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2024 Big Ten Media Days Preview · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buck guys tomorrow morning from Monday, July twenty second. I'm your
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  host, Tom Moore. The Acron game in forty days, the game against
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  to Michigan in one hundred and thirty one days. We'll add one more thing
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  to the countdown today, Big ten Media Days in one day can be hopping
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  in the car with Tony Gurderman and Kevin Noon a little later on today to
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  head to Indianapolis for what is going to be a three day Big Ten football
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  extravaganza. I can't wait. There is a lot of football to talk about.
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  New teams, new coaches, new players, new storylines, new everything.
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  In a year when pretty much everything about college football is just a little
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  bit different, one thing is going to be the same. Kevin will be
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  there with me covering Big Ten Media Days this week. Kevin joins me right
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  now, and Kevin, this is you know, this is normally a two
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  day event for us, and this year going from two days of seven teams
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  each to three days of six teams each, this is going to be a
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  lot of football, a lot of talk, a lot of everything this week.
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  Yeah. Yeah, I'm already just thinking about out all the running around
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  We're going to have to do trying to corral players and coaches and everything else.
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  But yes, you're right, we do get one less team a day,
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  but it does spread out over an additional day. We'll get to see
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  some new faces with the four new additions to the Big Ten who have not
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  technically started the Big Ten. That won't be till August second, But for
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  all intents and purposes, we're here. The SEC had a more accelerated timeline
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  for welcoming Texas and Oklahoma over there, but a lot of stories. I'm
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  sure everybody is going to be buzzing about the new college football video game that
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  came out this past week and rankings and how well they are at how good
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  they are at the game, and you know how they should be able to
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  just kick everybody else's butt at it. We all know that I'm the best
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  at the game. Well, we may get to get a chance to find
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  that out in the hotel if we have any time after work is done on
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  these days. But this is these are going to be very busy days.
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  And just I mean, for people who haven't been there, they now hold
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  this and for the last couple of years they have held this inside Lucas Oil
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  State Eum, the home of the Indianapolis Colts and the home of the Big
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  Ten Championship game. It's you know, the whole football field. They've got
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  it all down there, and then you get to you know, they have
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  interviews set up and all that kind of stuff, just kind of walk people
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  through, like what a day at Big ten Media days is, like it's
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  a day without Wi Fi, although if I can put it any better than
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  that, the Wi Fi is horrible. You have to go to the meal
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  room where you may or may not get a meal because they never seem to
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  have enough, and the Wi Fi router seems to be there. But you
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  have your main podium set up with the TV backdrop and everything else, and
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  the podium of where you know, you have a podium where the network camera
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  is, and then you have the other cameras, including my own, where
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  we'll be shooting it from a little further back, and rows and rows of
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  seats for reporters. And that's where things start, will you. That's where
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  the morning is. You know, we'll get to talk to Tony Patiti at
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  first, you know, as the commissioner kicking things off, and then we'll
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  go through and hear from six coaches, and then you know, once your
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  coach or once a coach is done, they generally go to a little breakout
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  area where the reporters on that beat will go and maybe ask a couple more
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  follow up questions. Once we are done with that sixth coach, there's a
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  couple minutes turnaround time, and then they start putting staggered coaches or players at
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  breakout side podiums. And additionally to this, just to add everything else,
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  there's a BTN set as well, kind of in the middle, so you'll
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  see us walking through the backdrop of that set. Plenty of times. I
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  try to wave once or twice and get probably get yelled at for doing that.
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  But the worst situation possible is your coach is sixth and then your players
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  are first, because that means you have no shot, no shot at getting
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  anything turned from your coach, You have no shot at lunch, and then
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  you're racing to get everything into position to get your players. So I'm fully
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  expecting that to be the case, because why why not? That has been
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  how it works out a lot of times for Ohio State, and they do
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  seem to stagger Ohio State and Michigan Ohigh State in Michigan have always been when
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  it was a two day event on opposite days because those are the two big,
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  biggest brand names in the conference. This year, Ohio State is on
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  the first day, Michigan is on the third day, so there's going to
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  be there. They're trying to keep everyone there for the full three days and
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  they have successfully managed to do that with us every every year. So that's
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  that's sort of the big picture stuff. As far as what you get to
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  see on Big ten Network, you'll see the coaches and the front of the
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  you know, in front of their big screen for about fifteen ten to fifteen
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  minutes or so in the morning. Generally, that's a very small portion of
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  what you what actually happens during media days because then those coaches will, as
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  Kevin said, have a little break get with the local media, but then
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  also have about forty five minutes at a separate podium that is not usually streamed,
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  not usually on Big ten Network, and so you'll get forty five minutes
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  or so with coaches, forty five minutes with three different players from each Big
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  ten school, So a lot of interesting stuff to talk about with those guys.
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  It's a great time to ask questions that you don't normally have a chance
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  to ask in other settings. Once the season starts, you can't ask Brian
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  Day necessarily as many big picture questions. So it's a good time to do
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  some of that. And so we will be doing all of that, you
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  know, I think, Kevin, this is a year where I was going
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  to ask which coach are you most interested or player are you most interested in
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  talking to? Because boy, it feels like there are so many good options.
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  I've never talked to Lincoln Riley before. I've never talked to Dan Lanning
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  before. I've never talked to Jed Fish before. I have been any Sean
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  Moore press conference, but i haven't asked him a question before. I mean,
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  and you know, then you've got all your usual you know, Ryan
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  Day and James Franklin. I mean, there are so many different guys.
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  What is Kirk Farren think of his new offensive coordinator? I mean, where
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  do you even begin? Like? What are you what are you most interested
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  in asking about or finding out about? This week? I think I'm most
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  interested in talking to Dan Lanning, and I'm interested in talking to Oregon just
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  because of Ohio State going and playing at Oregon this year. The fact that
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  Ohio State and Oregon in theory could play three times. There's a lot of
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  interest in hearing from Lincoln Riley, but I think SC is going to be
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  down a little bit this year, at least compared to where Oregon may be.
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  So getting an idea on that we've already heard out of SEC media days,
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  kind of references coming out about, you know, Kirby Smart talking about
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  wishing he had some of that Oregon in IL money, obviously referring to Phil
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  Knight of Nike. You know, I'd like to you know, I'd like
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  to kind of tail off of that a little bit. I mean, obviously
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  Dan Lanning wouldn't be able to come out and speak in specifics about recruits,
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  but Oregon coming into the state of Ohio recruiting very well, you know,
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  the question being brought up if there's a huge NIL play. I mean,
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  it's no secret that Phil Knight is getting up there in years and is really
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  kind of pushing his chips into the center of the table at this point.
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  So I think that is where my number one interest is in terms of non
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  Ohio State specific you know, personnel type of questions. Yeah, that'll definitely
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  be interesting. You know, I'm sure there will be a lot of conversations
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  around potential expansion for the Big Ten. You know, are they going to
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  add Florida State? Are they going to add Clemson? We did a show
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  on that last week with Tony Gerdaman. This is one of these times when
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  you don't necessarily get the answers to questions, but you at least can ask
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  them and you see what the answer is and whether the answer is truthful or
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  not, well, you at least get an answer. The guy who I
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  think is maybe the most underrated member of Big Ten media days is Bill Carollo,
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  who is the Big Ten's director of officiating. Every year, there's about
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  four or five people around Bill Corolo, and there's you know, forty people
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  around Ryan Day. Who are you know, other big name head coaches,
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  And it's always Tony Gerderman and me and just a couple other people. But
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  I always get the maybe the most out of talking to Bill because he will
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  give you honest, straight answers, and he will give you more detail than
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  you could possibly you know, you get a full year worth of detail out
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  of him about in his forty five minutes talk to I think you have joined
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  us Tony and I for some of our one on one time with TV executives
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  as well, trying to get some get some inside info on the conference,
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  TV deals and how the selection process works and all that kind of stuff.
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  So yeah, a lot of you know, beyond just the players and the
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  coaches, there's a lot of other interesting stuff there as well. So we
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  have all that coming up this week at Buckey Huddle dot com. Let me
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  just tell you right now, you are going to want to make sure you
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  are subscribed to our YouTube channel at YouTube dot com slash Buckey Huddle. You
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  are going to want to make sure you hit that bell. If you hit
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  the ballot, go ahead, even if you think I know I've done it,
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  go ahead and do it again. Make sure it is make sure it
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  is really on there, because this is going to be a week when we
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  are going to have a ton of content, lots of different types of content
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  for you as well. You want to watch the full press conference, that's
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  fine. You want to watch shorter clips, well that's fine. We'll probably
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  have some of that for you too. You want to watch them interviews,
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  We'll probably have some one on one kind of interviews for you there as well.
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  That is all coming up this week YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle and
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  of course at Buckeye Huddle dot com that's where we'll be doing. We will
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  be putting a ton of our content there on the huddle board presented by Jeff
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  Ruby Steakhouse. That is member exclusive there. I have not signed up.
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  Well, this would be a great time to do it, because this is
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  going to be a very very busy, very very interesting week in Indianapolis versus
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  talk to a ton of people, gain a ton of information on the Buckeyes,
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  on the rest of the Big Ten, and perhaps on the college football
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  world on the whole. So we hope to see you there at bucke Huddle
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  dot com and as well at YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle. They'll do
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  it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us every great day.
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  Talk to you tomorrow from Indianapolis.