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Buckeyes Bring Back Talented Running Back In Transfer Portal · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Friday, February fourteenth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom Or the Texas game in one hundred
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  Speaker 1: oh dot com. So talking about a Buckeye Transfer Portal edition.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not really a transfer portal edition. It's a
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal like Equal Sign. It's non edition, it's not
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  Speaker 1: a subtraction. It's just kind of like and the News
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  Speaker 1: days the same. Sam williamstickson running back leaving Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: in the transfer portal during the sort of latter portions
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  Speaker 1: of the season, stuck around with the team during the
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  Speaker 1: playoff run, and then decided, you know what, I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick around. Tony Gerderman to puck a Huddle
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  Speaker 1: dot Com joins me, Tony, this is not the first
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  Speaker 1: time we've seen this. Bryson Rodgers did this a year
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  Speaker 1: ago with for the buck Eyes. But this is also
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think it's very easy to look and go,
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  Speaker 1: you know, well, so what is how you know, why
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  Speaker 1: is this news? Like, well, this is someone who you
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  Speaker 1: felt like was probably headed out the door and now
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  Speaker 1: is back and that's going to provide you know, this
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  Speaker 1: is a talented young player. It's going to provide some
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  Speaker 1: really important depth at a position where they've lost a
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  Speaker 1: lot of talent this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't remember what show was we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about. We talked about this possibility of Sam Williams
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  Speaker 2: Dixon not having landed anywhere yet, and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe he'll do the Price and Rogers and come back.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, you look at a guy who played
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  Speaker 2: three games last year, seven carries for fifty three yards.
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  Speaker 2: But when I tweeted, how like he's going to bring
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  Speaker 2: some some much needed experience to the running back room
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  Speaker 2: and some of the responds like carried the ball seven times?
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  Speaker 2: What kind of experience is he bringing? And it's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: he was with the team the entire year, he practiced
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  Speaker 2: in all of these games, for all of these games,
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  Speaker 2: he went through all of this is basically it gives
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  Speaker 2: them another person who has been through this. And so
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  Speaker 2: now you've got three guys who have been through this
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  Speaker 2: and Sam Williams Dixon, James Peeples and CJ. Donaldson and
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  Speaker 2: three guys who haven't in the incoming freshman. So basically
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  Speaker 2: kind of equated to where it gives you one more
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  Speaker 2: adult to help with all the kids, that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's that aspect to it, but just the fact
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  Speaker 2: that he's been through all of this with Carlos Sloughlan,
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  Speaker 2: he's done it all. Yeah, this is this is a
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  Speaker 2: big thing because it's it gives them another option who
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  Speaker 2: has experienced with being tasked with getting ready to play
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  Speaker 2: in games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that, but it's also he spent a year
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  Speaker 1: in the weight program like that. That's that year of
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  Speaker 1: physical development coming from high school to college. They will
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  Speaker 1: every once in all put out those before and after pictures,
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  Speaker 1: and the freshmen are always like really jarring because I
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  Speaker 1: think they feel like, Okay, I'm coming into college in
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  Speaker 1: you know, really good shape, and I know where the
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  Speaker 1: weight room is and it's and you know, and you
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  Speaker 1: get into a college weight programs like oh oh this
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  Speaker 1: is very different, and you know, I think we talk
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  Speaker 1: about the spring awakening for guys figuring out during springball
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  Speaker 1: that you know, hey, you know, maybe my path that
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  Speaker 1: the playing field is not as clear as I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was. This is the time of year where you
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  Speaker 1: get the Mickey Muradi Matt Drill's awakening where it's like,
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  Speaker 1: oh I thought I was in good shape and oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: well turns out I have a little ways to go.
