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Is James Peoples Ready To Be The Buckeyes' Lead Back? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, March sixteenth, time
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  Speaker 1: All right, on Today Show, you're going to get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to hear from Ohio State running backs coach Carlos Lachlan.
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  Speaker 1: He came in kind of late last year after Tony
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  Speaker 1: Alfred departed from Michigan and had a really really immensely
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  Speaker 1: successful freshman year. First year. Anyway, Yes, freshman year kind
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  Speaker 1: of works too at Ohio State. All they did was
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  Speaker 1: have a couple one thousand yard backs, won a national championship,
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  Speaker 1: and then sent two of those running backs off to
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, where they are probably going to get their
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  Speaker 1: names called relatively early in the process. So okay, now
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  Speaker 1: you got to do it again, and now you get
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  Speaker 1: to start from scratch. So Carlos Lachlan. Let's get a
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  Speaker 1: quick rundown of where things stand in the running back room.
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  Speaker 2: Still getting to know each of every one of the kids,
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  Speaker 2: even though, like I said, you lost the two big dogs,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, James, he had a good off season.
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  Speaker 2: C Jams still learning, but he's working hard and excited
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  Speaker 2: by Bo Jackson. Like I said, we still got Isaiah
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  Speaker 2: Weston and Terpot Rodgers bead in Juil, so we still
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  Speaker 2: got TC Caffy, So we got a pretty good Sam.
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  Speaker 2: And Sam's here. He's back now as well, so we
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  Speaker 2: got a pretty good room. So it's gonna be some
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  Speaker 2: fun battles in the.
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  Speaker 1: One interesting name there is Sam Williams Dixon. He did
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  Speaker 1: the Bryson Rodgers thing where he left in the transfer
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  Speaker 1: portal after the season and then decided that grass was
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  Speaker 1: not in factory or elsewhere and decided to come back.
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  Speaker 1: So what was the story there?
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  Speaker 3: Sam? A young guy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we all been young, We all making quick decisions.
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  Speaker 2: But my my thing is when I talk to these
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  Speaker 2: parents and I had their sons come play for me.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, I love him. Know it's bigger than football.
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  Speaker 2: You know, everybody always talked expect and that's not the
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  Speaker 2: part I talked with about Sam.
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  Speaker 3: Part of talking with about.
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  Speaker 2: Sam is that we're all gonna be successful in something.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted him to be successful in school, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and think about he's from here, getting his degree from
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  Speaker 2: here could mean a lot. So that's what I kind
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  Speaker 2: of spoke with him about that. And I said, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a new guy coming in this spring April. The guy
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  Speaker 2: that coached him left and he's a young man, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, things are a little bit different from him.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, coach Day speaks about this all time
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  Speaker 2: tough love. I get them Bore isn't a tough love.
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  Speaker 3: I'm real.
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  Speaker 2: I'm honest with him and took some getting used to.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't lie to him. I tell him
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  Speaker 2: the truth. So you know, I think he's quite familiar
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  Speaker 2: with who I am now. But I love the kid.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he works hard and like say, he's.
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  Speaker 3: A good kid.
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  Speaker 1: The follow up question to that, Sam Williams Sixon one
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  Speaker 1: was about you know, whether you feel like you have
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  Speaker 1: to keep recruiting guys their whole careers, which is you know,
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  Speaker 1: a fair question. This is one that was a question.
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  Speaker 1: The answer didn't go really the way you would have expected.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a really interesting answer from Carlos Laughlan
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  Speaker 1: and gives you a better understanding maybe of how things
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  Speaker 1: really sort of work.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I got a saying, I know I'm not an
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  Speaker 2: elite recruiter. It's much better running back coach out there recruit.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a legal recruiter, and I have no desire
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  Speaker 2: to be a leite recruiter. What I am as an
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  Speaker 2: elite relationship builder. I be a relationship with the young
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  Speaker 2: man and let them know that even though they can
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  Speaker 2: go somewhere else, no, I'm still gonna have a relationship
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  Speaker 2: with them.
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  Speaker 3: I believe in the relationship part.
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  Speaker 2: And if you get the young man to believe in
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  Speaker 2: that you're pouring into them as young men and not
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  Speaker 2: just recruiting like you're selling cars, No, they'll begin to
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  Speaker 2: open up to you and believe what you're saying. Some So,
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  Speaker 2: I am not an elite recruiter, but what I am
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  Speaker 2: as an elite relationship builder.
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  Speaker 1: There are four new running backs in that room. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't really get directly asked about CJ. Donaldson in any
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  Speaker 1: great detail, but did mention that c J. Donaldson, he's
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  Speaker 1: the transfer from West Virginia. His weight is already down
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  Speaker 1: from two thirty eight to about two thirty. That was
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  Speaker 1: the thing that they sort of set out to do,
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  Speaker 1: have him drop a little weight to get a little quicker.
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  Speaker 1: He has done that heading into spring ball. Then Carlos
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  Speaker 1: Lockelan was asked about the three true freshmen Bo Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah West, and Turbo Rogers. He's gonna be there in
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  Speaker 1: the summer. But here are Carlos lachlan thoughts on those
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  Speaker 1: three true freshmen.
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  Speaker 3: You look at Bo Jackson, he got size.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's right now six foot two, twenty speed,
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  Speaker 2: He got gifts on the God can give him.
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  Speaker 3: So you see the potential what he could be.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's gonna have to work and compete, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited about him. But like I said, we'll see same
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  Speaker 2: thing with Isaiah West. You see his size and you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about right at five eleven two fifteen. No, built
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  Speaker 2: the right way, but he has the right mindset. So
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  Speaker 2: you get excited about him because his mindset. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he seems so much older than he is
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  Speaker 2: when you talk to him.
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  Speaker 3: His mind is in the right place.
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  Speaker 2: And then, like I said, Turbo Rodgers is somebody that
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  Speaker 2: I've been build a relationship with since he's been in
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  Speaker 2: probably seventh grade, and they give him here to have
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to coach him. I'm excited. But the three freshmen
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  Speaker 2: we got coming in and I'm telling you, I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: about him just to see what their journey is gonna
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  Speaker 2: look like into college football.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another one where there's a question and he sort
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  Speaker 1: of answers it. But in the process of answering it,
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  Speaker 1: it goes to all sorts of different places where you
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  Speaker 1: get a really good sense for his mentality. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: he sort of goes through this answer. So the question
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  Speaker 1: was about James people's first year on and off the field.
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  Speaker 2: One thing me and James have a discussion about that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a marathon, not a sprint. I think so much
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  Speaker 2: like I said, we live in the microwave society on
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  Speaker 2: instant success right now. And I told him last year,
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  Speaker 2: I said, you're going to learn from these two guys
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  Speaker 2: and when your time come, you're gonna appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna appreciate the climb. And he sat behind both
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  Speaker 3: of them.
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  Speaker 2: He learned he's leading the room now because he had
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  Speaker 2: a great guy to watch the leader room, which is
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  Speaker 2: tree and then he saw Q and trade work ethic
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  Speaker 2: and now he's working just as hard. But you know
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  Speaker 2: when these guys come out of high school and they
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  Speaker 2: you know these you know, these recruiting service give them
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  Speaker 2: these five stars and four stars. You know, they think
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  Speaker 2: they supposed to come in play from day one, and
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  Speaker 2: in that junior year, they out, well, don't work that way.
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  Speaker 2: Not in the room that I'm in, it don't work
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  Speaker 2: that way. No, because you're gonna learn how to be
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  Speaker 2: a complete player. One thing I challenged the James with
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  Speaker 2: this year, all the running backs. Now, I even said
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  Speaker 2: the coach day, you know running backs playing special teams. Here,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be on special teams. And I challenge to
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  Speaker 2: every one of my guys with that in there, you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna play special teams like you. I ain't just talking
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  Speaker 2: about going out to that pricee. You're gonna be on
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  Speaker 2: on the one or two depth charts. Because you told
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  Speaker 2: me you want to play in the NFL. Well, you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna learn how to play special team. I also teach
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  Speaker 2: the teachers to be no just uh not a selfish player.
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  Speaker 2: Now you wanna go out there, I know you want
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  Speaker 2: to run about what what other ways can you help
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  Speaker 2: the team. So last year I think he got a
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  Speaker 2: chance to see all of that is helping him. Now
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  Speaker 2: I am excited to see he's a growth, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: also excited to see him compete because from talent of
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  Speaker 2: in that room, from top to bottom, it's pretty is
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  Speaker 2: getting pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: And no, no, all right, you have probably by now
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  Speaker 1: figured out that that Carlos Laughlin is not exactly an
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  Speaker 1: easy greater.
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  Speaker 3: He's not going to.
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  Speaker 1: Be someone who is just going to sort of hand
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  Speaker 1: out plaudits or handout jobs. He's gonna make it earn it.
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  Speaker 1: So when you hear this answer, I think it really
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  Speaker 1: means something. So Carlos Lachlin, what makes James people stand out?
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  Speaker 3: Compact runner?
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  Speaker 2: He has good hands, has really incredible shout areaburse, tough,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, quickness, everything that you want in the
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  Speaker 2: back he has.
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  Speaker 3: He's not a small guy.
