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Ohio State Recruiting: Buckeyes Land Commit From Top Corner Jordan Thomas · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning for Tuesday, May thirteenth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes on Monday, the commitment of four star cornerback Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Thomas out of Bergen Catholic High School in New Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: a big addition for BIA. Tim Walton just keeps things
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  Speaker 1: rolling on the recruiting trail. In this episode, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to get to hear from Mark Gifler and Kevin Noon.
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  Speaker 1: This is an episode of the Skull Session recruiting podcast,
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  Speaker 1: but they did a great job breaking down the commitment,
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  Speaker 1: what it means, why it is a really big deal
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  Speaker 1: for the Buckeyes. Going to get to hear that those
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  Speaker 1: two guys are still on the road on the Southern
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  Speaker 1: Swing as well. They are entering their third week down South.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of great content coming for you. You can find
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  Speaker 2: Hello, everyone, Welcome to the Skull Session Recruiting Podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Mark Givler. This is a special Mid Southern Swing Commitment editioned.
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  Speaker 2: It's our second one of these. So we we leave
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  Speaker 2: town and they just they start getting commitments. I guess,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but the Buckeyes have landed four star
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  Speaker 2: cornerback Jordan Thomas, a sixty five pound corner out of
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  Speaker 2: powerhouse Bergen Catholic in New Jersey, former high school teammate
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  Speaker 2: of Ohio State freshman wide receiver Quincy Porter. So this
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  Speaker 2: certainly takes a little bit of the sting off the
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  Speaker 2: Albert Hill to USC decision. Hive. State's kind of been,
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, in the driver's seat here for a
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  Speaker 2: while and validated here with the commitment. You know, Kevin
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  Speaker 2: just thoughts on this and how this maybe helps him
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  Speaker 2: turn the page a little bit with the cornerback recruiting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. I mean, honestly, Jordan Thomas has still been
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  Speaker 3: mentioned when it looked like Ohio State was going to
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  Speaker 3: get Elbert Hill, so you know, this isn't this isn't
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  Speaker 3: a case of this is his replacement. Jordan Thomas always
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  Speaker 3: was somebody that Ohio State coveted. You know, I think
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  Speaker 3: that there was a hot minute out there that people
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  Speaker 3: thought that this was going to be a Notre Dame
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  Speaker 3: type of situation. But Ohio State never went away. Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State continued to show them the love. Ohio State continued
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  Speaker 3: to push and I've I've felt for the last month
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  Speaker 3: at Ohio State's at least month, maybe six weeks, has
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  Speaker 3: been the team to beat for Jordan Thomas. Here on Monday,
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  Speaker 3: he has made it official and selected Ohio State. I
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  Speaker 3: mean still have to sign him, but I think this
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  Speaker 3: is a really really important pickup as as Ohio State
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  Speaker 3: continues to reload B I A and you know, keep
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  Speaker 3: top athletes in the room.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a guy who just fits the physical
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  Speaker 2: profile that Tim Walton like six to one corner. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're your Aaron Scott's, your Devin Sanchez, is
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  Speaker 2: your your six foot plus corners. Jordan's another one of
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  Speaker 2: these guys. Very physical kid, very good, impressed, very good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, man coverage can play zone, can kind of
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  Speaker 2: do anything you really want your corners to do. Has
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  Speaker 2: the size and athleticism and length to to really do
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is that you're asking your secondary to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Just a very versatile kid back there. I think fits
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  Speaker 2: in very well with what they already have and what
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  Speaker 2: they're hopefully trying to add. But yeah, this is a
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  Speaker 2: huge pickup. This was a top priority for them, regardless
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  Speaker 2: of the Elbert Hill decision. Jordan's been one of their
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  Speaker 2: top priorities at the defensive back position the entire way.
