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David Gabriel Georges: Will He Be A Buckeye Or Volunteer? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 2: So good news.
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  Speaker 1: We have a board again. You can find us at
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  Speaker 1: Buckeye Insiders dot com. One of the things we are
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  Speaker 1: definitely gonna be talking about there this month is the
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  Speaker 1: recruitment of David Gabriel George, the five star twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven running back. He has set an announcement date, and
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  Speaker 1: according to a report this week from On three, he
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  Speaker 1: may have a decision already. Juck, let people know what's
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  Speaker 1: going on there, and are you buying the reports that
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  Speaker 1: are coming out about that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, first start tom with. It was the first
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  Speaker 2: thread that I made on the Buckeye Insiders board, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that that is fitting because I think that
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  Speaker 2: this is a recruitment that we will look back for
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  Speaker 2: years to come. And as we roll down into the
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  Speaker 2: final couple of weeks, the report did come out that
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  Speaker 2: his uncle said he has made up his mind and
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  Speaker 2: he is happy with his decision. And then he went
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  Speaker 2: on to discuss the contenders. Of course, Old Miss. There
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  Speaker 2: was a little blurb about Old Miss. We all know
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  Speaker 2: Old Miss is really in this. It's an Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: and Tennessee battle. Then there was what he had to
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  Speaker 2: say about Ohio State. Now, the uncle, as most people
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  Speaker 2: know by now, has been an Ohio State fan for
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  Speaker 2: a long long time and knows everything about I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's a real Buckeye fan. He gets everything, and he
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  Speaker 2: knows what Ohio State has to offer and is able
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  Speaker 2: to ramble on about Ohio State for as long as
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  Speaker 2: you would want him to. But he kept it pretty
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  Speaker 2: brief in the fact that if David goes to Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be another one of the best players
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  Speaker 2: coming out of Ohio State, and he'll be developed well,
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  Speaker 2: he'll have a chance to win national championships and potentially more,
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  Speaker 2: and he'll get drafted high and he'll be another great
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  Speaker 2: buck Eye. Then he went on to talk about Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: and what he would potentially mean to the Tennessee fan base,
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  Speaker 2: which is something that they're not used to, unlike Buckeye fans.
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  Speaker 2: Was kind of the insinuation and if he you know,
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  Speaker 2: he'll be a potential legend there Tennessee. These guys haven't
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  Speaker 2: they haven't had anywhere near the success of Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: and they might not in the next fifteen years, but
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  Speaker 2: in the three years David's there, they might have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the best success they've ever had. And it all sounded
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  Speaker 2: really really slanted towards that direction, almost as if you
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  Speaker 2: could kind of read into this a couple of ways,
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  Speaker 2: like if if he really is a Buckeye fan, maybe
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  Speaker 2: he knows also how crazy they are and wants to
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  Speaker 2: start letting him down easy, or maybe he wants to
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  Speaker 2: ease the blow. You know, there's a lot of ways
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  Speaker 2: to read into it. But I think that the take
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  Speaker 2: away from anybody who read it was definitely it was
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  Speaker 2: slanted towards this is going the wrong way for Buckeye Nation.
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  Speaker 1: Now I read the say I read the article, I thought, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I had the exact same takeaway that is certainly the
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  Speaker 1: way it seemed like it was trending. So David Gabriel
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  Speaker 1: George then went on Twitter and you know this is
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  Speaker 1: this is one of these you know, brevity is the
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  Speaker 1: soul of wit, or you know, it doesn't it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: take much to say a lot or potentially say not much.
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  Speaker 1: What did David Gabriel George have to say about the report?
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  Speaker 2: He said, I didn't say anything. Now he did say,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't say anything. That's true. That makes a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Buckeye feel fans feel better. But it is also
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  Speaker 2: true that David Gabriel George never says anything, and that
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  Speaker 2: this uncle has been kind of the designated spokesman for
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  Speaker 2: Camp David Gabriel George for the last two years. This
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  Speaker 2: same guy has been the lead spokesman, the guy that
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  Speaker 2: mom and dad have had take the lead here because essentially,
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to football, he's been David's football dad.
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  Speaker 2: He's the guy that's taken him to practice, that's coached
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  Speaker 2: him and his friends from the time he was little,
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  Speaker 2: that's been on every single one of his visits. This
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  Speaker 2: isn't like the third Uncle Urban Meyer situation, where it's
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  Speaker 2: a guy trying to just kind of get in on
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  Speaker 2: the transaction. At the end, this guy legitimately is very
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  Speaker 2: very close with David, and it feels like the parents
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  Speaker 2: have kind of been a little more of the passengers
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  Speaker 2: and the uncle's been driving the car throughout this entire deal,
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  Speaker 2: and even before his high school recruitment. Actually, yes, his
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  Speaker 2: high school recruitment, because he did go from Canada down
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  Speaker 2: to Baylor, so he was involved in getting that and
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  Speaker 2: making that happen as well. So this isn't just some
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  Speaker 2: guy speaking out of turn here, though it did sound
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  Speaker 2: like potentially David was not happy with either what he
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  Speaker 2: said or he wasn't happy with the reaction that came
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  Speaker 2: out of what he said.
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  Speaker 1: So now the question is, you know, do you believe it?
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  Speaker 1: This is one of these fun recruiting things. Where is
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  Speaker 1: this This is a little like the MLB draft talk
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  Speaker 1: where you know what you hear before the MLB draft
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  Speaker 1: or the NFL draft? Are you getting a smoke screen?