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  Speaker 1: They keep the freshmen separate from the veterans during a
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  Speaker 1: lot of those winter workout times, and that's because you're
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  Speaker 1: not quite ready for what you're about to face in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of cases. So yeah, having another veteran guy
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  Speaker 1: there is, you know, just someone who's absolutely already going
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  Speaker 1: to be physically ready to do the past pro and
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  Speaker 1: all the really un sexy stuff that they asked these
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  Speaker 1: guys to do. That is, you know, one of the
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  Speaker 1: real benchmarks to who gets who really does get to
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  Speaker 1: play in these meaningful snaps that that's always a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: He's also Samilym Sicken is also kind of I looked
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  Speaker 1: at him and James, people's coming in together, and they're
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  Speaker 1: very complimentary back. It's not like two guys who fit
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  Speaker 1: the exact same spot like those are two guys who
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  Speaker 1: have different skill sets and who can fit together pretty well,
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  Speaker 1: and not necessarily you know, they aren't necessarily just gonna
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  Speaker 1: be carbon copies, but it's going to be two guys
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  Speaker 1: who you put them together, and that's a pretty you know,
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  Speaker 1: well rounded back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it is. And they came in together, so they
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  Speaker 2: that was preached to them while they were coming in
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  Speaker 2: as well. And you know, there was talk about Sam
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  Speaker 2: Williams Dixon his versatility to play slot and and running back.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at Trevon Henderson quich On Judkins this
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  Speaker 2: past season, I think they combined for forty nine catches.
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  Speaker 2: So there's there's there's a role for everybody if you
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  Speaker 2: are you shure that you're ready for it, and that
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  Speaker 2: can include catching the football, being a third down back
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  Speaker 2: or you know, second and long, that sort of thing
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  Speaker 2: where you're most likely in there to catch passes. But
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  Speaker 2: I also don't think he is just that. He's certainly
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  Speaker 2: a running back and he'll continue to show that. But
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  Speaker 2: there's there's room, as you know, for two running backs
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  Speaker 2: to run for a thousand yards in this offense, because
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  Speaker 2: we just saw it. Sure, it took sixteen games, but
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  Speaker 2: that's the plan every year is for sixteen games, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, it is interesting that, as you said, he
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  Speaker 2: seemed to have stuck around throughout this run. And you
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  Speaker 2: watch this if you're a freshman, whether it's him or
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  Speaker 2: James Peoples, and you see, like there are enough footballs
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  Speaker 2: to go around over the course of a season. Trevon
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  Speaker 2: Henderson is an incredible example of somebody who as a
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  Speaker 2: true freshman, is like, well, I'm the guy now, Like,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm gonna you know, I'll get twenty touches every
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  Speaker 2: game and I'll be happy with that. Then in his
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  Speaker 2: final years, like I'll get twelve touches a game and
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be fine with that because they're winning. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a very good example for you know,
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  Speaker 2: both of the departing running backs quinch On Jenkins as well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he was getting twenty five thirty touches a
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  Speaker 2: game for two years and then he comes to Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State for one year and chose the freshman like, just
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  Speaker 2: you can survive on fifteen to seventeen touches and be
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  Speaker 2: really really good at the end of the season for us.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's fantastic example both of those guys, and
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  Speaker 2: I think we've both talked to Carlos Laughlin about that
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  Speaker 2: that the example that they've put forth for the young
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  Speaker 2: guys like James people is like Sam Williams Dixon and
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  Speaker 2: the incoming freshman class, you will have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: make an impact. You may not have twenty five opportunities
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  Speaker 2: in the game, but you'll have eleven or twelve or
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  Speaker 2: thirteen really really good ones touching the ball. But look
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  Speaker 2: at the impact Travian Anderson made pass blocking, Like, don't
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  Speaker 2: forget about that either. There's going to be a role
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  Speaker 2: if if somebody is ready for if Sam Williams Dixon
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  Speaker 2: can do it, they'll find a place for him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And you know, they were also, I
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  Speaker 1: think last year fairly fortunate with injuries, and part of
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  Speaker 1: that probably goes into you didn't have guys carrying the
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  Speaker 1: ball twenty twenty five times a game, but it also
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  Speaker 1: they were fairly fortunate with injuries. The only real significant
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  Speaker 1: injury I remember in the running back room last year
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  Speaker 1: outside of Easy Caffey who was out for the season,
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  Speaker 1: or you know, or She'd Seesey who missed some games.
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of guys who were you know, normal
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  Speaker 1: normally you know, in that starting kind of role. You
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  Speaker 1: had that one hand injury for Quinn John Judkins early
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  Speaker 1: in the year and that was kind of it, and
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  Speaker 1: so they were they were a little healthier than normal.
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  Speaker 1: So getting you probably are going to need that pair
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  Speaker 1: and a spare at some point because someone is going
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  Speaker 1: to turn an ankle, or someone's going to sprain a
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  Speaker 1: knee or whatever it is. These things happen with running back.
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  Speaker 1: So having that third veteran guy back is important. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, you talked about the impact of the veteran
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  Speaker 1: guys being leaders for the younger guys. There are three
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  Speaker 1: veterans and there are three true freshmen coming in this year.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big room. That's a big running back room.
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  Speaker 1: And you're not gonna be able to get six guys
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  Speaker 1: one hundred carries each. That's not going to be realistic,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, it's going to be interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: now how Carlos loughlan divides those carries up. The good
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  Speaker 1: news is there's not a lot of pressure if someone's
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  Speaker 1: not physically ready to play or you know, just whatever,
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  Speaker 1: then there's not a huge rush to get all six
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  Speaker 1: of those guys on the field. You know, in game
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  Speaker 1: number one or game number two. But this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a real challenge to divide up those snaps,
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  Speaker 1: divide up those practice snaps, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They may have to go to two practice fields just
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  Speaker 1: to get the running backs the ball. Last year it
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  Speaker 1: was the quarterbacks. They were trying to do it. For
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  Speaker 1: this year, maybe you know, you got to go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: run parallel practice fields just get all the running backs
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  Speaker 1: and snaps this spring.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and generally they won I think five scholarship running backs,
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  Speaker 2: so there'll be one over that. But you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to go back too far when it was twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: three and twenty twenty two when they're moving a linebacker
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  Speaker 2: a linebacker to running back to fill fill out the
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  Speaker 2: roster towards the end of the season with with Chip
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  Speaker 2: train them and then you had Xavier Johnson running the
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  Speaker 2: ball as a running back against Michigan against Georgia, like
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  Speaker 2: they've had to go through through it to finish out
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  Speaker 2: a season. And that was a thirteen game season. And
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, with these young guys, and you know, these
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  Speaker 2: young guys, there's five guys who are freshman knowledgeable. I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe Jane James people is technically a sophomore now
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  Speaker 2: if I look real quick, yeah he is. He played
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  Speaker 2: an over four game, so he's he's definitely a sophomore now.
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  Speaker 2: But like, these are all young guys, say for CJ. Donaldson,
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  Speaker 2: who is the most experienced guy, but he's never played
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  Speaker 2: at Ohio State, so they'll have some opportunities to you know,
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  Speaker 2: Trylos Sloughlan will have to figure this out. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I fully expect the two fields to be going on
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  Speaker 2: and rotating those three guys, those six guys in on
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  Speaker 2: each field, and well, it'll be interesting to see if
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  Speaker 2: a freshman, a true freshman can rise up and you know,
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  Speaker 2: push his way into to the depth chart.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, that that practice field got a little
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  Speaker 1: a little more full. Good news for the buck Eyes
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  Speaker 1: as Sam Williams Stixon returning for the twenty twenty five season.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just one of the many, many storylines we'll
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  Speaker 1: Tony Kevin and I cover the team, Mark covers recruiting.
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  Speaker 1: as well to make you a smarter football fan during
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  Speaker 1: what should be a very fun and very eventful spring
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  Speaker 1: football season in Columbus, Ohio. Much looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: will do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.