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  Speaker 2: So this is Tim Walton hitting on a big name
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  Speaker 2: out of state target again and consensus number two prospect
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  Speaker 2: in New Jersey. So a very very good player out
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  Speaker 2: of a tremendous program. I think Quincy Porter's decision last
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  Speaker 2: year to commit to Ohio State and then his subsequent
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  Speaker 2: spring shine and if you will, he was very impressive
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  Speaker 2: in the spring and seems to be really enjoying himself.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think any of that has hurt with Jordan Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure those guys had a lot of good battles
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  Speaker 2: and practice in high school and it looks like they'll
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  Speaker 2: be continuing that here at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things that's really just such a
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  Speaker 3: big selling point, and we talked about it during the
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  Speaker 3: last Commitment podcast was the commitment of Caden Dixon Wyatt
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  Speaker 3: and the wide receivers going against the Ohio State secondary
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  Speaker 3: and the Ohio State Secondary going against Ohio State wide receivers.
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  Speaker 3: So now you know, as long as nothing falls apart,
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  Speaker 3: Jordan Thomas goes to Ohio State and he will be
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  Speaker 3: going against some of the best collegiate wide receivers in
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  Speaker 3: the nation, and that will only help him with his
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  Speaker 3: own development, help him become better and raise his stock
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  Speaker 3: for the NFL. I mean, he's not set foot on
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  Speaker 3: campus as an enrolled member at Ohio State, so let's
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  Speaker 3: not usher him off to the National Football League yet.
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  Speaker 3: But that is the expectation of everybody that Ohio State
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  Speaker 3: puts on scholarship is to get to the NFL. We
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  Speaker 3: know that not everybody is able to get there for
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  Speaker 3: one reason or another. But you know, Jordan Thomas is
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  Speaker 3: somebody that I feel is one of these safe players
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  Speaker 3: that certainly has what the trajectory is to accomplish those
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  Speaker 3: goals if he puts in the work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very very talented and against the size that you
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  Speaker 2: can't teach size at corner so he's got that, he's
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  Speaker 2: got the competitiveness. So really just a lot to like here.
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  Speaker 2: Not hard to see why this is one of their
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  Speaker 2: top cornerback prospects Throughout the cycle. It's been interesting to
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  Speaker 2: watch Heartline, Brian Hartline, and Tim Walton kind of draft
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  Speaker 2: off of each other where it's like, yeah, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: get these big time receivers and then they're gonna go
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  Speaker 2: against your corners, and you know, I'm gonna get these corners. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: come come compete against Brian Hartline's receivers. They've really been
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  Speaker 2: able to kind of use that in tandem to attract
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  Speaker 2: great defensive backs, great receivers. So that's continuing here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame has become quite the recruiting rival is even more,
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  Speaker 2: i would say more under Marcus Freeman. I think Freeman's
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  Speaker 2: taken a more naw big picture approach to things, and
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  Speaker 2: obviously that's a thing Ohio State has been doing for
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  Speaker 2: a long time now, back to the beginning of the
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  Speaker 2: Urban Meyer era. So I think you're going to see
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  Speaker 2: a lot of these run ins in the future. And
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  Speaker 2: this is another nice win for Ohio State against the
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  Speaker 2: recruiting rival.
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  Speaker 3: Well, when you look at Ohio State's regional foes, the
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  Speaker 3: team up north, there's a lot of uncertainty with them.
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  Speaker 3: They have not necessarily recruited against Ohio State on a
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  Speaker 3: lot of guys. I think there's been a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more overlap here in the last two to three cycles.
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  Speaker 3: Then with Jim Harbaugh, you look at Penn State, there
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  Speaker 3: is some overlap in they're recruiting, but maybe not as much.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the.
