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Ohio State Lands Commitment From 5-Star CB Devin Sanchez · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning. From Monday, January eighth, i'mer host Tom
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  Moore. The Akron game is in two hundred and thirty six days. The
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  game against Michigan in three hundred and twenty seven days. Today's show going to
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  be a little different than normal. Yesterday's show was a little different than normal
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  too. Kevin Noon and I decided we'll just do it live on YouTube,
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  and then we ended up going for an hour instead of fifteen minutes, so
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  we ended up covering the topics of several of the planned shows for the next
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  few days. So today we're going to be doing something a little different.
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  You're going to get to hear the Skull Session podcast that Mark Gifler and Kevin
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  new dropped over the weekend because they did a great look at one of the
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  stories we didn't get a chance to cover on yesterday's episode, and that is
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  a commitment of five star cornerback Devin Sanchez to the Buckeyes twenty twenty five recruiting
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  class. We didn't cover it because it hadn't officially happened yet. Here you're
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  going to get a chance to hear Mark and Kevin breakdown why this is a
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  very big deal. This is a huge commitment for Ohio State. Myhistate quarterback
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  coach Tim Walton is kind of on a low key Brian Hartline type run right
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  now on the recruiting trail. He probably deserves a little more attention and love
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  than he has been getting. But the latest commitment there five star cornerback Devin
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  Sanchez for the classe of twenty twenty five. Mark and Kevin got a chance
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  to sit down and meet with him down in San Antonio at the All American
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  Game over the weekend. So you're going to get a chance to hear them
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  talk about him. You want to hear an interview with Devin Sanchez. We're
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  going to drop that as a bonus episode on the Buckeye Weekly podcast Beat as
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  well. So here is the Skull Session podcast with Mark and Kevin breaking down
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  the impact of the commitment of five star cornerback Devin Sanchez. Hello, everyone,
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  welcome to the Skull Session recruiting podcast. I'm Mark Givler, got Kevin
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  in with me here today. It's a commitment episode. Five star cornerback Devin
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  Sanchez, North Shore High School, Houston, Texas area commits to Ohio State
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  at the All American Bowl in San Antonio, as we expected to happen.
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  But you know, top three of Texas A and M a local school.
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  It's you know, recruited well in recent years in Alabama who you always have
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  to be concerned about. You never know until you know, you know,
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  huge pickup for the bluck Eyes. Just first of all, your thoughts on
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  Sanchez and kind of what this means as an early twenty five commitment. You
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  take all of the six to two corners you can get and you don't think
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  twice about it, at least the ones who have shown that they can play
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  ball, and Devin Sanchez is one who has shown that he can play ball
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  playing North Shore. I mean he's playing against really solid competition. This isn't
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  some kid who just happens to be plucked into the middle of a wasteland somewhere.
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  You have the size, you have the talent, you have the competition.
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  This is a huge get for Ohio State to be able to land a
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  player eleven plus months out and now they're going to have to play the defense.
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  I mean, this isn't this isn't done. I mean, Devin Sanchez
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  today, maye sit there and say it's done, but everybody's going to keep
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  pushing. But this is the type of player that if he would commit on
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  signing day, or if he would commit a day before signing day, people
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  would lose their minds. This may get lost a little bit as time fades
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  on and we all have a recency bias, but huge get Yeah, I
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  don't think I've liked a corner. They've been recruiting as much as I like
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  Devin Sanchez since they got Jeff Okudah out of Texas Gosh class of twenty seventeen
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  now, so time flies eight classes prior to this, so it's been a
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  long time. Look, I've liked a lot of guys like Jermaine Matthews,
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  you know, Jordan Hancocker's a lot of guys they've recruit that I've really liked.
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  But Devin Sanchez is just an incredibly special talent. He is in that
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  Jeffocudah class. For me coming out, he's like a top ten national player,
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  which is very well justified. Freakish athleticism at six one sixty two,
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  a guy who almost has like receiver skills out there too. It just feels
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  it's he's got like a Chris gamble kind of ability in terms of playing the
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  football. I don't think you can really overstate this one. This is an
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  enormous pickup. I think he's very well going to be the number one corner
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  in the entire country in twenty twenty five. I know he's ranked that way
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  by most people at this point, but I just I haven't seen anyone in
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  his class yet that I would put on his tier at this point. I
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  just think he's an unbelievably special player. Yeah, and you said it like,
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  look, you know, is Alabama just can be like, oh shucks,
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  you know we're gonna missed him. Good luck at Ohio State in twelve
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  months. No, I'm sure that's going to continue. You've got a new
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  staff at Texas A and M, which I actually think is maybe the more
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  interesting dynamic is the new staff of Texas A and M. How do they
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  look? What's the buzz around those guys on the recruiting trail this offseason and
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  then into the season. How do they perform. There's a lot of things
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  that can happen, But this is a kid who also came up to Ohio
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  State to camp. He's been up multiple times in the past year. He's
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  got a great relationship with Tim Walton, his family has a great relationship with
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  the coaching staff. And this is a kid who really, you know,
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  he didn't commit last summer, but starting last summer we kind of felt he
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  was going to be in this class. So this is a kid who's been
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  pretty consistent the last six seven months in terms of his affinity for Ohio State.
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  This wasn't out of the blue. This wasn't a case of I really
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  want to commit at the All American Bowl. Darn it, I've got to
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  make a decision now. This has been percolating for a while. This has
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  been going and Ohio State's been able to hold on and it would be very
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  easy to lose momentum. But Ohio State's defense performed very well this year,
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  almost single handedly, I mean single handedly kept him in the Missouri game in
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  the Cotton Bowl and single handedly almost won the game for Ohio State. There.
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  The back end has played so much better this year. Year two of
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  Jim Knowles, two of Tim Walton. I think all of that is very
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  important, and they're going to be the people who are going to watch the
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  stats, maybe not the games with the stats and corners at one position that
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  the better you are quote unquote, the less that you do, because everybody
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  respects the heck out of what it is you do and they don't throw at
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  you. But you don't have to watch a lot of tape on Devin Sanchez,
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  it was pretty evident early on in his career that he was something special.
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  Yeah, and I think this speaks to what Tim Walton's been doing with
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  the corners that you look. Everyone can have their opinions right now about the
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  high State program, some things they'd like to see done differently, some changes
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  they'd like to see. I think one thing most people can agree on,
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  I would hope is that the last two years, Tim Walton has transformed that
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  cornerback room from really a very weak spot on the right to maybe the strength
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  of the team. I don't know that they got more out of any position
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  this year than they got out of their corners and in the depth. Now
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  we'll see what happens, obviously with some NFL decisions coming up that haven't been
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  made as we're recording this, but just he's revamped the room and you've got
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  Jermaine Matthews coming up, You've got Aaron Scott coming in you've got Bryce West
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  and Miles Lockhart, Calvin Simpson Hunt gave him a little bit in that Michigan
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  State game. Looked looks like he's going to be a player down the road.
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  This is just a one eighty and again, with all the other noise
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  going on right now with the program and things, maybe people aren't happy with.
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  I think this is the one spot where you have to look at and
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  feel really good about the future of the position. Well and as long as
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  Ohio State's running a four to twenty five and it really seems that we're like
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  very early in the Knowles tenure, it was two corners and three safeties and
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  now it's really three corners and two safeties when you look at how the nickel
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  is and everything else. I mean, we kind of know what the role
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  of Devin Sanchez will be if and when he does officially sign with Ohio State
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  eleven months and however many days away that may be, and once that twenty
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  five cycle really gets into place where those players are there. But the corners
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  have been playing very well, the recruiting has worked out very well. It's
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  easy to sit there and point out missus in this position and that position,
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  I'm hard pressed right now to sit there and go, yeah, it's been
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  kind of coin flip at corner. They've they've been hitting. And that's kind
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  of where Ohio State was when BIA was a thing and we were seeing all
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  these first round picks. Now, are we to this first round pick standard?
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  No, we're not there yet, but we're getting there. We're getting
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  there, and that's where Ohio States. That's when Ohio State's special. That's
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  when Ohio State is beating that team up north and getting the College Football Playoff
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  and all of those types of things. And for all the doom and the
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  gloom that's out there about all these other things, just know that this commitment
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  of Devin Sancha this is a huge step in the right direction. I like
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  how his class is starting to shape up. So you've got obviously got like
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  a five star caliber quarterback in Tavian Saint Clair who's located in Ohio, who
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  can come on the visits when all the other skill players are up there,
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  the offensive lineman come into town, everything else can kind of quarterback the offensive
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  recruiting efforts. Now you've got Devin Sanchez on defense who just his name recognition
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  instantly gives you credibility when he's talking to other defensive backs, linebackers, whatever
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  it is, and he's located in a really a hotbed of talent down there.
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  He'll do the national circuit, you know, the seven on seven,
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  so like he'll be out there kind of as like a Jeremiah Smith was this
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  year as a guy that you know, has that cachet of being one of
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  the best players in the country, and everyone knows he's committed to Ohio State.
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  And so I think this is setting up very well for them to be
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  a really well balanced class and once again should be. Again, there's no
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  reason to think they're not going to be right up there at the top of
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  the recruiting rankings together off to a great start. Yeah, give me,
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  give me the core of the class out of the state of Ohio, and
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  then get me that statesman in Texas, that statesman in Florida, that statesman
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  in California, and California has kind of been a missing piece for Ohio State
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  in a lot of cycles. So maybe I don't even need that one as
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  much. Maybe maybe maybe you know, in Georgia or North Carolina or wherever,
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  but you get those types of guys and they go out there on the
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  circuits, whether it's the seven on events or it's you know, the shoe
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  camps for lack of a better term, there and get them there and talking
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  up, talking up Ohio state, and it matters. Now, every kid's
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  got to come to their own decision. But when you're sitting there and you're
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  trying to get it down from thirty offers or forty offers to eight offers and
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  then eight offers to five offers and where you're going to take your visits and
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  five isn't even a magic number anymore with unlimited officials. But you know,
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  I think it's very important. I think that Devon will where the scarleting Gray
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  as a recruit very proudly, and I think that will be important, especially
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  as we've been We've already been talking about Southern Swing and that's that's several months
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  away, and we're already trying to figure out how to spend more time in
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  Texas. And you know, that should give you an idea of what our
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  anticipation is for the talent level in the state. Yeah, he's he's a
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  big time talent. They got other Texas guys there after, so that'll be
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  interesting to see. Does does this help anything? A big name that Ohio
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  State fans are really concerned about, Dorian brew is down there not too far
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  away. Does that help? Now you've got you know, people were concerned,
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  well, you know he moved left from Ohio to go to Texas.
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  Does this hurt them? Now you got Devin Sanchez down there or committed,
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  I mean, somebody to watch the games with. Yeah, I mean it's
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  going to be interesting to see how that how that all comes together. But
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  they're in a lot of good defensive backs in twenty twenty five, expects secondary
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  will be a strength again to their recruiting class. Really a lot of good
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  names, some good names in Ohio. But the cornerback thing, you know,
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  it was Sanchez. I think he's I think he's walking into a really
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  good situation. We don't need to know what Burke and Hancock are doing today.
