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- 0:01Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, December twentieth.
- 0:03Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The Cotton Bowl game in
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- 0:21Speaker 1: a lot to talk about. First of all, Miami and
- 0:24Speaker 1: Texas A and M. They will play at noon on Saturday,
- 0:27Speaker 1: with the winner facing the Buckeyes in the Cotton Bowl
- 0:30Speaker 1: in just eleven days. You want a preview of that game,
- 0:33Speaker 1: you can find that with Tony Gerderman and me in
- 0:35Speaker 1: the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed. We will have an instant
- 0:38Speaker 1: reaction show after the game. You can look for that
- 0:40Speaker 1: on Saturday afternoon, also on the Buckeye Weekly Podcast feed
- 0:44Speaker 1: or on our YouTube channel at YouTube dot com slash
- 0:47Speaker 1: Buckeye Huddle. And then once that's over, then we're going
- 0:51Speaker 1: to start kicking things into high gear as we shift
- 0:55Speaker 1: into official Cotton Bowl game prep mode I don't know
- 0:59Speaker 1: if it can be quite as intense as the week
- 1:02Speaker 1: leading into the Michigan game or the Big Ten Championship game,
- 1:04Speaker 1: but it might be kind of close. Gonna have a
- 1:06Speaker 1: lot of rewatch shows breaking down the games, some of
- 1:10Speaker 1: the high profile games for the team that Ohio State
- 1:13Speaker 1: is playing, whether that is Texas A and m or Miami.
- 1:17Speaker 1: Going to have all sorts of access to Ohio State
- 1:20Speaker 1: players and coaches on Monday, going to have interviews from
- 1:23Speaker 1: the Woody Hayes Athletic Center starting at around eleven AM.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Then be talking with the players and be talking to
- 1:28Speaker 1: head coach Ryan Day at noon, and then players on
- 1:32Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball in the evening after practice.
- 1:35Speaker 1: So there's gonna be a ton of coverage from the
- 1:38Speaker 1: Woody on Monday, and then we'll have a bunch of
- 1:40Speaker 1: shows in the Bucket Tomorrow morning feed, the Buckeye Weekly
- 1:43Speaker 1: feat podcast feed, and of course everything will be on
- 1:46Speaker 1: our YouTube channel as well, a YouTube dot com slash
- 1:48Speaker 1: Buckey Huddle. All right, now, there's a bunch of recruiting
- 1:51Speaker 1: news we got to get through with you. First of all,
- 1:55Speaker 1: the biggest news Quentin Cipher twenty twenty seven linebacker. He
- 1:59Speaker 1: committed to Ohio State on Friday. He is a top
- 2:03Speaker 1: of the board prospect for James Laurinetis and the Buckeyes,
- 2:07Speaker 1: really really impactful player, huge get for Ohio State. You
- 2:11Speaker 1: want to hear Tony breaking that down, you can find
- 2:13Speaker 1: that in the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed. So what are
- 2:16Speaker 1: you going to hear on this today's show? Well, get
- 2:18Speaker 1: Mark and Juck on an episode of the Skull Session
- 2:21Speaker 1: recruiting podcast feed. They're breaking down what brock Boyd brings
- 2:26Speaker 1: to this year's Ohio State recruiting class. Boyd is one
- 2:29Speaker 1: of the lower profile recruits, at least in the wide
- 2:32Speaker 1: receiver room. You hear a lot about your Quat and
- 2:34Speaker 1: Guildford to hear a lot about Chris Henry, but Brock
- 2:37Speaker 1: Boyd might be one of the most intriguing prospects in
- 2:40Speaker 1: this class, regardless of position. Markan Juck are going to
- 2:43Speaker 1: be talking about him. Let you know why he's someone
- 2:45Speaker 1: you should get excited about. And then you can also,
- 2:48Speaker 1: of course start to get excited about that Cotton Bowl
- 2:51Speaker 1: will have all sorts of coverage coming for you. Start
- 2:53Speaker 1: as soon as that Miami and Texas A and M
- 2:55Speaker 1: game is over. You can look forward to that as well.
