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Ohio State Recruiting Insider: 3 Players Who Could Be On Commitment Watch · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning for Tuesday, January sixteenth. I'm your host,
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  Tom Moore. The Akron game is in two hundred and twenty eight days,
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  the game against Michigan in three hundred and nineteen days. Talk to Kevin Noon
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  on yesterday's show about some of the positive trends for Ohio State in the transfer
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  portal in terms of NFL draft declarations or draft retornees, and also some coaching
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  staff changes that have Ohio State fans maybe a little more optimistic about the twenty
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  twenty four season. Today, we're going to talk about recruiting, and there's
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  a lot of positive news on that front as well for the Buckeyes. Already
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  this month, the Buckeys have added five star cornerback Devin Sanchez to the class
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  of twenty twenty five, also twenty twenty five defensive linemans of here mathis and
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  there could be some more good news on the way for the Buckeyes relatively soon.
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  We're going to bring in our buddy Mark Givlerfuckeyhuddle dot com to talk about
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  some of that stuff, and Mark, I guess let's start with the first
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  twenty twenty four or potentially the final twenty twenty four piece of the puzzle for
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  the Buckeyes. That is defensive lineman. Dominic Kirks talked about him a little
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  bit on yesterday's show, but officially got his offer from Ohio State, and
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  it sort of feels like everyone is sort of waiting for some potential news on
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  that front. Yeah, I think the sooner the better right now for Ohio
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  State. Uh, you know, there's two small things right now that could
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  maybe be minor speed bumps toward Ohio State ultimately landing Dominic. And that is
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  obviously USC is a school that has been working very hard on him much kind
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  of in tandem with Ohio State kind of keeping him from signing there in the
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  early signing period as when he was committed to Washington. They're they're hoping to
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  maybe get a visit here by the by before the end of the cycle.
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  I think Ohio State is hoping that doesn't happen and kind of get this thing
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  locked up this week, and then you have kind of the unknown with Alabama.
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  You know, klin to board leaves Washington to go to Alabama. That
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  prompted Dominic Kirks's de commitment on Friday night, and so is there enough time
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  for Alabama to you know, maybe get him on campus, get the offer
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  to him, you know, get get all that set up. That seems
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  a little unlikely, but it's just something to watch. Otherwise, the visit
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  went very well this weekend. Ohio State did offer, as you said,
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  and everything has played out this month the way we said it would need to
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  play out in terms of, Okay, they got to bring him on a
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  visit, and if they bring him in on a visit, that means Ohio
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  State serious. And if they bring him on a visit, they're probably going
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  to offer him. So and if he comes for the visit and he gets
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  the offer, he's you know, they're probably not going to give him the
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  offer without being pretty sure they're going to get him. So, like all
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  these things that we talked about before, the before they all kicked off have
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  happened. So everything's looking very good here. There's a couple of things they
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  got to get out of the way here to avoid any last minute trouble.
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  The only other potential complication there, I guess, at least theoretically, is
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  that at Washington, which is where he was committed before, they do have
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  a new football coach. It is Jedfish late of the Arizona Wildcats. Obviously,
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  I assume he has made his official visit to Washington. He is probably
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  not going to get back on a plane and fly across the country to go
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  see Jedfish in Seattle. So I assume that's more of a theoretical concern than
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  a real one. Yeah, I would be if yeah, if we're gonna
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  do the theoretical stuff, I think would be Alabama that might be the concerns
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  just you know, he committed to debor Alabama's obviously a great program, national
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  powerhouse. I don't know that the Relationshiship would be there with what with Jedfish.
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  I don't think he committed to Washington necessarily because he loved, you know,
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  Seattle so much as much as it was a really good program on the
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  rise with a really good head coach. So I think all the things that
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  kind of drew him to Washington are probably out of play at this point,
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  and it's more of you know, can USC like throw a hail Mary here
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  at the end, or could Alabama maybe uh cloudy things up a little bit,
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  all right? And now moving on to the closet twenty twenty five.
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  Mentioned earlier, the Bucky's got a couple of twenty twenty five commits already this
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  month. Devin Sanchez the five star corner out of Texas. He is the
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  number two corner in the two four seven composite for the class of twenty twenty
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  five. The number four corner in the class of twenty twenty five in that
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  two four seven composite is Dorian Brew. He is listed as being in Texas
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  right now, but he was in Ohio until very recently. He has an
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  announcement coming soon. Mark. As I think back at Ohio State corner classes
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  in the past, they've had some really good ones. I always think about
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  Jeff Okuda and Sean Wade coming in as a number one and number two corners
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  in the class of twenty nineteen. Right, I think I did my I
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  think I did my math right. So it is Ohio status. Tim Walton
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  about to do it again? Is he about to add another top five corner
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  to his twenty twenty five class? Yeah, that was twenty seventeen. That
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  was a Okudah Wade and of course Chase Young was in there as well.
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  Yeah, we're we're old. It's not even it's not five years ago,
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  seven years ago now. So yes, short answer, Yes, I believe
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  they're going to land Dori and Brew. He announces January twenty fourth. Longer
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  answer. I think a lot of people were a little worried when he moved
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  to Texas. Not so much that he was moving to Texas for recruiting purposes,
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  but just you know, instead of being an hour down the road,
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  now he's a fairly long flight away. But you know, right before he
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  left for Texas, he visited Ohio State for a game like and then got
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  on a plane and went to Texas like a day or two later, and
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  he did. He also came back to Ohio State since he was in Texas.
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  And one thing we point out when we were talking about Devin Sanchez is
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  when Dorian moved to Texas, moved to Conroe, he's about thirty twenty five
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  thirty minutes away from where Devin Sanchez lives. And Devon didn't have a game
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  the night Dorian Brew played his first game at Conroe, so so Devin went
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  to watch Dorian Brew. So those two have had a connection. I think
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  they were. They were at camp the same day, like they've they've just
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  been a little bit of back and forth there for a while, but since
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  Dorian moved to Texas, they've really kind of struck up a friendship and Devin
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  Sanchez has obviously started recruiting him very hard. And so this the timing is
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  phenomenal for Ohio State. You know, the real question only is is Dorian
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  gonna be a corner at Ohio State? My guess is he'll be a safety,
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  but he's he could also be a big corner with his track speed.
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  So either way, with Devin Sanchez, Blake would be already in the fold.
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  And now you know, possibly Dorian Brew, you are looking at an
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  absolute monster defensive back class with with a lot of potential here. Yeah,
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  and I mentioned Sanchez number two, Brew listed as the number four corner in
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  the class, would be the third you know what, who could be the
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  third commit already the second commit in the class. He's listed as a number
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  ten corner in the class. At what point, mark do we start having
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  the Tim Walton is the Brian hartline on the defensive side of the ball conversation,
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  Because it feels like it may be is imminent if it shouldn't be already
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  happening already yeah, I'm I'm kind of at the point of, let's see
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  who they sign in December, you know, eleven months from now. Because
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  if he hangs on to these guys, if he gets Dorian Brew, if
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  he gets Trey McNutt, and then he'll the lad at least one other guy
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  to that mix, and he keeps Devin Sanchez and Blake would be in the
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  fold. That's gonna be the best secondary class in the country. I don't
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  think that anyone else is going to be able to combat that. I don't
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  think anybody else will be able to top that. And so now you're putting
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  together a body of work and you know you don't want to give him,
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  you want to give him full credit for last year, but they were also
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  Ohio guys, so like he's got to go out and he's done it before.
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  He's picked up some out of state guys, you know, Calvin Simpson
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  Hunt, but he's he's had a lot of Ohio guys, so he's had
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  a kind of a nice little run here in Ohio. But you start talking
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  about getting Devin Sanchez and Blake would be and then you keep Dorian Brew after
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  he moves to Texas and maybe you add another big name there. They's had
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  Naheim offered from Birmingham, Alabama five star corner on campus last week. I'm
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  not super optimistic about that, but hey, you never know. He came
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  up and visited on his own dime. You start to do these types of
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  things where you know, like Brian Hartline's doing when he goes and gets a
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  five star kit from Florida or a five star ket from Texas or something like
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  that, and yeah, then you start to have these discussions on on you
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  know, is he the Brian Hartline of the defense? Is he as good
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  as Brian Hartlin? Is he the best recruiter on the staff. We can
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  start having those comparisons once he signs guys like Devin Sanchez. Yeah, boy,
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  you bring that that class together, you bring in a Trey McNutt,
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  you add maybe one more piece, and maybe maybe a year from now we're
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  having the is Brian Hartline the Tim Walton of the offense kind of conversation?
