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Ohio State Football Recruiting: 3 HUGE Visitors To Know · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Friday, May twenty ninth,
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  Speaker 1: Am're your host Tom Worthy Ball State Gaming ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: days the game against Michigan in one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: dot com for more. This weekend marks the start of
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  Speaker 1: official visit season for the class of twenty twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: and there are four very big names coming to Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: I'm joined by a very big name, Tony Gerdeman. He
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  Speaker 1: hosts the Buckeye Weekly podcast with someone else, I forget
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  Speaker 1: who it is. Tony. There, of the four names coming
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  Speaker 1: in and that we're gonna be talking about, the one
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  Speaker 1: that I think is the one that most Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: fans are going to be the most familiar with, and
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  Speaker 1: one that I know that there is a lot of
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  Speaker 1: excitement around, both inside the program and inside the fan base.
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  Speaker 1: That is five star running back David Gabriel George. He's
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  Speaker 1: coming to Ohio State this weekend for his first official
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  Speaker 1: visit and Carlos Laughlin and the whole coaching staff. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be yet another all hands on
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  Speaker 1: deck weekend for David Gabriel George.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the quandary of do you want to be
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  Speaker 2: the first official visit? Do you want to be the
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  Speaker 2: last official visit? They're going to set the tone, and
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  Speaker 2: this is the guy that they want above all else.
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  Speaker 2: Probably if you ask him, you can only have you
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  Speaker 2: can guarantee one guy in the entire class that you
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  Speaker 2: will land. We know Carlos Slockman would say this, but
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Day might as well. So yeah, and he's got
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  Speaker 2: four visits scheduled, so he'll go from Ohio State to Tennessee,
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  Speaker 2: to Ole, miss and then to Georgia. And it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be good to set a tone. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: people think maybe Tennessee is the biggest battle for Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State right now because he plays in the state of
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee at the Baylor School, even though he's from Canada.
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  Speaker 2: And so maybe having Ohio State and then comparing it
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  Speaker 2: right then to Tennessee will be beneficial for Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: provided the visit is as good as they think it
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  Speaker 2: is going to being as good as they're planning on it.
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  Speaker 1: Being and at this point they kind of have those
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  Speaker 1: visits down to a science where they've got you know,
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  Speaker 1: what you need to do, and that recruiting staff in
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  Speaker 1: Mark Pantoni sort of running the show. They're very, very
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  Speaker 1: effective at what they do. So you would assume that
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  Speaker 1: the expect the results coming out of that would be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trending in a good direction. But then there's
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  Speaker 1: a long way to go through the end of official
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  Speaker 1: visit season and then an even longer way to go
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  Speaker 1: until pen meets paper in December. So that's the first
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  Speaker 1: name to know. The second one to know is Marcus Fakato.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and the last name is f A k A
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  Speaker 1: t o u, but it's pronounced Fakato And he is
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  Speaker 1: a five star defensive lineman out of California. That's another
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  Speaker 1: one where boy, this would be they've already got a
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  Speaker 1: really solid defensive line class. If Larry Johnson can added
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  Speaker 1: him to this class, man, oh man, that that would
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  Speaker 1: really be a heck of a class.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and things are going well right here for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: But he's big. He's like six six, two eighty or so.
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  Speaker 2: He'll play he plays strong side defensive end and also
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of tackle in high school, but like
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  Speaker 2: what he'll grow into because we've seen him on at
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  Speaker 2: a visit to Ohio State and he he looks like
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  Speaker 2: he's got a frame that can add a bunch more
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  Speaker 2: weight and still be able to move, and so like
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  Speaker 2: that's gonna be one that's interesting to watch because him
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  Speaker 2: and Larry Johnson have hit it off and this is
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  Speaker 2: a looking like a pretty good defensive line class. Should
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  Speaker 2: they be able to keep everything together, and it's it's
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  Speaker 2: one of those things where we've talked in the past
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  Speaker 2: about right now, at some positions, like say receiver, it's
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  Speaker 2: like you go get you can afford one to five star,
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  Speaker 2: a four star, and a three star, but a defensive line,
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  Speaker 2: I guess maybe that's like, you know, is that no
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  Speaker 2: longer a thing? Or is the budget higher for the
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  Speaker 2: defensive line, which I'm sure it is higher, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you're able to if you're able to get guys
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  Speaker 2: like this and then also to sign them, it's just
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting, especially when you compare that to like tight
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  Speaker 2: end where there is no budget and wisely a lesser
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  Speaker 2: budget for an offensive lineman five star offensive lineman, which
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  Speaker 2: as we know is is kind of a waste of money.
