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Ohio State Transfer News: Buckeyes Lose Tight End To Transfer Portal · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: at Gratefulgriddle oh dot com. So on the last morning
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  Speaker 1: show we did talked all about right at the end,
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that, well, the season's over, but don't worry,
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be plenty of news coming. And the news
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  Speaker 1: might have actually broken at the time we were recording
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  Speaker 1: the previous morning show. But the first Ohio State Buckeye
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  Speaker 1: other than Bryson Rodgers who entered in earlier, but the
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  Speaker 1: first Buck guy in the postseason sort of era, has
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  Speaker 1: entered the transfer portal now for the following the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five Ohio State football season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, redshirt sophomore tight end Jelanie Thurman, who came to
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State as one of the top I think it
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  Speaker 3: was the number four tight ended the nation in the
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three recruiting class, lost his extra very early
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  Speaker 3: in the spring. Zarah called one of the first buck
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  Speaker 3: guys to lose it, and you're thinking, boy, this is
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  Speaker 3: pretty big news. And somebody that you're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to watch and somebody was really impressive athleticism but just
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  Speaker 3: couldn't consistently crack the lineup for Ohio State. And after
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  Speaker 3: that freshman year where he played five games, including a
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  Speaker 3: start in the Cotton Bowl against Missouri, Ohio State went
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  Speaker 3: to the portal for a tight end in Wilchas Merrick
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four went to the portal for a
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  Speaker 3: tight end and Max Claire in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: Moving past him, And.
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  Speaker 3: So it was a surprise I think that Ohio State
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  Speaker 3: didn't lose any tight ends last year to the portal,
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  Speaker 3: and so this one, when you see it, this is
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  Speaker 3: the blueprint that we talked about that makes that makes
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  Speaker 3: sense of players who are third year getting passed by
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  Speaker 3: or having players brought in to play to essentially replace
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  Speaker 3: them because they have not met their expectations.
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  Speaker 1: It has felt to me for multiple years like man
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  Speaker 1: this next year, this is a big one for Jelaney Thurman,
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  Speaker 1: and we have those shows going into the spring every year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, five buck guys on offense who really need
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  Speaker 1: a good spring, or you know for the five buck guys.
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  Speaker 2: Who it's the biggest spring for these five buck eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever it is, we use proper grammar and you know,
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  Speaker 2: a little more planning at that point.
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  Speaker 1: But has felt like he's sort of been on that
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  Speaker 1: list where it's like, man five young buck eyes about
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  Speaker 1: to break out, and he has felt like he's been
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  Speaker 1: on that list for a long time and it just
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  Speaker 1: kind of hasn't happened. He had seven catches for eighty
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  Speaker 1: four yards and a touchdown this year, which you know
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  Speaker 1: that in and of itself sounds okay. Three catches of
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  Speaker 1: those for forty four yards and the touchdown all came
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  Speaker 1: against Grambling, and other than that, it's been one catch here,
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  Speaker 1: one catch there. He's had big moments, breat Ohio said
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  Speaker 1: he had that juggling catch where he caught it about
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  Speaker 1: three times against Penn State in twenty twenty four on
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  Speaker 1: a fourth down play. He's had moments, but it just
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been able to string it together. So some of
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  Speaker 1: our ex'es and those guys were talking on their board
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  Speaker 1: about this and talked about the fact he does a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the stuff that they that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: tight ends struggle with.
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  Speaker 2: He's a pretty good blocker. This is not you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is not a well he refused to do the
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  Speaker 2: dirty work.
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  Speaker 1: No, he does this that stuff that normally is the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that we keep you from playing as a tight end,
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  Speaker 1: but just hasn't quite put it all together.
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  Speaker 4: And even last year when Bennett Christian.
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  Speaker 3: Returned from his off year basically and was immediately in
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  Speaker 3: front of jeln and Fairman, didn't take him long to
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  Speaker 3: move past Jelome Fairman.
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  Speaker 4: And now he's a year older than Jelome Firman, but
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  Speaker 4: he had missed a season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so when you've got so many people ahead
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  Speaker 3: of him, and yet the sure they played five tight
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  Speaker 3: ends last year regularly and they played four or five
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  Speaker 3: this year regularly. They paired that down in the Cotton
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  Speaker 3: Bowl and you saw very little or no none of
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  Speaker 3: Jelommy Fairman, and I just wanted, moving forward, is there
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  Speaker 3: going to be room for three or four tight ends?
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  Speaker 3: And certainly after three years and I believe maybe thirteen
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  Speaker 3: total catches, that's it makes sense to want to go
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  Speaker 3: somewhere else where. You know, you believe you have the
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  Speaker 3: physical tools, you've played, you believe you should be playing more.
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  Speaker 3: And I would assume that all of the big time
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  Speaker 3: programs that recruited him are still willing to talk to.
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  Speaker 4: Him in portal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's not necessarily going to get the enormous bag,
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  Speaker 1: but he should be someone who the traits are still there,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So he's someone who's going to potentially have
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  Speaker 1: a number of a number of suitors and probably end
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  Speaker 1: up you know, and I think by all accounts, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be someone who people are going to be
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  Speaker 1: rooting for.