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  That would be a quite a class at a spot where, Boy, you
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  don't have to go back that long to think about a time when the cornerback
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  room was a little bit of a disaster for Ohio State in the recruiting realm
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  definitely not. It can certa anymore. Another spot that has been a little
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  bit iffy in recent years where they might be about to add another potentially very
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  impactful piece the offensive line room that has obviously been an area of great consternation
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  for Ohio State fans over the previous few weeks and months and years. Harder
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  Low twenty twenty five offensive tackle out of the Toledo area. He is also
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  potentially has a commitment coming relatively soon. How that's a There are a lot
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  of big programs in the Midwest interested in cutter Low. How is How's Ohio
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  State looking on that front? Looking very good? I've had them in the
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  lead for a long time now. This has kind of been an Ohio State
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  Michigan battle. Yes, there are other schools involved. I think Georgia,
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  Alabama, there's Clemson, I think out of state schools. He's got a
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  national offer list at this point, but this has primarily looked like an Ohio
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  State Michigan battle. And I've always kind of fell Ohio State had the edge
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  there with Michigan, you know, kind of running nipping at their heels,
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  but just like you know, maybe a couple months ago, things really shifted
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  even further toward Ohio State, and so I think that's going to be a
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  pick up that Ohio State's able to make. Does not have a set date
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  in the way Dorian brew does, at least not yet by by time this
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  runs, who knows, but it's looking like it's going to happen by the
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  end of the month. So it's just kind of a matter of him,
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  I think, ironing out the details of how he wants to make his decision
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  in his announcement. But very much like wor Ohio State stands, I think,
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  is he going to be the best player Ohio State signs in twenty twenty
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  five? Probably not. I mean, Devin Sanchez is obviously tremendous that are
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  on some other guys that are that are big time too, but just given
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  his ability, as in my opinion, a guy should be like a top
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  fifty to sixty national guy on top of his position, which is offensive tackle,
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  which has been again a bit of an issue for Ohio State over the
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  last few years. To me, this was the most important guy in the
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  cycle for them. You can't miss on this one. You're you're the in
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  state program. Your depth charge is wide open. You need like you need
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  this, and so I think they're going to get this done. Be a
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  huge get for Justin Fry if they can pull it off. But that's that's
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  what it's looking like today. And again a tremendous player. He's my one
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  of my top couple guys in state of Ohio for the class and again should
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  be a top hundred guy nationally pretty much across the board, I think.
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  So again, you can't it's hard to hard to overstate this one. If
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  they can pull it off, it's it's a it's a huge commitment. If
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  they can land it. All right, Well, we will keep an eye
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  on that one. And there's gonna be a lot to follow on the recruiting
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  front in the coming weeks, a lot to follow potentially in the transfer portal
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  in the coming weeks, A lot to follow on the coaching front, Potential
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  changes coming there, some names we've been bantering about on the huddleboard a bucket
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  huddle dot Com presented by Jeff Ruby Steakhouse. Lots of names to know on
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  the potential offensive coordinator front, and then what changes will come after that change.
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  Recruiting transfer portal Spring Football Man oh Man there's a lot going on right
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  now all at bucke huddle dot com. We would love to have you join
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  us there be a part of that community, get some insider access for the
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  team coverage that Kevin and Toni and I do. Mark obviously covering recruiting.
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  He seems like he's cranking out multiple columns every week at this point because there's
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  just so much to talk about and a lot of interesting information floating in on
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  Class twenty twenty four, Class twenty twenty five transfer portal stuff, all some
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  stuff even on some early twenty twenty six offensive linemen. To know that all
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  you guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We will talk
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