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Which Injured Buckeyes Could Miss The Cotton Bowl? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning from Monday, December twenty ninth
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  Speaker 1: time your host tom or the Cotton Bowl game against
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  Speaker 1: Miami in two days, the game against Michigan in three
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  Speaker 1: here in Dallas getting ready for that Cotton Bowl game
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of days. The Miami team is, as
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  Speaker 1: we record this, already on the ground in Texas. Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State currently still flying in. They're going to land a
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  Speaker 1: little later on on Sunday evening. But we just got
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  Speaker 1: the availability report for the first of the three availability
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  Speaker 1: reports college football playoff games. They do it a little
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  Speaker 1: differently than they do in the regular season, where you've
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  Speaker 1: got to report it, but it's a little loosey goosey.
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  Speaker 1: They are not screwing around the stuff. During the college
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  Speaker 1: football playoff you have to report it three days out,
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  Speaker 1: two days out, and then day of the game. So
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  Speaker 1: that's where things are right now. The first one came
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  Speaker 1: out Sunday night, just it's a little different in terms
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  Speaker 1: of verbiage from how they do it during the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: So players before the game day, so this is the
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  Speaker 1: first one of those players are considered available, probable, questionable,
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  Speaker 1: doubtful or out.
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  Speaker 2: So those are the categories right now.
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  Speaker 1: When you get to game day, which will be the
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  Speaker 1: typical available to report, then it's just available game time
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  Speaker 1: decision are out. So right now, here is where things
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  Speaker 1: stand with Ohio State players who are out. No big
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  Speaker 1: surprise is here. Bleie Hartford safety, out wide receiver Quincy Porter.
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  Speaker 1: He is still out. Quarterback Mason Naggs still out. Defensive
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  Speaker 1: lineman Logan George is still out. Doubtful. This is where
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  Speaker 1: there's a name that we knew this name was going
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  Speaker 1: to be on here. I'm actually, frankly a little surprised
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  Speaker 1: based in the way it's been discussed earlier in the week.
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  Speaker 1: Dagger Shabola listed as doubtful not out, which I guess
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  Speaker 1: that counts as good news for Ohio State. Basic only
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  Speaker 1: wherein Day was talking about it earlier in the.
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  Speaker 3: Week, well, and when we watched fifteen minutes of practice.
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  Speaker 3: He was going through some of those drills and was
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  Speaker 3: he He had one of his legs wrapped, lower legs wrapped,
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  Speaker 3: but he was moving around. He didn't look like he
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  Speaker 3: was out because he was actually doing some stuff. Now,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes people who are out are doing the non contact stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But it was interesting to see him moving around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So defensive, I'm in a meg to enquires is
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  Speaker 1: doubtful as well. Guys listed as probable wide receiver Dez Jones,
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  Speaker 1: running back Turbo Rogers, safety to Shaun Stewart, safety Cody Haddad,
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  Speaker 1: defensive lineman Will Smith Junior, offensive lineman Devonte Armstrong. Of
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  Speaker 1: those guys, the biggest name on there is Will Smith Junior.
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  Speaker 2: If he's probable, that's you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I mean, that's not it's not good news that
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  Speaker 1: he's on there, but it's not bad news that he's
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  Speaker 1: on there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you would assume that he's only going to get
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  Speaker 3: better as they take better care of him throughout this,
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  Speaker 3: make sure that he is ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: So on the Miami side of things, there's only four names.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio state has a long list, Miami has only four
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  Speaker 1: names on theirs.
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  Speaker 2: Really, one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Is a consequential name that is defensive back to Maury Brown.
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  Speaker 2: He is out now.
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  Speaker 1: He is someone who earlier in the week Mario Cristobal,
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  Speaker 1: Miami head coach, talked about as they were hoping to
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  Speaker 1: get him back. They're not getting him back. He is out, So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's not exactly their number one corner, but
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  Speaker 1: he's someone who plays enough that this is something that's
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  Speaker 1: going to be at least a potentially consequential thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've started three different corners, maybe even four at times,
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  Speaker 3: but he started the last four regular season games. He
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  Speaker 3: started two games before that, so started six games on
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  Speaker 3: the year. And for him, you know, he missed the
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  Speaker 3: Texas a inem game, as you said this one. At
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  Speaker 3: least they have the experience of playing without him, so
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  Speaker 3: and they're deep. When you're playing four guys regularly and
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  Speaker 3: you lose one, it's almost like, well it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're There are plenty snaps they've played this season where
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  Speaker 3: Tomary Brown has not been on the field and they've
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  Speaker 3: been okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the other three names that are on the available
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  Speaker 1: to report for Miami, linebacker Malik Bryant is out. He
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  Speaker 1: has played just I think it was like four or
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  Speaker 1: five games something like that. Widershriver Dale and Upshaw.
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  Speaker 2: He's out.
