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Another Former 5-Star Ohio State Quarterback Headed To The ACC · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Thursday, January twenty third.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The Texas game is in
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  Speaker 1: Championship game, back at home in familiar confrines. Not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 1: It was a little nice to be home last night
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  Speaker 1: after all of the travel over the last month. It's
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  Speaker 1: never getting caught up on some news that broke as
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  Speaker 1: we were driving home on Tuesday afternoon, and that is
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  Speaker 1: the departure of Ohio State quarterback Devin Brown. He hit
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  Speaker 1: the portal earlier in the sort of postseason period, and
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  Speaker 1: then on Tuesday news broke that he is transferring to
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  Speaker 1: play for the cal Bears. So joined by Tony Gerdamant
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  Speaker 1: Buckeheadle dot com. Tony, this is one of those destinations
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  Speaker 1: you had sort of heard him linked to very early
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  Speaker 1: in the process, and everyone sort of shot it down,
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  Speaker 1: like no, no, no, no, no, it hasn't even taken visits.
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  Speaker 1: And somehow he managed to visit cal despite being in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess, I guess the you know, there was
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  Speaker 1: at least some substance to those earlier rumors.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he comes from the era where you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're probably doing some COVID visits back back in the
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  Speaker 2: day when you couldn't even visit he had to do
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  Speaker 2: like the zoom visits. But you know, so much of
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  Speaker 2: this happens, all of that happens behind the scenes. And
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  Speaker 2: I think the interesting thing with Devin Brown is that
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  Speaker 2: he never wanted his situation to distract from the team,
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  Speaker 2: and he wanted to be part of this entire run.
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  Speaker 2: And then he did his things on his own, but
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  Speaker 2: also prepared to be the backup for Ohio State should
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  Speaker 2: they need it, and they didn't end up needing it,
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  Speaker 2: but he was available and prepared and as a third
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  Speaker 2: year guy, you know, you gosh, do you even expect
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  Speaker 2: to keep a guy for three years anymore if they
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  Speaker 2: don't play as quarterback? And so they they were able
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  Speaker 2: to do that with Devin Brown, and they got through it.
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  Speaker 2: And now he's going to go to a place at
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  Speaker 2: Cal where the starting quarterback last year this year? Is
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  Speaker 2: it last year yet? Tom, let's go with this year
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  Speaker 2: still and Fernando Mendoza, who is he's since transferred, but
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  Speaker 2: he threw for three thousand yards in eleven games. Like
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  Speaker 2: he's averaging two hundred and seventy yards passing a game
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  Speaker 2: this season. So that's kind of an enticing thing for
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  Speaker 2: Devin Brown, who now follows Kyle McCord as an Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State transfer quarterback, former five star guy heading off to
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  Speaker 2: the ACC.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking about that. I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: who are they going to play next year? And I
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  Speaker 1: looked and I'm like, what do they have all these
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  Speaker 1: ACC teams on their schedule? That's I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the A. The A stands for, but it can't possibly
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  Speaker 1: be Atlantic because I know where Cal is located and
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  Speaker 1: it is nowhere near there. So yes, welcome to the brave, new,
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  Speaker 1: and incredibly weird world of college football. He does feel
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  Speaker 1: like this is going to be a great opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: him because he just in Columbus. He he seemed like
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  Speaker 1: he was perpetually part of the conversation for multiple seasons,
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  Speaker 1: I mean two full seasons. There was a you know legit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there was a quarterback battle, and you know
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  Speaker 1: who's going to be the starting quarterback and all that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, And he kind of had a sense
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three three it was going to be
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  Speaker 1: Tom McCord, and you had a certainly a pretty strong
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  Speaker 1: feeling in twenty twenty four that it was going to
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  Speaker 1: be Will Howard. But he felt like he was around
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  Speaker 1: this conversation for so long. And you look at his
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  Speaker 1: career numbers and it's a lot like cal in the
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  Speaker 1: acc You look and you go, that can't be right.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty seven and forty eight for three hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: one yards, three touchdowns, one pick. His biggest game as
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  Speaker 1: a Buckeye against Youngstown State in twenty twenty three. That
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  Speaker 1: was the second game of the season where com accord
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  Speaker 1: had started the first game, and so they're going to
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  Speaker 1: give Devin Brown more run in the second game to
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  Speaker 1: sort of have the open quarterback competition thing going on.
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  Speaker 1: That His biggest game of his career was against Youngstown
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  Speaker 1: State in twenty twenty three, seven to thirteen one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and one yards. The only other game of real note
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  Speaker 1: for him was against Purdue later in the year. He played.
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  Speaker 1: They ran kind of the Tape Martel package for him.
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  Speaker 1: He had eight rushes for twenty yards, had a touchdown rushing,
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  Speaker 1: had a fumble as well. One of two passing, he
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight yards to Brandon Innis for a touchdown. But
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  Speaker 1: you look at his numbers and it's just like, where's
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  Speaker 1: the rest of his career. He's been around forever. That
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  Speaker 1: feels like that should be one game worth of line
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  Speaker 1: for him, and instead it's his career. But it just
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  Speaker 1: feels like he was just always injured, and not like
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  Speaker 1: horendously injured, but just injured enough at the wrong times
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  Speaker 1: that it really cost him an opportunity. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: was never quite the starter, but it always kind of
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  Speaker 1: cost him an opportunity to get back.
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  Speaker 2: In that conversation, yeah, what happens if he plays at
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  Speaker 2: Cotton Bowl and leads Ohio State to a big victory
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  Speaker 2: and plays very very well in that game against Missouri?
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  Speaker 2: Does that change things? Does that give him the momentum
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  Speaker 2: and the kind of boost that he needed. But whether
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  Speaker 2: it was like a missing the end of spring in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, there's a finger injury, there's an ankle injury.
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  Speaker 2: It was just, you know, this was the most he's
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  Speaker 2: ever been healthy this year. But you know, he threw
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  Speaker 2: two passes over the course of the final nine to
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  Speaker 2: ten games of the season and was not necessarily didn't
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  Speaker 2: play as much as some backups in Ohio State history,
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  Speaker 2: but did have an amazing throw to Jeremiah Smith for
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  Speaker 2: a touchdown, amazing catch and throw against Michigan State that
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  Speaker 2: everybody will remember when Will Howard had to leave the
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  Speaker 2: game with an injury and Devin Smith, Devin Brown came
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  Speaker 2: in and delivered, and you know, maybe that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be one of his defining moments at Ohio State. And
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  Speaker 2: again it's it's hard to find some when you're a
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  Speaker 2: Buck guy, a backup quarterback, but you know he did
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  Speaker 2: have some. And again he stuck it out. And when
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  Speaker 2: other playoff backup quarterbacks who had a larger role than
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  Speaker 2: Devin Brown were leaving and entering the portal around the country,
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  Speaker 2: he stuck it out with the Buck guys and he
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  Speaker 2: was there till the end.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was one of those guys who did just
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  Speaker 1: like Mitchell Maultain, who did a show on Mitchell Melton
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  Speaker 1: a day ago, went all the way through. Mitchell Melton
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  Speaker 1: played more than Devin Brown did in the postseason, but
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  Speaker 1: both of them, you know, were among that group that
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  Speaker 1: stuck out. Then Maholski was in that group. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: George Fitzpaticker's in the group. All these guys who knew
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  Speaker 1: they were probably leaving but stuck it out to continue
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  Speaker 1: to finish the season. And that's also sort of a
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  Speaker 1: sign of respect from your teammates and the coaching staff
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  Speaker 1: where they want your round. CoA Joe Andrey was in
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  Speaker 1: that group. They want you around because you are a contributor,
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  Speaker 1: You're a valued member of the team. Everyone sort of understands.
