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BREAKING: 4-Star RB Favour Akih Commits To Ohio State · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: we've got for you today is an episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Skull Session recruiting podcast with Market Givler and Kevin Newon.
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  Speaker 1: They're discussing the commitment of four star running back favor
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  Speaker 1: a Key to Ohio State that happened on Sunday. So
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  Speaker 1: they break down the kind of player, what he is
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  Speaker 1: but he's going to bring to the Buckeyes. And there's
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  Speaker 2: Hello, everyone, Welcome to the skull session recruit pot cast
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  Speaker 2: brush by bucke Huddle dot com. I am Mark Givler
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  Speaker 2: joined by Kevin Noon. It's a commitment edition, folks. Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State has landed four star running back Favorite Key out
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  Speaker 2: of Delaware Hayes High School just north of Columbus. Big
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  Speaker 2: pickup for Ohio State here this afternoon. Made his official
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  Speaker 2: visit this weekend and boxes were checked. Everything gets done.
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  Speaker 2: We kind of hinted this could be possible coming into
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  Speaker 2: the weekend, and it's now official. So the Buckeyes have
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  Speaker 2: their first running back of the twenty twenty six recruiting
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  Speaker 2: class in local prospect favor a Key, Kevin. Probably not
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  Speaker 2: a big surprise here, but still nice to get on
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  Speaker 2: the board.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. I trying some new tools here and it
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  Speaker 3: had us flipped in terms of our name. So I
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  Speaker 3: didn't like that. So I'm here solo. I'll get us
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  Speaker 3: figured out here at some point. I think this is
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  Speaker 3: a huge pickup. Obviously a Key maybe doesn't carry the
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  Speaker 3: name cachet that fans you know, we're looking for with
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  Speaker 3: like you know, Hider and Baker and Cooper all on
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  Speaker 3: the board and guys like that. But don't let don't
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  Speaker 3: let distance play a factor into it just because he's
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  Speaker 3: just from a neighboring county. Be like, well, you know
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  Speaker 3: that isn't a big deal. I mean this, this kid
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  Speaker 3: can play, and we're gonna put his highlights up here
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  Speaker 3: in a second talk about what it means. But I
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think that this is you know, this
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  Speaker 3: is a really good pick up for Ohio State, and
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  Speaker 3: you know it's about damn time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think people were like, hey, when's this gonna happen?
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  Speaker 2: Thought it might happen in May. May went came and went.
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  Speaker 2: He did set up the official of course. So I
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  Speaker 2: think people were kind of looking at this weekend as
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  Speaker 2: like a is he in or is he out type
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  Speaker 2: of type of deal. And he know it's like he
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  Speaker 2: was given an ultimatum or anything, but like, look, this
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  Speaker 2: this has been you know, a a a long term
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  Speaker 2: recruitment now, and I think it was just it just
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  Speaker 2: felt like it was time for everybody here to uh
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  Speaker 2: to come together. So so here we are. First, we'll
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about Favor a little bit here. We can
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  Speaker 2: throw in some of his films. He's got really just
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  Speaker 2: about everything you're looking for in a running back he's
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  Speaker 2: got good size, he runs with great pad level. Can
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  Speaker 2: kind of see him getting low there through the hole.
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  Speaker 2: He's got good burst and vision and has some top
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  Speaker 2: end speed where if you give him you give him
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  Speaker 2: a step, you're gonna have some problems. So a very
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  Speaker 2: complete player at the running back position and someone who
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  Speaker 2: really burst onto the scene this past year as a
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  Speaker 2: as a junior. So he's kind of a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a late bloomer in a sense, but a guy that
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  Speaker 2: picked up a ton of national interest over the past
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  Speaker 2: six months or so. And of course Ohio State got
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  Speaker 2: involved as well. And look, Carlos Lachlan's really been rolling
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  Speaker 2: with recruiting. So the fact that favor of Key was
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  Speaker 2: a take for Ohio State should tell you something. With
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  Speaker 2: all the other running backs they've had on the board,
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  Speaker 2: that should tell you how Carlos Lachlan and the Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State staff feels about him. But again, when you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about someone who's six feet tall and you're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: two hundred plus pounds, he can kind of run away
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  Speaker 2: from you and and again runs with that low pad
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  Speaker 2: level and is able to use those fields. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that was a great move in the hole there on
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  Speaker 2: the video we're watching just has that vision and shiftiness
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  Speaker 2: and toughness. I think this is a really good pickup
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  Speaker 2: for Ohio State. I think he's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: really solid back for the Buckeyes. And you know, they
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  Speaker 2: beat a lot of Again, a lot of national programs
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  Speaker 2: were involved here, and I think probably the most notable,
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  Speaker 2: like maybe the runner up here is probably Miami. That
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  Speaker 2: was a school that was linked pretty heavily to Favor
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  Speaker 2: during the recruiting process, and you know Miami's you know,
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  Speaker 2: had some good backs here recently, and there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of good running backs in Florida they could have went after.
