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Ohio State Recruiting: Buckeyes Land 4-Star Former Clemson Commit Dre Quinn · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: is the time of year when we generally fall way,
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Speaker 1: way way behind on recruiting coverage on this show because
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Speaker 1: there is just a lot of other stuff going on
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Speaker 1: well in the recruiting world. Man Oman, is there a
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Speaker 1: lot going on in the recruiting world right now? So
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Speaker 1: a quick update on some Ohio state recruiting rankings. They
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Speaker 1: rivals just release their new updated rankings for this year.
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Speaker 1: Three Buckeyes are ranked as the top player in their
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Speaker 1: position in the class of twenty twenty six. Edge Curry Wilder.
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Speaker 1: He's the number eleven player overall in the class. Cornerback
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Speaker 1: Jay Timmins he is the twelfth overall player in the class,
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Speaker 1: and wide receiver Chris Henry Junior. He is the fourteenth
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Speaker 1: ranked player overall in the class. All three of those
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Speaker 1: guys the best ranking at their position according to Rivals.
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Speaker 1: This has also been a very very busy couple weeks
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Speaker 1: for Ohio St. TAM. They've landed six, yes, a half
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Speaker 1: dozen commitments in just the last couple of weeks. One
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Speaker 1: of those is Dray Quinn. He was a former Clemson
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Speaker 1: commit defensive end. He was in town over the weekend
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Speaker 1: committed to the Buckeyes on Sunday. So this is going
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Speaker 1: to be an episode of the Skull Session Recruiting Podcast
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Speaker 1: where Ohio State new commitment Drake Quinn, you know, to
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Speaker 1: get to get hear all about him from Mark and Juck.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna break down that big, big recruiting nose. We're
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Speaker 1: also going to have a couple of these shows as
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Speaker 1: look for those as well.
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Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to the Skull Session Recruiting podcast, broughtch
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Speaker 2: back buckeyehuddle dot com. I am Mark Gibler. I was
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Speaker 2: talking on Saturday night, or we were talking on Saturday
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Speaker 2: night about how we'd be back on Monday with a
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Speaker 2: full kind of update on Ohio State recruiting, but instead
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Speaker 2: Ohio State has landed a couple of commitments here on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: and the first one we're gonna talk about is four
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Speaker 2: star defensive end Drake Quinn out of new Ford, Georgia.
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Speaker 2: Very familiar place for Ohio State, very familiar place for
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Speaker 2: Larry Johnson getting Edric Houston out of there a couple
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Speaker 2: of years ago. This was Larry Johnson's top priority the
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Speaker 2: last couple of months since Quinny committed from Clemson, and
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Speaker 2: now he's a Buck guy after committing Sunday morning here
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Speaker 2: coming out of his official visit this weekend for the
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Speaker 2: UCLA game. We had felt this was trending in the
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Speaker 2: right direction and that things could be looking pretty good
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Speaker 2: going into the weekend. But always nice to get the
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Speaker 2: confirmation with the actual commitment. And you know, he didn't
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Speaker 2: go home and think about it for a few days
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Speaker 2: and you know, get cold feet. He immediately Sunday morning,
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Speaker 2: bright and early, probably before most people even go to church,
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Speaker 2: committed to the Buck Eyes. So the defensive end situation
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Speaker 2: looks a lot better now, doesn't it.
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Speaker 3: It looks fantastic to me, you know when we look
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Speaker 3: at Carry Wilder, who has just continued since he really
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Speaker 3: since the Buck guys offered, and he committed a week
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Speaker 3: and a half later. Then there was that Rivals camp
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Speaker 3: and he just everybody saw who he really was at
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Speaker 3: that Rivals camp as he just demolished all the five
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Speaker 3: star tackles at the camp. And now he's, you know,
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Speaker 3: the top defensive lineman in the country per Rivals, and
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Speaker 3: we've kind of been waiting, Okay, who are we gonna
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Speaker 3: pair with him in this class? And there's been a
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Speaker 3: lot of options as we've seen into some very high public,
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Speaker 3: high profile misses that had people very concerned as to
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Speaker 3: would they be able to find somebody. Then you had
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Speaker 3: the entire top three hundred committed, so the buck guys
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Speaker 3: on the prow here late as they were at a
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Speaker 3: lot of spots, Drake Quinn de commits, and Drake Quinn
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Speaker 3: a heck of a prospect, man, heck of a prospect
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Speaker 3: that's six foot four, two twenty five athletic enough to
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Speaker 3: play tight end and when you watch him run routes
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Speaker 3: at tight end, and when you watch him run routes
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Speaker 3: at tight end, which they do have some in this
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Speaker 3: in this highlight reel, I mean the guy could definit
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Speaker 3: play at a big time school at tight end if
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Speaker 3: he so chose, there's no doubt about it. Just a
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Speaker 3: tremendous athlete. He's long, he's got a great feel for
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Speaker 3: the game, and I think that obviously what we've heard
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Speaker 3: from personality wise, family wise, like he is absolutely a
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Speaker 3: real kind of guy that they want in the program,
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Speaker 3: which you know usually when you hear that, it's a
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Speaker 3: guy who's got his priorities straight, knows his goals, you know,
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Speaker 3: just very much about his football, gets along well with others,
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Speaker 3: like all the things that we know they look for,
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Speaker 3: and they do such a tremendous job bringing guys into
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Speaker 3: the program that have that kind of attitude. But this
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Speaker 3: one is one that I've consistently heard really fits in
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Speaker 3: with the program. So all in all, this is going
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Speaker 3: to turn out just fantastic. If we just said early
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Speaker 3: on we're gonna get Cary Wilder and dra Quinn, there
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Speaker 3: would have been no need for any of the consternation
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Speaker 3: that was had throughout this class. But this is a
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Speaker 3: big one, Mark, This is a real big one. To
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Speaker 3: be able to pop this off this late, something we
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Speaker 3: don't usually see and really exciting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Quinn transferred into Buford for his senior year. So
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Speaker 2: if you're a little confused on the uniform colors on
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Speaker 2: some of this video, that's that's why very explosive, very
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Speaker 2: athletic can really run plays down, has that great get
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Speaker 2: off that Larry Johnson looks for, plays extremely hard.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: So really with Larry Johnson, it's kind of two things.
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Speaker 2: It's it's get off and motor. If you have those
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Speaker 2: two things, I think he's pretty much willing to try
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Speaker 2: and fix the rest of whatever ails you. But and
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Speaker 2: if you don't have those two things, you're just not
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Speaker 2: going to be recruited by Ohio State. So he checks
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Speaker 2: a lot of the boxes. I think he's a good
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Speaker 2: compliment to carry Wilder. The thing I like about both
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Speaker 2: of them is that they're both bigger body right now
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Speaker 2: in terms of being you know, too forty ish. They're
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Speaker 2: not coming in at two point fifteen, and you've got
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Speaker 2: to you know, wait a couple of years to get
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Speaker 2: them up to two fifty five, two sixty. These are
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Speaker 2: guys who I think are going to be able to
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Speaker 2: slot in pretty early in their college careers. You know,
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna sit here call him day one starters
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Speaker 2: or anything like that, but I do think you know,
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Speaker 2: like we've seen we've seen Zion Grady this year. It
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Speaker 2: would surprise me if we couldn't see the same type
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Speaker 2: of thing out of both of these guys, especially with
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Speaker 2: maybe some some potential openings there on the depth chart
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Speaker 2: depending on what all the decisions are made here this offseason.