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  Speaker 1: And that's I think where Ohio State fans should be
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  Speaker 1: with this, Like everyone should understand that this is a
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity for Devin Brown. Just you know, you tip
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  Speaker 1: your hat, you say, go be great. And then now
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  Speaker 1: it's time to look forward to twenty twenty five and
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  Speaker 1: it certainly provides a little bit more of a clear
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  Speaker 1: picture in terms of what that quarterback position is going
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  Speaker 1: to look like this year. You have Julian Sayan coming
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  Speaker 1: back for his second year, you have Lincoln Keenhol's coming
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  Speaker 1: back for his third year, you have Davi and Saint
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  Speaker 1: Clair coming in for his first year. You get the
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  Speaker 1: sense they probably would like to bring in some kind
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  Speaker 1: of a veteran quarterback who's probably not coming in expecting
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  Speaker 1: to start. You know, you're not You're not bringing in
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  Speaker 1: a Will Howard type necessarily this year. You might be
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  Speaker 1: bringing in more of the Chris Chugganoff type where you're
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  Speaker 1: bringing in someone who's played a little bit, potentially a
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  Speaker 1: veteran guy to give you that fourth scholarship quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: that room that Ryan Day likes to have. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: right now, looking at this, it feels like this is
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  Speaker 1: probably if you're handicapping it, you would think Julian Sayin's
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  Speaker 1: probably the favorite. Lincoln keen Holes, you know, probably the
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  Speaker 1: next guy in the Mixtavi in Saint Clair coming in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from a small Ohio high school as a
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  Speaker 1: true freshman, that's probably not a great spot to be
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  Speaker 1: thrown in as a true freshman, you know, to be
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  Speaker 1: the starter right off the bat if you're bringing in
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  Speaker 1: another guy, I mean, is that sort of how you
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  Speaker 1: see this quarterback race potentially get? You know, We're a
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  Speaker 1: long way out, But is that sort of where you
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  Speaker 1: see this this quarterback race sort of shaping up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's interesting in the nature of the
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  Speaker 2: position is you know, you're talking about Lincoln Keenholts and
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  Speaker 2: Julian saying, let's see if they're in spring camp for
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  Speaker 2: the buck Eyes. That that sort of thing. That's how
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  Speaker 2: the you have to think about the quarterback position. And
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  Speaker 2: Julian Sanin played twenty seven snaps this year, four games.
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  Speaker 2: Lincoln Keenholes played eight snaps and two games this year.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they shoot, Keenhols played forty against Missouri in
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  Speaker 2: that game last year in the Cotton Bowl. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the most experienced he's he's gotten. So neither of these
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  Speaker 2: guys are you know, head and shoulders like above anybody
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  Speaker 2: right now. But I do think Julian saying coming in
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  Speaker 2: and moving past Lincoln Keenholds as a true freshman, That's
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  Speaker 2: that's a significant thing. And then Ryan Day talking about
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  Speaker 2: how Julian Sane was pushing Devin Brown to be the
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  Speaker 2: backup at times this season and he saw the you know,
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  Speaker 2: they they started to trust him more. We get tried
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  Speaker 2: to get him in some games there late, and you
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  Speaker 2: got to they all got to play against tennis, which
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  Speaker 2: I thought was interesting. And now Julian saying, I think
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  Speaker 2: is certainly the favorite, but he's not played so much
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  Speaker 2: that he is guaranteed to be the guy, or to
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  Speaker 2: be successful, or you know, any of those things. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: I do expect a transfer to come in, but probably
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  Speaker 2: with the understanding that it is likely. Julian's saying, but hey,
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  Speaker 2: everything's a competition at Ohio State. It's a meritocracy, as
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  Speaker 2: they say, so you'll have an opportunity. And then if
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  Speaker 2: you are a quarterback who has started before, and you
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  Speaker 2: have a history of starting, and you see what what
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  Speaker 2: Will Howard just did for Ohio State, and you look
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  Speaker 2: at what's in the way, like what's waiting at quarterback
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  Speaker 2: at Ohio State. If you're a confident guy, wouldn't you
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  Speaker 2: think that, you know what, who's to say I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: go in there and beat out a red shirt freshman
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  Speaker 2: who has thrown all of I don't know, like twelve
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  Speaker 2: passes this year.
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  Speaker 1: Right, You've got a relatively inexperienced quarterback room. And you've
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  Speaker 1: also seen Ohio State seasons where they need more than
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  Speaker 1: one quarterback that happens quite a bit. I mean the
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Keenholes game you talked about. Lincoln Keenholes was the
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  Speaker 1: third quarterback go you know, at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: regular season, and then coord transfers and Devin Brown gets hurt,
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  Speaker 1: and presto, there is Lincoln keen Holes getting a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of snaps against Missouri and the Cotton Bowl. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you were somewhere on that depth chart, you have
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to play. We will, we will see how
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  Speaker 1: that quarterback battle shakes out. There's a long way to
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  Speaker 1: go between now and spring ball, and there's a long
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  Speaker 1: way to go between spring ball and fall camp, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who would keep track of that kind
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