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Ohio State Men's Basketball: Can New Look Buckeyes Make A Run In Jake Diebler's Second Season? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: So on today's show instead of football, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be doing taking a little bit of a turn, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking of a little Higho State basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Towards the end of last week, head coach Jake Diebler
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  Speaker 1: held the press conference. It's one of those things I've
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  Speaker 1: been thinking, No, I need to do a show on
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  Speaker 1: basketball at some point, just at a touch base on
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  Speaker 1: where things are right there, because there is a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on and a lot of new faces.
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  Speaker 2: They is that day.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, let's start with Jake Diebler talking about
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  Speaker 1: this summer and how it's different from last summer, which
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  Speaker 1: was of course his first as the new head coach
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio State.
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  Speaker 3: Well, for starters, we've played more five one five this
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  Speaker 3: summer already and what is a week and almost a
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  Speaker 3: half than we did all summer. So I think availability
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  Speaker 3: so far, Lord Willing continues has been an important difference
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  Speaker 3: for us.
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  Speaker 4: I thought that was impactful as we tried to implement
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  Speaker 4: system both offensively and defensively aimed chemistry quite honestly, so
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  Speaker 4: being able to play and compete and go out and
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  Speaker 4: execute the stuff and working on it's been a good
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  Speaker 4: change to get started.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot changing in any college basketball world, and
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  Speaker 1: we will get to some of those new faces who
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  Speaker 1: are shown up at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: In just a minute.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the other big pieces of news in
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  Speaker 1: the college sports world is the house settlement that was finalized.
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  Speaker 1: Who's been officially approved and now that everyone's sort of
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  Speaker 1: figuring out, Okay, what does that actually mean for us?
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean on the ground for all these
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  Speaker 1: different schools and all these different sports. So okay, Jake Diebler,
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  Speaker 1: what does it mean for Ohio State basketball?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I think the encouraging thing about being at
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  Speaker 3: the Ohio State University is we're going to be on
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  Speaker 3: the cutting edge, and under Ross's leadership, feel real confident
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  Speaker 3: as to you know, once everything truly is settled, because
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  Speaker 3: I still feel like there's a lot of questions, But
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  Speaker 3: once everything's, you know, truly settled, I think that's going
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  Speaker 3: to mean a great thing for our entire department and
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  Speaker 3: certainly for our basketball program.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, it seems like every year it's sort
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  Speaker 1: of a new look for every college basketball program. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this' turnover in college football and you see plenty of
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  Speaker 1: new faces and guys graduate and all that, but college basketball,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like every year half the roster is all
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  Speaker 1: new faces. Is lots of guys headed elsewhere on the portal,
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  Speaker 1: lots of guys coming in in the portal, and of
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  Speaker 1: course some freshmen as well. So as Jake Piebler was
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  Speaker 1: rebuilding his team this offseason, what were his priorities as
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  Speaker 1: he sort of put that roster together.
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  Speaker 3: Experience, But it started with retention. Retention was how we
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  Speaker 3: wanted to build out this roster. The foundation, the core,
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  Speaker 3: however you want to put it, was retention. I think
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  Speaker 3: the obviously the three guys Bruce, John and Devin certainly
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  Speaker 3: highlight that, but also for us, the retention of guys
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  Speaker 3: like Tasting, Colin and Vond, guys who were developing in
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  Speaker 3: our program was important too. Once we had those kind
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  Speaker 3: of pieces settled, we wanted to build out from there
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  Speaker 3: and compliment those guys because we.
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  Speaker 5: Know there's a foundation of what Bruce, Judi and Devin
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  Speaker 5: can do.
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  Speaker 3: Right, we know what they can do and by all
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  Speaker 3: accounts of what we've seen so farther off, can to
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  Speaker 3: continue to make a jump. As we tried to add
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  Speaker 3: to that, it felt like the experience was important in
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  Speaker 3: the front port, increasing our size, like we're going to
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  Speaker 3: be bigger really at.