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  Speaker 3: Proximity to New Jersey. You thought maybe Penn State would
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  Speaker 3: have had a stronger hand on this one. Obviously it didn't,
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  Speaker 3: but Notre Dame really does seem to fit the bill
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  Speaker 3: of being Ohio State's regional recruiting rival. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: still think when you look at Ohio State's recruiting on
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  Speaker 3: the whole, it's more Georgia, Alabama, USC, certainly Oregon, but
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  Speaker 3: in terms of I think in terms of within the region,
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  Speaker 3: it is far and away Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really been a developing recruiting rivalry after they've
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  Speaker 2: played each other now three times in three years. So
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  Speaker 2: really nice pickup for Ohio State. Again, I don't want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, beat a dead horse, but just a guy
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  Speaker 2: who I think checked all the boxes for Tim Walton. Size, athleticism, competitiveness, academic,
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  Speaker 2: smart kid, good kid, just just kind of the prototype.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what does Tim Walton look for? Oh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's what Jordan Thomas is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean it's when you can sit there and
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  Speaker 3: find somebody that you know. Maybe nobody checks all the
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  Speaker 3: boxes unless you're Jeremiah Smith, but when you check as
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  Speaker 3: many boxes as Jordan Thomas does. That's why you were
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  Speaker 3: going to recruit him until the bitter end, if that's
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  Speaker 3: what it took or not you had Albert Hill, whether
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  Speaker 3: or not you had whoever, this is somebody that you
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  Speaker 3: take in ten out of ten situations, and now Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State has him. I think that he is going to
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  Speaker 3: be somebody who will see playing time early in his career.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you've got to have to figure out, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what does the defense look like it as years go forward.
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  Speaker 3: Who's going to be calling the defense in twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we don't even know at this point,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, this is you know, something for fans.
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  Speaker 3: You should you know, be excited about this one. He
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  Speaker 3: should be excited about all commitments. But you know this
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  Speaker 3: just because this isn't Elbert Hill. Don't let that sway
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  Speaker 3: you that this isn't a big deal. This one is
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  Speaker 3: a big deal. Yeah, great pickup for the buck Eyes.
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  Speaker 3: My last kind of thought on this is we talk
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  Speaker 3: so much.
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  Speaker 2: And we're in the Southern Swing, so it's obviously we
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  Speaker 2: feed in that we talk so much about, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Ohio is he's had a
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  Speaker 2: really good history in recruiting New Jersey and getting a
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  Speaker 2: guy like this out of You want to get these
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  Speaker 2: guys every year. You want to keep that open. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you get a Quincy Porter, you know, a Cody Simon,
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  Speaker 2: like you want to keep these doors open in a
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  Speaker 2: place like New Jersey, especially North Jersey where there's so
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  Speaker 2: much talent at those Catholic schools, and this is again
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  Speaker 2: helping them do that as well. So there's there's all
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  Speaker 2: sorts of positives here.
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  Speaker 3: You know why Rutgers isn't back yet. Rutgers can't land
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  Speaker 3: kids like this, and that's ultimately that's ultimately the thing.
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  Speaker 3: If Rutgers can ever start landing these players with a
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  Speaker 3: higher hit rate, that's when Rutgers will be back or
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  Speaker 3: will be you know, there for the first time. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they had some success under Greg Ciano during
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  Speaker 3: the ACC days or Big East or whatever. Yeah, Big East.
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  Speaker 3: It all runs together after a while. But yeah, this
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  Speaker 3: is this is a huge get And I think as
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  Speaker 3: long as you keep landing these kids, Landing Jordan Thomas
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six only helps you in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: seven because you can sit there and say, we came in,
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  Speaker 3: we got Quincy Porter, and we got Jordan Thomas, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, Jalen McLean is from is from New Jersey,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I think that people
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  Speaker 3: want to go where they know people, or at least
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  Speaker 3: there are people that are similar to them in terms
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  Speaker 3: of upbringing and things of that nature. And geography plays
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  Speaker 3: a huge factor in that.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, so great pickup for Ohio State. The Buckeyes really
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  Speaker 2: to stay red hot on the recruiting trail. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a really good run right now on the trail. There's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a lot coming up in June with official visits,
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  Speaker 2: so stay tuned with us at bucke huddle dot com.
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