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  We know they won't be there. Sanchez is there, so that's kind
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  of clearsome room. Jermaine Matthews will be a third year player when Sanchez arrives
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  on campus, and then you've got second year guy. You'll have second you
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  guys like Aaron Scott and Bryce West and Miles Lockhart. But you're playing three,
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  four or five corners. There's an opportunity there for him to get right
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  into that rotation and maybe at worst play a role similar to what Jermae Matthews
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  played this year. And we talked so much about the portal, but one
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  position, we're not talking about his corner because of Ohio State's depth and they
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  are just based on how things have worked out. You're running multiple corners,
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  so they've got a lot of experienced guys. And then you mentioned Calvin Simpson
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  Hunt. I mean, he'll be in his third year, but second year
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  eligibility wise, as he red shirted in twenty three, but that opportunity will
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  be there. And I I liken this back to conversations about Jeremiah Smith.
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  Jeremiah Smith at wide receiver walks into a room that has a lot of four
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  and five stars. But when you're Jeremiah Smith, you're Jeremiah Smith. And
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  I'm not sitting there saying that Devin Sanchez is quite to that precipice. He
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  has a year to grow, he has a year to build. I mean
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  we may be in nine months we may be saying that he's a Jeremiah Smith
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  type, but he's pretty damn close. So I mean he's going to be
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  somebody that they're going to have a hard time keeping off the field. I
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  mean, I think that the biggest thing is just going to be a matter
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  of learning the scheme and some things of that nature. I think that the
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  athletic talent has already shown itself in a player who still has one more year
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  of high school to go. Yeah, and I apologize I forgot Dave Snigmnoson,
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  who's like one of my favorite players on the defense. Love how he
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  plays. I thought we were coming back to him, But yeah, I
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  don't expect him to be there either when Devin Sanchez arrived. By the way,
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  I think he's played his way into a very close look from the NFL
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  after twenty twenty four. But yeah, that that run of first round corners,
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  you said, it's it's coming, it's coming, It's it's common it
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  maybe uh there maybe three or four of them here in the next couple of
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  years, so it's it's definitely coming. And uh b I A is is
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  really it's back. I think when you put together what they've put together on
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  the field, just the performances of Denzel Bert Jordan Hancock, Dave Siebnosa this
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  year, and then you start to see the interest from five star corners from
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  across the country. I think it's fair to say B I A is back.
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  One of these two things is back. B I A or Texas.
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  Which one is back? It's B I A. There you go, B
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  I A or Miami. That was that was That wasn't even a decision.
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  Uh, But it'll be interesting to kind of see what they're able to put
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  in together around him. Again, you've got Trey McNutt out of Shaker Heights,
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  Ohio could be a safety. Dorian brew formerly of Clayton north Mont,
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  Ohio, now down in the Houston area, he could also be maybe a
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  safe. I think he's maybe more of a corner than Trey McNutt. But
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  you've got these guys here, and so if you can get the group together,
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  that's a dominant recruiting class if you can just just those three and there's
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  other guys. When we can get into that in future podcast. You can
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  read the site and you know, I'll do my big boards and stuff.
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  But you've got a chance to get a really good core of defensive backs here.
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  And I know there's been a lot of angst about defensive recruiting. You
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  know, maybe they didn't hit on all the safeties they wanted to hit on
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  this year in twenty twenty four, So big year for defensive back recruiting.
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  As you do start to see some guys, you know, kind of graduate
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  to the NFL, but unbelievable start again. I think Devn's the best junior
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  corner in America. I certainly haven't seen anyone better. We'll see how the
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  next twelve months go developmentally, but for me, this is a Jeff Okuda
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  type of recruiting win out of the state of Texas. So big get for
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  the buck Eyes. A lot going on right now at bucke huddle dot Com.
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  All American Bowl, Devin commits the American Bowl. We've got All American
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  Ball coverage throughout the week that you guys have hopefully in We're gonna have all
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  sorts of recruiting coverage coming up the next few weeks. Transfer portal visits are
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  happening. They're trying to get some linemen. They just got Will Howard for
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  the quarterback. So a lot going on bucke huddle dot Com, so check
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  and we will talk to you soon