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Catching Up With Ohio State National Champion Center Seth McLaughlin · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Hello, and welcome to another edition of Buckeye Banter,
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Speaker 3: and we are telling the stories of people who played
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Speaker 3: for worked around Ohio State Athletics. Today, I have an
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Speaker 3: incredible guest with me. You don't get much more recent
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Speaker 3: than the twenty twenty four Brimington Award winner, Seth McLoughlin.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining me.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 3: And along with Seth is Middlehio Food Collective volunteer services
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Speaker 3: manor manager Jeremy Brawning. Jeremy, Hey, We're gonna tell the
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Speaker 3: story a little bit of the Middle Hio Food Collective
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Speaker 3: as well. Thanks for taking some time.
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Speaker 2: Yay, thanks for having us, Seth.
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Speaker 3: Great to be here now. Now, Seth, you partnered with
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Speaker 3: Middlehio Food Collective this past season. Tell me about the
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Speaker 3: work you did with them and and what you did.
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Speaker 3: I know, you're you raised over eleven thousand dollars and
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Speaker 3: and partially through the sale of some hats, uh imploring
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Speaker 3: people to run the ball, if I remember correctly, tell
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Speaker 3: me a little bit about how how this came to be.
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Speaker 4: So I started selling these hats last year at Alabama,
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Speaker 4: and you know it, always wanted to get back to
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Speaker 4: the food collectives, you know, wherever I played and you know,
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Speaker 4: reached out to the people that the Ohio state that
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Speaker 4: had connections at Middle Hiow Food Collective that got me
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Speaker 4: in touch with their people, and you know, they're they're
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Speaker 4: awesome over there.
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Speaker 2: So I thought it was a great thing to partner
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Speaker 2: with them.
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Speaker 4: And uh, they've done a lot of good for the community,
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Speaker 4: So I just wanted to help them out.
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Speaker 3: A lot of people talk about NIL and what it
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Speaker 3: means for you as players who could start to receive name,
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Speaker 3: image and likeness, you know, money for such things like
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Speaker 3: commercials or different branding and things like that. But but
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Speaker 3: this couldn't have happened twenty thirty years ago either. I
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Speaker 3: mean as far as being this kind of like kind
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Speaker 3: of like the lynchpin for something like this, could it.
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Speaker 3: That's pretty cool that you took advantage of that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely a positive that came out of that,
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Speaker 4: allowing me to to help out as much as I
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Speaker 4: could and kind of just be a middleman for people
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Speaker 4: making aware of something that's going on like that. You know,
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Speaker 4: hopefully more people figured it out about Middle Io Food
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Speaker 4: Collective and it led to more money than just you know,
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Speaker 4: hat sales and you know, awareness in the community for
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Speaker 4: how much Middle Higo Food Collective does for the Ohio
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Speaker 4: like for the Ohio area and especially Columbus area. So
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Speaker 4: hopefully not just the sale of the hat, not just
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Speaker 4: the eleven thousand went to it, but hopefully it raised
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Speaker 4: a lot more awareness that for that issue.
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Speaker 3: Now, Jeremy, we'll talk to you a little more later
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Speaker 3: in the show about you being able to share some
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Speaker 3: details on how folks can get involved and maybe donate
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Speaker 3: or take part. But overall, can you share the impact
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Speaker 3: someone like Seth has when he takes up the cause
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Speaker 3: to help your agency like this.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's absolutely tremendous. You know, he has a tremendous
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Speaker 2: platform and.
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Speaker 5: To be able to you know, take time out of
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Speaker 5: his day. You know, these college athletes, they are just
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Speaker 5: so incredibly busy. You know, they're students first obviously, and
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Speaker 5: the athletes on top of that. And so the fact
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Speaker 5: that he took time out of his day he connected
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Speaker 5: with our mission. As he mentioned to you, you know,
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Speaker 5: this is kind of in his DNA, right, he started
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Speaker 5: this at University of Alabama and then that this is
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Speaker 5: you know, come to find us here in Columbus. We're
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Speaker 5: just so thankful that he's been able to use his
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Speaker 5: platform for good to let others know how they can
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Speaker 5: get involved with our fight against hunger here in central Ohio.
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Speaker 3: Well, he mentioned Alabama. Seth will talk a little bit
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Speaker 3: about that. But Hey, from my research, you were born
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Speaker 3: in August twenty seventh, two thousand and one. Did you
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Speaker 3: grow up in Alcoa, Tennessee originally? Is that where you're from?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I grew up in Alcoa and then going into
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Speaker 4: high school, my family moved down to Georgia and.
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Speaker 3: You went to Buford High School, right, A proud tradition.
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Speaker 3: There a lot of college and pro players I'm sure
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Speaker 3: came through there, probably some former high state players as well.
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Speaker 3: Now you picked Alabama coming out of high school first,
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Speaker 3: I guess tell me a little bit about high school
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Speaker 3: football in Georgia playing there, and then what your your
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Speaker 3: recruitment was like and what it was like to make
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Speaker 3: that choice.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think high school football is serious, like seriously
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Speaker 4: in Georgia. I mean we're showing up before school. One
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Speaker 4: of the periods in schools dedicated to lifting. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 4: a year round thing down there. So it definitely helped
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Speaker 4: me for the next level. I played against a ton
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Speaker 4: of really good competition, you know, all four years that
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Speaker 4: I was in high school, and it really just helped
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Speaker 4: me step up to the next level. And that's I'm
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Speaker 4: hard for anybody that does it, but it definitely made
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Speaker 4: it a little bit easier.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I chose Alabama because the.
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Speaker 4: Ohighest had already had Luke Whippler, who's an incredible player,
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Speaker 4: So I understand that.
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Speaker 2: But after after he left, it kind of all just
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Speaker 2: worked out.
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Speaker 3: Did you did you look at Ohio State a little
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Speaker 3: bit even back then?
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Speaker 4: No, They Luke committed pretty early on because they didn't
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Speaker 4: really need a center.
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Speaker 2: High school teammate was Harry Miller, he was going there.
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Speaker 4: I kind of just wanted to go somewhere where I
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Speaker 4: wanted to go somewhere where nobody else that I had
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Speaker 4: played high school ball when I kind of just wanted
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Speaker 4: to pay pay my own track, uh, pay my own path.
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Speaker 3: Well, you got to play for Nick Saban, and obviously
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Speaker 3: you were in the program during the COVID season when
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Speaker 3: Ohio State lost to Alabama in the National Championship. I
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Speaker 3: guess break down a little bit playing for coach Sabin
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Speaker 3: and then playing in Alabama such a historic program. In fact,
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Speaker 3: I would say you played for probably two of the
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Speaker 3: bluest blue bloods there are. But tell a little bit
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Speaker 3: about coach Saban and then playing it Alabama.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a it was a blessing playing for him.
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Speaker 4: It's just so much you learned from just absorbing every
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Speaker 4: single thing that he says and.
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Speaker 2: All this team meetings.
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Speaker 4: You know, at some point it kind of just brainwashed
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Speaker 4: you in trying to think uh and and his philosophy,
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Speaker 4: and that's just invaluable to the list. And that's really
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Speaker 4: shaped me as a man and who I am today.
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Speaker 4: And it was something that I won't trade for the world.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: You played in the playoff in twenty twenty three against Michigan,
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Speaker 3: and that was obviously another successful season as as we're
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Speaker 3: most under coach Saban. Shortly after that, you decided to transfer. No,
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Speaker 3: let's I guess, correct me on where you are there.
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Speaker 3: Did you announce your transfer before coach Saban retired or
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Speaker 3: was it right after?
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Speaker 2: How did you come across the decision? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Literally the wheels hit the tarmac back in Tuscalista, and
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Speaker 4: I I tried.
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Speaker 3: To enter as sa as POSSI Okay, I guess I
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Speaker 3: asked some somewhat tough questions. What was your decision?
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Speaker 2: Like?
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Speaker 3: What what made you make that decision?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just my last year at Alabama wasn't
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Speaker 2: what I wanted to be. I needed a new start.
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Speaker 4: I needed to go somewhere where I could show the
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Speaker 4: player that you know, I knew I could be and
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Speaker 4: who I believe.
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Speaker 2: I believed in myself a lot.
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Speaker 4: And what happened my last year at Alabama wasn't who
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Speaker 4: I was, and it was unfortunate circumstances, but I wanted
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Speaker 4: to go improve that. What I put on tape my
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Speaker 4: fourth year wasn't who I was as a football player,
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Speaker 4: and I think I did that in my pre at
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Speaker 4: Ohio State.
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Speaker 3: Now, you mentioned Luke whippleror he had left a year earlier.
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Speaker 3: He only stayed Ohio State for three years. Was Ohio
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Speaker 3: State at that point kind of a no brainer or
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Speaker 3: did you have to go through a lot of thought?
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Speaker 4: I didn't really, you know, I had the list of
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Speaker 4: schools in my head that I wanted to go to
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Speaker 4: when I entered the portal. To be quite frank, I
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Speaker 4: didn't even realize that Ohio State was on the list
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Speaker 4: and looking for or a center. So when Coach Fry
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Speaker 4: called me out of the blue, uh, you know, I
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Speaker 4: definitely took the call because it's Ohio State.
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Speaker 2: I was like, what the heck?
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Speaker 4: I never thought I'd ever play for Ohio State, you know,
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Speaker 4: the you know, the day before I entered the portal.