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Speaker 2: But really really good pick up. Again, this was Larry
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Speaker 2: Johnson's top target here the last couple of months. This
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Speaker 2: is who he really zeroed in on, and we kind
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Speaker 2: of talked about that on the podcast, we talked about
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Speaker 2: it a little bit on the message board and site,
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Speaker 2: just that this is the guy to watch here over
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Speaker 2: the last several weeks. And sure enough commits coming out
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Speaker 2: of that official visit this morning and again huge huge
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Speaker 2: tandem now defensive line recruiting all of a sudden, Juck,
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Speaker 2: I mean this it's probably not the it's probably not
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Speaker 2: the best defensive line they've ever signed on paper with
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Speaker 2: Larry Johnson, but it certainly is as it's up to
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Speaker 2: the standard in my opinion. Would you agree with that?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely? Absolutely? You know, with Dre for instance, I mean
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Speaker 3: when you when you look at him just as a
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Speaker 3: prospect and he is again just barely a four star
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Speaker 3: down like, you know, four to twenty in the country,
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Speaker 3: which I think is just kind of silly. And we've
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Speaker 3: talked before about you know, after your top one hundred,
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Speaker 3: from one hundred to four hundred, it's not so much
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Speaker 3: about that individual prospect, but what you want, what you
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Speaker 3: are looking for as a program, and how you want
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Speaker 3: to utilize him. And this guy is interchangeable with any
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Speaker 3: one of those defensive ends you would find from one
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Speaker 3: fifty down to four hundred as far as talent and
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Speaker 3: skill and ability. So you know, I had some people
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Speaker 3: saying that he's just barely a four star and not
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Speaker 3: very happy about it. I wouldn't put that much stock
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Speaker 3: into that when you look at him as a prospect,
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's got everything they're looking for, and he's
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Speaker 3: pretty unique as to what they got on the roster
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Speaker 3: right now. In addition to that, with this class right
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Speaker 3: now now with six guys committed, I love taking a
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Speaker 3: few extra shots. As you know, we've had kind of
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Speaker 3: smaller classes here and there. We got up to five
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Speaker 3: last year and now six this year. But what I
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Speaker 3: really like is when we look at the class of
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, which saw Edric move inside and Tom
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Speaker 3: Kirk's who you know, it's going so so, but the
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Speaker 3: last two years, so in twenty five and twenty six,
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Speaker 3: to pair Zion Grady with Eppie who you know, we
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Speaker 3: are pretty big believers in both of those two. Now
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Speaker 3: with Cary andre I think you got four guys right
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Speaker 3: there in back to back classes that you know you're
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Speaker 3: gonna have two superstuds out of that. However way you
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Speaker 3: slice it, I don't know who it's going to be,
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Speaker 3: but there's gonna be two, maybe more absolute studs out
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Speaker 3: of those four guys in my opinion.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've now got the depth, they've got the numbers.
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Speaker 2: I think people are more comfortable with now and then
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Speaker 2: I think this will allow them to do is given
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Speaker 2: their kind of the roster breakdown right now, and this
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Speaker 2: will be hard. I'm not saying get excited about this
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Speaker 2: yet because it's gonna it's gonna depend on you know,
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Speaker 2: supply and demand and things like that. But this does
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Speaker 2: provide them if there is a pass rusher in the portal,
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Speaker 2: this winner, there's like a big name pass rusher in
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Speaker 2: the portal, they'll have the resources with losing some guys
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Speaker 2: to the NFL. With just the breakdown of you maybe
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Speaker 2: missing numbers A or two and not having a ton
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Speaker 2: of like veteran defensive ends, they'll be able to plug
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Speaker 2: and play like a junior senior type guy from the portal.
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Speaker 2: I think that's where they'll probably try and attack moving forward. Now.
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Speaker 2: If something falls into their lap here down the stretch
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Speaker 2: in this final month, a five star type of pass
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Speaker 2: rusher comes available, I'm certain that they would explore that,
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Speaker 2: But I think more realistically right now, what they'll probably
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Speaker 2: do is be super aggressive in the poor if there's
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Speaker 2: a pass rusher they like there and it won't really
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Speaker 2: block anybody, it won't. You won't get this you know,
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Speaker 2: crowded depth chart there at the bottom where you've got
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Speaker 2: you know, eight guys at defensive end that are you know,
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Speaker 2: first or second in your players. It'll it'll keep that
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Speaker 2: separation for you on the roster. So, you know, Larry
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Speaker 2: Johnson's obviously a topic that gets a lot of discussion
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Speaker 2: when it comes to recruiting the Ohio state in general.
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Speaker 2: You know, how much longer is he going to coach?
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Speaker 2: All that good stuff being around him and like covering
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Speaker 2: him and things like that. He he seems like someone
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Speaker 2: who can't give it up as far as like just
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Speaker 2: loves coaching, but it is it is kind of interesting
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Speaker 2: right now because the contract I believe is up after
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Speaker 2: this year. What do you think, what do you want?
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Speaker 2: What you like to see happen? I guess in terms
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Speaker 2: of the plan moving forward, I mean there's got to
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Speaker 2: be a plan, whether Larry Johnson's coaching a few more
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Speaker 2: years or not, there's got to be some type of like, hey,
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Speaker 2: this is our this is our move whenever it's time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think with guys, and I think you're spot
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Speaker 3: on about Larry personality wise, he's, you know, one of
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Speaker 3: these guys that this this is what he does, This
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Speaker 3: is who he is, it's his identity, you know. And
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Speaker 3: he is still on the job as hard as he's
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Speaker 3: always been and doesn't want to give it up. And
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Speaker 3: I think with guys like that, they end up kind
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Speaker 3: of needing to get pushed out, now, does it. You know?
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Speaker 3: They just they lose it before they recognize they lose it.
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Speaker 3: And he is seventy three now, bel seventy three, seventy two,
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Speaker 3: seventy three, which is up there, but boy, he still
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Speaker 3: seems sharp as attack. It doesn't feel like there's been
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Speaker 3: any falloff in any of the guys or the production,
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Speaker 3: and it did feel I think for a while there
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Speaker 3: like getting really frustrating with maybe the lack of evolution
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Speaker 3: to modern day recruiting and what these guys are looking for,
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Speaker 3: who shows the most love, And it's felt like, all right,
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Speaker 3: we're kind of trending down a little hard, a little fast,
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Speaker 3: but I think we've seen a little bit of a
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Speaker 3: resurgence here and it feels pretty good. Obviously, the defensive
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Speaker 3: line played fantastic in the playoffs, and right now we're
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Speaker 3: watching a defensive line that's you know, didn't come in
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Speaker 3: as talented as maybe the one that just left, and
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Speaker 3: they're playing just as good as the ones from last year.
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Speaker 3: So production wise, things feel really good. Recruiting wise, things
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Speaker 3: feel really good. But at the same time, you know
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Speaker 3: you want to get out in front of it before
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Speaker 3: you see things start to decline. That said, I think,
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Speaker 3: you know, maybe I would like to see I think
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Speaker 3: I would have I would have liked to see this
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Speaker 3: actually last time around. But maybe a plan in place
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Speaker 3: where you're where you got somebody who's maybe like a
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Speaker 3: coach in waiting, and now that you can you can
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Speaker 3: afford to bring in a guy and he can coach
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Speaker 3: like you're doing on the offensive line, and you can
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Speaker 3: pay a pretty good amount to have somebody come and
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Speaker 3: be in that role and pay him a good amount,
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Speaker 3: somebody with some chops, somebody like lew and Clark, who
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Speaker 3: you know, would have been great if he could have
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Speaker 3: stuck around, and you have the ability now to do that.
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Speaker 3: I would like to see that happen. I think that
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Speaker 3: sounds like a pretty decent idea. But boy, it would
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Speaker 3: be nice to have him back, and he is just
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Speaker 3: killing it down in Texas too. On top of it.
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Speaker 3: Who knows, maybe you can get him back. I mean
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Speaker 3: he is just the outside is it outside linebackers.
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Speaker 2: Or yeah, I believe that's correct.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not the defensive line coach. So like something
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Speaker 3: like that might even be a possibility.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, I don't know what the long
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Speaker 2: term plan is with Miguel Patrick. You know, they hired
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Speaker 2: him from the high school ranks down in Georgia. He
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Speaker 2: was at Cedar Groves as a head coach that he
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Speaker 2: worked here. I think it was just a year or two.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it was more than two years, and
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Speaker 2: ended up at UAB was given more responsibility at UAB
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Speaker 2: has since come back. So has has that been enough
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Speaker 2: for them? I don't know, but they you know, they've
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Speaker 2: they've kind of used him as well in the recruiting process.
