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JT Barrett, Nick Swisher Headline 2026 Ohio State Hall Of Fame Class · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyees tomorrow morning for Saturday, August eighth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: we are talking about some people who have achieved some
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  Speaker 1: incredible milestones. Ohios date announcing its class of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six Athletics Hall of Fame inductees. We've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: some of those names, some very familiar names I'm guessing
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State football fans and some other fans of
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  Speaker 1: other sports as well. Another name that of course is
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  Speaker 1: familiar is Tony Gardiman of Buckeye Insiders dot com. He
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  Speaker 1: joins me today and Tony, you know a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the times you would see these names and it was
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  Speaker 1: like people who you had sort of read in history
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  Speaker 1: books or you know, people from way back when. And
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  Speaker 1: now you're you're starting to see a lot of names
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  Speaker 1: that are like, oh, man, I remember watching that guy
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  Speaker 1: play and I covered that guy. We've had a couple.
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  Speaker 1: I've got several I covered that guy in this class.
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  Speaker 1: First one one that I'm guessing very much everyone is
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  Speaker 1: going to know. J. T. Barrett, Congratulations on your induction
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  Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty six Ohio State Athletics Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame class.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the all time greats who had success
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  Speaker 2: against Michigan's success against the Big Ten. Came in at
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  Speaker 2: the right time for a dual threat quarterback that he
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  Speaker 2: was to be part of Urban Meyer's system and picked
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  Speaker 2: up right where Braxton Miller left off and went beyond
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  Speaker 2: that really and holds thirty four Ohio state records, five
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten records, including the career total offensive yards, which is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, twelve six hundred and ninety seven yards, touchdown
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  Speaker 2: passes one hundred and four and touchdowns responsible for one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and forty seven and the history of the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 2: And there's been been some good players. I think Drew
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  Speaker 2: Brees may have held some of those records previously. So
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  Speaker 2: if you can go ahead and beat Drew Brees' records,
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  Speaker 2: that's not too shabby.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he put up numbers and you know, certainly compiled
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  Speaker 1: stats over the years. But also man won a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of football games. He was part of four Ohio
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  Speaker 1: state teams that just kind of kept winning, kept winning,
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  Speaker 1: kept winning, and so eventually you win enough and then
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  Speaker 1: you're in the Hall of Fame. So congratulations to J. T. Barrett.
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  Speaker 1: Second person on the list that we want to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: the man they called Tippy Toes. He ran track but
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  Speaker 1: also a pretty good wide receiver in the early nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Sanders.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I played with as I said early in the
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  Speaker 2: mid nineties, was a ridiculous deep threat and just reading
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  Speaker 2: up on his bile that the track part. He set
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  Speaker 2: the indoor big ten long jump record. It was just
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  Speaker 2: broken this pastime. To give you an idea of how
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  Speaker 2: long some of his track records have stood. But he
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  Speaker 2: was he was Devin Smith before Devin Smith was Devin Smith.
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  Speaker 2: When we talk about these Z receivers that are elite
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  Speaker 2: deep threats and he was just fast, fast, fast, and
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  Speaker 2: then goes to the NFL. I believe it was a
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  Speaker 2: third round pick and as a rookie catches like thirty
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  Speaker 2: some passes for eight hundred yards twenty three point seven
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  Speaker 2: yards per reception. The next year he kind of does
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  Speaker 2: it again, but you know, down to a lowly eighteen
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  Speaker 2: point six or something like that. But early in his
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  Speaker 2: career was it was I think Steve McNair's first full
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  Speaker 2: year as the starter, just throwed up and let tippy
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  Speaker 2: toes go get it. And yeah, he was one of
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  Speaker 2: the first the part of that, the first wave after
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  Speaker 2: Chris Carter with like Joey Galloway, where he just had
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  Speaker 2: some really really dynamic athletes at receiver.
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  Speaker 1: And you're talking about how fast he was, and I
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  Speaker 1: just went back and double checked it. I think he
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  Speaker 1: overlapped quite a bit with Joey Galloway, who also could
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  Speaker 1: run a little bit. And yes, they overlapped. Basically their
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  Speaker 1: whole careers overlapped. So that was Those were the two
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  Speaker 1: outside wide receivers for Ohio State at that point. Good luck,
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  Speaker 1: good luck having two corners that can run with those
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  Speaker 1: two guys. Third guy, Stan White from the football team
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  Speaker 1: and you're thinking the fullback from ten twelve years ago.