- 2:58Speaker 1: All Right, so on with the show, Mark and Juck
- 3:00Speaker 1: on the Skull Session Recruiting Podcast.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to the Skull Session Recruiting Podcast, brought
- 3:07Speaker 2: you to by Bucky Huddle dot Com. I'm Mark Givler,
- 3:10Speaker 2: joined today by Juck Maletti as we continue our Class
- 3:13Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six recruiting capsules, where we go break
- 3:16Speaker 2: down every player that is signed with the Buckeyes in
- 3:18Speaker 2: the twenty twenty sixth class, kind of go back through
- 3:20Speaker 2: their recruiting process, talk about their abilities, where they may
- 3:23Speaker 2: fit at Ohio State, et cetera. And I'm almost afraid
- 3:27Speaker 2: to do this one because I don't know if Juck
- 3:30Speaker 2: is going to be able to contain himself. To control
- 3:33Speaker 2: yourself for like fifteen minutes here, just fifteen minutes, get together.
- 3:39Speaker 2: We are profiling brock Boyd Yes, Juck's long lost step son.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Four star wide receiver out of Texas powerhouse, South Lake,
- 3:50Speaker 2: carol Or. Just a really impressive player, an amazing high
- 3:56Speaker 2: school career, filled up the stat sheet. Just a lot
- 4:01Speaker 2: to like about this guy, Jock.
- 4:03Speaker 3: Oh, there surely is a lot to like about him.
- 4:05Speaker 4: And to your this is a Brock's career stat line
- 4:10Speaker 4: at South Lake Carrol, where he is the all time
- 4:13Speaker 4: leading receiver at a powerhouse, top notch program in Texas
- 4:17Speaker 4: two hundred and sixty receptions, four eighty six yards, forty
- 4:22Speaker 4: six touchdowns. His senior year eighty nine receptions, fourteen hundred
- 4:28Speaker 4: and seventy eight yards and nineteen touchdowns. And that's just insane.
- 4:34Speaker 4: But when we talk about the profile of the player,
- 4:39Speaker 4: this is a kid who as a freshman, a fourteen
- 4:43Speaker 4: year old freshman, went to a camp at Oklahoma and
- 4:47Speaker 4: got an offer on the spot to Oklahoma a guy
- 4:50Speaker 4: who was committed to TCU, And I think that threw
- 4:54Speaker 4: a lot of people for a loop because he was
- 4:55Speaker 4: flipped from TCU but had a lot of big offers,
- 4:58Speaker 4: a lot of them, maybe five blue blood offers, to
- 5:01Speaker 4: be honest. And his brother is a kid who was
- 5:06Speaker 4: at Texas Tech, had a really good year transferre to
- 5:09Speaker 4: Utah State this year, so it's in the blood. He's
- 5:12Speaker 4: a track star. We're talking best time of twenty one
- 5:16Speaker 4: point seven and a two hundred meter that's his preferred distance.
- 5:19Speaker 4: So break that down's that's a sub eleven one hundred
- 5:22Speaker 4: twice at ten eighty five, ten eighty five. He's a
- 5:26Speaker 4: speed demon. He adjusts to the ball well in the air.
- 5:29Speaker 4: He is very polished as a route runner. Obviously, when
- 5:33Speaker 4: you put up this kind of number of these kind
- 5:35Speaker 4: of stats like you are polished. And he's got great
- 5:38Speaker 4: hands as well. But all that, he's extremely confident. Brock
- 5:44Speaker 4: thinks that he is the best wide receiver in Texas,
- 5:47Speaker 4: one of the best in the country. As you can
- 5:49Speaker 4: see by his rankings. They don't agree with them, and
- 5:52Speaker 4: he's got a huge chip on his shoulder about that.
- 5:55Speaker 4: This is a guy I think people will look at
- 5:56Speaker 4: him and just based off his look, we'll think.
- 5:58Speaker 3: He's a slot guy. May play slot, he could play.
- 6:01Speaker 4: X Like this dude can play anywhere, and I am
- 6:05Speaker 4: so excited to see what he does. I do not
- 6:07Speaker 4: think this is going to be a dude that we're
- 6:09Speaker 4: going to talk three years from now about is he
- 6:11Speaker 4: ever gonna make it or is he going to transfer
- 6:13Speaker 4: out of here. I think he's gonna be an Ohio
- 6:14Speaker 4: State starter, and he's a total dog.
- 6:16Speaker 3: All he cares about is football. He is so upset
- 6:19Speaker 3: Mark that they don't.
- 6:20Speaker 4: Get to travel for the ball and for the bowl games,
- 6:24Speaker 4: for the postseason and that they don't get to practice
- 6:27Speaker 4: with the team. Very bummed out about that. But this
- 6:31Speaker 4: dude's ready to go. Came to Ohio State to play
- 6:33Speaker 4: against the best with the best, and you gotta love that.
- 6:38Speaker 2: That was Juck Maletty Brockboyd Historian, official Brockboys historian giving
- 6:44Speaker 2: you his entire background from Just after Birth. Yes, I know.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Look when I watch his film, I see Devin Smith.
- 6:54Speaker 2: That's what I said, A good one. I see a
- 6:57Speaker 2: guy who is really dangerous vertically and does a tremendous
- 7:02Speaker 2: job tracking the football in the air, which is a skill.
- 7:04Speaker 2: Not only as a skill, it's an extremely important and
- 7:07Speaker 2: underrated skill. Some guys can run like the wind and
- 7:10Speaker 2: they can't track the ball, so it doesn't really help you.
- 7:13Speaker 2: But he really does a great job with body control
- 7:16Speaker 2: tracking the football. He's able to make contested catches. You know,
- 7:19Speaker 2: we saw a lot of you know, goal line catches
- 7:21Speaker 2: by Devin Smith at the pylon or back of the
- 7:23Speaker 2: end zone. Body control type stuff. We see a lot
- 7:25Speaker 2: of that here from Rock Boyd. The speed, I love
- 7:29Speaker 2: the competitiveness, I love the guys that have the chip
- 7:31Speaker 2: on their shoulder. So I think this was a really
- 7:34Speaker 2: important pickup and again on a day where there was
- 7:37Speaker 2: so much chaos with Brian Hartline leaving and Chris Henry
- 7:40Speaker 2: Junior was he gonna sign? And you know, Katie w
- 7:44Speaker 2: flips to USC and you know, no one really seemed
- 7:46Speaker 2: to be like what about brock Boyd. Yeah, let's let's
- 7:49Speaker 2: say it now, Like, thank goodness they signed brock Boyd.
- 7:51Speaker 2: I think that was a huge I think him and
- 7:53Speaker 2: Jaquent and Guildford are going to be really good players
- 7:55Speaker 2: at Ohio State. And I think we're gonna look back
- 7:57Speaker 2: and be like, yeah, we probably should have. You know,
- 7:58Speaker 2: people probably should have been more cerned about if they
- 8:00Speaker 2: were going to sign after Brian Hartline news than than
- 8:04Speaker 2: they were, you know, instead of just putting all their
- 8:06Speaker 2: concern in some of the other situations. So I like
- 8:09Speaker 2: the pickup, you know, video game numbers and a tremendous program.
- 8:16Speaker 2: You just just a great player. I just I think
- 8:19Speaker 2: he's gonna be fun. Uh, He's gonna be really fun
- 8:21Speaker 2: to watch. There's certain guys that have a little bit
- 8:23Speaker 2: of extra excitement to their game.
- 8:25Speaker 3: Uh.
- 8:25Speaker 2: He seems to have a little flair.
- 8:27Speaker 3: That's it, that's it. There.
- 8:29Speaker 4: There is definitely a little extra excitement to the game,
- 8:32Speaker 4: the chip on the shoulder comes out on the field, Uh,
- 8:35Speaker 4: the celebrations, the stunting on him.
- 8:37Speaker 3: He loves it, man.
- 8:39Speaker 4: And and you know, it's just like these guys that
- 8:42Speaker 4: are born for a position. This this guy is just
- 8:45Speaker 4: a born wide receiver. Dad's a coach at South Lake.
- 8:49Speaker 4: So I always love a coach's son. They seem to
- 8:52Speaker 4: take the game seriously and always study a little extra hard. Obviously,
- 8:57Speaker 4: he was really excited to play for Brian Hartline and
- 9:00Speaker 4: as all these guys were. But the news didn't affect
- 9:03Speaker 4: him one bit. Wants to be at Ohio State. That's
- 9:06Speaker 4: where it's at. And that that of course, when we
- 9:09Speaker 4: talk about these wide receivers, that sure, man, that's a
- 9:12Speaker 4: that was a huge thing, right like when the uh,
- 9:16Speaker 4: what was it the when the Kentucky job came open,
- 9:20Speaker 4: Like they were all kind of concerned about that, like
- 9:22Speaker 4: is this the one we need to worry about? And
- 9:24Speaker 4: then eventually he does leave and they talked to coach
- 9:28Speaker 4: day right on board, settled all right, it's all good.
- 9:31Speaker 4: But yeah, like you said, like I think this the
- 9:34Speaker 4: fact that he had committed to TCU over Oklahoma. If
- 9:39Speaker 4: you'd have flipped him from Oklahoma, there would have been
- 9:41Speaker 4: considerably more buzz and excitement. But because it was a
- 9:44Speaker 4: flip from TCU, but Brian Hartline really really wanted him,
- 9:49Speaker 4: we all saw like that, and I'm sure that was confusing,
- 9:53Speaker 4: like why does he really want this kid from TCU
- 9:56Speaker 4: so bad? But if he was committed to Oklahoma would
- 9:59Speaker 4: have be a totally different story. Somebody that everybody should
- 10:02Speaker 4: be excited about. That, that's for sure.
- 10:05Speaker 2: Yes, and all that video you just watched was just
- 10:07Speaker 2: his senior ear HIGHLA. Yeah, a lot with a lot
- 10:11Speaker 2: of yards, So yeah, I you know you mentioned, you
- 10:15Speaker 2: know's where's he gonna play? I don't think i'd pigeonhole him,
- 10:20Speaker 2: but I definitely wouldn't pigeonhole him into the slot. Now
- 10:22Speaker 2: that being said, I would definitely play him at times
- 10:24Speaker 2: in the slot because of his quickness, and really some
- 10:27Speaker 2: of the toughest routes to cover are those slot verticals,
- 10:30Speaker 2: those slot fades, Those are brutally hard to cover for
- 10:33Speaker 2: a defense, and he runs those beautifully. But I also
- 10:36Speaker 2: think he has such great ability to track the deep
- 10:39Speaker 2: ball that you also want to let him kind of
- 10:41Speaker 2: go outside and and draw a defense's attention from the
- 10:44Speaker 2: outside and open things up for your for your interior guys,
- 10:47Speaker 2: your slots and your tight ends. So I think I
- 10:50Speaker 2: view him as a guy who you can, who you
- 10:53Speaker 2: should and could uh move move around the formation, and
- 10:57Speaker 2: I would not pigeonhole him anywhere.
- 10:59Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I totally agree. I totally agree.
- 11:02Speaker 4: I think there's this I don't want to say, I
- 11:06Speaker 4: get like the elephant in the room. Right, He's a
- 11:09Speaker 4: white wide receiver and everybody automatically slot guy, you know
- 11:13Speaker 4: what I mean, And it's just like, no, this dude
- 11:15Speaker 4: is legit athletic, like verified numbers. Can do anything anybody
- 11:20Speaker 4: else can do that's coming in in this class except
- 11:22Speaker 4: be six six like Chris Entry junior.