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  Speaker 2: So the fact that they were coming up all the
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  Speaker 2: way to Ohio I think says something as well about
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  Speaker 2: favor a keysability. But again, I just I like the
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  Speaker 2: vision and the toughness that he shows, and and again
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  Speaker 2: here we go, you kind of he can catch the
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  Speaker 2: ball a little bit as well. I mean that's always
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  Speaker 2: to be a plus great spin move there coming right
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  Speaker 2: out of the catch. So again, a lot of tools
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  Speaker 2: here and a guy who's gotten a lot better through
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  Speaker 2: his high school career, which is always a good sign
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  Speaker 2: when you start projecting him to college.
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  Speaker 3: The thing I'm I'm going to kind of take away
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  Speaker 3: from this one is everybody was really excited when Carlos
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  Speaker 3: Lachlan came in. He kind of reset the board with
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  Speaker 3: last year's class and you know, a departure maybe from
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  Speaker 3: the board that Tony Alfred had as his predecessor. And
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  Speaker 3: then we get into this cycle and the Carson Baker
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  Speaker 3: visit is off, and you know, are they taking two?
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  Speaker 3: They're taking one? What's going on? I don't know. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to get into that here in a second. We're
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  Speaker 3: talking more in particular about a key, But are you
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  Speaker 3: are you on board with what Lachlan's doing or are
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  Speaker 3: you questioning it? Because last year everybody was pretty damn
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  Speaker 3: excited about it. They obviously had a fantastic one two
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  Speaker 3: punch in terms of what they were playing with Trevian Henderson,
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  Speaker 3: with quin Shawn Judkins. You know, we got to see
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  Speaker 3: a little bit just a preview, like a preview of
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  Speaker 3: a preview James People's you know, they go out, they
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  Speaker 3: get CJ. Donaldson and the portal Bo Jackson looks like
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be somebody who's going to play. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we haven't even had a chance to see Turbo Rogers.
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  Speaker 3: Yet you know, we're they're rolling very deep at at
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  Speaker 3: at running back. So I think this is one of
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  Speaker 3: these things of if you're on the fence and I'm
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  Speaker 3: not here. As I said on my show yesterday, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not here to tell you how to Internet, but I
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  Speaker 3: am here to tell you to you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: you can have an open mind in this one. And
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  Speaker 3: people are gonna just you know, maybe they go back
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  Speaker 3: and they see just the in state running backs that
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  Speaker 3: didn't necessarily do anything. And I'm not talking person to
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  Speaker 3: person or body type to body type, but I'll pick
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  Speaker 3: on you know, Todd Sibley junior, and you know, he
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  Speaker 3: was a really nice high school back and it didn't
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  Speaker 3: translate into the collegiate game or anything like that. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, I don't think that you can make those
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  Speaker 3: types of blanket you know, those those those blanket comparisons
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  Speaker 3: just because the kids from Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have favor rated much higher than someone
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  Speaker 2: like that coming out of high school. Just again, I
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  Speaker 2: think the physical tools are there. He plays. Does he
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  Speaker 2: play the best competition cuter, No, but Central Ohio. He
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  Speaker 2: plays big school, Central Ohio competition. So you're you're getting
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  Speaker 2: a guy who's proven it at at somewhat of a
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  Speaker 2: good level of high school football. And again, I always
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  Speaker 2: like the guys who get better and better as their
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  Speaker 2: high school careers go on, because that's generally a great
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  Speaker 2: sign moving forward. But right now, I think even though
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  Speaker 2: he's he's not been here that long, Like I think,
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  Speaker 2: Carlos Lachlan has to have earned trust if you're an
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State fan at this point, he's He's both had product,
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  Speaker 2: He's had a productive running back room. That's fine. He didn't, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, develop those guys in terms of like being
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  Speaker 2: there throughout their college careers. You want to throw that
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  Speaker 2: against him, that's fine, but we've yet to see Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State put a non NFL guy in the game at
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  Speaker 2: running back with him. That's going to continue with James
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  Speaker 2: Peoples spoiler alert, he does go get CJ. Donaldson, one
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  Speaker 2: of the one of the best running backs in the
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  Speaker 2: transfer portal, and he signs a great class last year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they signed Bo Jackson if he's not
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  Speaker 2: the running backs coach. I really don't. I really think
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  Speaker 2: that was gonna go sideways on them. If Carlos Lachlan wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: The running backs coach.
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  Speaker 2: So now he's got them in the mix for for
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  Speaker 2: the nation's top running backs. Yes, they've They've clearly made
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  Speaker 2: the choice of favor a key over Carson Baker. They
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  Speaker 2: clearly made that choice with what we've seen the last
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  Speaker 2: two weeks. So he's down to like these two great
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  Speaker 2: backs left in this class, but he's already got a
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  Speaker 2: key in the fold.
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  Speaker 3: Again.
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  Speaker 2: I think this has been a really good run for
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  Speaker 2: Carlos Laughlin. I think you have to trust his evaluations
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  Speaker 2: and trust his judgment spased on what we know so far.
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  Speaker 2: That's all we can do is go off what we
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  Speaker 2: know so far. What we know so far has been
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  Speaker 2: very successful.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he Korea one thousand percent on every point you
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  Speaker 3: just made there. I mean, at some point trust has
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  Speaker 3: to be earned, and I understand that sometimes with a
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  Speaker 3: year in and coach Locke is very young in his
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  Speaker 3: coaching career. I mean he really is, not just at
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State, I mean in football in general. Dude is
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  Speaker 3: an interesting cat. He's He's lived four lifetimes. I mean
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  Speaker 3: he is. He is somebody that I would sit down
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  Speaker 3: and have multiple beers with and just you know, trade
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  Speaker 3: war stories. Well, listen to his war stories. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: the damn reporter. But you know, listen to him. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the things that he's seen and the things he's gone
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  Speaker 3: through and the things he's experienced, and you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: he's taken to this collegiate coaching thing pretty well. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that there needs to be exciting. Because I
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  Speaker 3: did get some text messages leading into us recording this
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  Speaker 3: about you know, question mark, question face, all the emojis.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, just chill, you know, relax. Yes, Delaware
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  Speaker 3: County is not necessarily the hot bed of Ohio high
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  Speaker 3: school football, but you know, he's getting he's getting it done,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, and the thing is, it's like it's
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  Speaker 3: not like they don't have teams on their schedule, it's
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  Speaker 3: just that it's might it's not their league play. And
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  Speaker 3: by having favor a key, as you know, if you're
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  Speaker 3: going one back and he's here, it's highly unlikely that
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  Speaker 3: he's going to look elsewhere. And I'm not saying that
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  Speaker 3: car Baker would be somebody who would be looking elsewhere,
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  Speaker 3: but he's outside of Atlanta. He he would be he
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  Speaker 3: would be peppered, you know, every single minute until the
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  Speaker 3: ink was dry on his letter of intent. I know,
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  Speaker 3: we don't do letter of intents anymore, you know, financial
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  Speaker 3: aid agreement, whatever the hell they call them, this is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is one that if you know, if
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  Speaker 3: it's even you know, I'm staying local at that point.