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  Speaker 1: He's kind of a depth guy. He's a freshman and
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  Speaker 1: a defensive lineman. Dante Simpson he is also he is
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  Speaker 1: doubtful for this game. This is a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: the news. Is some of the names that aren't on here,
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  Speaker 1: Mote in the defensive tackle, Mo Torre, the linebacker. Those
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  Speaker 1: are guys who were banged up in the previous game,
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  Speaker 1: and Mario Cristabaal had sort of expressed that he was
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  Speaker 1: expecting to get all of those guys back. All those
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  Speaker 1: guys obviously back, So you know, for Miami that is
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  Speaker 1: you know, very probably very good news on the whole about.
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  Speaker 3: A full strength as you could be. And again because
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  Speaker 3: they are deep into secondary that I don't know that
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  Speaker 3: they will miss to Murray Brown. I'm sure they'd love
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  Speaker 3: to have him out there. But having the guys up
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  Speaker 3: front in the front seven, everybody healthy there, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: they'll take that. And whatever happens on the back end,
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  Speaker 3: they've worked without him before, without Demurray Brown, they should
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  Speaker 3: be able to continue that. But Motrre save the game
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  Speaker 3: against Texas A and m bounce back and just watch
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  Speaker 3: out for him, he's a he's a big hitter, sometimes
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  Speaker 3: a little bit too big for his own good. But
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  Speaker 3: good news for Miami that he is good to go
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  Speaker 3: and not even listed among all of the yeah, caveats
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  Speaker 3: and probables and questionables and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely some good news there. So then really the
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  Speaker 1: big question on the Ohio state side of things is
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  Speaker 1: kind of the big question we've been talking about for
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  Speaker 1: a while now, which is, okay, if it isn't Tiger Shabola.
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  Speaker 1: And again he's not out, but he's listed as doubtful,
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  Speaker 1: which is you know, the NFL puts percentages on that.
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  Speaker 1: I think doubtful is like twenty five percent something like that.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to.
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  Speaker 1: Expect him to play the whole game. So this certainly
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  Speaker 1: means more of someone else at right guard. We've seen
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  Speaker 1: Josh Padilla there, some, we've seen Gave Van Sickle there some.
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  Speaker 2: I mean during the course of the season.
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  Speaker 1: What's your expectation for how they handle this if Tager
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  Speaker 1: Shabola is not able to go?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still thinking it's Gave Van Sickle. I think
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  Speaker 3: the ironic thing here is Thiger Shia Bullock kind of
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  Speaker 3: does he does better. It gets the straight ahead defensive lines,
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  Speaker 3: and that's a little bit of what Miami is or
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  Speaker 3: a lot of bit of what they are. So this
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  Speaker 3: might be a game kind of like Michigan where he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't stand out for anything untoward and actually looks like
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  Speaker 3: a cohesive you one fifth of a cohesive unit. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if if you're doubtful a few days away
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  Speaker 3: from the game, you're not going to be one hundred
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  Speaker 3: percent the day of the game. And against Miami's defensive line,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to want to be as healthy as they
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  Speaker 3: can up front. So I'm expecting it to be Gave
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  Speaker 3: Van Sickle, And depending on how Josh Panda is playing
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  Speaker 3: this week, that's what we'll determine if he plays. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's as much about how poorly Gave Van
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  Speaker 3: Sickle plays. I think Josh Pandia also needs to show
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  Speaker 3: that he's playing well to earn that plan well.
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  Speaker 1: And he's someone who was probably ahead of Gabe Van
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  Speaker 1: Sicle earlier in the year and then got hurt and
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  Speaker 1: then it felt like he just kind of got out
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  Speaker 1: of the rhythm and out of the rhythm of game
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  Speaker 1: week and just are out of game speed. Which opened
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  Speaker 1: the door for van Zekal. He's now had some time
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  Speaker 1: to potentially catch back up. We will probably know a
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  Speaker 1: lot more about that when we get to watch a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of practice on Monday. We're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to talk to pretty much anyone we want
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  Speaker 1: to on Miami and Ohio State on Monday morning. That
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  Speaker 1: is a bit in media days for the Cotton Bold
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  Speaker 1: where you can talk to I want to talk to
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith, you can do that. You want to talk
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  Speaker 1: to a true freshman who has not played at all
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  Speaker 1: this season, you can do that too. This is sort
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  Speaker 1: of a little bit of the one time of year
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  Speaker 1: when they sort of throw the.
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  Speaker 2: Doors open and you can talk to anyone.
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  Speaker 1: So we will have a bunch of covered from that,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll be talking to Miami folks as well. That
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  Speaker 1: will be happening Monday morning over at Jerry World. Then
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  Speaker 1: the Hurricanes will have a practice. We'll get a fifteen
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  Speaker 1: minute practice plant or to watch Miami practice a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: We're keeping an eye on some of some of the
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  Speaker 1: names to know there for you probably have some photos
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  Speaker 1: and some video from inside practice, and then the Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be practicing, not at Jerry World. They're practicing
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  Speaker 1: at a local high school, which is kind of interesting,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll be over there a little later on in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Jerry.
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  Speaker 1: At one point it was the part of the sign
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  Speaker 1: practice as well as media days are both both programs,
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  Speaker 1: and then on the thirty thirtieth on Tuesday, we will
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  Speaker 1: have the head coach press conference with Ryan Day and
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  Speaker 1: talk to them. And then the game of course on
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