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Speaker 4: But it just worked out. Coach Fry was an incredible code.
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Speaker 4: I had a lot of respect for Coach Day. It's
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Speaker 4: an incredible program with a rich tradition, and you know,
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Speaker 4: it was a high pressure environment. I wanted to put
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Speaker 4: myself back in the saddle and proved to a lot
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Speaker 4: of people that you know, that wasn't a problem. It
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Speaker 4: wasn't because the pressure. I didn't have the yibs, like
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Speaker 4: everybody at Alabama said. I wanted to get back on
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Speaker 4: the horse and show everybody that to prove all those
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Speaker 4: people wrong.
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Speaker 2: And and I did that.
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Speaker 3: Now I'm in a high state alum. I worked in
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Speaker 3: student radio. I've been a journalist throughout my career. I'm
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Speaker 3: also a fan, and as a fan. January twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 3: the time you chose to come to Ohio State, from
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Speaker 3: that point forward until January twenty twenty five, feels like
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Speaker 3: way longer than a year, Like so many things happened
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Speaker 3: in the calendar year that you were there, not just
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Speaker 3: you individually, but for the team. Around the time you arrived,
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Speaker 3: several players that were draft eligible would have gone top
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Speaker 3: two three rounds decided to come back. What was that
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Speaker 3: like to be a part of and to see the
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Speaker 3: Abukahs and JTT and you know, Sawyer and all these
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Speaker 3: guys do this right then and there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So be completely honest, you know, I was kind
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Speaker 4: of on the submarine Obama. I was like down in
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Speaker 4: the trenches. I wasn't really focused on like all the storylines,
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Speaker 4: especially in the Big Ten. So when I first got
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Speaker 4: the call from Ohio State, I didn't realize really who
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Speaker 4: was on the team, Like.
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Speaker 2: What all the stories were.
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Speaker 4: Guys like Jack and JT and you know, a Mecca
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Speaker 4: and Donovan Jackson. I didn't really know about that too much,
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Speaker 4: but when they called me and they told me that
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Speaker 4: we had a bunch of really good players coming back,
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Speaker 4: and was fine with me. I didn't I didn't need
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Speaker 4: to know all the stories. But it was cool over
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Speaker 4: that year, and yeah, definitely felt like a lot longer
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Speaker 4: than a year. It was cool, kind of just like
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Speaker 4: diving into the tradition and try to just.
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Speaker 2: Learn as I go.
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Speaker 4: And you know, the longer the season went on, the
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Speaker 4: more I learned about it, and the more I just
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Speaker 4: tried to to learn from them about what it meant
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Speaker 4: to be a buck Eye. And you know, it was
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Speaker 4: a learning process all the way through until we until
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Speaker 4: we won. And it was great that we that we
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Speaker 4: won for those guys and all the sacrifices they gave
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Speaker 4: up that final year, it's really setting to go out
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Speaker 4: that way.
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Speaker 3: Now, Caleb Downs came with you from Alabama, well not
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Speaker 3: together necessarily, but you both came back, came from Alabama
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Speaker 3: to Ohio State. I guess let's go through the spring
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Speaker 3: and summer. What was that like you mentioned wanting to
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Speaker 3: be in high pressure situation again, were you able to
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Speaker 3: do that? Was that was that kind of like the
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Speaker 3: way you guys worked, was that kind of commiserate with
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Speaker 3: what you were hoping for?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's everything I needed.
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Speaker 4: Coach makes does a great job, uh in the weight
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Speaker 4: room and leading culture and very high accountability culture, and
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Speaker 4: I just loved it. I didn't try to step in
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Speaker 4: and be a leader right away. I really just tried
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Speaker 4: to earn my stripes and you.
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Speaker 2: Know, take it one day at a time. And it
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Speaker 2: was super hard.
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Speaker 4: It was probably the hardest off season and and summer
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Speaker 4: conditioning that I had gone through, especially in the weight
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Speaker 4: room from strength wise, And I think that helped my
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Speaker 4: game tremendously and it really helped me, you know, kind
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Speaker 4: of assimilate with the buck Eye culture. And you know,
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Speaker 4: nobody nobody got special treatment, not even Jack, not JT.
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Speaker 4: Like nobody could you know, step out of line and
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Speaker 4: and do those non accountable things. Like everybody was held
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Speaker 4: accountable and that's just an awesome thing.
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Speaker 2: To be a part of.
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Speaker 3: Now, some other players were talking about Natty or Bus
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Speaker 3: things like that. So you enter a season and listen
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Speaker 3: at Ohio State at Alabama, that's kind of probably the
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Speaker 3: expectation no matter what, right, so what either a player
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Speaker 3: says it or not, you're you're working toward that. What
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Speaker 3: was the pressure like as a player having been on
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Speaker 3: the big stage before as well, did it compare? Was
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Speaker 3: it tough to overcome at times? What was it like
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Speaker 3: as the season got rolling?
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Speaker 2: No, not really.
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Speaker 4: I'd been on teams where there wasn't a lot of
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Speaker 4: pressure and you could feel the pressure in the room
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Speaker 4: where like, oh, we have to win every game, we
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Speaker 4: have to be perfect, and that it didn't feel that
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Speaker 4: way this year. Being an older guy, you kind of
13:32
Speaker 4: realize that it doesn't really matter. You can't control the
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Speaker 4: outcome of the game. You can get just control exactly
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Speaker 4: what you do on this play and what it takes
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Speaker 4: to be successful in this play. And I think the
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Speaker 4: team did that. I never really thought that the team
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Speaker 4: was like, Oh, we have to win this game or
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Speaker 4: boss like until we got to the playoffs, and then
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Speaker 4: at that point it wasn't like, oh, we have to
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Speaker 4: win like otherwise we're we lost everything.
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Speaker 2: We weren't playing not to lose.
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Speaker 4: We were playing to win and play with our teammates
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Speaker 4: and brothers for another game. And that was kind of
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Speaker 4: the mentality that it took. And I credit coached day
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Speaker 4: for for coming up with that. You know, that's a
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Speaker 4: great way to frame it when you're when you're in
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Speaker 4: that situation because after we lost the team up north
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Speaker 4: the season, you know, if we got if we go
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Speaker 4: out and lose the Tennessee, then the season was a waste.
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Speaker 2: And you can go into that.
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Speaker 4: Game like scared, like to mess up and not playing
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Speaker 4: free and fast, and but that's not the way he
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Speaker 4: framed it. He framed it aus like we got to
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Speaker 4: keep fighting them, to keep playing for one another and
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Speaker 4: fight towards a positive goal instead of playing to prevent
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Speaker 4: bad things from happening.
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Speaker 2: And that was just an awesome way to put it.
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Speaker 3: That is that is and you go back even the
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Speaker 3: first Oregon game, such a close game, really two top five,
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Speaker 3: top one or two teams in the country, Will Howard
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Speaker 3: obviously slides down just a hair too late. You know,
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Speaker 3: he sat at the podium that night and really kind
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Speaker 3: of had his like, uh, Tim Tebow moment. I don't
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Speaker 3: know if you've seen those kind of things about how
15:03
Speaker 3: hard Tim Tebow said he was gonna work when they
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Speaker 3: took a loss at Florida. But one thing I learned
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Speaker 3: about from him that night was he was so sincere.
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Speaker 3: What was it like playing with Will and kind of
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Speaker 3: take me through that, you know, your signal color, taking
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Speaker 3: snaps from you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's an awesome person.
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Speaker 4: I can't say enough good things about him, especially as
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Speaker 4: a quarterback and as a leader. And yeah, he was
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Speaker 4: He was super transparent with the media, which is also
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Speaker 4: a really cool thing that many guys have, you know,
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Speaker 4: the the makeup to go and sit in front of
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Speaker 4: the media and be be vulnerable and honest about you know,
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Speaker 4: what's going on and what's happening. And but that's how
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Speaker 4: he is as a person, and and that's how he
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Speaker 4: is as a leader. And you know, the team was
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Speaker 4: very successful because of him and how he led that offense.
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Speaker 4: And uh, he'd played he'd played lights down in the
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Speaker 4: playoffs for sure, and he played his best ball.
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Speaker 3: When we needed. Now back on you a little bit.
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Speaker 3: You you had done what you set out to do.
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Speaker 3: You you know, you had all the was whisperers. You
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Speaker 3: talked about people saying it was the big stage. You
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Speaker 3: were whatever you got out there and and from week
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Speaker 3: one on earned the respect of you know, players, coaches, fans, media, everybody,
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Speaker 3: and then you hit practice on November nineteen. Tell me
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Speaker 3: a little bit about what happened there with your injury.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just it was the middle of a
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Speaker 4: of a Tuesday practice, which is like our workday at
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Speaker 4: I had already gone through, like the hardest parts of
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Speaker 4: practice were just going to against the scout team, and
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Speaker 4: you tried to clear somebody of the a gap and
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Speaker 4: my my foot fell and it just popped. You know,
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Speaker 4: I thought, I thought my guards stepped on my foot,
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Speaker 4: so I popped right up and and I looked over
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Speaker 4: at him. I'm like I was looking for somebody to
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Speaker 4: yell at or stepping on me basically, and nobody was
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Speaker 4: around me, and then I'm going to take a step,
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Speaker 4: but I just felt a dangling.
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Speaker 2: I knew exactly what happened. I was just I was heartbreaking.
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Speaker 4: Took me a second to realize, and then my helmet
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Speaker 4: got thrown across the field and was super emotional time.
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Speaker 2: Yes, not just because I got hurt and I was
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Speaker 2: I was playing so well.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that was definitely part of it from a
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Speaker 4: selfish standpoint, but you know, the biggest feeling was like
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Speaker 4: I hope I didn't let my team down like this
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Speaker 4: unfortunate thing and derail season if if you're not prepared
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Speaker 4: for it. And and I was just scared in that
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Speaker 4: moment that I that messed something up for people that
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Speaker 4: I can't control, which you know, I hate not being
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Speaker 4: in control.
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Speaker 2: That's well, I like playing center.
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Speaker 4: It was like a megle of calls and everything, but
17:29
Speaker 4: it was it was a pretty hopeless you know, a
17:31
Speaker 4: couple of weeks after that, it was fun to see
17:33
Speaker 4: the win against Indiana. I postponed my surgery a couple
17:36
Speaker 4: of days so I could be on the sidelines for that.
17:40
Speaker 4: I was still pretty pretty drugged up for that for
17:43
Speaker 4: that up North game, So watching that was it was brutal,
17:49
Speaker 4: especially on pain meds. But yeah, that's that's kind of
17:53
Speaker 4: how it was those first couple of weeks.
17:54
Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't on any meds, and I it was
17:56
Speaker 3: pretty brutal for me too. So no, but listen for
18:00
Speaker 3: you a to postpone a surgery, but be to be
18:03
Speaker 3: right there on that sideline as soon as you could
18:05
Speaker 3: be literally that what four days later. A lot of
18:09
Speaker 3: folks out here really think a lot of you for
18:11
Speaker 3: that because you showed leadership there and you said you
18:14
Speaker 3: you want to have control over things that you could
18:16
Speaker 3: control being a good teammate at that point, I'm reminded
18:19
Speaker 3: j T. Barrett, quarterback for High State in the twenty
18:22
Speaker 3: fourteen run. He got hurt in the Team Up North game,
18:25
Speaker 3: and he literally was back in the stands with a
18:27
Speaker 3: broken leg watching the end of that game with a
18:31
Speaker 3: with a doctor right beside him. Take me through being
18:33
Speaker 3: a leader that way and being there for your guys.
18:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'd be great to be like, yeah, I'm doing
18:39
Speaker 4: it because I'm a leader, but honestly, like I wasn't
18:41
Speaker 4: doing it for the team. I needed to be there.
18:43
Speaker 4: I needed to see it with my own eyes. I
18:45
Speaker 4: needed to be around the guys because if not, iall
18:48
Speaker 4: was just sitting in my room watching it on TV.
18:51
Speaker 4: That would have been so much harder for me personally.
18:55
Speaker 4: You know, hopefully some of the guys got something out
18:57
Speaker 4: of me sitting there, but honestly, from a selfish perspective,
19:01
Speaker 4: I needed to be there and and keep my mind
19:03
Speaker 4: off things and keep pushing and trying to figure out
19:07
Speaker 4: ways to help.
19:07
Speaker 2: The team win.
19:09
Speaker 3: Well, we won't dwell on this, but the Team Up
19:12
Speaker 3: North game, You've played in the Iron Bowl and now
19:14
Speaker 3: you've been there for the game. I suppose those two games,
19:18
Speaker 3: in my opinion, are probably the closest to each other
19:20
Speaker 3: as far as rivalries. You mentioned what coach Day talked
19:26
Speaker 3: about as you went into Tennessee. You know, there's a
19:28
Speaker 3: lot of conjecture around that, Hey, if you'd played that
19:31
Speaker 3: way against team up North, maybe things would be different.
19:34
Speaker 3: Do you what do you think of a rivalry game
19:37
Speaker 3: like that? What's the best way to go into it?
19:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's a learning question because you know it
19:44
Speaker 4: does mean, it does mean a lot.
19:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
19:50
Speaker 4: It gets built up and you know it's it's a
19:53
Speaker 4: super emotional game, and you know, as a fan, you'd
19:56
Speaker 4: love for it to be that way, but it's hard
19:58
Speaker 4: to play good football when you're super emotional, and you
20:03
Speaker 4: know you've got to be able to control that when
20:05
Speaker 4: you're out there. It's an incredible game, it's an incredible
20:08
Speaker 4: uh stage to play on every every year at noon,
20:11
Speaker 4: and it's an insane rivalry we we focus on every
20:15
Speaker 4: single day of the year. Like you see it all
20:18
Speaker 4: around the stadium, like all around the facility.
20:22
Speaker 2: It's a big day and you know, it's it's hard.
20:25
Speaker 4: To evaluate how how to go into a game like
20:29
Speaker 4: that from an emotional standpoint, especially after everything that's happened.
20:34
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just a hard situation, like to figure.
20:37
Speaker 4: Out how to go into that game or any rivalry
20:41
Speaker 4: game with with the right mindset of balancing emotion and
20:45
Speaker 4: control and logic and and playing well.
20:48
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm. Let's go through the playoff real quick. Obviously
20:51
Speaker 3: you were unable to play in it, but but what
20:53
Speaker 3: a run. You know, those guys from Tennessee were in
20:57
Speaker 3: trouble seemingly from the time they put those shirts back
20:59
Speaker 3: on it, like Will Howard said, but it took execution
21:03
Speaker 3: on the field, and your guys took care of business.
21:05
Speaker 3: You take care of business against an Oregon team that
21:07
Speaker 3: had beaten you by one point earlier in the year,
21:10
Speaker 3: and obviously Texas and their dame. What are your lasting
21:13
Speaker 3: memories of that that playoff front?
21:16
Speaker 4: Probably the number one memory that sticks out for me
21:21
Speaker 4: is I'm on my streeter. It's like six weeks postop
21:27
Speaker 4: maybe probably five at this point, and Jack Sawyer trips
21:32
Speaker 4: the ball.
21:34
Speaker 2: He strips the ball, and.
21:36
Speaker 4: I'm probably on like the fifty yard line. I'm in
21:39
Speaker 4: the middle of the in the middle of the sideline,
21:42
Speaker 4: and I just see I didn't even see the play
21:43
Speaker 4: because I'm looking up at the at the big video board.
21:48
Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, I looked at my left
21:49
Speaker 2: and I.
21:49
Speaker 4: Just see a wave of people running at me. So
21:53
Speaker 4: I turned my screwter, I pointed into the wave and
21:56
Speaker 4: just hunkered down. So I don't even knocked up the screwter.
21:59
Speaker 4: I don't ruin my surgery because people weren't worried about me.
22:03
Speaker 4: They were running to go celebrate on the other side.
22:06
Speaker 4: So I'm hunkered down. I didn't even know if he
22:08
Speaker 4: scored or not until I looked up at.
22:10
Speaker 2: The very end.
22:11
Speaker 4: But that was definitely one of my one of my
22:12
Speaker 4: favorite memories. Another one was just seeing all this Tennessee
22:15
Speaker 4: guys run out there.
22:16
Speaker 2: With their shirts off.
22:18
Speaker 4: I was sitting right there with like the cornerback center exchange,
22:22
Speaker 4: and we were all laughing about it.
22:25
Speaker 2: You know.
22:25
Speaker 4: Seeing the sunset at the Rose Bawl. Yeah, you know,
22:29
Speaker 4: I played there of the year prior. I never I
22:31
Speaker 4: never got to enjoy the sunset, And you know, I
22:36
Speaker 4: kind of get goosebumps just thinking about the way I
22:39
Speaker 4: felt just looking up at the sunset. We were up
22:41
Speaker 4: in the game and we're playing really well, and it
22:43
Speaker 4: looks like we're, you know, really going to put this
22:45
Speaker 4: playoff run together, and that was that might be my
22:49
Speaker 4: favorite memory now and thinking about it, but it was
22:53
Speaker 4: an incredible run to be.
22:54
Speaker 2: A part of.
22:54
Speaker 4: And it's a hell of the time being on the
22:57
Speaker 4: sidelines for it.
22:58
Speaker 3: I hadn't heard the Scooter story. That's awesome. That's awesome.
23:01
Speaker 2: Hey.
23:02
Speaker 3: So going backwards just a little bit earlier, you were
23:04
Speaker 3: recognized in multiple ways despite the injury. Right, you missed
23:08
Speaker 3: two regular season games at the end of the year,
23:10
Speaker 3: but you won the Remington Trophy that's given to the
23:12
Speaker 3: best center in all of college football. And incidentally, you're
23:16
Speaker 3: a free agent signy with the Bengals. Dave Rimington played
23:20
Speaker 3: for the Bengals, played with boomeras and Ison and Ken Anderson.
23:24
Speaker 3: The award, as I'm sure you're aware, is given out
23:26
Speaker 3: by the Boomera, Sias and Foundations. So there's some good
23:29
Speaker 3: good juju there a little bit. You're consensus All American
23:32
Speaker 3: First Team All Big Ten. That's total respect for the
23:35
Speaker 3: job you did, because when you miss two games sometimes
23:38
Speaker 3: maybe you don't get that right. So thoughts on that
23:41
Speaker 3: and congratulations obviously on on on the award.
23:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
23:45
Speaker 4: It was awesome for all that. I'm just thankful that
23:49
Speaker 4: I was still up for it. But I'd played a
23:52
Speaker 4: lot of really good football. It's just it is really
23:58
Speaker 4: cool that they would still give that to me after
24:01
Speaker 4: missing two games. But I mean at the mid season mark,
24:04
Speaker 4: I was still like first team All like mid season
24:07
Speaker 4: first team All American, on on all on most of
24:10
Speaker 4: those lists anyways, So it wasn't like, oh, you got hurt,
24:12
Speaker 4: let's give it to him type deal. So the fact
24:16
Speaker 4: that I missed two games and they and they still
24:18
Speaker 4: gave it to me, which I'm really thankful for. It'll
24:23
Speaker 4: be nice when I can find a place, uh that
24:26
Speaker 4: I can put my Remington Trophy. That's a big trophy.
24:30
Speaker 4: But right now I'm just in a hotel room down
24:32
Speaker 4: in Senci.
24:33
Speaker 1: Yeah.
24:33
Speaker 2: Uh so I got to figure out a place to
24:35
Speaker 2: put that.
24:38
Speaker 4: But it's been it's been awesome to have that and
24:41
Speaker 4: you know, meet all the people at the at the
24:44
Speaker 4: Remington Trophy meeting, all the people from the boomeros Iison Foundation.
24:48
Speaker 4: They do a ton of great stuff with that, with
24:50
Speaker 4: that award and that ceremony out there in in Nebraska.
24:54
Speaker 2: Was just awesome.
24:55
Speaker 4: It's incredible to be a part of and hearing the
24:58
Speaker 4: story and all the good stuff the Boomers size and
25:00
Speaker 4: foundation does.
25:00
Speaker 2: Is is awesome. Else just part of it.
25:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, his son a sister has six cistic fibrosis and
25:07
Speaker 3: they do a lot of work with that. No, as
25:10
Speaker 3: I mentioned, you signed with the Bengals even with the injury,
25:13
Speaker 3: though you couldn't really go through the pre draft workouts
25:15
Speaker 3: and all those things. Dane Brugler from The Athletic had
25:18
Speaker 3: you as the third best center in a draft. A
25:20
Speaker 3: lot of times that that gets drafted. But tell me
25:23
Speaker 3: about joining the Bengals, and as a fan, I'm a
25:26
Speaker 3: Bengals fan, as I mentioned, like Ted Carris, great center.
25:31
Speaker 3: I think he's in the last year of his deal.
25:33
Speaker 3: You know, a year or two from now. Who knows
25:36
Speaker 3: Seth McLoughlin's starting center. How would that sound?
25:39
Speaker 4: I mean, that'd be great. I mean, that's definitely the
25:41
Speaker 4: dream and the goal. But I mean, right now, I'm
25:43
Speaker 4: just focused on having getting back and playing football. You know, sure,
25:46
Speaker 4: I'm not really looking at it like that. At the
25:49
Speaker 4: end of the day's it's kind of come to how
25:51
Speaker 4: well I can play football after I'm done rehabbing and that's.
25:54
Speaker 2: All I can do.
25:55
Speaker 4: I can't really, I don't really try to focus on
25:58
Speaker 4: you know, who's in the room, what's going on. I'm
26:01
Speaker 4: just enjoying learning football. There's a ton of great minds.
26:05
Speaker 4: I'm for early, loving watching Joe.
26:06
Speaker 2: Throw the football.
26:07
Speaker 4: I've been and just being around all these guys, just
26:11
Speaker 4: enjoying the experience. It's only been three or four weeks
26:14
Speaker 4: now I've been here, but I'm loving it so far
26:17
Speaker 4: and just happy here.
26:20
Speaker 3: Well, you've got a new line coach, I believe Scott
26:22
Speaker 3: Peters right. He's bringing a lot of new things to
26:24
Speaker 3: the through the franchise. So that's that's gonna be greatest,
26:27
Speaker 3: especially as you get healthier. I'm excited to see what
26:30
Speaker 3: you can do. Hey, Jeremy pop back on here. Let's
26:33
Speaker 3: talk a little bit about Uh, Seth's gonna be down
26:35
Speaker 3: the road in Cincinnati, but but he's left a bit
26:39
Speaker 3: of a legacy here. What can Seth do or what
26:42
Speaker 3: can people do? I should say out there to get
26:45
Speaker 3: involved with Middlehio Food collected.
26:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, and you heard it from Seth himself. You
26:49
Speaker 5: know he he cared so much about his teammates, but
26:52
Speaker 5: that even extended off the field. He cared so much
26:54
Speaker 5: about our Central how community, and I know that there's
26:57
Speaker 5: others in our community that really don't want to see
27:00
Speaker 5: anybody go hungry, you know, within our our community here.
27:04
Speaker 2: And so you know, there's three really great.
27:05
Speaker 5: Ways that folks can get involved with this, one of
27:08
Speaker 5: one of which is advocating. Everyone has a voice, So
27:11
Speaker 5: whether it's you know, writing or calling your congress member
27:15
Speaker 5: encouraging them to you know, keep the budget in mind,
27:19
Speaker 5: especially for Ohio here with certain cuts that you know
27:22
Speaker 5: may or may not be you know, on the table.
27:25
Speaker 5: But then even posting things online, everyone has a platform
27:28
Speaker 5: encouraging others to you know, learn about what you know,
27:31
Speaker 5: Central Ohio was doing as far.
27:32
Speaker 2: As food and security realm. Second is volunteering.
27:35
Speaker 5: You know, Seth was out at one of our markets
27:37
Speaker 5: helping bag out produce that was going out to families
27:41
Speaker 5: later that day. So folks can you know, work with
27:44
Speaker 5: our market staff serving our customers there and in the community,
27:47
Speaker 5: working at one of our middle higuse farms, working at
27:50
Speaker 5: our food sorting and packing area as well, where you
27:53
Speaker 5: know we're packing up senior boxes or sertain you know,
27:56
Speaker 5: retail donations.
27:57
Speaker 1: Uh.
27:58
Speaker 5: And then third being the for every dollar donated, we
28:02
Speaker 5: can turn that into two.
28:03
Speaker 2: Point five meals.
28:04
Speaker 5: So really three great ways folks can get involved with us.
28:07
Speaker 5: And you can find all of this information at our
28:09
Speaker 5: website MFC dot org and you'll be able to find
28:13
Speaker 5: really whatever it is that you're looking for. Like I said, advocate, donate, volunteer,
28:17
Speaker 5: as well as more information on there. And Seth has
28:20
Speaker 5: just been a tremendous, tremendous advocate for us.
28:22
Speaker 2: And thank him so much.
28:24
Speaker 3: MFC dot org for more information. Seth mcgloughlin, thanks so
28:29
Speaker 3: much for taking the time. Seth is between obligations with
28:32
Speaker 3: the Bengals this afternoon and he still took the time
28:34
Speaker 3: to sit down. I'm so thankful for you, buddy, Thank
28:36
Speaker 3: you so much.
28:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, appreciate you all.
28:38
Speaker 4: Thanks for thanks for letting me take it from my car.
28:41
Speaker 4: I mean, I've got the trash bags with my laundry
28:44
Speaker 4: in the bags.
28:45
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
28:47
Speaker 4: It's been a crazy few weeks, but you know, thanks
28:50
Speaker 4: for having me on. And I love everything that the
28:53
Speaker 4: Middle A Food Collective does. And yeah about volunteering, Like,
28:57
Speaker 4: I went down there and it was awesome.
28:59
Speaker 2: It's not like what I thought it was gonna be.
29:00
Speaker 2: I wasn't.
29:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not like you're going down there to lift
29:03
Speaker 4: a bunch of heavy stuff. It's just doing stuff that
29:05
Speaker 4: needs to be done. It's not hard, it's very enjoyable.
29:09
Speaker 4: It's like hanging out talking with people as you're working.
29:12
Speaker 4: And I met a bunch of friends doing that with them,
29:16
Speaker 4: and I wish I had more.
29:17
Speaker 2: Time to go up there and do it.
29:19
Speaker 4: And hopefully we can arrange to to keep keep something going.
29:24
Speaker 4: If not, just try to get some of the buck
29:25
Speaker 4: Eye guys back out there and keep the tradition going
29:28
Speaker 4: because it's a great cause. They do a ton of
29:30
Speaker 4: good stuff for you know, central Ohio, and you know,
29:35
Speaker 4: anything I can do to help in the center, just
29:37
Speaker 4: you gotta let me know.
29:38
Speaker 3: Jerry absolutely well, Seth McLoughlin, Jeremy Browning, thanks so much
29:43
Speaker 3: for your time. Check out everything we have on Buckeye Huddle,
29:46
Speaker 3: and these uh buck Eye Banter episodes are all evergreen.
29:50
Speaker 3: I've talked to several great former Ohio State players, Seth,
29:54
Speaker 3: like I was telling Jeremy off Airs, Seth, You're you're
29:56
Speaker 3: one of the more recent guys. I couldn't be. You're
29:59
Speaker 3: you're not much of a former player because you just stopped,
30:02
Speaker 3: but best a look on your rehab and hopefully a nice,
30:05
Speaker 3: long NFL career. Thanks so much for your time.
30:07
Speaker 2: Thank you, I appreciate.
30:08
Speaker 3: It all right. Thank you for tuning in everybody,