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  Speaker 3: And I and I and I don't think that Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State really gave anything back. Now, if Ohio State made
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  Speaker 3: the decision that it wants two backs and was able
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  Speaker 3: to get a Hider or able to get a Cooper
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  Speaker 3: or somebody like that, fan frea fantastic. But he took
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  Speaker 3: three backs last year. The portal is always open for business.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're still you know, we're still we're still
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  Speaker 3: in the infancy of the house settlement. You know, not
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  Speaker 3: all of that is even in play yet. I mean
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  Speaker 3: it's agreed upon, but not even in play yet. We
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  Speaker 3: don't know what we don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, it's it's pretty clear at this point
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  Speaker 2: that Ohio State and Carlos Laughlin's thinking is we want
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  Speaker 2: favorite Keimus Glass. We're willing to walk away from Carson
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  Speaker 2: Baker to do that. And now we're going to take
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  Speaker 2: our swings at Savi and Heider and Derek Cooper. And
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  Speaker 2: if if if I say I don't say we as
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  Speaker 2: an I'm part of it, but I say we as
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  Speaker 2: in I'm speaking as though this is Ohio State. If
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  Speaker 2: we can get SAVII and Hider or Derek Cooper to
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  Speaker 2: go with him, that's fantastic, that's great, And if not,
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  Speaker 2: we're good with with just Favorite Key if that's how
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  Speaker 2: it plays out. But we're not going to lower the
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  Speaker 2: standard at running back, So we're not going to reach
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  Speaker 2: to hit some magical quota. We're going to take guys
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  Speaker 2: we think can make a difference here, not guys who
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  Speaker 2: are going to get here not be able to play
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  Speaker 2: and then transfer out in the here. So they're in
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  Speaker 2: a pretty cool situation I think right now where they've
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  Speaker 2: got there, they've got their guy in Favorite Key and
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  Speaker 2: now they can pretty much put all their energy in
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  Speaker 2: a Heider or Cooper, you know, and maybe someone else
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  Speaker 2: either that we're not talking about right now, comes available
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  Speaker 2: later in the process. Maybe there's a reevaluation of a
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  Speaker 2: you know, no one knew at this point in the
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  Speaker 2: recruiting process, no one knew who Jamier Gibbs was, so like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe that something like that makes itself available later.
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  Speaker 2: But they're in a great position right now where they're
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  Speaker 2: playing with house money. They've got really what they need.
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  Speaker 2: They need one back, and they don't need two backs
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  Speaker 2: in this class, but they'd like to take a second
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  Speaker 2: one if it's an elite guy. They think Hider and
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  Speaker 2: Cooper are the two best out of state running backs
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  Speaker 2: in America, and so they're going to pursue those guys
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  Speaker 2: and we'll see what happens. I you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure what's going to happen there. I haven't I've said
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  Speaker 2: this before. I'm kind of repeating myself a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not buying the national buzz of Cooper and Miami.
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  Speaker 2: I've got it on pretty good authority that it's very
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  Speaker 2: likely Derek Cooper is going to leave the state. And
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  Speaker 2: I tend to think this house thing, even though it's
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  Speaker 2: not in effect yet, is actually going to help that
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  Speaker 2: out because I don't know that Miami is able to
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  Speaker 2: do the Godfather offer in November. Now. Uh, now that
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  Speaker 2: there is going to be a cap down the road
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  Speaker 2: at some point, I think this this could deter some
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  Speaker 2: schools from doing that. So you're looking at, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: what's what's kind of an Ohio State Georgia battle, right
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  Speaker 2: now I would lean Georgia at this point. We'll see
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  Speaker 2: he's he's you know, he's got his official to Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State coming up. We'll see how that goes. They did
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  Speaker 2: well with Savian heider on On on his official By
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  Speaker 2: all accounts, Tennessee and Michigan are still in there. I
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  Speaker 2: you know, I know, Tennessee's got a pretty nice setup
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  Speaker 2: for him in terms of anil geography depth chart that
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  Speaker 2: could be tough to overcome. But Ohio State feels confident
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  Speaker 2: that they're right in that one, and they feel confident
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  Speaker 2: they're right in it with Derek Cooper as well. So
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  Speaker 2: so let's let's see how these two play out. If
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  Speaker 2: they could add one of those guys to go with
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  Speaker 2: a key that's that's an A plus running back class.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and the longer that either of those recruitments go
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  Speaker 3: helps Ohio State out for a multitude of reasons. I mean, namely,
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  Speaker 3: because you you get the chance to show year two
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  Speaker 3: of coaching under coach Locke. You get to show year two,
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  Speaker 3: you know, year one of a running back that wasn't
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  Speaker 3: necessarily you know, that wasn't already established. Trevon Henderson established
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  Speaker 3: quin Shawn Judkins established James Peoples. Mark knows. I know,
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  Speaker 3: y'all know, he's really damn good. The world doesn't really
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  Speaker 3: know that yet. They haven't had the chance, they have
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  Speaker 3: not been introduced to him. So you trot out j
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  Speaker 3: You trot out James Peoples, who is sharing the rock
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  Speaker 3: with Donaldson, and he goes for eleven hundred yards or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: and you're you're a back who's like, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: could really get down with, you know, with that kind
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  Speaker 3: of system. And that's not to take away you know,
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee did a great job with Dylan Sampson. Unfortunately, Dylan
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  Speaker 3: Sampson was spent by the time that Tennessee came up
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  Speaker 3: to Columbus to play Ohio State and was a non
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  Speaker 3: factor in that. In that point, Ohio State seems to
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  Speaker 3: have the secret sauce in terms of the two BAC
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  Speaker 3: system and everything else. So time is Ohio State's ally
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  Speaker 3: at this point, because too, at that point, you have
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  Speaker 3: time to kind of understand the house settlement. You have
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  Speaker 3: time to understand this thing, a lot of these things,
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  Speaker 3: and you kind of know where, you know where you
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  Speaker 3: can need to shift your dollars and everything else. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, I can't believe here in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about having to shift your dollars and everything.
