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One-On-One With Ryan Day At 2024 Big Ten Media Days · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning for Wednesday, July twenty fourth. I'm your host,
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  Tom Moore. The Akron game in thirty eight days, the game against
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  Michigan in one hundred and twenty nine days. Day one of Big ten Media
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  Days is in the books. Ryan Day, Jack Sawyer, a Mecca Abuka,
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  and Denzel Burke. We're all in Indianapolis. We had lots of content
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  out of that at buckeyehuddle dot com and of course at YouTube dot com slash
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  Bucke Huddles to make sure you check out all of that. One of the
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  things we got to do was talk to Ryan Day one on one. That
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  is something of a unique opportunity. Is a busy man during football seasons,
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  we don't generally get a chance to do that. This is one of those
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  great opportunities to do it. So you're gonna hear about eight minutes of me
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  talking to Ryan Day about a bunch of different stuff. We tried to catch
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  on a bunch of different topics that are not the kind of stuff that typically
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  comes up during a press conference. So you're gonna hear us talking a little
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  bit about Jeremiah Smith. That's something you're gonna hear about during a press conference.
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  Okay, that's the one exception. You're gonna hear a little bit about
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  some of the true freshmen this summer en rollies, about the two minute morning
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  new change in the room, the helmet, helmet, communications, helmet,
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  radios, all that kind of stuff. So here is my conversation with Ryan
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  Day at twenty twenty four Big Ten Media Days. Ryan, you were asked
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  up at the podium wide receivers four through seven, and I didn't hear the
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  name Jeremiah Smith. So safe to assume Jeremiah Smith is trending towards the one
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  through three end of things. I guess we could say he's trending trying again,
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  you know, keep some of that hype down a little bit, you
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  know, until he actually plays a snap at Ohio State. But you know
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  it's no secret how talented he is, and you know he'll be a big
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  part of our offense this year. What is it that sets him apart as
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  a player, that puts him in that kind of position. Well, I
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  think the first thing is you see the size, you see the strength,
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  you see the explosiveness, you see the ball skills. But then you also
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  see the discipline. You know, this is somebody that you know, he
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  goes out, he goes hard every single time he's out there. He learns
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  quickly. So there's a lot there. Like now, you guys, this
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  time last year we're talking about Luke Montgomery. Is you know, he's someone
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  who's going to be a profession you know, a freshman who sees the field
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  and not gonna be someone who red shirts. What's the list of freshmen who
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  are probably not going to red shirt look like to you right now? Well,
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  the way that we look at it is because you can play four games
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  and then play in the postseason. You know, we don't really look at
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  it like that. What we try to do is figure out how many of
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  these guys can we get reps and get them in the game, and then
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  once it comes half to play in that fifth game, then we make that
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  decision. So we want everybody to feel like they're going to play in the
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  game and prepare to play in the game. You know, I don't see
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  you know, maybe maybe a couple offensive linemen that are probably red shirt.
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  For the most of them, I think that you know, they should be
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  coming in expecting to play. And actually now that I think about it.
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  You know, I think certainly the guys who came in January should expect to
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  play. The guys that come into summer a little bit behind, but who
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  knows, maybe they can you know, cover some ground here in the preseason.
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  So let's talk a little bit of those guys who showed up in the
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  summer. You know, Mile and Graham is sort of the the big name
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  of those in terms of just looking at the star rankings and all that.
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  But you know, obviously we know that doesn't mean anything when they there.
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  So what have you seen from those guys, you know, during their first
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  month and and half or so on campus. The bottom line is, when
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  you come into the summer, you're you're behind. It's just the way it
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  is. You know, Lincoln kind of went through that this year, Brandon
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  last year. Brandon kind of went through that last year, and so you
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  know, they have to make up ground quickly. So to Marion Whitten,
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  Milon Graham, Leroy Roker, I'm gonna forget some of the guys, but
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  you know, as they came in those first couple of weeks, it takes
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  a little while to get going, uh excited about all of their ability.
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  I think all those guys are going to be really good buck guys. I
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  think we've hit with all those guys. Gave Van Sikel, you know,
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  really excited. There's not one of them. We're like, boy that you
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  know, that was a buster. You know, he doesn't belong And we
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  feel good about all of them. They're just a little bit behind because they
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  didn't have the whole you know, spring to go through practice and go through
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  the winter program. This is obviously a year first and a year of different
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  things in college football. And I'm sure you're gonna get asked about playoff and
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  all that kind of stuff. I want to ask you about a couple of
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  the other things, the change and the accountable coaches rule. How are you
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  guys planning on taking advantage of that and what does that potentially open up for
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  you guys as a program. Well, well, it's not going to change
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  too much this year. You know, we'll take a look at it maybe
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  as we head into the next year, but you know, we already kind
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  of are in pretty good position with the guys that we have. You know,
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  Tim Drevno, somebody who's you know, coached a lot of football before.
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  You know, Billy Fessler and the guys on the defensive side of the
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  ball, like Sam McGrath and Aaron Douhart. All those guys are you know,
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  very very good coach. They've coached at other places and so now you
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  know they're able to get on the field and actually coach. So they've already
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  been assigned positions already. Now they're just you know, they've been out there
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  on the field, they haven't been able to coach. They've been able to
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  kind of coach the coaches. Now they're able to actually interact with the players.
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  So you know, we'll kind of see what that looks like as we
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  you know, get going with the season, decide kind of where we want
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  it to be structurally at the end of the season. But the good news
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  is those guys can jump right in and help out with the change to the
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  the you know, it's not longer divisions here for the Big Ten Championship game.
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  You could play a team two even three times this year. You know,
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  theoretically, how does that change your approach? How much additional prep work
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  is that, How much additional video scouting are you guys going to have to
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  do, and how much strain does that put on the staff to do whatever
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  that added burden is, well, you know, actually, when you play
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  a team multiple times, you don't need to do as much work in terms
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  of prep work because you've already watched the film and you already kind of know
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  them. What it is going to you know, force us to do is
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  you know, think about when you watch the NFL games and you know,
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  see the team that plays multiple teams and then a division or then plays another
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  team in the playoffs, like what does that look like? What are some
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  of the things and those are some of the conversations that we've already had.
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  Certainly we have some really good, you know, background in the NFL.
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  Tim Walton has been in the NFL for a long time. Chip obviously was
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  a head coach in the NFL. James laurniis Brian Hartline. So a lot
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  of these guys have been in that league before understand what it is. So
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  when it comes down out of those times, you don't have to pull back
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  on that experience to figure out, you know, what does that mean?
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  You know, and how do we you know, we don't want to completely
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  change things, but we want to change things enough to keep them on their
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  heels. Now that NFL experience might be helpful in a couple other different ways.
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  One is the addition of the helmet communication technology this year. When we
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  talk to you guys in the spring, it was kind of like, well,
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  we're sort of figuring it out. How much progress would you make on
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  that during the course of the spring, And is that going to have an
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  impact on how quickly you can get plays in? Is that going to have
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  an impact on tempo? Like what is that going to have an impact in
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  terms of the on field this fall. I think the first thing is what
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  it's done is it's the same for both sides, so there's no advantage,
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  but it has eliminated the you know, being forced to signal. So now
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  you know, I can get the play in and it shuts off at fifteen
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  seconds. And Chip's done that before in the NFL. But you know,
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  we used it all spring and it was good. And you know, there's
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  some things that you can do that are different. You know, you can
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  communicate and tell a quarter more information. Now some quarterbacks don't like getting all
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  that information, but you know, I think that also. I think the
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  other big thing is on the sideline, the tablets, you know, being
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  able to watch the last series on a tablet after the series is done.
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  Is going to be a big difference. Again, no advantage one side or
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  the other, but different. Ultimately, it's always going to just come down
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  to winn a line of screamage, running the football fundamentals, and he's still
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  going to play the game of football. But there are some things that are
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  different that you know, we're going to have to have a plan for which
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  we already do. Change number four thy seven hundred and twenty this year is
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  the addition to the two minute warning and some of the clock changes. That's
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  another thing. Where as an NFL guy NFL background, with you know,
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  Chip having the same deal and everyone else you mentioned, how is that How
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  does that change your approach towards the end of a half? You know in
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  terms of clock management, what you know, you've kind of dealt with this
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  before. What does that look like? Well, I think it is different
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  with the two minute warning. You know, we've gone through and we've looked
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  and done some studies on the NFL and you know, one of the right
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  times to call time out in a two minute four minute situation. It certainly
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  brings in a whole different dynamics at the end of the game. There's no
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  question about that. But we do have some data points on that, and
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  I think that the difference obviously in college is that the clock will still stop
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  after a first down, So all those numbers aren't exactly perfect when it comes
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  to some of the data points. But you know, we've we've met with
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  some different analytics groups to have a plan for that. You know, some
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  of the analytics, you know, really do help you other things. You
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  got to you know, kind of have a feel for a little bit and
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  so you know, really spend a little bit more time on that as the
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  head coach and allow and Chip to call the plays and making sure that I'm
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  aware of the analytics. And the last question I had was you're kind of
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  going through the recruiting process on the other side of things now with your son
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  RJ. You know, what have you seen, what have you learned through
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  that process going through it as a parent that maybe is changing something that you're
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  looking at it from the coach side. I just think that when you know,
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  when he goes on a visit, you know, some of the feedback
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  that I get, it helps me a little bit because you know, I
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  just I share with our staff, like you know, when someone goes on
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  your campus, you know, they have certain expectations and when they leave,
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  you know, what are they saying? You know, what do they see?
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  You know, what are their experiences? You know? And it's just
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  given me a decent perspective on that, which has been great. But more
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  importantly, I like doing it as a dad, you know, spending time
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  together and talking about it. Thank you for Tito prom Kat Well, thank
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  you to Ryan for taking the time to have that conversation. Appreciate that.
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  Always nice to get a chance to chat with him about that kind of stuff.
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  We're going to have a chance to chat with a whole bunch more people
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  coming up. On Wednesday, we'll be back for Day two of Big Ten
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  Media Days, that is West Coast Day. Basically UCLA will be there,
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  Iowa, Michigan State, USC Nebraska, and Penn State, so the two
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  California schools, we get two of the new Big Ten members get to talk
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  to them. I'm sure there will be plenty to talk about with Kirk Farrans
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  and Iowa Nebraska, Matt Rule going to be a big topic of conversation,
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  and of course James Franklin and Penn State always one of my favorite people to
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  talk to with this. That is all coming up Wednesday at bucke huddle dot
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  Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk
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  to you tomorrow.