- 11:24Speaker 3: He can't be that, but he can do anything else.
- 11:27Speaker 2: He's got a little heartline in them. Yeah, he might
- 11:32Speaker 2: be a little faster than Brian. I don't know. Brian
- 11:34Speaker 2: was a pretty good track athlete though in high school.
- 11:37Speaker 2: But he's got a little heartlined in him. But yeah,
- 11:39Speaker 2: I see, like I watched the film, like you know
- 11:41Speaker 2: that that looks like Devin Smith at masslinto me deep balls,
- 11:46Speaker 2: run after the catch, contested you know, contested catches in
- 11:50Speaker 2: the end zone like body control. That's what he reminds
- 11:54Speaker 2: me of. And and Devin obviously one of the better
- 11:57Speaker 2: deep threats to ever do it at Ohio State. And
- 12:00Speaker 2: I don't want a pigeonhole. Brock In a just a
- 12:02Speaker 2: deep threat. It just the things he excels at really
- 12:06Speaker 2: does remind me so much of Devin Smith watching him
- 12:09Speaker 2: at Maslin and then ultimately at Ohio State. And I'm
- 12:11Speaker 2: sure Ohio State would love it if that's the type
- 12:13Speaker 2: of player they get, and I know Juck thinks they are,
- 12:17Speaker 2: and I, hey, I have no reason to doubt this kid.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Like I said, when you do what he's done against
- 12:22Speaker 2: the competition, he's done it, you know, against at the
- 12:24Speaker 2: program he's done it for. There's a lot to be
- 12:28Speaker 2: said for that. And again I like, I like his attitude.
- 12:32Speaker 2: My only complaint is and I wouldn't have got I
- 12:35Speaker 2: probably wouldn't been able to see this, So I'm not
- 12:37Speaker 2: too upset myself. But the poor like Ohio State coaches
- 12:41Speaker 2: and you know, people who get to watch practice every day,
- 12:44Speaker 2: like the alumni and stuff to come back, I can't
- 12:47Speaker 2: fathom a Davidson Igbinosen. Welcome to big time college football.
- 12:56Speaker 2: Brock boyd like one on one like trash talk. Yeah,
- 13:01Speaker 2: yest that we were getting robbed of by these kids
- 13:05Speaker 2: not being allowed to participate in bowl practice, because I
- 13:08Speaker 2: think there would have been some legendary reps there between Davison,
- 13:13Speaker 2: who's like an elite, elite trash talker and is definitely
- 13:16Speaker 2: gonna want to put the freshman in his place and
- 13:18Speaker 2: the freshman who's a pretty elite trash talker who absolutely
- 13:22Speaker 2: wanted to prove that he's he belongs here. So that
- 13:25Speaker 2: that is a that's unfortunate for those who are going
- 13:27Speaker 2: to miss that, But otherwise I think this is an
- 13:30Speaker 2: excellent pickup. And again, you talk about a class with
- 13:34Speaker 2: bigger body guys, especially like Chris Henry Juniors's been outside guy.
- 13:38Speaker 2: You're Quenton Guildford. You could probably play in the slot some.
- 13:40Speaker 2: But again, it's a big, big bodied six' two kid
- 13:42Speaker 2: gonna be like a six two and a half two
- 13:44Speaker 2: hundred and ten pound. RECEIVER i think he fits in
- 13:47Speaker 2: very nicely with what the other RECEIVERS i.
- 13:49Speaker 3: Got, yeah, Yeah i'd, agree.
- 13:52Speaker 4: MAN i really like the way this just came together
- 13:54Speaker 4: despite Losing Kden Dixon. Wyatt you, know you basically you
- 13:59Speaker 4: had an, extra you had an extra and you lost an.
- 14:01Speaker 3: Extra.
