: like what do you do? I don't care who benefits
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  Speaker 2: from this information being out there. It's pertinent information, it's interesting,
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  Speaker 2: it's information. I'm gonna get it out there. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't blame Brett McMurphy for tweeting this. I don't. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think he's in the wrong for saying this is
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  Speaker 2: what happened from who according to who I spoke with.
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  Speaker 2: But when you get information like this and it's released
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  Speaker 2: to the public, the public, then the sidebar I was
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  Speaker 2: gonna say. By the way, it's like when somebody says,
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  Speaker 2: like anonymous sources, they're not getting an email from like
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  Speaker 2: X five six nine two seven four three two five
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  Speaker 2: three three two one at gmail dot com, like they
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  Speaker 2: know who is giving them the information, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: like they don't want you to know who's giving them
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  Speaker 2: the information. And I think that's important to distinguish it
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  Speaker 2: because I see a lot of times like, well, they
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  Speaker 2: should put their name on it. Who do? They don't
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  Speaker 2: even know who the anonymous source is. Yes, they do.
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  Speaker 2: That's anonymous. Isn't anonymous to them, it's anonymous to you.
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  Speaker 2: But when you get information like this, as a consumer
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  Speaker 2: of news, information, et cetera, ask yourself, Okay, who would
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  Speaker 2: know this information? Who would know that Jim Knowles was
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  Speaker 2: asked not to go to the National Championship celebration. That
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  Speaker 2: would consist of Ryan Day, the rest of the Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State coaching staff, probably Jim Knowles's agent, Jim Knowles's club's
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  Speaker 2: family and friends, the High State Athletic Department, the Ohigh
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  Speaker 2: State president. That's about. That's about the list, because by
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  Speaker 2: all accounts, the players did not know that Jim Knowles
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  Speaker 2: wasn't going to be there. So it wasn't as if
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  Speaker 2: Brett mc murphy got a tip from Jack Sawyer that
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  Speaker 2: they that Jim Knowles wasn't going to be at the
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  Speaker 2: at the celebration. So with that list of people who
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  Speaker 2: have that information, if that's true, does it benefit Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Day or anybody at Ohio State to release that information. No,
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  Speaker 2: because they don't look good now. They look like sour grapes.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't want to be with us, if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to take your ball and go somewhere else, don't
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  Speaker 2: even bother showing up to the celebration that you helped
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  Speaker 2: make sure happened. So they don't look good at that,
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to release that. So who does look
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  Speaker 2: good in this situation. Jim Knowles and Jim Knowles's agent,
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  Speaker 2: So there's probably your culprit of who released that information.
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  Speaker 2: Then you follow it up with Knowles's representation tried to
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  Speaker 2: reach a deal with Ohio State before the title game
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  Speaker 2: and immediately after, but the eventual offer was well below
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  Speaker 2: the competition. Now, the only people who would have that
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  Speaker 2: information are the Ohio State Athletic Director, the Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: President Ryan Day, maybe the other coaches. Jim Knowles and
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  Speaker 2: Jim Knowles's agent. Doesn't benefit Ohio State for that information
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  Speaker 2: to get out because they look dumb that they didn't
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  Speaker 2: work as hard as possible to retain their defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 2: who helped them win a national championship. It makes them
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  Speaker 2: look cheap, It makes them look weak on the college
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  Speaker 2: football stage, so they're not going to release that information.
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  Speaker 2: So who would do that? Jim Knowles or Jim Knowles's agent, Now,
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  Speaker 2: why would they do such a thing. Why would Jim
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  Speaker 2: Knowles or Jim Knowles's agent release information that Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: was well below the competition for his services? And why
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  Speaker 2: would Jim Knowles or Jim Knowles's agent share that he
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  Speaker 2: was not invited to the national championship celebration because it
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  Speaker 2: saves Jim Knowles or Jim Knowles's agent ass Because when
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  Speaker 2: you are having a rough one in the PR world,
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  Speaker 2: and I would say Jim Knowles was having a rough
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  Speaker 2: one that the day your team was celebrating its national championship,
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  Speaker 2: you're nowhere to be found, and you took a more
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  Speaker 2: lucrative offer elsewhere. It's a really quick and easy way
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  Speaker 2: to find yourself at the ire of a excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: at the ire of a fan base. You know how
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  Speaker 2: you get out of that. You start sharing your side
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  Speaker 2: of the story. Because if you're not telling your side
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  Speaker 2: of the story, somebody else is. And the chance is
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  Speaker 2: that somebody else is telling your story the way you
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  Speaker 2: want it told, and the most accurate representation from your
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  Speaker 2: perspective is not high, So how do you make sure
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  Speaker 2: that your side of the story is told? You tell
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  Speaker 2: your side of the story. So I'll let you put
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  Speaker 2: two and two together of who is the likely source
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  Speaker 2: to Brett McMurphy's report. I don't think it's going to
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  Speaker 2: take many lines drawn to connect those dots. That'll do
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