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Ohio State Transfer Portal: 7 New Buckeyes Who Could Be Stars · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Sunday, June seventh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: All right, Today's show is it's like a spinoff, It's
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  Speaker 1: like the Fraser to the cheers of the Buckeye Weekly
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  Speaker 1: episode that Tony and I Tony Gerdaman and I just
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  Speaker 1: recorded a few minutes ago. Actually, that one was talking
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  Speaker 1: about the top five transfers in Ohio state history. And
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  Speaker 1: at the end of that you'll hear Tony sort of
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  Speaker 1: talk about the who might be a potential addition to
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  Speaker 1: that list on this year's show. And you'll hear him
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  Speaker 1: just as any good editor or editorial leader will do,
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  Speaker 1: go hey, hey, that could be a whole separate piece
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  Speaker 1: of content. So here is that whole separate piece of
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  Speaker 1: content and welcome Tony in Tony. We went through our
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  Speaker 1: list of the top five transfers and ended up with
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  Speaker 1: kind of a combination of Quinjohn Judkins, Seth McLaughlan, Will Howard,
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  Speaker 1: Julian Say, and Justin Fields Caleb Downs as the top
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  Speaker 1: five transfers. We had a couple of different answers in
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  Speaker 1: a couple different spots. But what's interesting is there are
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  Speaker 1: that show was so many guys on offense. We talked,
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  Speaker 1: it was really really heavy offense, and there just have
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  Speaker 1: not been that many super super impactful defensive transfers. But man,
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  Speaker 1: you look at this year's Ohio State defense and it's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: you could see the first four names that I wrote
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  Speaker 1: down were all defens of names for this for this.
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  Speaker 2: Same first off. If this in terms of the spinoff,
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  Speaker 2: I'm wondering, is this like working Mindy from Happy Days?
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  Speaker 2: Is this the Ropers from Priest Company? Perhaps maybe that one?
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  Speaker 1: This is there's some Joni loves Chachi here. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say which who is who?
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  Speaker 2: But there some kids on Chachi. I don't know, not
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  Speaker 2: the first time I've ever said that. Anyway, so to
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  Speaker 2: the show.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, back to the show. There are fewer names here
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  Speaker 1: I think to talk about, but we can. We can
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  Speaker 1: do a quick run through our top five, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: do it the same way that we that we did
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  Speaker 1: the last one, where if you have a name on
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  Speaker 1: your list, I'll let you go first, and if you
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  Speaker 1: have a name you have on your list, it's also
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  Speaker 1: on my list. Later. We'll get to that when I.
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  Speaker 2: Get to mine.
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  Speaker 1: So, all right, who is number five on your list?
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  Speaker 2: Number five on my list is a combination of Devin
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  Speaker 2: McEwan and Kyle Parker.
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  Speaker 1: Well you're cheating, but one of those was my name,
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  Speaker 1: So well, that's fine. We'll just talk about both of
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  Speaker 1: those right now.
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  Speaker 2: Because it could be either one. It doesn't need to
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  Speaker 2: be both, but it needs to be one of them.
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  Speaker 2: I think they need to be substantially impactful to help
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  Speaker 2: out Jeremiah Smith, and I think in this instance, my
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  Speaker 2: initial answer is Devin McEwen, and then I also just like,
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  Speaker 2: oh and Kyle Parker, But I think Devin McEwan replacing
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  Speaker 2: Colonel Tait as that Z receiver needs to be able
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  Speaker 2: to stretch a defense, and not just stretch a defense,
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  Speaker 2: but also come down with the ball and be an
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  Speaker 2: important piece of this a threatening piece of the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is one where I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that I see this happening, but man, if this does happen,
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  Speaker 1: this would go a long long way towards answering one
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  Speaker 1: of the big questions for this year's team. Number four.
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  Speaker 1: On my list, I had safety Terry Moore, who did
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  Speaker 1: you have?
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  Speaker 2: I have Dom Kelly at for and I have more
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  Speaker 2: one spot add So Dom Kelly to me is a
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  Speaker 2: guy that could be much higher over the course of
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  Speaker 2: this season and next season. I think that's right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at him. If this was I actually
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  Speaker 2: as one and one, like, if this was over the
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  Speaker 2: course of the next couple of seasons, I might have
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  Speaker 2: him right up there at number one. But saw him
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  Speaker 2: this spring looked very, very good. Clearly he's going to
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  Speaker 2: play this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would have that same thing. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: play at some point this year. But I also think
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  Speaker 1: if this is a we're having this conversation in eighteen
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  Speaker 1: months or twenty four months, he's probably right at the
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  Speaker 1: top of my list. But yeah, I just looking purely
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  Speaker 1: from this year's perspective. Yeah, I had I had him
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  Speaker 1: probably just missing the list, but did strongly consider him.