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  Speaker 1: Are you getting the real deal?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to believe about this? Did he
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  Speaker 1: say this because this is true? Did he say this
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  Speaker 1: because this isn't true and he's going to throw everyone
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  Speaker 1: off the scent. This is the fun of recruiting. You've
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  Speaker 1: missed it. Just admit it, you've missed it. It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: So if this is all true and he does end
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  Speaker 1: up at Tennessee, ohiuse did has certainly put all of
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  Speaker 1: its eggs in the David Gabriel George basket for twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven. So if they don't end up with him,
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  Speaker 1: where do they turn next?
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  Speaker 2: You know, there could be a couple of reasons motivations
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  Speaker 2: for him to potentially go this route. And one could be,
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  Speaker 2: and he did mention in the article, that's the Tennessee staff,
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  Speaker 2: not Carlos Lachlan, where he has his best relationship with,
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  Speaker 2: but the Tennessee STA as a whole, including Josh Hipel,
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  Speaker 2: has the better relationship than the Ohio State staff. That
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  Speaker 2: shocked a lot of people. That's not the first time
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  Speaker 2: he said that. He did say coming out of the
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State visit that that was really the first time
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  Speaker 2: that they had had a good, long interaction with Ryan Day,
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  Speaker 2: which I found to be pretty surprising there. And then
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  Speaker 2: I could started thinking about, Okay, maybe Ryan Day's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be hands off and then he's going to come in
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  Speaker 2: and be the closer. It's the only thing I could
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  Speaker 2: think of. But Josh Hipel has been involved the entire time,
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  Speaker 2: and that feels like it's made a difference in the
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  Speaker 2: uncle's point of view. The question is how much is
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  Speaker 2: that really David's point of view and how much does
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  Speaker 2: he really care about that versus I don't know a
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  Speaker 2: forty year old man would care more about that. Potentially,
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  Speaker 2: who knows. It could also be trying to maybe throw
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  Speaker 2: up a little signal to Ohio State that you're going
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  Speaker 2: to need to do a little better here as we
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  Speaker 2: come down the stretch to get him. But should they not, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: should they not? There's a couple of options. One would
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  Speaker 2: be Ja Miles. Jaden Miles came in for an official visit.
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  Speaker 2: He's the back out of Louisiana, maybe like the top
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  Speaker 2: twenty five running back in the country. I'm not a
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  Speaker 2: huge fan, but they were fans enough of him to
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  Speaker 2: bring him in for an official He clearly wanted to
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  Speaker 2: be at Ohio State. He did not like the news
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  Speaker 2: that they were waiting on David Gabriel George, and he
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  Speaker 2: committed to Florida State the very next day. Now, could
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  Speaker 2: they go back and potentially flip him out of that
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  Speaker 2: Florida state commitment. I think if they really wanted to, yes,
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  Speaker 2: they could. You've also got Nigel Newkirk, who came in
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  Speaker 2: for an official visit committed to Alabama, and that one,
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  Speaker 2: to me, I think they might be able to double
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  Speaker 2: back on as well. That one would get me pretty excited.
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest odds here, what we would most
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  Speaker 2: likely see is this is someone who we've not discussed yet,
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  Speaker 2: a senior film eval and somebody that they get in
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  Speaker 2: and then the plan is, you know, Elijah Newman Hall,
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  Speaker 2: make sure he sticks next year and everything will be
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  Speaker 2: just fine. Got favorite key who looks pretty dog on
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  Speaker 2: solid as a freshman. As a young freshman, we saw
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  Speaker 2: him in the spring. Obviously he needs to gain a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of weight, but he looks like he knows
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  Speaker 2: what he's doing. He's he's twitched up, he's quick. And
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  Speaker 2: you got a couple of young guys in Isaiah and
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  Speaker 2: Bow and Turbo. You got legend in the mix. To me,
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  Speaker 2: the David Gabriel George recruitment was all about upside. If
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  Speaker 2: you get him, it's all upside. If you don't get him,
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  Speaker 2: it's not like it's a devastating loss. It'll hurt, it'll hurt,
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  Speaker 2: and they will obviously face a lot of criticism for
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  Speaker 2: pushing kind of two whole cycles in the David Gabriel
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  Speaker 2: George basket and losing. And they deserve it. They deserve it,
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  Speaker 2: especially if it was truly a relationship loss. But does
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  Speaker 2: it really hurt you in the long run. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it does. And you got a lot of extra
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  Speaker 2: funds to go play around with. All in all, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: this class to me is about is about the trenches,
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  Speaker 2: and I love it, and I think most Buckeye fans
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing that's gonna happen after this. It's gonna upset
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  Speaker 2: me about this class because it's already like I just
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  Speaker 2: love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does feel like they have gone all in
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  Speaker 1: in the trenches this year and they are loaded at
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  Speaker 1: the edge positions right now. And again there's a little
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  Speaker 1: ways to go till National Signing Day when pen meets paper.
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  Speaker 1: But if the class stays as it is and they
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  Speaker 1: can add a Carlos May in the interior of the
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  Speaker 1: defensive line, then this is probably Tony Gerderman and I
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  Speaker 1: did a show sometime a few days ago, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: could this be Larry Johnson's best class at Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: since dot dot dot And there have been some great
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  Speaker 1: classes at Ohio State, but this might be his best
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  Speaker 1: class at Ohio State. So you know, and and I
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  Speaker 1: think everyone's going to hear this and say all is
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  Speaker 1: lost on did the David Gabriel George front is like,
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  Speaker 1: hang on, He's not committing until July twenty second. So
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  Speaker 1: and there's.
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  Speaker 2: Further record time. I'm still fifty one forty nine buck up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and and yeah, I just wanted to put
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  Speaker 1: that out there. I don't think anyone is saying that
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  Speaker 1: the ship has sailed forever. I don't want I don't
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  Speaker 1: want people to get that impression. I do think there
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