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  Speaker 3: And this isn't just a quiet conversation over beers, just
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  Speaker 3: laughing about just you know, how the sausage really is
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  Speaker 3: made in terms of just how the world works, not
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  Speaker 3: in any school in particular. I think it would be
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  Speaker 3: hilarious just in the game of karma. And I know
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  Speaker 3: Mark said that Cooper doesn't seem like he's going to
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  Speaker 3: go to Miami, but he does commit to Miami, and
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  Speaker 3: then Ohio State pulls of South Florida running back away
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  Speaker 3: at the last minute, as Miami has done it twice
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  Speaker 3: to Ohio State. But if that happens, it's not under
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: the same circumstances because Miami really didn't bring in the
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: quote unquote Godfather offer at those points in Ohio State
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: unless you're Jeremiah Smith. And even with jere Jeremiah Smith
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: still had to kind of prove who was Jeremiah Smith.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, sure, there was some wrangling going on before
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: everything was finalized and everything else, but Ohio State has
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  Speaker 3: always kind of shown in the very short data points
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  Speaker 3: that we have for nil, you perform, you earn that's
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  Speaker 3: how and that's how it's supposed to work. That is
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  Speaker 3: supposed And I don't say that just because I cover
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State and it just you know, makes me look
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  Speaker 3: better or feel better to say, oh, Oio State does
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  Speaker 3: it the right way, but Ohio State does it the
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: right way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think again, One thing I think with Cooper,
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  Speaker 2: with Hyder, with really anyone who's ncommitted right now, I
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: do wonder how the House Settlement, again not being in
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: effect yet but just knowing what's coming, if that adjusts
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  Speaker 2: the math for some of these programs who are throwing
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: around huge numbers, and I do wonder if they're gonna
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: have to walk those back. And then schools maybe like
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Georgia and will State, who have kind of stuck by
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: their guns on their first kind of you know this.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: They don't play the game of oh now, it's this now,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: the offers this now, oh we'll give you even more.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: They kind of just give you what they think they
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: can do. I wonder if that doesn't help them long
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: term now that it's kind of official, what things are
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: going to look like moving forward. So that's another thing
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: to watch here with running back recruiting with Ohio State
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: down the stretch and with really recruiting at a lot
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: of different positions down the stretch, D line again is
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: one where they don't have any commitments yet. How does
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: this change now or schools that are you know, how
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: does this change for a Tyler Atkinson or a Xavier Griffin.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: That means schools are gonna have to kind of show
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: their cards now. Usually you don't have to show your cards,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: and you know, you really don't ever have to share
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: your card. You can get them on campus and be like, oh,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: he just all the money. Now you've got to kind
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: of have to show your cards before these kids are
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: on campus. So that's gonna be a big thing. I
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: think to watch It's almost its own podcast is to
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: kind of watch how that will impact recruiting. But yeah,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: for now, big time pick up for the Buckeyes and
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: favor a key two really big fish still out there
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: at running back Kevin. Any final thoughts here.
• 18:08
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• 18:39
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• 18:44
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• 18:47
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