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  Speaker 2: At at his new stop as well.
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  Speaker 1: Just looking at the snapcounts, and this does not include
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  Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl game, but the snapcounts through the end
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  Speaker 1: of the Indiana game, he was fifth among the t ends.
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  Speaker 1: And he played in every game. Maybe I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if he did I think on special.
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  Speaker 2: Teams at least in the Cotton Bowl as well, but
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  Speaker 2: he played in every game. So this was not well.
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  Speaker 2: He was hurt for a month and so that's why.
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  Speaker 1: He was one hundred and thirty five snaps following the
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  Speaker 1: Indiana game. Nate Roberts True freshman, played twenty five more
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  Speaker 1: snaps and he carved out a little bit of as
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  Speaker 1: a fullback. But then Bennett Christian, who again a year
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  Speaker 1: older but missed a whole season with the with the suspension,
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  Speaker 1: played almost double the number of snaps. And then Max
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  Speaker 1: Claire and Will Cosmeric, the two guys they brought in
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  Speaker 1: in portal, also played you know that over three times
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  Speaker 1: as many snaps, so just never quite got there, never
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  Speaker 1: quite found his found his role at Ohio State. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is the first of what he's probably
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  Speaker 1: going to be a number of transfers for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: This is also I think as soon as people hear
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  Speaker 1: a name that they know and here hitting the transfer portal,
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  Speaker 1: there's immediately a is this the program falling apart? To me?
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  Speaker 2: This is one where.
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  Speaker 4: You said it earlier.
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  Speaker 1: This just sort of fits the profile of the guy
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  Speaker 1: who makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And I wonder if there's some fore knowledge of Max
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  Speaker 3: Claire's decision. Maybe this is a sign that Max Claire
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  Speaker 3: is choosing to return. But also this is a third
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  Speaker 3: year player who got passed by a true freshman in
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  Speaker 3: Nate Roberts. But like you said, Date Roberts, the full
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  Speaker 3: back in the offense, but we saw quite a bit
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  Speaker 3: of Nate Roberts throughout the season. Jalanney Fairman again still
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  Speaker 3: unable after three years to carve out a role. Probably
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  Speaker 3: can't assume it he'll be able to next year, even
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  Speaker 3: though there's gonna be some turnover in that tight end
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  Speaker 3: room because Will Kasmik will be off to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: This is also sort of a little bit of byproduct,
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  Speaker 1: probably of the fact that now there is just one
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  Speaker 1: portal window. You can't now go through the spring and say, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you know, maybe I'm gonna do it really well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna work out and really well in the spring
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  Speaker 1: and earn a bigger role. Now that's not an option
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  Speaker 1: because they got rid of that post spring portal window,
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  Speaker 1: which you get it from a player perspective. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's ultimately going to force a lot more guys in
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  Speaker 1: the world. I think you're gonna see a lot more transfers.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be doing a lot more of these shows
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  Speaker 1: this year than we did last year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and yeah, I just going through names where it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I could see that you can come up with two
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  Speaker 3: dozen names.
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  Speaker 4: That's without the guys that would be like.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm doing pretty well here, but what
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  Speaker 3: if I was a free agent? Yeah, and I stay
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  Speaker 3: hasn't necessarily had to deal with what if I was
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  Speaker 3: a free agent, especially among their starters, And I don't
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  Speaker 3: know that that will happen this year, But there are
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  Speaker 3: a number of players, Like I said, you could come
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  Speaker 3: up with two dozen just looking at the roster of
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  Speaker 3: the blueprint that we always talk about, where the third
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  Speaker 3: year not playing, getting passed by, or sometimes your two
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  Speaker 3: freshman year just doesn't doesn't go as you plan and
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  Speaker 3: you're like you want a new fix, or somebody running
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  Speaker 3: out their clock Mitchell Mountain last year, I need to go.
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  Speaker 4: Figure something else out.
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  Speaker 3: So there are different different levels, different classes of players
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  Speaker 3: that all fit their own sort of profile for the
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  Speaker 3: portal well.
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  Speaker 1: As I said, we will probably be doing a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of more of these shows in the coming days
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  Speaker 1: and weeks, and we will keep you updated on all
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  Speaker 1: of the potential roster changes for Ohio State guys leaving
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  Speaker 1: also guys going to be coming in through the transfer
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  Speaker 1: portal as well over the next couple weeks. There are
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  Speaker 1: already some plenty of names being discussed on our board
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  Speaker 1: the Huddle Board presented by Jeff Ruby's Columbus at bucket
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  Speaker 1: huddle dot com. Some really intriguing, pretty big names out
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  Speaker 1: there already on the defensive side of the ball and
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  Speaker 1: as well as probably on the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll see what they do on special teams. There's
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  Speaker 1: give me a lot to talk about the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks and the next couple months, as Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: turns the page from the twenty twenty five football season
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  Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty six football season, we'll be talking
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  Speaker 1: about all of it for you, all of it for you,
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  Speaker 1: all of it with you at at Buckey Huddle dot
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  Speaker 1: com and YouTube dot.
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  Speaker 2: Com, slide buck i Huddle. That'll do it for today.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow