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BONUS: Is The Ohio State Linebacker Room The Best Competition Of The Season? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Monday, March twenty third.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The ball State game in
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  Speaker 1: this episode, he's looking at Ohio States loaded but very
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  Speaker 1: young talented linebacker Room who's going to emerge from the pack.
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  Speaker 1: There some updates on recruiting, and also a look at
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  Speaker 2: in your feed. So some Buckeye basketball maybe even covered
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  Speaker 2: at Buckeye Huddle as John Diebler and the Buckeye Hoopsters
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  Speaker 2: make the tournament. The eight seed in the tournament, pretty
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  Speaker 2: exciting day coming up on Thursday. First opponent gonna be TCU.
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  Speaker 2: And when I think TCU, I immediately think back to
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two and a potential national championship that Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State did not win had we beaten Georgia. That was
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  Speaker 2: an easy lay up there for a natty. And I
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  Speaker 2: also think going down to Texas and playing them and
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  Speaker 2: Nick Bosa getting injured and ending his Ohio State career,
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  Speaker 2: which really sucked.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I was so excited to see him play that year.
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  Speaker 2: There's our question of the night for the chat, Who's
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  Speaker 2: your favorite Boza brother, Nick or Joey. Nick's got a
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  Speaker 2: little more personality. He's a little more of a suave
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  Speaker 2: dude as a college football player. If you had to
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  Speaker 2: take one over again, who you taking? I think I'm
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  Speaker 2: taking Joey. Joey's power was just on a different level.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't quite as fleet of foot, but that power was
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  Speaker 2: something man combined with combined with defeat. I'm taking Joey
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  Speaker 2: if I can do it all over again and just
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  Speaker 2: bring in one. But I'm pretty excited that the Buckeye
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  Speaker 2: basketball team made the tournament. I am someone that's of
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  Speaker 2: the feeling that the basketball team should make the tournament
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  Speaker 2: fifty percent of the time. You know. I do my
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  Speaker 2: own college football program rankings strictly on data and not
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  Speaker 2: my opinion, and I stumbled across a college football program
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  Speaker 2: ranking from CBS that kind of did it similar to
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  Speaker 2: how I do mine. Where they take you know, twelve
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  Speaker 2: or thirteen. Theirs was thirteen. I used twelve, but different
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  Speaker 2: categories that we could use to say all right, this
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  Speaker 2: is something I think we could all agree on. We
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  Speaker 2: could judge a program by championship final four appearances, conference championships,
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  Speaker 2: tournament bids, and they got thirteen different ones, and they
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  Speaker 2: give a point value to each one, and then they
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  Speaker 2: ranked the all time best basketball programs. Now, I've always
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  Speaker 2: contended that Ohio State, after your blue bloods in basketball,
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  Speaker 2: is in that next tier, but at the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: that next tier. So the blue blood tier, then the
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  Speaker 2: next tier, and they're kind of in the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: that next tier. So I was really excited when I
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  Speaker 2: stumbled across this ranking, and off the top of your head,
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  Speaker 2: if you had to say, do you think Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: is one of the top twenty five ranked programs in
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  Speaker 2: the history of college basketball? If so, where do you
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  Speaker 2: think they fit. Let's go through the list. Everybody knows
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  Speaker 2: the top five. Number six surprised me. I didn't think
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  Speaker 2: they'd be so high. But here's our top ten, number one, Kentucky,
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  Speaker 2: number two, North Carolina, number three, Duke number four, UCLA,
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  Speaker 2: number five, Kansas, those five in Indiana I would call
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  Speaker 2: the six true blue bloods of college basketball. But their
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  Speaker 2: number six on the list is Louisville Number seven is Indiana,
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  Speaker 2: So Louisville gets ahead of Indiana. Good on them. But
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  Speaker 2: after that, we've got number eight Yukon, number nine Villanova.
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  Speaker 2: I was a little surprised by that. I thought we'd
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  Speaker 2: see Arizona there. Number ten. How about the Cincinnati Bearcats,
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  Speaker 2: a top ten basketball program in the history of the sport.
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  Speaker 2: Number eleven, Syracuse, number twelve, the Ohio State Buckeyes, a
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  Speaker 2: top twelve program in the history of college basketball. Number thirteen, Arizona,
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  Speaker 2: Number fourteen, Michigan State. That is the third Big ten
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  Speaker 2: team on our list. Number fifteen Illinois, sixteen, Utah seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: Saint John's eighteen, Michigan nineteen, North Carolina State twenty Georgetown
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  Speaker 2: twenty one, Western Kentucky, what twenty two, Arkansas, twenty three
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame twenty four Temple twenty five Oklahoma State. And
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  Speaker 2: that's our list. So I was right, you got your
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  Speaker 2: blue bloods in Ohio State is in that next category,
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  Speaker 2: just after the blue Bloods and towards the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: that tier, a top twelve program in the history of
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  Speaker 2: college basketball. And how about this the state of Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: the football crazed state of Ohio definitively a football state
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  Speaker 2: owns two of the top twelve programs in the history
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  Speaker 2: of college basketball. That's pretty cool, man, I don't. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know things have changed a ton in college hoops,
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  Speaker 2: and I still think that no matter what, you should
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  Speaker 2: be able to make the tournament fifty percent of the time.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about a sixty eight team field. And it's true.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a sport that's cheap to be competitive. And
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it costs a lot of money to be
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  Speaker 2: competitive in hoops. But you know, you find good coaching,
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  Speaker 2: you do with what you do with what you got. Man,
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  Speaker 2: you're Ohio State. I want to see you in the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of sports that's relatively inexpensive to
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  Speaker 2: pay and get some talent and make the program a
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  Speaker 2: lot better. Basketball isn't one. These guys make big bucks.
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  Speaker 2: So it does take a pretty big commitment to be
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  Speaker 2: competitive year after year. But I'm not asking you to
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  Speaker 2: be competitive year after year. I'm saying fifty percent of
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  Speaker 2: the time. And right before Ted Carter left his position
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  Speaker 2: as the president of Ohio State, he gave an interview
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  Speaker 2: talking about the Buckeye should be in the tournament every year.
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  Speaker 2: And it's doable. Ross Byork has said the standard needs
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  Speaker 2: to be not just making the tournament, but being competitive
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  Speaker 2: winning a few games in the tournament every year. And
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  Speaker 2: as much as I do want to see that, what
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to see is money taken away from football.
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  Speaker 2: So do I want my cake and eat it too?
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  Speaker 2: I do? Just fifty percent of the time, That's all
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking. I haven't followed the team much until the
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  Speaker 2: last month of the season, and someone like me who
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  Speaker 2: doesn't follow the team much unless they're doing really good
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  Speaker 2: until the last month of the season, when it's like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, are we going to make the tournament or not?
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  Speaker 2: Even someone like me like I'm pumped for this Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm in a live stream over at Chuck
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  Speaker 2: On Bucks during the game, just to hang out and
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  Speaker 2: talk to some other Buckeyes during the game. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited about it. But I don't want to see any
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  Speaker 2: money taken away from football. Sorry, just my priority. In
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  Speaker 2: that same interview with Ted Carter, we heard him say
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  Speaker 2: that playing in this stratosphere of nil that Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: operates in in football, only about five programs can compete
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  Speaker 2: at that level, and thankfully we're one, and I think
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  Speaker 2: at one point, very recently, he was correct. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it's that way any more. I think that there
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  Speaker 2: are programs who have joined that upper tier, and there's
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  Speaker 2: a new couple every year. I don't think as many
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  Speaker 2: are spending quite as smart as Ohio State. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: I think Ohio State might be the smartest spender that
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  Speaker 2: there is. Who are the biggest spenders in college football
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  Speaker 2: right now? The programs that are in that upper tier
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  Speaker 2: A few that have joined recently into that upper tier.
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  Speaker 2: Texas Tech obviously, USC is now in that upper tier.
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  Speaker 2: Indiana has made a jump and they're close to the
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  Speaker 2: upper tier. LSU were very frugal under Brian Kelly, and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden with Lane Kiffin, they have invested
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  Speaker 2: huge and they're now in the upper tier. You already
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  Speaker 2: had Oregon, Miami, Texas and Texas A and M up
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  Speaker 2: there with Ohio State. Auburn is a really big spender.
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee is a pretty big spender. Old miss clearly a
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  Speaker 2: very big spender. In Notre Dame somehow flies under the
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  Speaker 2: radar here in these discussions. Notre Dame is a very
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  Speaker 2: big spender. So right there, I just labeled and that
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  Speaker 2: was probably like, what fifteen programs that are spending big,
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  Speaker 2: big bucks. So how do you get the edge when
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  Speaker 2: everybody's spending that much money? Number one, you got a
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  Speaker 2: factor in that coaches pool. Ohio State has consistently stayed
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  Speaker 2: at the top in spending for coaches, and we know
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  Speaker 2: that they have an advantage getting good coaches being who
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  Speaker 2: they are. In addition to that, they pay the best
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  Speaker 2: and they spare no expense for good coaching, which in
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  Speaker 2: this era of college football where the talent discrepancy has
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  Speaker 2: shrunk from team to team, I mean, you can't spend
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  Speaker 2: your money any smarter than investing in on the best coaching.
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  Speaker 2: And the Buckeyes certainly have done that. That's just fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: And when we look at spending on players, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State took a little time to get into spending
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  Speaker 2: on guys straight out of high school. They were a
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  Speaker 2: little slow coming around and they wanted to kind of
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  Speaker 2: dial in what was the best way for them to
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  Speaker 2: do it. They might have held out a little too
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  Speaker 2: long in some people's opinion, to spend on those top
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  Speaker 2: tier dudes out of high school because they have the opinion.
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  Speaker 2: You know, look we're Ohio State. We just want people
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  Speaker 2: who want to be here, and there is a certain
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  Speaker 2: certain good thing to that, right, but it's more with
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  Speaker 2: that second tier guy where you're looking for that attitude.
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  Speaker 2: That first tier guy who is a total stud that
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  Speaker 2: everybody wants. You got to make him want to You're
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  Speaker 2: going to make him show him why he wants to
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  Speaker 2: be at your place. And the guys that they choose
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  Speaker 2: to invest in at the top, they've been very successful
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  Speaker 2: with those guys. So now I think they got a
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  Speaker 2: good system. They got it dialed in, and that system
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  Speaker 2: is we're going to invest in these first rounders when
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  Speaker 2: we love them, whatever it takes to get them. And
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  Speaker 2: then that next tier guy, those are the guys were
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  Speaker 2: really gonna nickel and dime, like, we're really going to
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  Speaker 2: haggle with that next tier. We're not going to overpay
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  Speaker 2: for the mid range, low range, four star guy. We're
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  Speaker 2: not overpaying for that guy. We'll find another one. And
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  Speaker 2: then at the bottom of the class, where they're really
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  Speaker 2: gaining ground is doing these deep dives through scouting, through
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  Speaker 2: investment in the scouting department, and Ohio State is getting
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  Speaker 2: better and better at finding those guys and beating those
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  Speaker 2: deals guys that don't command as much money in the
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  Speaker 2: market but will end up being worth much more, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: even before the class closes in Ohio, State has already
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  Speaker 2: negotiated a deal with them at a much cheaper price.
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  Speaker 2: And finding those undervalued guys now has outsized importance. We
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  Speaker 2: always wanted to find undervalue guys, right, But what did
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  Speaker 2: it mean before nil? Before nil, it just meant it's
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  Speaker 2: an easier recruitment. You could win them easier because you
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  Speaker 2: know nobody else was in on them, or just a
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  Speaker 2: couple of other big programs were in on them. What
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  Speaker 2: does it mean now, Well, now, finding undervalue talent means
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  Speaker 2: you can spread your money further than you otherwise could.
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  Speaker 2: If you can find three guys that you think are
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  Speaker 2: potential starters down the road and pay next to nothing
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  Speaker 2: for them, that's money that you've saved that you can
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  Speaker 2: now go spend on an additional first rounder, for example.
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  Speaker 2: So it's bigger than ever to invest in scouting, which
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  Speaker 2: they have, and to be excellent at it, which I
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  Speaker 2: think they are now. And I don't think anybody else
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  Speaker 2: is caught up to them in this department. Granted, I
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  Speaker 2: know the Buckeyes roster better than anybody else's. But I
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  Speaker 2: stay pretty up on it, and I'm telling you they're
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  Speaker 2: just smoking people in this given that they pay less
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  Speaker 2: than market value for so many guys. And just for
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  Speaker 2: instance this year in recruiting Jordan Thomas, Jordan Thomas is look. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we knew that the Buckeyes had him tops on their
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  Speaker 2: board at corner and he was the number fourteen rank
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  Speaker 2: corner in the country. Early on, I thought, all right,
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  Speaker 2: we'll probably see him. You get a little higher ranked.
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  Speaker 2: He finishes outside the top one hundred. Now that dude
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  Speaker 2: looking at him the other day, the way he moves,
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  Speaker 2: he's jacked. Now he's just twitched up and a straight
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  Speaker 2: a student kid never got to be in high school.
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  Speaker 2: Like just a perfect Buckeye. That's a five star talent
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  Speaker 2: all the way. Ohio State did not pay five star
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  Speaker 2: money for him. Legend Bay outside the top one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: We've heard Ryan Day talk about him. I think Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Day knows what a five star talent looks like. He
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  Speaker 2: sure talks about him like a five star talent. They
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  Speaker 2: did not pay five star money for him. Drake Quinn
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  Speaker 2: outside the top three hundred. Laughable Carry Wilder when he
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  Speaker 2: committed when Ohio State negotiated the deal to get him
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  Speaker 2: in outside the top two seventy. Brock Boyd top seven hundred,
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  Speaker 2: number one hundred and seven wide receiver in the country.
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  Speaker 2: Braxton Rembert outside the top one thousand. He finishes a
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  Speaker 2: top ten linebacker, but they brought him in outside the
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  Speaker 2: top one thousand. That's the deal that they made with
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  Speaker 2: Himkamari bing outside the top one thousand. They're just absolutely
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  Speaker 2: smashing everybody with this, which gives them money to now
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  Speaker 2: go get an extra first rounder or two at the
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  Speaker 2: top of the class, and then in the portal getting
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  Speaker 2: value in the portal they stretch. We're able to stretch
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  Speaker 2: to what seventeen portal guys. Connor Hawkins, that's the number
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  Speaker 2: fifteenth ranked kicker. We've gone over his stats. That dude,
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  Speaker 2: you got a multiple years and he's a total stud.
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  Speaker 2: The wide receivers that have come in, Ryan Day said,
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  Speaker 2: looking like pros. Devin McEwen was the fifty seventh ranked
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver, Kyle Parker ninety five, and these guys are
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  Speaker 2: going to be good enough to be two of the
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  Speaker 2: top four wide receivers in the Ohio State loaded wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver room that Ryan Day says is one of the
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  Speaker 2: deepest we've had. They're two of the top four. Jacoby
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  Speaker 2: Jackson was the twenty first ranked running back in the
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  Speaker 2: transfer portal. I think he will significantly outperform that. They
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  Speaker 2: ranked James People's ahead of him. They got Mkay Hughes
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  Speaker 2: ahead of him. Mkay Hughes from Tulane was the number
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  Speaker 2: one portal back in the portal last year, went to
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  Speaker 2: Oregon and could not see the field, transferred before the
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  Speaker 2: season was over, shut it down and left school. And
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  Speaker 2: that guy was ranked ahead of our dude. We got
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  Speaker 2: a grown man, two hundred and seventy pounder. The dude,
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  Speaker 2: if you look quick out of the corn of your eye,
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  Speaker 2: looks like Quinn Shawn out there. So spending money is
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  Speaker 2: one thing. Spending money smart is another thing. And the
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  Speaker 2: Buckeyes have an absolutely loaded roster from spending smart, and
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  Speaker 2: it is loaded with fifty one new faces. Looking at
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  Speaker 2: those guys the other day, I don't see a talent
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  Speaker 2: drop off at all. It looks absolutely as freaky as
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  Speaker 2: it did last year. There are dudes everywhere. There's not
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  Speaker 2: a single position where you don't have multiple dudes in
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  Speaker 2: the starting lineup and multiple younger dudes that are coming
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  Speaker 2: up the pipe and man as ITTs sighting stuff. Dude like,
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  Speaker 2: the team is loaded again and the number one odds
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  Speaker 2: on favorite to win the national championship again. This is
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  Speaker 2: the third year in a row Ohio State in the
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  Speaker 2: offseason will at some point have a piece of that
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  Speaker 2: number one odds on favorite to win the national championship.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, heading into the year, it was
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  Speaker 2: Georgia for the majority of the way. Ohio State did
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  Speaker 2: tie them up at one point in the odds and
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  Speaker 2: last year it was the Buck guys pretty much all
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  Speaker 2: the way. Now as we enter into twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: the Buck Guys are the odds on favorite by about
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty and I think it'll stay that way.
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  Speaker 2: They should probably ride that the whole offseason, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously when we look back fifteen years, there was a
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  Speaker 2: run where it was pretty much only SEC teams that
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  Speaker 2: had that distinction that we're given that deference as we
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  Speaker 2: don't know who it's going to be. But this team
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: is probably the most talented. They got a returning quarterback
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: and a coach who's done it before. Now it's us
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: and it feels great. This morning, I was talking about
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: wide receivers. I want to talk about linebackers this evening,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: but hitting on those wide receivers. Ryan Day did say,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: this room is as deep as we've had, and I
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: think it's pretty damn loaded. One of the big differences
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: when we look at last year's room, looking at the
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: freshman that you brought in last year compared to this
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: year's crew. You had Quincy Porter, you had Philip Bell,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Des Jones, and B. P. Miller, and that's a good crew.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I like that crew. By the way, have a look
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: at this picture I went and found today. So this
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: is Philip Bell number one over here with his high
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: school quarterback Luke Fahey, which I think a lot of
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: people that might have slipped by that. Luke Fahey was
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Philip Bell's high school quarterback. Freshman quarterback for the Buckeyes,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Luke Fahey the Diablo at Mission Viejo. So pretty cool
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: connection there. But when we look at last year's freshman
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: to this year's freshman with Chris Henry Jr. Jack Quadon Guildford,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: brock Boyd, and Jaden Ricketts, it's not really even close.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Chris Henry Junior, Dack Quaydon Guildford, and brock Boyd. To me,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: all three of them, it kind of looks like, all right,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: if you were in a pickle and you need to
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: just start all three of these guys, you could do
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: it and by the end of the year, maybe by
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: the middle of the season, it would certainly not look
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: like you were starting three freshmen. Chris is huge. We
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: know he's huge, but his speed at that size in
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: and out of breaks is silly impressive. And the guy
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: whose size I was really impressed by was Guilford. Guilford,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: who I think I saw a year ago. He is
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: filled out now. I mean his arms are pretty jacked.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: He's clearly a little over six', two and he looked
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: fantastic moving around out. There but Brock, boyd Who i've
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: been the president of his fan club for about a.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: YEAR i got My South Lake carrol's shirt over. There
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: brock looks like he's been doing it all his life
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: because he has no. Surprise dad's a wide receiver. Coach
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: his older brother is a wide receiver At Utah, state
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: was At Texas. Tech And brock is so polished. Man
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: he is so. Polished his feet are so quick in
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: and out of. Breaks that dude is ready to. Play
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Philip bell looks a lot better than he did last.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Year Phil. Bell last, YEAR i thought it was pretty.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Good but this, year, man that dude looks like a
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: starter out. There so all over this, roster it's looking
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: like this from room to room to. Room but wide
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: receiver really stands out the. Depth and when we look
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: at the top of the, class the top of the
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: room With Jeremiah smith AT, x you Had David adolph behind,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: him and Then Chris Henry junior Behind. Adolph over AT
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: z you Had devin McEwan and Then Kyle parker behind,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Him Dreck Quayden guildford Behind. Parker so the freshman just
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: getting slotted in the back right. Now in the slot
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: you Had Brandon, inness Then Philip, bell Then Dez, Jones Brock,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Boyd Jaden. Ricketts you're loaded in the, slot of. COURSE
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: i mean it's harder to find bigger bodies to play.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Outside the only thing that surprised me Was Kyle parker
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: out AT. Z Kyle parker's five foot ten and he's rocked,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: up look looks like a running. Back, Really he's played
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: seventy five percent of the snaps in his career in the,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: slot and having him ahead Of Dr Quayden guilford AT,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Z i don't. Know it doesn't seem like it makes
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: a ton of sense to. ME i think it makes
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of sense to have him in the slot
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: BECAUSE i think he gives you a little more juice
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and kind of gives you a little bit of a
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: one two punch With Brandon. Innis and if you want to, say,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: like all, right who's your top, SIX i think at
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Ex jeremiah And Chris henry junior AT, Z devin McEwen.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Jr Quaidon guildford and in the Slot Brandon, Ennis Kyle
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: parker is a perfect six that you can just rotate in.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: WAVES i think that makes perfect sense to, me AND
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: i ultimately think that that is what we're going to.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: See but if they do end up Keeping Kyle parker
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: out there AT, z it's fine by me because it's
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: one spot closer to the starting. Lineup Brock boyd gets
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: to WHO i really want to, see but senior fourth
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: year Guy devin. McEwen devin McEwen is kind of everything
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: you want in a transfer right three years of production AT,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: utsa and every year that production got more and more and.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: More last year he was their featured player by a.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Mile they're pretty. Good they won like seven eight, games
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: and this guy there was you, know the one worry
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you had with a guy like that is can he
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: make the jump From CONFERENCE usa to The big? Ten
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: and he absolutely belongs out there At Ohio, state that's for.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Sure six,' one, two hundred got some good muscle mass.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: On him and this is a guy they utilized throwing
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: it to him behind the line, of scrimmage taking, a
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: screen going. The distance they also used him as a.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Possession receiver but having HIM at z he's got to
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: be able to have ball skills go up and get
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: fifty to, fifty balls and he's got all that on his.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Film too slick, route runner top end speeds there, for
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: sure verified track speed. At that and this dude on
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: the opposite Side, OF jeremiah i think we're, looking really.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: REALLY good i think HE compliments jj in a. Great
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: WAY and i kind of get the Feeling that, devin McEwan,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: you know midway towards the end of, the year being
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: the guy Across From jeremiah Smith At. OHIO state i
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: think he's going to be productive enough that people around
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: the country are going to take notice. Of him and
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: that seems like a really big score. So far but
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: of the wide receivers Not Named, jeremiah smith it Was
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: certainly devin McEwan who really popped the most to me
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: primetime player AND Compliments. Jj well so pretty excited about
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the wide. Receiver room but let's get. To linebackers and
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: when we talk about, these Linebackers Obviously james lorendis has
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: totally reshaped the look of. This room. Obviously fantastic right
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: in twenty, twenty five the number two linebacker in, The
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Country riley pettijohn twenty, twenty six the number one linebacker
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: in The Country. Sincere johnson that, right there just saying
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: that makes me. Feel good and You, lose sonny You.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Lose arvel and when we look at this it's a.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Young group there's kind of a log jam at, the
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: top but, talents everywhere not a ton. OF experience i