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  Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no his dad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, his dad, And somebody mentioned this on the Buckeyin
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  Speaker 2: Center's message board were like, Stan White, so like every
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame class has to have a fullback. It's
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  Speaker 2: like no, no, no, yes, but no, no. This is
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  Speaker 2: his dad. His father who was an All Big ten
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  Speaker 2: linebacker long before Stan White Junior ever got to Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: was part of the nineteen seventy team and I think
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  Speaker 2: left school as the all time leading tackler for Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State in the early very early seventies and also set
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  Speaker 2: a sing this season tackling tackle record which would later
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  Speaker 2: on to go get obliterated in the mid to late seventies.
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  Speaker 2: Then with the Marcus Merrick and those guys. But a
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  Speaker 2: guy who went on to play a long time in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL went into TV broadcasting, and then Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: releases a video today have Stan White Junior telling his
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  Speaker 2: dad that you've made it to the Ohio State Athletics
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. So you can go find that on
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  Speaker 2: the Ohio State football Twitter page.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those are always really cool. I love the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame videos that the NFL, like the Pro Football
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame puts out where you've got someone you know,
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  Speaker 1: knocking on someone else's door, and yeah, those are always
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. The fourth guy I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: really kind of talk about real quickly is not a
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  Speaker 1: football player, but a baseball player, Nick Swisher. He was
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  Speaker 1: obviously sort of late nineties early two thousands strength some
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  Speaker 1: of those great Bob Todd era baseball teams. This one
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  Speaker 1: is a little special to me because the first thing,
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  Speaker 1: the first team I ever covered as a reporter at
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  Speaker 1: the Lantern was I was the baseball beat guy in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and I had to dig this out. I
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  Speaker 1: have a like a poster thing of like all the
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  Speaker 1: all the guys on that team, and I've got the
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  Speaker 1: like little credentials there for my first time ever covering
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  Speaker 1: a team, I thought that was I hadn't I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: thought about that in a while. If found in the
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  Speaker 1: back of behind a bunch of other stuff on the
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  Speaker 1: side of my office, I'm like, I've got that somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. Yes, Nick Swisher, who was a
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal baseball player, son of another another son of an
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  Speaker 1: athlete guy. He his dad Steve Swisher was a pro
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  Speaker 1: baseball player for the Cubs in the like late seventies
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  Speaker 1: early eighties, and he was Nick Swisher was a phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: baseball player at Ohio State. But you know, great on
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  Speaker 1: bass guy. He was. Also if you have read the
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  Speaker 1: the Michael Lewis book Moneyball, he is one of the
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  Speaker 1: like he was one of the people that Billy Bean
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  Speaker 1: was like obsessed with. And maybe you could Billy Bean
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  Speaker 1: wanted Nick Swisher so badly that Billy Bean never came
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  Speaker 1: to Ohio State to watch Nick Swisher play because he
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to tip other people off. How about badly
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  Speaker 1: he wanted Nick Swisher. And then Swisher went on to
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  Speaker 1: have a long and productive pro baseball career as well
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  Speaker 1: with the A's and the Yankees and the then Indians. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: Nick Swisher ended up and always always repped Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: He would oh the crowd in Cleveland when he was there,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, he was always a very proud black guy.
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  Speaker 1: And his name is now on the baseball stadium at
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State as well. So those are for the names
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  Speaker 1: among this year's Athletic Hall of Fame class. The other
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  Speaker 1: ones other inductees Katie Porcher's women's cross country and track
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  Speaker 1: and field. Diane Dixon, she's from women's track and field.
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  Speaker 1: Jency Dunn women's hockey. She was one of the ones
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  Speaker 1: who really kind of got the hockey program rolling. This
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  Speaker 1: was like twenty seventeen to twenty twenty. Daniel Meyer from
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  Speaker 1: women's volleyball, and o Ye sad Olatoya from women's track
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  Speaker 1: and field. So there's your twenty twenty six Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: Athletics Hall of Fame class. We'll be inducted at this fall.
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  Speaker 1: It should be a fun that's always halftime. Have a
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  Speaker 1: football game. That'll be a fun, fun ceremony. UH. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of familiar names and familiar faces there. You can
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