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  Speaker 5: The three, four, and five positions. I feel like we're
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  Speaker 5: going to be bigger this year.
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  Speaker 3: That was important because rebounding was an issue for us
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  Speaker 3: last year, so we wanted to address that but and
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  Speaker 3: raise our collective basketball IQ.
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  Speaker 5: I make.
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  Speaker 3: Experience certainly plays a role in it, right, but those
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  Speaker 3: were things we were targeting, and I feel like I
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  Speaker 3: feel like we did.
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  Speaker 5: Really well with that.
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  Speaker 1: Buck guys completely rebuilt their front court. Two guys among
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  Speaker 1: that group that are healthy right now front court transfer
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  Speaker 1: is Brendan Newell from Wright State and Christophe Tilly from
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  Speaker 1: Santa Clara. Those guys are actively out there participating in
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  Speaker 1: some of those summer workouts. And we'll get to the
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  Speaker 1: guy who's not healthy in a minute. But what has
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  Speaker 1: Jake Diebler seen so far from those two guys and
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  Speaker 1: what made what did he see from them at their
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  Speaker 1: previous stops that really made them good fits.
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  Speaker 3: You know, both of those guys that played a lot
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  Speaker 3: of college basketball, and I get that's not they didn't
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  Speaker 3: play a lot of Big ten basketball, but they've both
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  Speaker 3: been well coached. You could see on film and un
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  Speaker 3: standing a basketball IQ that I think will help the
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  Speaker 3: transition from their level to this level. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: Tilly's played high level international basketball, which is a whole
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  Speaker 3: other level, right, and that's going to be valuable. And
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  Speaker 3: I think Brandon and him both are really smart. You
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  Speaker 3: combine that basketball IQ with their skill level being able
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  Speaker 3: certainly to make shots but pass, make decisions, dribbled like
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. That that combination, I think really is going
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  Speaker 3: to help that transition for him.
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  Speaker 5: And Listen, we need them to be impactful, there's no
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  Speaker 5: question about it.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't think we need either of them to
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  Speaker 3: be the same player they work. You know, we have
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  Speaker 3: other like this is going to be the best team
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  Speaker 3: that both of those guys have played on. It's not
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  Speaker 3: that they haven't played on good teams, but the best
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  Speaker 3: collection of talent that they play on. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that they got to make an adjustment to that too.
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  Speaker 3: But guys we have coming back got to make an
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  Speaker 3: adjustment to them because they're going to be important pieces
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  Speaker 3: for us.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned that there was a front court transer who was
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  Speaker 1: healthy yet. That is josh O genuine of from Baylor.
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  Speaker 1: He's still sort of working with the medical staff. Deebler
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  Speaker 1: did not have a timeline from him yet in terms
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  Speaker 1: of when he might really be able to be on
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  Speaker 1: the court and contributing to this year's Buckeye basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: But if he's not ready for the start of the season,
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  Speaker 1: who else other than the two guys we just talked
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  Speaker 1: about it, are they going to be looking at to
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  Speaker 1: help with maybe rebounding and defending the rim. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: hear him mention a couple of guys by just their
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  Speaker 1: first names. It's Yvonne Goovin, who you will probably remember
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  Speaker 1: from last year, and freshman Amari Binem.
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  Speaker 3: I think Von's going to be really important and Omark.
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  Speaker 3: I mean both those guys, and both of them are capable.
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  Speaker 3: There's no question. We feel really confident in those two
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  Speaker 3: being able to step in and have an impact. I
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  Speaker 3: think Christoph, I think Brandon. You know, Devin's versatility, all
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  Speaker 3: of that that's going to be important for us.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, feel really good on the way of Vonn.
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  Speaker 3: Has approved since the end of the season to now,
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  Speaker 3: and he's got a window now to take an even
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  Speaker 3: bigger job. So as long as he keeps working, he
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  Speaker 3: he will and I'm already you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, we're super excited about his upside.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a physicality to him that most freshmen don't have.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly there's a size component to that.