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Speaker 2: I know he's got the connections in Georgia as well,
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Speaker 2: So anytime there's defensive line prospect in Georgia, you do
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Speaker 2: have to kind of give him a little bit of
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Speaker 2: a hockey assist on that because he he's so well
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Speaker 2: respected down there. But yeah, it'll be interesting to see
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Speaker 2: kind of how they massage that situation. Here's what I
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Speaker 2: will say. I think the last like year and a half,
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Speaker 2: since the portal has really taken off and all the
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Speaker 2: rules have seen them have gone out the window in
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Speaker 2: terms of, you know, guys can just kind of leave
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Speaker 2: as a base, you know, free agency type of situation.
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Speaker 2: I do think it has and now there's money involved.
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Speaker 2: I do think it has less of an impact on
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Speaker 2: schools who would negatively recruit against Larry Johnson's age because
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Speaker 2: if you if you rewind, you know a few years ago,
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Speaker 2: because this is always going to be used against it.
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Speaker 2: I mean literally, like the second year he was here
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Speaker 2: at Ohio State, they started the rumors started like this
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Speaker 2: has been a thing that's followed him for like a decade. Now,
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Speaker 2: it's never gonna go away. Other schools aren't going to stop.
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Speaker 2: But a few years back, you look at it and
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Speaker 2: if you're like, if you're a kid, if you're an
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Speaker 2: eighteen year old kid, you're a senior in high school,
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Speaker 2: you love Larry Johnson and you want to play with
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Speaker 2: him or play for him, but you don't know what
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Speaker 2: his long term future is, and you're not getting paid,
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Speaker 2: and your transfer, your ability to transfer is very limited.
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Speaker 2: You may have to sit out a year, you may like,
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Speaker 2: there's all sorts of hurdles you have to go through
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Speaker 2: the transfer. You're gonna really consider that in terms of, oh,
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Speaker 2: do I really want to go to Ohio State and
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Speaker 2: have him leave after my freshman year. Now, if you're
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Speaker 2: getting paid, I think that I think that evens the
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Speaker 2: playing field a little bit, because Okay, this is no
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Speaker 2: longer like I'm just working as a student here and
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Speaker 2: you know, getting my tuition. Like now you're actually like,
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Speaker 2: you know, making some money, and so you can it's
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Speaker 2: more of a professional environment. So I don't think coaching
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Speaker 2: movement like that is as serious unless it's the head
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Speaker 2: coach and I also think just the idea that the
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Speaker 2: freedom of movement now is if I go somewhere like
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Speaker 2: look at for example, Julian's saying, I mean he was
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Speaker 2: on campus for like a cup of coffee at Alabama
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Speaker 2: and Davean left, he left, I can just leave, you know,
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Speaker 2: if Larry leaves, I can just leave. It's fine, and
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Speaker 2: I'll find another place right away and there will be
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Speaker 2: no issues. And so I think some of the new
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Speaker 2: rules may actually in Salad, Ohio state a little bit
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Speaker 2: from some of that negative recruiting.
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Speaker 3: Here, you know, as we look at the ripple down
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Speaker 3: effect from how much that has affected everything from the
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Speaker 3: you know, the the psychology of a recruit coming up.
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Speaker 3: That's something I never even considered. I think you're absolutely
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Speaker 3: spot on with that point. You know, it means it
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Speaker 3: used to mean a lot. And like you said, this
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Speaker 3: has been going on forever, because ten years ago, we're
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Speaker 3: talking about if I'm working for somebody else that's a
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Speaker 3: sixty three year old defensive line coach, you want to
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Speaker 3: go there. Now he's seventy three. It's never stopped. It's
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Speaker 3: certainly not going to stop. But I think you're absolutely right.
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Speaker 3: What's the impact of that when I'm going to go
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Speaker 3: and learn from the guy who has the reputation of
18:45
Speaker 3: being the greatest defensive line coach that there is at
18:48
Speaker 3: one of the very best programs in the country. And
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Speaker 3: if he retires and I don't like it, I can.