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  Speaker 2: Different on the defensive line. When you can bring in
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  Speaker 2: as many big time guys as you can, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's more worth the money, more worth the effort, and
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  Speaker 2: you'll get more out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it feels like to a certain degree you
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  Speaker 1: have positions where they're willing to spend a little more
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  Speaker 1: or be a little more aggressive. There's certain ones where
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  Speaker 1: they're not as willing. But I think it's also kind
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  Speaker 1: of by year. Like last year there was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of resource invested in that wide receiver position. This year
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  Speaker 1: maybe not quite as much. We're going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: a very highly touted wide receiver prospect in just a second,
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  Speaker 1: So there is still there is still some pursuit being
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  Speaker 1: done on the wide receiver front. But yeah, it seems
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of the focus this cycle is on
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  Speaker 1: that defensive line and so far, so good, but again
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  Speaker 1: it is just late May, so there's a long way
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  Speaker 1: to go. The wide receiver who's coming in is Benny
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  Speaker 1: Easter Junior. He is a top fifty wide receiver out
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  Speaker 1: of a little town called Umbole, Texas. You don't pronounce
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  Speaker 1: the ahe tony, but we all know that if you
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  Speaker 1: were old enough to remember the nineteen nineties and a
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  Speaker 1: gentleman named David Boston who also came out of Umble Texas.
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  Speaker 1: He was another wide receiver of some renown. Benny Easter
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  Speaker 1: is a commit currently to Texas Tech, but he was
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  Speaker 1: up in Columbus at the beginning of April. He was
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  Speaker 1: there during the student appreciation practice while we were in there.
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  Speaker 1: It was him and Jamior Brown and Mashawn Sales like
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  Speaker 1: they had some They had a lot of wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: talent in there for that one practice. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is one where as we said, this is not
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  Speaker 1: a position where the Ohio State's necessarily going all in
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  Speaker 1: this year. But if you have, if you can bring
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  Speaker 1: in a real top talent, you're gonna you're gonna spend
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  Speaker 1: some time and invest some resources in that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is also going to be an interesting test
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  Speaker 2: for Cortez Hankton to really show some of the recruiting
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  Speaker 2: chops that Ohio State has become accustomed to at receiver
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  Speaker 2: and become known for at receiver. And it's not like
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  Speaker 2: Brian Hartlin didn't get everybody they landed, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: he got some flips when he when he wanted and
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  Speaker 2: so it'll be interesting to see if Ohio State can
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  Speaker 2: make a move here to to take away an in
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  Speaker 2: state commit and knowing I believe Texas Tech is his
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  Speaker 2: final official visit as well, to be able to set
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  Speaker 2: such a mark and a standard for a visit and
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  Speaker 2: and you know, eventually get him to flip. I think,
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  Speaker 2: aside from the talent, like Ohio State fans should be
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  Speaker 2: excited about if that were to happen, because now there's
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  Speaker 2: some proof of concept and courtes Hankton as a recruiter
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  Speaker 2: provided again, all of this is provided that they signed, right.
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  Speaker 2: But this is kind of remember when Irban Meyer talked about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, testing Mike Vrabel and whether it's on the
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  Speaker 2: board or with recruits. With recruiting like this is a
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  Speaker 2: for Cortes hank and I think to see, even if
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to spend the money on it, did
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  Speaker 2: you get them, did you get the receiver, did you
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  Speaker 2: get the commitment to the finish line? And then the
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  Speaker 2: only reason doesn't get over is because of the budget
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, because I think all you can ask the
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  Speaker 2: assistant coach to do is get them to the line.
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  Speaker 2: It's up to the head coach and the GM to
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  Speaker 2: get them to sign it right, So I think this
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  Speaker 2: will be an interesting watch for Cortes Hankton.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and these are all guys who are at positions
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  Speaker 1: where if you can bring them in, you want to
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  Speaker 1: get them in in terms of high school recruits and
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to having to go fishing in the transfer pond,
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  Speaker 1: because those are a lot of guys at position groups
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  Speaker 1: where there's a lot of teams fishing in those particular ponds.
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  Speaker 1: So if you can, you can already sort of have them,
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  Speaker 1: have them in your backyard. That makes it a lot
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  Speaker 1: easier to hang on to them as opposed to having
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  Speaker 1: to fight the rest of the nation forum in a
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  Speaker 1: year or two. So they go for very big names
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  Speaker 1: to watch this weekend for the first official visit weekend
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  Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty seven recruiting Clouds. We'll be talking
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  Speaker 1: about this all weekend and then heading into next week
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  Speaker 1: on the buck Eye weekly podcast feed, and of course
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  Speaker 1: on Buckeye is tomorrow morning as well. That'll 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, have a great weekend. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: you next week.