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  Speaker 3: When he's got the height, he's got the length, he's
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  Speaker 3: got the athleticism, and he plays with a force in physicality.
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  Speaker 3: That's been impressive to see for such a young player.
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  Speaker 1: Talked earlier about all the turnover that you see during
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  Speaker 1: the course of the off season, and the Buck guys
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  Speaker 1: have taken nine transfers into the program just over the
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  Speaker 1: two off seasons that Jake Diebler has been in charge.
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  Speaker 1: So is that more of a product of the coaching
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  Speaker 1: change and wanting to sort of set up for the
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  Speaker 1: systems he wants to run and what he wants to
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  Speaker 1: do as a coach, And it's you know, is that
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  Speaker 1: going to change now that he's maybe got more of
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  Speaker 1: his guys at place, or is that is that kind
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  Speaker 1: of turnover just maybe going to just be the new
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  Speaker 1: normal with the transfer portal?
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  Speaker 5: Well, who want to be aggressive?
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  Speaker 3: I because we continue to build out you know, nil
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  Speaker 3: and identify what that looks for.
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  Speaker 5: It allows us to certainly the impactful of the portal.
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  Speaker 3: But for me, when I envisioned this roster, he an't
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  Speaker 3: build out for years to come.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to with retention there's going to be an
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  Speaker 5: element of development. Those two things, you know, have to
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  Speaker 5: exist for us. I think it's important.
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  Speaker 3: We'll also continue to recruit high level freshmen, but maybe
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  Speaker 3: not every freshman.
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  Speaker 5: Can come in and have an impactment right away.
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  Speaker 3: Right but we're certainly going to be aggressive in the
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  Speaker 3: portal to compliment the pieces we have, and sometimes a
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  Speaker 3: compliment needs to.
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  Speaker 5: Be a high, high impact player.
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  Speaker 3: And we want to be able to have the flexibility
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  Speaker 3: in the spring to maneuver. As you guys have probably
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  Speaker 3: seen and gotten frustrated with the length that's taken to
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  Speaker 3: iron out the roster. We want flexibility in the springtime.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes that's going to be utilized in the portal. We've
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  Speaker 3: obviously been aggressive in the international space as well this year.
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  Speaker 3: But I think flexibility is key because whether it's guys
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  Speaker 3: going in the draft, changes you know you want to
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  Speaker 3: make within your roster during portal season, having that flexibilities
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  Speaker 3: rather important.
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  Speaker 1: But guys are going through a summer camp right now.
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  Speaker 1: Brought a lot of former players into the facility to
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  Speaker 1: sort of work with the new guys and practice and
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  Speaker 1: scrimmage and all that kind of stuff. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a cool thing that you can do that. You'll hear
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  Speaker 1: him talk about a whole bunch of former buck Eyes
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  Speaker 1: you rule, I'm sure remember fondly.
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  Speaker 2: From their playing days.
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  Speaker 1: We're now back working with the team, So you know
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  Speaker 1: what has that been like having those former players back
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  Speaker 1: in the building and getting a chance for the current
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  Speaker 1: guys to get better.
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  Speaker 5: The last couple of days are some of my favorite
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  Speaker 5: favorite days of the year.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, a lot of those guys. When I
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  Speaker 3: was here working for FAD, I was training those guys
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  Speaker 3: in the summer, we would be in the gym. We've
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  Speaker 3: had between eight and twelve guys a day. I'd be
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  Speaker 3: in the gym.
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  Speaker 5: From my start with Mike Conley, who wanted to.
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  Speaker 3: Work out early so he could go golf, who wanted
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  Speaker 3: to sleep in a little bit of long and work
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  Speaker 3: out like we just were in there for you know,
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  Speaker 3: all morning and into the early afternoon. So I've built
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  Speaker 3: a lot of great relationships. So there's an element for
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  Speaker 3: me personally spending time with those guys and certainly following
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  Speaker 3: their careers that just it's like nostalgic a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Right the other side, obviously for our program, it's a
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  Speaker 5: big deal.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you guys know how much I care about
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  Speaker 3: this program and how much I care about the greater
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State. Who's family, and this is the best display
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  Speaker 3: of that. We certainly feel elements that we felt elements
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  Speaker 3: of that all year long, guys coming into practice, talking
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  Speaker 3: to the team, sending messages to guys on the team.
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  Speaker 3: Black communication with former players throughout the year was consistent.
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  Speaker 5: But this is kind of a culmination of that. Right
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  Speaker 5: you get to feel it and see it.
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  Speaker 3: And my favorite moments during these last couple of days
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  Speaker 3: are when I see like D'Angelo Russell Grad Bruce Jorden or.
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  Speaker 5: John Mogley and put his arm.
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  Speaker 3: Around it and and talk through you know, leadership or
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  Speaker 3: Scooy Penn's around talking through ball screen stuff.
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  Speaker 5: And you got greg O who working with with.
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  Speaker 3: DeVaughn that like one on one former player, it's a
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  Speaker 3: current player interaction is my favorite party. And we had
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  Speaker 3: a ton of that for the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: We had a ton of it on the court, We
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  Speaker 3: had some of it in the weight room, We had
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  Speaker 3: some of it, you know, off the court at dinner.
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  Speaker 3: Just that part is my favorite. I'm so thankful for
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  Speaker 3: our former players that quite honestly, how much they care
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  Speaker 3: and love this program and they're investment in our current guys.
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  Speaker 1: Another one of the transfers that they brought in is
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  Speaker 1: Gabe Cups. He's a former mister Basketball in Ohio. He
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  Speaker 1: started his career at Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: So what can Gabe Cups spring to this year's team?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think some of that's got to play out, right.
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  Speaker 3: But the one thing I know about Gabe is he's
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  Speaker 3: really tough. He knows the game at a high level,
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  Speaker 3: and you know his intangibles that the way he can
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  Speaker 3: impact the game may not always show up right with stats. However,
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  Speaker 3: he also can produce, he can make shots, he knows
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  Speaker 3: how to read the game, coming up ball screens and
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  Speaker 3: zoom actions, which we're going to be doing a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: So the biggest thing for me is I've I've recruited
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  Speaker 3: game right first time around, and I think there was
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  Speaker 3: when he went for it, there was a comfortability that's
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  Speaker 3: helpful time of year, because stuff happened so fast that
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  Speaker 3: was helpful.
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  Speaker 5: I knew him, known his dad for a long.
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  Speaker 3: Time, but I've just always even when I first saw
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  Speaker 3: him play, you know, I think we might be the
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  Speaker 3: first time major to offer him and I'd certainly pushed
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  Speaker 3: for that, you know, rather quickly.
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  Speaker 5: But I've just always seemed part of me in him.
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  Speaker 3: He's better than I was, you know, but he I
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  Speaker 3: just I've always seen a lot of who I was
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  Speaker 3: as a player in him, and that I just I
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  Speaker 3: like that, and I think it impacts winning. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's important and I think it's impactful. We felt like
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  Speaker 3: we needed to raise kind of our team internal leadership,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he certainly does that. I think Devin
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  Speaker 3: getting older and John getting older helps with that, but
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  Speaker 3: we needed to bring some outside voices into to help
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  Speaker 3: with that and help Bruce do that. So he'll he'll
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  Speaker 3: provide all of that stuff. I'm really excited. He's been
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  Speaker 3: great what we've seen so far. And you know, but
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  Speaker 3: I think as far as you know, the specifics got to.
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  Speaker 5: Play out over time.
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  Speaker 1: One of the returning players who you did not see
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  Speaker 1: at all last season is Tayston Chapman. He missed all
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  Speaker 1: of last season with an injury. So what's his status?
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  Speaker 1: Is he full go?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Are there any concerns or reservations about Tayston Chapman at
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  Speaker 1: the moment?
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  Speaker 3: He didn't seem to have any yesterday and when we
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  Speaker 3: were scrimmaging, you know, he looked like I think there's
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  Speaker 3: probably sure, I'm sure for him some relief being out
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  Speaker 3: there playing in some five on five setting. That's you know,
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  Speaker 3: as game like as you can have this time of year, right.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that part for him.
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  Speaker 5: Was really good.
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  Speaker 3: The speed of the game, like there will be an
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  Speaker 3: adjustment to get get back used to that physicality, like
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  Speaker 3: that stuff you can't simulate right when.
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  Speaker 5: You're out and injured. But I've been really impressed with
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  Speaker 5: just his.
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  Speaker 3: Commitment to working and getting better and getting ready for
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  Speaker 3: now what is our you know, our summer training sessions.
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  Speaker 3: And he's not behind, he's not you know, apprehensive, He's like,
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  Speaker 3: he's out there, he's in the.
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  Speaker 5: Midds, he's playing hard, he's being aggressive.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, for us, if you walked into the
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  Speaker 3: gym and you watched, you wouldn't see a guy out
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  Speaker 3: there and say, like, man, he looks like a guy
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  Speaker 3: coming off injury. And I think that's a really good thing.
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  Speaker 1: And finally seems like towards the end of last season,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Thornton, the sort of do it all point guard
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State, was really just kind of he was
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  Speaker 1: putting a spot where he was being asked to do
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  Speaker 1: a little bit too much. So was getting him some
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  Speaker 1: more help in the back court a priority this offseason?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think you know, as the season went
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  Speaker 3: on last year, we tried to try to move Bruce
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  Speaker 3: around and you know, in the half court certainly because
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  Speaker 3: he was so efficient as a scored right, but it
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  Speaker 3: was a heavy load that we asked him to carry
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  Speaker 3: out this year, and you know, being able to have
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  Speaker 3: guys create for him sometimes makes it easier for him
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  Speaker 3: and also maybe made us.
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  Speaker 5: Hard to be darker. So we feel like we have.
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  Speaker 3: Way more playmaking in general will which will be really
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  Speaker 3: helpful for us. It's gonna be a lot more space
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  Speaker 3: on the court, which is something we tried to do
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  Speaker 3: going into last season, but as a season more all,
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  Speaker 3: we just we weren't able to do at the level
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: for one and two, we're gonna be able to play
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: with more pace.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: This year. We played faster than Ohio State's played them
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: a long time. However, it wasn't at the level we'd
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: like to get to. I think the Collective Basketball IQ
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: will help with that. The space will help with that.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: So listen, it's hard as a coach, right, because you
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: want Bruce out there every minute.
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: All of the time and involved in everything.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: But there's a reality too, and so I feel like
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: this roster is more equipped to, you know, have some
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: more versatility variability offensively, which will be important for us.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: And then guys being able to pray for him him
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: be able to pray for others, and.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: That should happen a little bit more.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Well, that'll do it for the Jake Diebler report on
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: the Ohio State basketball team. I'm sure I'll be talking
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: a little more Buckeye basketball in the coming days and weeks,
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: but of course we're gonna be talking a lot more football.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: We will have a bunch reporting this week coming up
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: on what are expected to be We're expecting probably some
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: commitments in the coming days and coming weeks. We'll have
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: all sorts of shows for you on that whenever those
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: all sort of break, And of course, plenty of news
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: on how this weekend's visits went. Plenty of news on
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: where things stand with the Buckeyes in terms of this
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: year's class and some of the future classes as they're
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: sort of filling out that twenty twenty sixth class, but
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: already taking a pretty deep look at twenty twenty seven
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: and even twenty twenty eight, bringing in a lot of
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: players for visits, bringing a lot of players to camps,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: and then you know, potentially be starting to add to
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: those commitment lists as well.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: So we're gonna be talking about all of that at
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: buckey Huddle dot com. We hope you can join us.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: There, got our whole team covering not only the current
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: program and the current players and coaches, recruiting x'es.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: And o's and more.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: That is all at bucke huddle dot com and YouTube
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: dot com slash Buckey Huddle. That'll do it for today.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.