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Speaker 2: Just leave, like paycheck win win, what do you you know?
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Speaker 3: So I think you're right that absolutely takes that the
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Speaker 3: firepower out of that, which was once pretty powerful, it
19:05
Speaker 3: was getting pretty powerful, and it was getting to the
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Speaker 3: point where I was starting to feel like, I don't
19:09
Speaker 3: know if this is sustainable the fact that he was
19:12
Speaker 3: losing energy and recruiting. Never was a very sticktuitive kind
19:16
Speaker 3: of recruiter anyway, but things were changing, and then the
19:19
Speaker 3: negative recruiting on top of it. It almost felt like
19:23
Speaker 3: the twenty four class was like I was starting to think, Okay,
19:26
Speaker 3: this might be untenable moving forward much longer like this.
19:29
Speaker 3: And you know, since then, which kind of coincides with
19:33
Speaker 3: what you're talking about here, things have gotten better and better.
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Speaker 2: And like Larry Johnson is such a relationships person. I
19:42
Speaker 2: think he takes it kind of personally when kids don't
19:46
Speaker 2: want to like when kids decide to go out, it's
19:47
Speaker 2: just he he's selective and it just like the kids
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Speaker 2: he clicks with. It just he really kind of tries
19:57
Speaker 2: to focus on that in the relationship at building. And
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Speaker 2: there's still certain there is still an importance in that,
20:05
Speaker 2: but it has been a little bit of an adjustment
20:08
Speaker 2: with all the other stuff now. And you know, I
20:13
Speaker 2: I've had many parents of players and high school coaches
20:18
Speaker 2: of players over the last let's call it six or
20:22
Speaker 2: seven years, at various points in a kid's recruitment tell me, like, look,
20:27
Speaker 2: if they knew Larry Johnson was going to be there
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Speaker 2: all three or four years, they were going to be there,
20:31
Speaker 2: they'd already be committed. And some of those kids did
20:35
Speaker 2: end up signing with Ohio State and it worked out,
20:40
Speaker 2: but others didn't. Others just couldn't trust that he was
20:44
Speaker 2: going to be there. And that's again, that's before you're
20:47
Speaker 2: getting paid. That's when you're playing for free essentially. That's
20:51
Speaker 2: when you can't transfer freely if you don't like what's happening.
20:56
Speaker 2: And so I do think, you know, there's some give
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Speaker 2: and take here. There's some pluses and minuses to the
21:04
Speaker 2: situation as as it stands today, with with the with
21:08
Speaker 2: the new rules, with the nil rules and the portal
21:11
Speaker 2: and everything else. So we'll see, but it it looks
21:17
Speaker 2: to like watching him at practice and things like that,
21:21
Speaker 2: there there is not a dip and energy enthusiasm. He's
21:26
Speaker 2: the same guy. So it's just a matter of what
21:28
Speaker 2: he wants to do, I think at this point, and
21:31
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. But definitely a huge pick up
21:36
Speaker 2: here with Drake Quinn and definitely another example of the
21:39
Speaker 2: Larry Johnson relationship factor playing out. This was his guy.
21:42
Speaker 2: Edric Houston was his guy. A couple of years ago.
21:44
Speaker 2: Edrick Houston went to Buford, he spent Drake Whinn, spent
21:47
Speaker 2: time with Atric Houston. This weekend, Edrick's having himself a
21:50
Speaker 2: very nice time in Columbus right now. I know he's
21:52
Speaker 2: very happy being here and starting to play pretty well too.
21:56
Speaker 2: And so this was all kind of a a good
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Speaker 2: mix this weekend to get Drake quin on campus and
22:02
Speaker 2: get this done. So that'll do it here for this one.
22:06
Speaker 2: We got another one coming right back with another commitment
22:08
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about, and then we will get
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Speaker 2: to our early week kind of recruiting overview, So you
22:13
Speaker 2: guys will have a lot of recruiting coverage this week
22:16
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22:20
Speaker 2: not already. Thank you again, Juck, and yes we'll be
22:23
Speaker 2: back here with another one right in a minute. Thank you,