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  Speaker 2: He thinks he's six foots he telling me out of time,
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  Speaker 2: but probably five to ten right about two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: ten pounds. And he wants to have great knowledge of
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  Speaker 2: the game. So those are the things that stand out
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  Speaker 2: to me. Is like I said, Shorty, your bursting out.
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  Speaker 2: I recruited James.
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  Speaker 3: I was at Organ.
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  Speaker 2: I first mate James with the tenth grade, so we
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  Speaker 2: already had a prior relationship, but just I see the
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  Speaker 2: growth in them now he's locked in, So I am
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  Speaker 2: excited to see see him in a in a more
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  Speaker 2: in a more demanding role where he gets the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to showcase what you can do.
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Lachlan's first year at Ohio State was again a
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  Speaker 1: very successful one, but it was a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: an uncharacteristic one in terms of how the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: running backs had their carries doled out. It was really
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  Speaker 1: a one A, one B or one and one A
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  Speaker 1: model with Fravion Henderson and Quinn John Judkins basically splitting
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  Speaker 1: carries right down the middle. Seemed like it worked pretty
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  Speaker 1: darn well. So is that model last year with more
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  Speaker 1: than one guy splitting carries? Is that going to just
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  Speaker 1: be the plan every year moving forward?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that's smart. They had one league and
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  Speaker 3: none of you.
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  Speaker 2: If your expectation to play deep into the playoffs, no,
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  Speaker 2: I got told you before, you know, I said over again,
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  Speaker 2: my job here is to make sure coach Dave is successful,
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  Speaker 2: all right, and that's putting the best backs on the field.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you want to run one guy, that
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  Speaker 2: run him into the ground and that works for you,
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  Speaker 2: that's good for you. That's not what I'm doing now.
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  Speaker 2: He still can accomplish his goals by having another guy
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  Speaker 2: play with him or another guy, you know, because.
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  Speaker 3: It's a long season.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, when I think about running backs and
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  Speaker 2: that aspecting guys like I want gonna be the only
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  Speaker 2: one to get the ball. Your mindset is not on
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  Speaker 2: team goals. Your mindset is on your own individual goals.
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  Speaker 2: Like I told Trey and Q, you learn how to
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  Speaker 2: be one, we're gonna have great success. I think those
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  Speaker 2: are the two best backs that the NFL come by
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  Speaker 2: in this past.
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  Speaker 3: Weekend, and it showed, but they had great success.
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  Speaker 2: They wasn't banged up, they weren't hurt, and they learned
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  Speaker 2: how to be one, and they still accomplish everything they
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  Speaker 2: want to accomplish. They wanted that's a championship here, So
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  Speaker 2: they put aside their personal goals and they put the
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  Speaker 2: team goals ahead. And when they did that, both of
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  Speaker 2: them still got to where they want to be at.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm I'm excited to see both of those guys
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  Speaker 2: name call here late in April.
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  Speaker 1: And finally heading into spring ball. What is Carlos Laughlin
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  Speaker 1: looking for out of those running backs this spring?
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  Speaker 2: First thing is I want to see if I can
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  Speaker 2: get three or four guys to start on special teams.
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  Speaker 3: That's That's the first competition I'm looking at.
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  Speaker 2: Then after that, I just want to see it just
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  Speaker 2: see how all on compete with you know. More overall,
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  Speaker 2: I want to see how James, know, how he takes
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  Speaker 2: on the leadership of the room, See how he competes
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  Speaker 2: with the other guys, whether it's Bowl, whether it's CJ,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's Sam or Turbo or like I said, Isaiah,
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  Speaker 2: We's whoever it is, or TC Cat. I want to
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  Speaker 2: see how he competes. And like I said, the biggest
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  Speaker 2: thing is his leadership. Bro, That's that's the big thing.
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  Speaker 2: Look in the room. Is everybody gonna come to be one,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not be selfish pouring to one another. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm not playing on offense, what else can I
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  Speaker 2: do on the team? Can I go start on kickoff?
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  Speaker 2: Can I start on kickoff return, punt plant pressure? Those
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  Speaker 2: are the things I'm looking for because, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to take that whole room to win, and
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  Speaker 2: it's going to take the whole room to win, not
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  Speaker 2: just playing office but playing special teams as well.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we are just about twenty four hours away from
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  Speaker 1: the start of spring football at Ohio State. Going to
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  Speaker 1: be a ton to talk about this week as we
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to watch a little bit of practice
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days and then have pints to talk,
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  Speaker 1: to do some interviews, all that fun stuff. Spring ball
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  Speaker 1: finally here. It's only been less than two months since
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  Speaker 1: the National Championship game, but it is already time to
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  Speaker 1: turn the page. The twenty twenty five Ohio State football
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  Speaker 1: season was a fun time of year, a lot to
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  Speaker 1: talk about this spring, and you can talk about all
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow,