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When Is The 2025 Ohio State Spring Game? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Tuesday, February eleventh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom Or the Texas game in exactly two
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  Speaker 1: interesting vibes around the Ohio State football program in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different directions. On Monday, Tony Gerdman and I
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  Speaker 1: did a Buckeye Weekly show talking about the news that
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  Speaker 1: former Ohio State head coach Jim Pressel is now going
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  Speaker 1: to be Ohio Lieutenant governor. Was an interesting piece of
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  Speaker 1: news that broke on Monday. Ohio State tight ends coach
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  Speaker 1: Keenan Bailey is now Ohio State tight ends coach and
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  Speaker 1: co offensive coordinator. Keenan Bailey talked about both of those
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  Speaker 1: pieces of news in the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed. You
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  Speaker 1: can find that there also got some news about the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State football spring practice schedule, spring game or whatever
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  Speaker 1: is going to pass for a spring game this year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be talking about that right now with Tony
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  Speaker 1: Gerdermanuckhebble dot Com. Tony, we knew that spring ball was
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  Speaker 1: going to start a little later than normal, and that's
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  Speaker 1: sort of a function of Hey, the season went a
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  Speaker 1: little longer than normal this year. But it's a little
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  Speaker 1: interesting this is this season spring ball is rolling out
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  Speaker 1: two weeks later than normal and it's ending at exactly
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  Speaker 1: the normal time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a cram session, so very fitting for college, right,
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  Speaker 2: gotta you know, get it in there. Yeah, spring spring
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  Speaker 2: ball will start for Ohio State on March seventeenth, and
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  Speaker 2: that is a Monday, once everybody gets back from Spring
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  Speaker 2: Bay spring break. That's when things will get going for
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  Speaker 2: the buck Eyes with their fifteen practices. That will all
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  Speaker 2: end up same time and the same time as it
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  Speaker 2: normally does, right around April twelfth, and that's when the
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  Speaker 2: quote unquote Tom spring showcase scheduled. And well, I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about that, but yes, March seventeenth, mark your
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  Speaker 2: calendar's spring practice where the buck Eyes starts. What is
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  Speaker 2: that about fifty I don't know, seven days after the season.
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  Speaker 3: Is that about.
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  Speaker 1: Ish something like that, it's gonna be twenty eight and
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  Speaker 1: fifteen and yeah, fifty eight fifty eight is about right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's a relatively short period of time
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  Speaker 1: between the end of the season and the start of
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  Speaker 1: spring ball. And you know, one of the reasons that
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  Speaker 1: they're able to have two weeks shaped off the beginning
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  Speaker 1: and not have have to go push the back. But
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  Speaker 1: the push the end back is because of course that
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  Speaker 1: one week with spring break. So they normally did those
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  Speaker 1: two practices before spring break and then had a week off,
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  Speaker 1: So you're just pushing those two practices a little bit later,
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  Speaker 1: so not not losing two full weeks or anything like that. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day Monday, Saint Patrick's Day, coming back from
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  Speaker 1: spring break. Make sure your hydrated kids, and no green beer.
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  Speaker 1: In Columbus, It'll be red beer for Saint Patrick's Day
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  Speaker 1: in honor of the start of Ohio State spring football. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the two days before we get to the spring showcase,
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  Speaker 1: we need to talk about the two days that are
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  Speaker 1: I think of the most interest of all of those practices,
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  Speaker 1: and those are the practices. It's two on Saturdays. Those
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  Speaker 1: are usually scrimmages, often those are inside the stadium. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they'll do those inside the indoor facility. Of all of those,
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  Speaker 1: those are two typically the two where I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we learn the most, whether we're there or whether we're
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  Speaker 1: just able to talk to people who were there, because
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  Speaker 1: that's where you know, you've got your practices and you've
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  Speaker 1: got your Okay, we got to learn how to help
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  Speaker 1: the freshman figure out where all the drills are and
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. You got that, But those scrimmages,
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  Speaker 1: those are maybe even more so than the spring game,
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  Speaker 1: even in a year when you do have a full
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  Speaker 1: spring game, those are where you sometimes learn the most
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  Speaker 1: about the team.
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  Speaker 3: In the spring, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And the first scrimmage would be the seventh practice, so
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  Speaker 2: basically the midway point. So by that point you've got
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  Speaker 2: enough working capital in terms of the young guys who
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  Speaker 2: know what they're doing, and and enough of the offense
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  Speaker 2: and that you can start to do some of that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And then the following week would be the second scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: So I you know, back when there used to be
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  Speaker 2: Jersey scrimmages and things like that, it was always the
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  Speaker 2: Jersey scrimmage before the spring game, like the week before
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  Speaker 2: the Spring Game or so that was always the one
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  Speaker 2: that you wanted to be at because that's that was
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  Speaker 2: the one that was everybody wanted it, and it was
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're both both sides offensive defense are fighting
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  Speaker 2: for the scarlet jerseys back in the day, and and
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  Speaker 2: now this it's kind of a similar thing where it's
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  Speaker 2: it's not as relaxed as the Spring game or whatever
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  Speaker 2: they're going to do this year. So it's a there's
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  Speaker 2: certainly more energy with those two scrimmages. If you can
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  Speaker 2: get in, it's always an entertaining situation. And we'll see
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  Speaker 2: which one of those if maybe one of those is
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  Speaker 2: a student appreciation day and that's when media will get
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  Speaker 2: in with about a twelve hundred students as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's still a lot to be sorted out here,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the the big day at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the at the end of the spring, the spring
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  Speaker 1: game is, as Tony said earlier, a spring showcase. We
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  Speaker 1: will see, Tony, if you get within one hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: of the total ticket to total mut spent at the
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  Speaker 1: concession stands, you actually get both spring showcases. Not many
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  Speaker 1: people know that that's going to be a fun new tradition. Hey, boy, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want to tell everyone about the Spring
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  Speaker 1: Showcase and exactly what to expect, because boy, I have
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  Speaker 1: too many things that I know right now about what
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  Speaker 1: that's going to look like.
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  Speaker 2: I'm almost just kind of expecting some sort of like
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  Speaker 2: Rock and Jock type of like thing that doesn't put
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  Speaker 2: the players in any kind of danger but also allows
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  Speaker 2: them to do some stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, home run, derby, dunk tank? Is
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  Speaker 3: this going to be?
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you go to the Rutgers games and
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  Speaker 2: like walking to this stadium, you're basically walking like down
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  Speaker 2: a midway of like Carnival games. Is that that sort
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  Speaker 2: of thing? Can you know you paid five hundred dollars?
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  Speaker 2: Can you run a play? Can you like legitimately like
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  Speaker 2: Archie Griffin did it a couple of years ago? Can
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  Speaker 2: you try to get through this Ohio State defense? And
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  Speaker 2: then you know, by god, that's what David Perkins's music
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  Speaker 2: was that that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, watch out brutus head on a swivel, here comes
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  Speaker 1: David Perkins. Yes, you know I had the I think
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  Speaker 1: my son was watching the Pro Bowl and it was
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  Speaker 1: like or I saw clips on Twitter or something where
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  Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl is no longer a football game. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a skills showcase kind of thing. It
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  Speaker 1: could be something like that. It could also be just
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  Speaker 1: offense versus defense and something, you know, a little mini
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  Speaker 1: scrimmage kind of thing, because I think people don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: know this that you know, with the roster changes, now
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  Speaker 1: you've got one hundred and five guys, you're losing some
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  Speaker 1: of your walk ons potentially, which is depth, which is
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  Speaker 1: important if you're dividing your team into two pieces and
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  Speaker 1: you've got guys who are not necessarily enrolled yet, and
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  Speaker 1: you've got guys who are gonna be banged up, and
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be really.
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  Speaker 3: Cautious with them.
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  Speaker 1: The guiding factor on this in terms of what you're
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  Speaker 1: able to do or not do in terms of a
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  Speaker 1: spring game, a lot of times boils down to nothing
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  Speaker 1: more than how many healthy offensive linemen do you have?
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  Speaker 1: Because that is, you know, it seems crazy that you
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  Speaker 1: could that could determine the whole thing, but I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people should probably know there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times that that's what determines the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the entire format is generally based on how many
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  Speaker 2: offensive linemen you have, and I think the pro ball
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  Speaker 2: part of it, it was just seven on seven and
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  Speaker 2: so maybe that's what you do here is just eliminate,
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  Speaker 2: eliminate the line of scrimmage altogether and just allow those
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  Speaker 2: eight good fourteen practices. Guys, you know you're going to
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  Speaker 2: go off work on your own here in South Stands
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  Speaker 2: or you know, wherever while everybody else watches some one
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  Speaker 2: on ones or some seven on seven some things like that,
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  Speaker 2: where you know it's you're not necessarily putting anybody in
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  Speaker 2: harm's way. Like one of the fun things you watch
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  Speaker 2: it practice is the one on ones, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: throwing throwing downfield, and I think that would be an
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  Speaker 2: entertaining thing.
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  Speaker 3: Even like Friday night lights.
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  Speaker 2: That was always the thing that finally, like what you'd
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  Speaker 2: finally have the quarterbacks throwing to the receivers going one
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  Speaker 2: on one against the top defensive backs that have shown up.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like you're just kind of waiting for that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if are they willing to do like
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  Speaker 2: forty meter races. Are they willing to find out who
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  Speaker 2: the fastest Ohio State Buckeye is, because that was one
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  Speaker 2: of the things they do with the Friday night lights,
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  Speaker 2: they find out who the fastest player was, and they'd
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  Speaker 2: have heats and like what do you want to put
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  Speaker 2: the players through? And what do you not want to
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  Speaker 2: put the players through. That's why showcase Tom it's such
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  Speaker 2: a great word because it can also mean we're putting
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  Speaker 2: them behind glass, do not touch, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, the golf carts they're taking they take to go
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  Speaker 1: from the locker room all the way to the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the stadium to get the coaches up to
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  Speaker 1: the press box.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of like that.
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  Speaker 1: But with like the popemobia glass, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: kind of like that for probably a lot of the guys.
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  Speaker 3: I would like Tom with the golf carts.
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  Speaker 2: I always love the quarterback skills competitions where you're throwing
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  Speaker 2: at the golf carts with the bull's eyes. You've got
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  Speaker 2: three quarterbacks you're finding to be a starting quarterback, Like
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  Speaker 2: put them on the show, like make them a big
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  Speaker 2: part of this in terms of skill competitions or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I'm already excited for the if they do a seven
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  Speaker 1: on seven thing, those tend to be let's say tilted
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  Speaker 1: a little bit towards the offense, and with an offense
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  Speaker 1: where you're bringing back some really really high skill level
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  Speaker 1: folks going up against a probably new look Ohio State defense.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to say panic city immediately in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the Ohio State defense, like try and remember that
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  Speaker 1: those things are a little tilted towards the offense before
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  Speaker 1: you completely mash the panic button through the through the
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  Speaker 1: core of the earth. In terms of what the defense
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  Speaker 1: might look like the spring, it's okay, it's it's okay, Like,
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  Speaker 1: just just let things play out.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be okay.
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  Speaker 2: Wait waiting for the for the headlines on like the
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  Speaker 2: MSN dot com Ohio State Offense defeat Defense one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty six to three.
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  Speaker 3: Trouble brewing in Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, well no, you smid that. You made that
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  Speaker 1: sound like it was punctuated with the question mark. It
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  Speaker 1: feels like that it would be an exclamation point. Well
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  Speaker 1: brewing in Columbus. Yes, No, it's it's uh whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: You know. The spring game we do.
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  Speaker 1: We do this every year. We talk about the spring
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  Speaker 1: game every year, and it's like, just go out and
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  Speaker 1: have fun and go sit in the sunshine and it'll
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  Speaker 1: be fine. And you know what you see in the
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  Speaker 1: spring game bears only a slight, you know, slight slight
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  Speaker 1: correlation with what you're going to actually see in the fall. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whatever, whatever a Spring Showcase is, I would
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  Speaker 1: encourage you to go enjoy it because there are I
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  Speaker 1: saw a stat that I think there were five places
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  Speaker 1: in the nation that had fifty thousand people showing up
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  Speaker 1: for their spring game last year. Ohio State was the
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  Speaker 1: biggest with eighty thousand. Most places are you know, Syracuse
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  Speaker 1: said of record last year with like sixteen thousand people,
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  Speaker 1: like that's the normal thing. Washington had like four thousand
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  Speaker 1: people last year from gaming. Columbus is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a spectacle, much like pretty much everything to do
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  Speaker 1: with Ohio Stated football and Columbus. So, you know, whatever
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  Speaker 1: the Spring Showcase ends up being, I would encourage you
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy it. We certainly will as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, Tom, before we find out what the
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  Speaker 2: what the Spring Showcase actually is, we should do a
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  Speaker 2: bold prediction show on the Spring Showcase on that Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: Like everything that happens without knowing anything about any of
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  Speaker 2: the rules, we should go ahead and make some bold
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  Speaker 2: predictions on exactly what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds fantastic. I'm going to say my first bold prediction,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith does nothing and they keep him in bubble
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  Speaker 1: wrap on the sidelines. What are they doing? I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but I know what he's not doing, and that's literally anything.
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  Speaker 3: My first bold prediction is that the crowdviel riot.
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  Speaker 1: Also, that's not bold. That's the free space. That should
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  Speaker 1: be the one you give me, just for free.
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  Speaker 3: At the end.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, so we'll have plenty more to talk
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  Speaker 1: about spring football and the Spring Showcase whatever again that
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  Speaker 1: might be. And you know Ohio State basketball and all
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  Speaker 1: the other stuff going on right now at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: At bucke huddle dot com. That's where Tony Kevin and
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  Speaker 1: I cover the team, Mark covers recruiting. We got our
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  Speaker 1: whole team of EXA's nose gurus there as well. Make
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  Speaker 1: you a smarter football fan. That's all at buckeyehuddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: We hope to see you there. That will do it
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  Speaker 1: for today. Thank you guys all for joining us. Have
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  Speaker 1: a great day.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk to you tomorrow.