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What's At Stake During Brady Edmunds' Official Visit? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Thursday, June eighteenth, of
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  Speaker 1: your host Tom Moore. The Bowl State Game in eighty days,
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  Speaker 1: Today joined by Tony Gerdup and Buck Eye. Insiders literally
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  Speaker 1: inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center today the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: seven on seven camp just kind of wrapping up outside
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  Speaker 1: right now, but we got a chance to talk to
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  Speaker 1: Brady Edmonds, the twenty twenty seven Ohio State quarterback commit
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  Speaker 1: who was playing on Wednesday in the seven on seven event.
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  Speaker 1: Was incredibly impressive. I guess before we get to before
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  Speaker 1: we get to Brady Edmonds, the recruitment and the drama
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  Speaker 1: and stories under a playoff from that, let's real quickly
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  Speaker 1: talk about Brady Edmonds the player, because Moie got a
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  Speaker 1: chat to talk to him.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't.
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  Speaker 1: He said he was not a big fan of seven
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  Speaker 1: on seven, but man, he seems like seven on seven
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  Speaker 1: is just for him to just light people on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and going like he's putting the ball in really
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  Speaker 3: tight spots. He's you could tell this the first time
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  Speaker 3: some of the receivers. He was playing for the house team,
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  Speaker 3: which is a missmash of players going against high school
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  Speaker 3: seven on seven teams, and so this I think was
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  Speaker 3: the first time some of his teammates had ever played
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  Speaker 3: with a quarterback like him, because the ball got to
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  Speaker 3: them very quickly and sometimes they could not even like
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  Speaker 3: get their hands around it, and so I'd say more
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  Speaker 3: than half of his completions were just drops, but really impressive.
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  Speaker 3: It became a joke at some point because he was
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  Speaker 3: dropping dimes and the fear or four of us standing
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  Speaker 3: around would never had the fold going, never had video
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  Speaker 3: going while it was happening. And he was really really impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Good arm, strong arm, no issues there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, seize the field well. And you know, seven on
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  Speaker 1: seven is not football, and that's something he says, he
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  Speaker 1: said that exact thing. Seven and seven is not foot
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  Speaker 1: But man, you watch him make these tarts. It just
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  Speaker 1: it was to me a little bit of a reminder
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  Speaker 1: of everyone thinks, oh maybe I'll go D one. No,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to go D one, Like this is
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  Speaker 1: what a D one player looks like, surrounded by a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of guys who are good high school football players.
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  Speaker 2: Not the same thing. No, And he's six foot two
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  Speaker 2: thirty probably there's six five. I was just say sorry,
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  Speaker 2: I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was. I'm six two when I was still his nose,
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  Speaker 1: So he's probably every bit of six one.
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  Speaker 3: He looks like a big prototype pocket passer and that's
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  Speaker 3: the seven and seven is made for him. And I
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  Speaker 3: do like, I appreciate the fact that he said this
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  Speaker 3: is not real football, and because some quarterbacks would not
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  Speaker 3: necessarily say that, but boy, he was impressive, and that
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  Speaker 3: that was only the second most impressive thing we got
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  Speaker 3: from him today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, because after he played his one of
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  Speaker 1: his games, we get a chance to talk to him,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a group of ten of us, eight
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  Speaker 1: of us. It was a big group of media because
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  Speaker 1: there there are some questions around his improvement right now.
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  Speaker 1: He has been committed to Ohio State for a year
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  Speaker 1: and a half, but there's some indications that maybe both
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  Speaker 1: parties are at least sort of re examining that situation
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  Speaker 1: and what the future may hold because he's a twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, so he's got to sign in December. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have to, but it's going from signing December one
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  Speaker 1: way or the other. So is that going to be
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  Speaker 1: at Ohio State where he has a long relationship, He
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  Speaker 1: has long family ties, his grandfathers from Ohio and.
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  Speaker 2: An Ohio State family.
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  Speaker 1: This is a dream school kind of situation and he's
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  Speaker 1: been committed from the longest commits in the class, but
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  Speaker 1: he's an Ohio State looking around and thinking about adding
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  Speaker 1: a different quarterback, add another quarterback. He said he would
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  Speaker 1: be okay with that, but also he's got to kind
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  Speaker 1: of protect himself and part of that was taking a
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  Speaker 1: recent visit to UCLA.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I talked about it.
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  Speaker 3: It is a business, and it has become more and
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  Speaker 3: more of a business that if you don't operate like
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  Speaker 3: it's a business, they're going to be out of business time.
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  Speaker 3: So this is something that he's clearly he wants some
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  Speaker 3: questions answered from Ohio State, and if he gets that,
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  Speaker 3: then he believes he can re make his decision, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like re solidify things. But he's got some significant answer
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  Speaker 3: questions that he wants answered so that he knows where
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  Speaker 3: he stands with them. Whether it almost sounds like it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't even doesn't even matter to him if another quarterback
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  Speaker 3: is coming in.
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  Speaker 2: He just wants to know. Well, he didn't.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't tell us everything that he wants to know,
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  Speaker 3: because you're not gonna get necessarily all of that from
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  Speaker 3: a player. But if he gets the answers that he wants,
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  Speaker 3: then it sounds like things should be fine. But he
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  Speaker 3: did say like he likes Bob Chesney. Yeah, well, and Bob.
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  Speaker 1: Chesney new head coach at UCLA. He came from James
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  Speaker 1: Madison before that, he came from Holy Cross before that,
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  Speaker 1: he came from I think Salve Regina.
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  Speaker 2: In Rhode Island.
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  Speaker 1: And what he said without Bob Chesney was he just wins.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, he just wins.
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  Speaker 1: He every where he goes, he wins. He is one
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  Speaker 1: of those guys who know it is he's coming from
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  Speaker 1: the same program as Fritz Signetty not nearly his oldest
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  Speaker 1: Pritz Signetti, but sort of a similar career paths where
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  Speaker 1: he started very low. You know, I bet most people
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  Speaker 1: could not tell me the mast out of South Regina.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that I could tell you the mass
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  Speaker 1: out of time.
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  Speaker 2: I will say.
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  Speaker 1: Seluki's Saints is a good guest. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that's right, but he he is a lot like Kurtz
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  Speaker 1: Signette where he has come up and just one everywhere
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  Speaker 1: he's been and one at places where you haven't you know,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't won. You know you're not going in and no, well, congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: you wanted ohios data, you want it, you wanted to Texas. Like, No,
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  Speaker 1: he's winning at places where they don't officially win, and
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  Speaker 1: he's young, and he's exciting, and he's you know, as
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback you would love to play for Ryot. Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Day is very much you know ryand is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit ahead of Bob Chesney and had a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a different career path, but one of the most
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  Speaker 1: respected quarterback gurus of among head coaches in the country.
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  Speaker 1: Chesney is you know, an offensive mind as well. So
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  Speaker 1: obviously there's a lot going on there and a lot
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's he's going to end up playing college
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  Speaker 1: football very well wherever he ends up playing college football.
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  Speaker 1: But you sort of talked about mentioned this earlier what
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  Speaker 1: get impressed like, I mean, impressive player. Yes, but man,
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  Speaker 1: this has got to be a difficult situation. And to
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  Speaker 1: come and stand in front of a bunch of eight
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  Speaker 1: to ten ding dongs like us and just answer every
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  Speaker 1: question and thoughtful answers, insightful answers, and I could not
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  Speaker 1: be more impressed with him as a as an individual.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, early on, because we're here at the seven and
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  Speaker 3: seventh thing, and so we watch him play his first game.
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  Speaker 3: Then a a few of us are like, are you
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  Speaker 3: going to talk today? It's like, I'll talk after pool play.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like then we're just you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is not going to be a I would say
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  Speaker 2: from us, it.
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  Speaker 3: Would think, boy, this isn't going to be a fun
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  Speaker 3: thing for you because these are going to be questions
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  Speaker 3: that have to be asked, have to be answered. And
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  Speaker 3: I asked him, is the stressful for you? He's like, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty laid back. He's a California kid. It's more
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  Speaker 3: stressed well for his parents, and I understand that. And
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  Speaker 3: he's just he knows that wherever he ends up, it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a good place. It's gonna set him up
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  Speaker 3: for the future. It sounds like he would like that
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  Speaker 3: to be Ohio State, but yeah, just really impressive handswer
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  Speaker 3: and everything was like sometimes when you're trying to talk
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  Speaker 3: to a player, it's like, we'll do it right here
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  Speaker 3: and you're gonna get short answers.
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  Speaker 2: We're like, can we go.
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  Speaker 3: Inside that way there's no noise, no wind, and he's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we'll do wherever you guys want it is this good
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  Speaker 3: shakes everybody's hands afterwards, like this is he's worked hard
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  Speaker 3: to put together every recruiting class and I'm sure he'd
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  Speaker 3: like to play with but.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really really impressive.
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  Speaker 1: After talking with him, Yeah, and you get the sense,
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  Speaker 1: now he didn't say this explicitly, but you get the
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  Speaker 1: sense that by next week sometime, once the official's over,
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  Speaker 1: he's probably gonna have a decent sense where his future lies.
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  Speaker 1: Either he's going to get the answers he's seeking at
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State or he's not, and one way or the other.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he talked about he's had a lot for
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  Speaker 1: schools reach out to him, but there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: places where he doesn't necessarily feel like, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a California kid, he doesn't necessarily want to go to
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  Speaker 1: a small town in the deep South like he wants to.
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  Speaker 1: He want, you know, Columbus, major city. He's got some
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  Speaker 1: family ties here. He's a southern California kid U C.
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  Speaker 1: L A famously located as Deshaun Foster in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: He you know, he's got really good options. He's got
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  Speaker 1: plenty of chops, you know, and I'm sure he had
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  Speaker 1: lots of other options other than those two. But you
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  Speaker 1: sort of get the sense that coming out of this
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  Speaker 1: week you know, this weekend's visit, we should probably have
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  Speaker 1: a much better sense where things stand for him and
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  Speaker 1: where things standforl has did at the cornerback position for
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twelve and seven class on the.
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  Speaker 3: Home Right, and he said he would like to make
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  Speaker 3: make his decision, like we know his decision pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: That's I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Either way, either he gets the answers he doesn't that
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  Speaker 3: he wants, or he doesn't that still gives him the
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  Speaker 3: answers you know that he's looking for.
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  Speaker 2: So then you move to the next step. If this,
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  Speaker 2: then this and so he's going to get the first
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  Speaker 2: part of that this weekend on the visit.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the latest on Brady Edmunds is going to
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  Speaker 1: be really interesting to see how this weekend plays out,
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  Speaker 1: what that means for ohousted twenty twenty seven recruiting class
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  Speaker 1: and especially the seven recruiting class at the quarterback position
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  Speaker 1: because obviously the sort of the marquee position, the Cadillac
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  Speaker 1: position of the class and some big questions there. Will
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  Speaker 1: probably have some more answers there in the next couple days.
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