- 14:02Speaker 4: Whatever this is an excellent wide receiver. Class so excited
- 14:06Speaker 4: to see where it goes from. Here as far as
- 14:08Speaker 4: as far as who's coaching these, guys AND i think
- 14:11Speaker 4: that regardless of what we see from a, COACH i,
- 14:14Speaker 4: mean what we've seen With heartline is obviously the best
- 14:18Speaker 4: position coach in the country at any single. Position, however
- 14:21Speaker 4: probably the least rotational position coach as. Well so whoever comes,
- 14:27Speaker 4: in we're gonna see a lot more guys, PLAY i would,
- 14:30Speaker 4: imagine and that in itself is going to be more
- 14:33Speaker 4: fun to be able to see some of these younger
- 14:35Speaker 4: guys get in at a younger age and just get
- 14:38Speaker 4: some more.
- 14:38Speaker 2: Opportunities, yeah that's going to be and we talked about,
- 14:41Speaker 2: THAT i think on the Draw quaiden, one it just,
- 14:44Speaker 2: like what is this new situation going to look? Like and,
- 14:47Speaker 2: yeah just how many and just even like the fresh
- 14:49Speaker 2: pair of eyes of, like who knows what the new
- 14:52Speaker 2: guy might see if it's if it's a new, guy
- 14:54Speaker 2: or if it's a, guy even if it's you, know
- 14:56Speaker 2: if it Is Keenan, bailey who's gonna be paying a
- 14:58Speaker 2: lot closer attention to the wide. Receiver who knows what
- 15:00Speaker 2: they what they're going to. Do but there's gonna be
- 15:03Speaker 2: a fresh set of eyes on that wide receiver, room
- 15:05Speaker 2: which could lead to different evaluations of. Things so for
- 15:08Speaker 2: sure that'll be. Interesting, chuck any parting, THOUGHTS i know,
- 15:13Speaker 2: YOU i know you'd like to sit here and talk
- 15:14Speaker 2: About brock until like Next wednesday or, something but we're
- 15:19Speaker 2: going to have to probably cut this one out here pretty.
- 15:20Speaker 2: Soon but parting thoughts on one of your favorite guys
- 15:23Speaker 2: in this.
- 15:23Speaker 4: Class, yeah, yeah for, sure this is my winner for
- 15:28Speaker 4: The Isaiah West Most Underrated player of The class.
- 15:31Speaker 3: Award and we'll just leave it at. That we'll see if.
- 15:33Speaker 4: We can go two for two SINCE i started my
- 15:36Speaker 4: show on that. One because it Was isaiah last, year
- 15:39Speaker 4: it'll Be brock this upcoming.
- 15:40Speaker 2: Year all, Right, well, yes The Isaiah west has been
- 15:43Speaker 2: a very nice. Call is he has worked his way
- 15:45Speaker 2: up to the number two running back already as a true.
- 15:47Speaker 2: Freshman So i'm Sure i'm sure that's going to carry
- 15:51Speaker 2: some weight with people when they when they form their
- 15:53Speaker 2: opinions Of brock watching him and everything. Else and so,
- 15:57Speaker 2: yeah it was a great call On Isaiah. West and
- 16:00Speaker 2: we'll see if it's the see if it can lightning
- 16:02Speaker 2: can strike twice. Here but, yep we're putting all these
- 16:06Speaker 2: on our YouTube channel YouTube dot com Slash Buckeye. Huddle
- 16:09Speaker 2: we do have a playlist class of twenty twenty six
- 16:11Speaker 2: recruiting capsules where you can binge watch if you, want
- 16:13Speaker 2: or catch up on ones you may have. Missed they
- 16:15Speaker 2: all go in there when we upload. Them we're again
- 16:17Speaker 2: we're closing. In we're roughly. Halfway we're getting to the
- 16:21Speaker 2: close to halfway. Mark we'll get these put out over
- 16:24Speaker 2: the next week week and a half leading up to
- 16:26Speaker 2: The Cotton. Bowl but you can always download these as.
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