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: actually see some parallels to the twenty twenty four. Off,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: season remember coming in the twenty twenty four, off season
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: You Had, cody simon who was going to BE your
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: mic and that was kind. Of uncontested there was a
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: lot of people who were irritated. By that they did
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: not Think that cody should be basically like grandfathered in to.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: That spot so there was some irritation about that because
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: a lot of people wanted TO. See cj Hicks and
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: sonny styles together as you're starting, two linebackers and obviously
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: that was not going. TO. Happen, cj hicks while he
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: is an, athletic guy he was not going to be
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: able to. Play linebacker that became pretty apparent. Pretty early,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: could blitz could blitz really well, from linebacker but just
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: wasn't clicking with. The position and, after them you had some,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: gay powers you Had Some, marvel reese and it kind
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: of became clear in the a little bit in, the
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: spring but more towards the Fall That rvel reese was
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: really kind of coming out of nowhere and was going
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: to be the number. Three linebacker and as you roll
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: into twenty, twenty six You Got peyton pierce kind of
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Like That cody simon role and Similar. To cody there's
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of people who don't. LIKE that i see
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of negative Stuff About. Peyton piers and then
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: you got presumably your Will At christian allegro Transfer, from
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: wisconsin and just kind Of like sonny. AND. C, j
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: hicks You Got riley pettijohn maybe battling with alegro for that.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Starting spot and then you got the guy, BEHIND Him,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: tj alford who just might be. The dude right he
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: might end up being. The dude we don't, know yet
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: but when we look at, this room this is one
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: of the ROOMS that i was perfectly happy and perfectly
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Confident With riley pettijohn And tj alford taking that. Step
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: UP and i didn't think you needed. A transfer you
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: had a freshman and sincere who. You, know look this
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: dude could play. RIGHT now i mean obviously, no experience
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: but physically he can play. Right now and those two
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: guys certainly physically could play. Right now and to me it, Was,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: LIKE hey i feel comfortable with a Coach like lauren
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: IIIs letting that. Crew roll but you bring In a
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: legro who is. A bonus i suppose he's. PRETTY good
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: i think he'll be what he's supposed. To be He's No.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Peyton pierce the numbers will tell you that good at rushing.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: The passer but when we, look at, you know, the
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: numbers the, rush defense the. Pass defense He's. No peyton
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: that's what, it. IS man i mean people Rag. On
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: peyton here's. My, thing like He's. No peyton he's Obviously No.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Riley pettijohn HE'S.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: No.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: TJ alford i think he'll be a. Solid player but
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: are you gonna be Surprised If riley Pettijohn relegates legro to?
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: The bench i'm not not. At all but you got
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: this linebacker logjam of, talented linebackers and one of THE
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: things i hate about a log jam is oftentimes it defers,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: to EXPERIENCE and i can't. STAND that i think we're
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: either wired one of. Two WAYS and i have this
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Conversation with tony, a lot so Me and tony will,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: be Talking and tony is someone WHO usually i just
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: think his natural tendency, is experience and that's where he.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: DEFERS to i tend to go. Towards talent and when
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: you Talk, about aleegro you Talk About petty john a
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: ton of experience With a legro of getting it done
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: at a fairly, high level and then You got riley
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: with very. Little experience but the ceiling is first, round
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: pick and, TO me i always go, that way especially
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: when it's a really, smart Kid which. Riley is so that,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: right there, that battle, TO me i think is one
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: that we see go on into the season and gonna
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: be one of the more. Interesting ones but then WHERE
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: does tj? Fit in WHERE does tj? Fit in? RIGHT
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: now tj is the guy who's making a ton of waves.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: In spring, right now everybody's talking About how, grady Looks
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: how grady looks out there, moving around how great he,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: LOOKS physically a bit of a transformation. From him he
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: came in looking a little as, a freshman you know
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: it didn't have a ton of upper body muscle mass
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: was a, little bit his body fat was a. Little
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: high now he's totally. Freaked out and he always had.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: The wheels he could. Always play not quite as twitched Up,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: As riley, but man does he look good. Out there he.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Looks fantastic he Can play Mike. Or will and when
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: we look at this this, linebacker ROOM like i don't
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: think there's gonna be an enormous drop off in play from,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: the linebackers like one, For, one no There's, no sonny THERE'S.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: No rvl does a. Linebacker unit does it need to
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: be as good as it was last year for this
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: team to win a? National? Championship, Well no does the
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: defense need to be as good as it was last
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: year for this team to win a? National, CHAMPIONSHIP no
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: i think the offense is going to. BE better i
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: think most of us would probably agree, with, That right
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the offense is going to. Be, better yeah probably got
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: some room to spare to regress a little bit. On
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: defense as long as you keep that top ten defense in,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: the country you're good. To go you're going to be in,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: every game and you certainly got playmakers at all. Three
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Levels peyton pierce potentially on the verge of a. Breakout
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: season peyton missed three tackles. Last year we Know that
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: sonny missed. Just one it Was. Against miami going into,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: the game he had zero. Missed tackles peyton. Missed Three,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: and peyton when we look, at him, you know. Just pff,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: numbers wise he's in the eighties and rush defense in
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: the eighties and pass. Defense, eighties overall top thirty in
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: the country as a second. Year player. That's, fantastic obviously
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: we Know What james loriniis has to say About him
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: to twinkle in his eye when he talks. About him,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: and honestly when we hear THAT and i hear somebody,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Doubt him i'm, JUST like, I mean i know that
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: we all, know, football right we all, know football we
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: all know what. We see but who the hello read
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: To doubt james about a linebacker of? All things when
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: he talks, About him he's just like. Blown AWAY and
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: i think we're all gonna be blown Away by peyton based.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: On that not, just THAT but i did have a
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: player tell Me on Thursday That peyton pierce is one
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: hundred percent our. Best linebacker break out, your coming mark,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: my words. End quote so you GOT, the pff you,
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: got that You, got james which trump's. At ALL and
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: i think we got a breakout season Coming For. PEYTON
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: pierce i grow. UP myself i think he's gonna make
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: plays that are gonna get us. Really excited hard, nosed,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: player throwback big, time effort, big hits really good blitzing
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: over an eighty percent blitzing AS a, pff scorer and
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: he made a lot of. Big plays he can blow up,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: a tackle, powerful kid always in the right place at the.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: RIGHT time i think he'll frustrate us a few times a,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: game too with some subpar change of direction with some
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: pass pro similar to how an inexperienced player might frustrate
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: you a couple times a game being in the wrong
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: place at the right time or the wrong place at
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: the wrong time because he doesn't know where he's supposed.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: To be so pluses are minuses on either side of.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: The Coin garrett stover is an interesting, One, Here guys
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Where does garrett fit into this? Log jam garrett's NOT
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: someone i think we talked about it all during. The
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: offseason and then the guy goes and Wins The, iron
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: buckeye one of just four on the team and Along With,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Jay jay jalen McLain And. Brandon innis we know how
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: much they, value that and we know when you win
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: that how much they defer. To you, You know and
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: let's say a battles neck, and neck they're going with
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: the guy that, wins that like that's just how, they
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: ROLL which. I respect we know he's also one of
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: the fastest guys on, the team like top three or
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: four fastest guys on the team straight. LINE speed i
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: don't know about change. Of direction we've just not seen.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Him much he's a special. Teams hammer he was Backing
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: up Peyton at mike the. Other day is there the
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: potential that he's actually in this in this log jam
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: to potentially be a guy that gets snaps this year
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: at linebacker or could you use him? Somewhere else could
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: you potentially? Use Him and i've talked about. This recently
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: if you're playing this throwback offense where you're bringing in
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: and you're just kind of getting a little more old
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: school with the, tight end but you're using a guy
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: last Year Like nate roberts as. A Fullback nate roberts
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: not built like a fullback. At, all Boy Wouldn't garrett
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: stover be the perfect perfect guy for that role if
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: you're gonna go that, direction AGAIN because, i think, if
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: not you should just recruit one of. Those Bodies But,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: garrett stover as fast as he is and now he's,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: yoked up he's a lot bigger than, he was seems
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: like he might be pretty good for. That role but
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: you got to use. Him somewhere you got to take
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: advantage of that speed and. That physicality obviously a smart,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: player too so interesting follow following what they're gonna do
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: with HIM but tj making the big impression in. This
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: spring TJ's making the big impression. With everybody top ten
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: linebacker in, His Class braxton rembert making a big impression.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: With me unbelievable length and speed on this kid not
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: gonna be, this year but the fastest one getting around
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: the edge and getting the quarterback with that length and
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: he's at. Two, fifteen now when that dude is two
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty, five pounds he'll be the best blitzer on,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: the team a. Supreme ATHLETE so i was really excited
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: to see. That length, my gosh, you know you look
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: throughout a couple of guys, Stand Out Chris. Henry Jr braxton,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: remberg like would you look at? That kid so that's
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: obviously impressive when you're in the same Sentence With Chris.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Henry jr remembert needs to gain another fifteen, twenty pounds
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: but when, he does that's. A dude I Thought eli
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: lee in year number two looked much smoother out there.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Moving Around and eli is really big now he's a
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: legit six three and a half six' four AND he,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: is i mean they've beefed him up and he serves
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: a specific role right if they're going to come try
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: to Get Physical with ohio state next year in, his
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: third year he's gonna be a dude that's gonna plug
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: holes and we're gonna be happy that we got a.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Guy Like that so i'm happy that he's. On the
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: team and who? Else You. GOT Cj sona cj sona
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: did not get to see much, out OF him so
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: i can't really say anything about him other, THAN you
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: know i like a lot of the. Tools he brings
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Watching Him and sincere johnson in some, drills Last year
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: cj sona was actually quicker in Small spaces, than sincere
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: was which is saying A lot because sincere. Is very
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: QUICK oh did I talk? About Sincere, Yet, sincere man
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: look this guy's just ready to, go right now ready to.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Go right now Watching him and riley just kind of
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: lining up together next, to each other and there's some
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: pictures FOOT around effect i got a picture of the.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: TWO of them i might even have one, loaded up here,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: maybe maybe not but just looking at those two in,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: their stances together standing right next, to, each, other like oh.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Here it is. There They are there's riley, on The
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: left since here, on the right and those Are. Just.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Hell razors man. It gets over it's over when you get,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: those two together number one and number two. In The
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Country man james lorinightis has turned this ROOM. Into dynamic lbu,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: here we come but a couple of recruiting UPDATES as
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: we've i think got three guys, to discuss today and
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: we'll start with high School Teammates of ohio state freshmen
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: cornerback sensation playing. Nickel So far, jay timmins there he,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: is right there, Number Twenty five jay Timmins Out of Pine,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: hills in pittsburgh and he's got A Teammate named khalil
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Taylor who the buckeyes were not on his. Official visit
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: list so one of my favorite wide receivers. In the
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: class he's number fourteen wide receiver. In the class and
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: we Weren't Sure if cortez hankton was going to get.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: In on him like a lot, of these guys when
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: you get, a new coach you know you don't know
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: which one of those guys that heartline Was recruiting that
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: hankton is going to. Get in on and he had
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: official visits scheduled with a pretty Funky, Bunch, Here, Indiana,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: nebraska Colorado syracuse and georgia and the fact that the
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: number four team wide receiver in the country has visits
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: scheduled with those schools. Is very interesting you Might see
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: one Colorado or one syracuse lumped in with a list,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: of you know the some, other big dogs But to
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Have colorado And syracuse And nebraska in indiana for a
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: guy of that caliber kind of tells me that this
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: is a guy who wants to go his own way
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: because he's got all the top dogs after him and
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: instead he's choosing, to kind, of you know go a,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: little MORE unique, WHICH i respect i get what he's trying.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: To do here but He Came to ohio state to
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: visit just the other day and talking, to his dad
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: he said they were, having some thoughts, loved the development
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: and his dad was telling him that if you want
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: to be a wide receiver, in the league there's no other.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Place to go this is, what it takes this is
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: where you. Want to be so dad making him think.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: On this one and a positive unofficial visit is now
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: going to lead to an official Visit as the buck
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: guy is going to Get One. From khalil taylor and
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: when we look at the wide. Receiver big board let
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: me pull. It up here so, obviously monshuin sales your
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: number one target in the country at six foot Five
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: out of indiana But, originally from alabama and Those Two
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: schools alabama indiana might end up being. His final two
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: the buck, GUYS in there i just don't feel like
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: it's going too. Good right now Then you, got eric
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: McFarland the, five foot seven five foot eight burner who
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: at one point was the number one wide receiver. In
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: the class never. Grew at all he was in there
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: as a youngster reclassified on, top of it so maybe
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: he does end up growing. A little bit Bucks Already,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Got jamir brown So You, got jamiir brown one of
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: the fastest playmakers. In the country is it wise to
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: pair him then with the, five foot eight, five foot
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: nine hopefully slot receiver and pay good, money for him
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: or might you want to go a different direction And
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: pair with jamir maybe. Another bigger body bucks will. Have
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: To Decide, that keishawn bowman that's. Going all bad that
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: was going good, for a while that's taking a trend in.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: The Opposite direction dakota garant Stud, out of michigan that
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: was already going to Be. Tough with heartline he had
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: a two Year relationship with heartline and a ton of
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: visits and, then HART leaves and i don't get the
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: impression that things have picked up enough a Little, bit
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: with bowman but not enough that that we're going to
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: be able to. Win That one quintin Burrell, out of
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: chicago the number fifteen wide receiver, in the, country tall
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Kid Brother. Of matthew burrell, you might Remember A former
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: ohiose state offensive lineman who transferred out much older than.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: His little brother, that's a really really good WIDE receiver
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: and i. Really Like Him but miguel whitley is an interesting.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: One to watch that's a Kid out Of Louisiana that
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: cortez Hankton. Offered in cortes you, got to, figure you
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: know Potentially gonna raid louisiana and try and take advantage
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: of the connections he. Got down there bring a few
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: of those Kids up and, whitley pretty dynamic pretty. Exciting
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: wide receiver not a very, big BODY though and i
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: certainly would like a big body. To Pair With jamiir
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: blake wong, one To watch and blake is one of
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: THESE guys that i did not think that we would
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: see the Relationship Continue. With Ohio State after cortez. HANKTON
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: took over I. Talked to blake, he said absolutely He
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: talks to cortes. All The time so blake Wog out
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: of california. Due to puts he's, a stat stuffer but not.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: A measurables stud doesn't put up the super, fast testing.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Times et cetera but A guy that i think would
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: be a really really good. Asset to have, so right
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: now not a lot of motion with anybody that's imminent,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: at Wide Receiver but khalil taylor scheduling a visit At
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Tight end sean curry might be. Getting Imminent there sean
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: curry is a tight end who is, six foot seven
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: two thirty five three star and he's a guy who
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Was committed to virginia to play. Lacrosse and football top
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: twenty five recruit in the, country in lacrosse Comes And
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: visits ohio. State last week two days, after that visit
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: He decommits FROM virginia and i talked to. Him about,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: lacrosse he said if he goes to One Of the,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: big ten schools he's not going. To Play Lacrosse the.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: Big ten schools he's Talking, About Hometown, rutgers Ohio State.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: And penn state he's Going, TO visit TEXAS a and.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: M this week i don't fear that AT all because
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: i think that he wants to stay. In the region
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: but now that He's decommitted from virginia shortly after that
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: visit and the connection that he Talked About with keenan
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: bailey going, out to dinner this, one looks. Really really
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: swell it, looks really swell and that, makes me very
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Very happy because i've talked about my tight end philosophy a.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: LOT on here i think THERE are positions i Want
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: To co ohio state in first, round money in and
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: THERE'S some that i just don't think it's necessary tight
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: end out of any position. On the field you have
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: to project so, far in advance so many body changes
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: can happen from now to the time that guy gets.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: On the field and the top rated guys, are these
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: skinny great receiving tight ends that are six, five Two Ten.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: LIKE brock williams i gotta go put forty pounds. ON
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: this kid i don't know how he's Gonna move with
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: I'm Looking at sean curry at, six foot seven. Two
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: THIRTY five can i tell you. How he moves let's
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: take a look. How he moves that dude. Six foot
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: seven look at him flying, down the Field looking at. Homie,
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: chasing him now this dude's. A STUD man now i
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: didn't you get into some blocking a. Little later on
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: but he is, an eager Blocker Just like nick lauter.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Was last year so give me these three stars. We
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: can develop and the thing is. About the position it's
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: not like offensive line where there's swim pickens. In the
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: portal there's always tight ends. In the portal we've proven
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: that the last Two Years, With Hunter, welson Mason Williams
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: with max claire and a couple of years Back. Bringing
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: in willcasmerck so tons of options. At tight end give me.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: The big stud this is the guy that we love.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: ON the book i huddle board for a long time
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: now and things Going Great, with seann kerr so very happy.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: To see that and in, Addition To, that carlos may
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: a defensive tackle Prospect that the bucks. Were in on
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: he Came To the penn state, game last Year Really.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Loved ohio state this is a Kid, out of alabama
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: another One, out of Alabama where the buckeyes in consecutive
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Classes Brought in zion Grady And then emmanuel ruffin Also
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Brought in turbo Rogers In the zion grady class. Twenty
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: twenty five but two defensive tackles in a row. Or
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: defensive linemen this would be a third defensive lineman in
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: a row from The. State of alabama how weird would
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: that be after not ever having a guy from The.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: State of alabama you go back to back to back top,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: three hundred kid you can see the arrivals very. High
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: on him they got him as a, top one hundred top,
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: ten DEFENSIVE tackle and i leaned closer towards their. RANKING
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: with him i think. He's a dude he's got a.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Pretty elite burst But the reason i'm bringing him up
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: up not, just be well he's got number one an
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: unofficial he's coming this spring to visit and he already
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: has an official. Scheduled as well now he's Big in
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: with auburn And. Really likes auburn there's, his hometown team but.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Recent did this take a look at. Our guy here
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: he is in lane number two in the tank top,
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: white tank top, six foot four three hundred. And five pounds, look,
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: at him go that is something for a guy. That
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: size man but obviously the film. Matches it too but
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: as we look at the, defensive tackle Board You got
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: marcus poteau the number two defensive tackle in the country
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: and he. Was just in things going really Swell between the.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Buckeyes And him kazi curry also has a spring visit
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: and an. Official visit scheduled that's the number three defensive tackle.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: In the, country David fellerunshew the buckeyes. Have just offered he's,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: the Number Five and john Archer Out. Of north carolina
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: things going really well with. Him so far full. Of
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: runch you we got to get. A visit scheduled but
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: that top four at the top of, THE board there
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: i think we're Gonna see the buckeyes invest heavily in one.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Of those dudes and then if you pair him with
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: A Guy Like, carlos carlos may you've got two really
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: top tier guys, in the middle one of them. A
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Super stud obviously i'd Love To, have ray perez the
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Kid out of columbus in, there As, well but ray,
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: right now six we want a couple of these three
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: hundred pounders walking in. At Three, hundred nate kamba also
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: a guy that. Did the buck guys really like. Plays
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: both ways another One Out, of north carolina which is
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: becoming a real honey Hole, for the buckeyes getting these
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: Dudes Out of north carolina over and. Over And over,
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: as robert says not to mention too D lineman from
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: alabama the team And, we go alabama The, team in. Alabama,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: The State Absolutely rocky mountain buckeye says something or nothing
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: that there was no Offensive. Lineman iron buckeyes after how,
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: LAST season ended, i was surprised to. SAY the least.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: I was disappointed i, GOTTA tell you. I was disappointed i. Was.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: DEFINITELY disappointed man i wanted to see at least one big.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Man in. There you, know tony says this is the
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: year of, the tight end the year of. The tight, end.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: RYAN says juck a lot of questions have been somewhat
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: answered last week as far as. Guys looking good his
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: defensive tackle depth still the. Biggest unanswered One we need
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: walker to, be a dude even if. He doesn't, start
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: to me it's my biggest. Concern right there defensive tackle.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: My BIGGEST concern but i Feel Better. With james smith
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Feel Better. There, JOHN walker yeah i felt better when
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: we first GOT him than. I do now i put. It,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: THAT way HOWEVER i think i Feel Better. About WILL
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: smith but i was Probably Higher on will smith last
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: year than most people, During THE season so. I don't
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: know i feel pretty. GOOD about him i just don't
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: know if he can handle the riggers of. A Whole
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Game if john smith, can just be he's just. Gotta
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: be okay if he's anything, better than okay we're. Looking really,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Good but no, I'm, WITH you ryan i. Think it
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: is it is the biggest. Area Of. Concern revia tube
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for, The. Super chat buddy think
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: we're primed To get a. NATTIE this year i think
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: The lack, of heartline's newness combined with seasoned experience, at
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: all levels including players, and coaching staff gets us. OVER
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: the hump i like the way you think there's no
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: doubt we are in the running. As the number look
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: at all. These super, chats thanks guys as the odds
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: on favorite to Win. The, national championship look we'll. Be
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: right there that win total of nine and a half.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Take the over it's, really hard schedule but TAKE the
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: over mcu drew with the ten Dollars Super Chat. Thanks
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: buddy juck we only lost one eligible coach that can recruit, On,
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: the road heartline but hired a wide receiver. And Offensive
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: coordinator is smith designated not? To road, Recruit That's correct
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: arthur smith. Is not designated you got your ten designated
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: coaches that can recruit. On The road cortes hankton, gets
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: That Position and arthur smith will be the guy who
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: is not allowed to go out and recruit. On THE
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: road which i was talking about, this LAST show and
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: i didn't see IT till after i got, off the
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: show but SOMEBODY thought that i meant he's not allowed
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: to travel with the team. TO like games i meant.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Travel to recruit apologize for not being, specific. On, that
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: guys yeah this is. A. Great one hummus pierce was
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: just a true, sophomore last year just. A True sophomore
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: and i've seen some, people talk, about you know, he gets,
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: out you know he gets out of position some and
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: he's not quite as athletic and, YOU know whatever. I get,
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: it but again just as sophomore who did not, play
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: a ton played two, hundred fifty snaps. Not a ton
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: ryan was not on the purest bandwagon at. All last
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: year he catches, blockers too much which allows huge gaping.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Holes too OFTEN and again i think a lot of that.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Is his age but we're gonna see my man completely forgot.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: About Gay Powers is brock Boyd The? Next devin smith i'll, tell,
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: YOU what man I think. That i don't, devin Was
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: awesome but brock's. GOT some similarities i think he can
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: do more in the in the shorter game As Well.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Than DEVIN manfred can I join YOUR nc? Double? A
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: bracket absolutely email me At juck On. Bucks at gmail i'll.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: Play anybody's, Bracket Ethan says notre dame SPENDS BIG now.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: Lsu Doublebkse, Salary Absolutely yeah notre, dame spending. Real real
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: big but, for some reason nobody ever. TALKS about that
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: i don't know. Why that is They seem to they
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: seem to get off without, getting the uh the scorn
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: that the rest of us get for. Investing in football? How? Dare? Us?
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: ALL right friends i do appreciate you all so much
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: for joining me Today on A monday at. Buckehuddle prime
• 52:35
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• 52:44
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• 52:48
  Speaker 2: during the game during, The basketball game i'll probably be
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: live Streaming over At chuck on bucks just to have
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: the chat open and talk during the basketball game if
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: you want to come and join me if you were during,
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: the HOOPS game so i will talk to. You GUYS then,
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: and i, oh hang on we got another super chat that.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: Just snuck in let ME make sure i get that
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: before we're. OUT of here, mcu drew says should We
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: also designate patricia to not have to? Travel to recruit
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: this could be a selling point to future coordinators and
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: allow us to hire more. Better position coaches so essentially
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: we can use it as that as that selling point
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: to anyone. We want to patricia just wanted, to do, it,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: so yes absolutely it's something that we can now use,
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: to you know if we don't have a coordinator who
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: is a guy who doesn't really, like to recruit that's
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: not a guy you want, to recruit anyway right if
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: he's not Into it. Like patricia was and you can change.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: This Every Year and ryan day was talking about potentially
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: they're discussing maybe even being able to change it multiple times,
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: throughout the year so different periods. Of The year essentially
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: arthur couldn't maybe do it, during the season but during
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: these months, he's. Allowed to etc and they switch it
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: to somebody else has. TO stay home i think ultimately
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: we'll see it be pretty lax. Here real, soon but.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah you're, right but anyway, Appreciate you brother appreciate, all
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: You guys and i'll talk. To you soon have. A
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: great night