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  Speaker 1: So you had Terry Moore number three. As we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about Terry Moore here, he's someone who at the back
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  Speaker 1: of that defense you're gonna we'll see how the individual
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  Speaker 1: pieces fit together and who is gonna play exactly which
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  Speaker 1: safety role. You know what you got with Jalen McLain.
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  Speaker 1: You're feeling very good about what you got with Jayalen
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  Speaker 1: mclan got to replace Caleb Downs. Caleb Downs was either
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  Speaker 1: number one or number two on the lists of the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the best transfers ever that have already finished,
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  Speaker 1: you know, finished their Ohio State careers. You need someone
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  Speaker 1: to come in and step in and at least be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that. You can't expect anyone to come
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  Speaker 1: in and be one hundred percent of Caleb Downs, because
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that there has ever been someone who's
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  Speaker 1: been one hundred percent of Caleb Downs at Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: in its long history. But if you can find someone
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  Speaker 1: who's a lot of that, or he can do some
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  Speaker 1: different stuff or be special in some different ways, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's someone who he could be someone who's on
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  Speaker 1: that list a year.
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  Speaker 2: From now and it doesn't have to be Caleb Downs.
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  Speaker 2: Can he be Jordan Foller? Can he be Damon Webb,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in terms of a safety that comes up
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  Speaker 2: with the ball, which is what he did at do
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  Speaker 2: five interceptions, I believe in twenty twenty four. So I
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  Speaker 2: think we saw some of the russ coming off all
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  Speaker 2: spring long. Now can he be that deep safety guy?
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  Speaker 2: Because I think, you know, cracking my brain through Spring,
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  Speaker 2: I saw pretty much everybody playing some of that nickel.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that I saw him playing that nickel much.
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  Speaker 2: I usually saw him at one of the other two
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  Speaker 2: deep safety spots. So I wonder if that's more of
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  Speaker 2: what they have planned for him. And if so, number one,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like a good sign in terms of how
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  Speaker 2: they view him. His ability to be that last line
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  Speaker 2: of defense and to go from sideline to sideline when
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  Speaker 2: the ball is in the air, but also not miss tackles.
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  Speaker 2: And we've seen over the last few years how important
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  Speaker 2: that guy that doesn't miss tackles is, whether it's Caleb
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  Speaker 2: Downs or Jayalen McLain in the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 2: if you've got that guy, then you can live to
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  Speaker 2: fight another day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And he's not even I don't want to spoil anything.
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  Speaker 1: He's not even the highest ranked safety on my list
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  Speaker 1: for this exercise, but yeah, he's definitely someone who could
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  Speaker 1: be potentially a really really significant contributor there. So Quay Rusaw. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: you have Terry Moore as number three. Correct?
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  Speaker 2: Correct?
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  Speaker 1: So my number three is Quay Rusaw. And this is
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  Speaker 1: another one where this is a sort of high ceiling
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  Speaker 1: pick where he could be a solid player this year,
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  Speaker 1: but if he can sort of capitalize on the potential
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  Speaker 1: that we've seen, and if he can stay healthy, which
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  Speaker 1: he was not necessarily able to do with Alabama, it
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  Speaker 1: feels like the ceiling here is really really impactful defensive
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  Speaker 1: star for them, where it shows up on the stat
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  Speaker 1: sheet in a way that makes people really sort of
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  Speaker 1: stand up and take notice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna be interested to see how much of
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  Speaker 2: the Caden Curry role he has from last year where
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  Speaker 2: he's kind of the free rusher, and whether he can
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  Speaker 2: hold up. And Larry Johnson has said nothing but good
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  Speaker 2: things about him. He had some really good moments this spring.
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  Speaker 2: He's got the speed, he's got some of that power
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  Speaker 2: that is necessary, So I think he's he's got some
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  Speaker 2: untapped potential that we might finally get to see him
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  Speaker 2: out this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. I think he's definitely, definitely someone that
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  Speaker 1: has a ton of potential. But as urban Meyer said,
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  Speaker 1: that just gans haven't done it yet. So all right,
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  Speaker 1: so who is your number two here?
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  Speaker 2: My number two is James Smith.
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  Speaker 1: That is also my number two.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So I think again some untapped potential. He did
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  Speaker 2: start i think twelve games last year for Alabama, so
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  Speaker 2: he's played. But you know, everything we keep hearing about
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  Speaker 2: him from the basically his first week on campus until
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  Speaker 2: you know through the spring, he's done everything right. You
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  Speaker 2: talk to him and he's he's just talks about wanting
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  Speaker 2: to do well and already being part of the brotherhood
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  Speaker 2: and all that, and he's bought into what you need
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  Speaker 2: to do to not just play, but play well and
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  Speaker 2: get better and the Larry Johnson teachings. And so I
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  Speaker 2: think this would be huge for Ohio State to have
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  Speaker 2: the disruptor inside because we saw what happened when they
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  Speaker 2: had Caden McDonald last year and he was the most
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  Speaker 2: disruptive tackle and they got some things from other people.
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  Speaker 2: But if and we've seen James Smith at nose tackle
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  Speaker 2: in the spring, So I do wonder how much we're
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  Speaker 2: going to see him there, But if they can get
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  Speaker 2: something like that like they did out of Caden McDonald,
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  Speaker 2: that would be gigantic this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like he could do if he can
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  Speaker 1: just be eighty five percent of what Caden McDonald was doing,
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  Speaker 1: if he's in that role, that would be enormous because
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  Speaker 1: I think him next to a healthy Edward Houston, because
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  Speaker 1: remember Edward Houston got hurt right at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: last fall camp and was really not one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: for a good chunk of the season. If you get
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  Speaker 1: a healthy Edward Houston and a healthy James Smith in
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  Speaker 1: the interior that defensive line on top of John Walker
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  Speaker 1: and Will Smith and maybe Jason Moore is in this
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  Speaker 1: conversation or some of the true freshmen, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like there's a lot of opportunity for him
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  Speaker 1: there to really really be a disruptor in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the defensive line, and that was something they really
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  Speaker 1: really needed. So I'm going to guess Tony that I
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  Speaker 1: know that your number one answer is a former Alabama
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  Speaker 1: football player who also is a former Florida State football player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Earl Little and it feels like, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: if we're way out over our skis on this one
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to be completely burned. But reading the
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  Speaker 2: tea leaves talking with people the plans that they have
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  Speaker 2: for Earl Little to be a disruptor and a big hitter.
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  Speaker 2: Not that they have plans like you go in and
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  Speaker 2: be a big hitter, but he is a big hitter
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  Speaker 2: that they have plans for. And it's still going back
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  Speaker 2: to the Jeremiah Smith conversation about him and the way
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  Speaker 2: everybody talks about him. If he isn't a significant and
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  Speaker 2: impactful and stat stuffer this year, it would be like,
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  Speaker 2: for one, we're telling lies, but it's we're being lied
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  Speaker 2: to in terms of the expectations and the way we've
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  Speaker 2: talked about him and the I don't want to say
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  Speaker 2: a hype that we're building, but just the way the
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  Speaker 2: way that Matt Patricia can use guys and the way
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  Speaker 2: they talk about him, it's like, man, I'm the math
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  Speaker 2: is so easy on that one. But you know, we'll see,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see how it all comes together. But it seems
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  Speaker 2: it's easy to see what the plan may be, but
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  Speaker 2: we don't necessarily know the results. But I still have
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  Speaker 2: him number one because it could be significant.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you see the vision that the coaching staff has,
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  Speaker 1: and you see what the guys on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball are are seeing out of him, and
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah is Smith talking about him the way he did
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  Speaker 1: this spring. That's one of those things where I just
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  Speaker 1: sort of le mentally move things down a couple steps
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  Speaker 1: down the line in terms of what I'm expecting there,
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  Speaker 1: because again we don't get to see we watch a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of practice in the spring. Some of that translates
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  Speaker 1: into what it's going to look like in the field
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  Speaker 1: in the fall. A lot of it is not as
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  Speaker 1: useful in terms of a direct translation. So sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: just sort of who you're talking to and what they're
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  Speaker 1: saying and how they're saying things. There are ways that
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  Speaker 1: guys can say things that are a generally positive statement
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't really mean anything. A lot of the positive
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  Speaker 1: statements about him were framed in ways that are generally
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  Speaker 1: pretty predictive of big things to come. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: An update on five guys who might be transfers who
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  Speaker 1: end up on that top five transfer list all time
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to yeah.