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Ohio State Football Recruiting: Big Changes Coming At Quarterback? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 3: Today.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we got to talk quarterbacks on today's show.
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  Speaker 1: We got to talk recruit quarterback recruiting a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of quarterback recruiting drama going on this weekend. Ohio State's
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven quarterback commit Brady Edmonds. He's coming off
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  Speaker 1: a week at the Elite eleven and now this weekend
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  Speaker 1: he is visiting UCLA. He is a California kid, so
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  Speaker 1: this would be kind of the hometown school. UCLA has
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  Speaker 1: got some momentum right now on the recruiting trail under
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  Speaker 1: new head coach Bob Chesney. And welcome in Juck Maletti
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  Speaker 1: of Buckeye Insiders dot com. Juck is this a surprise
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  Speaker 1: to Ohio State that Brady Edmonds has taken a visit
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  Speaker 1: to UCLA.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, he visited twice over the spring, and he's
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  Speaker 2: had a couple of schools come in and visit him. Northwestern,
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  Speaker 2: I think Illinois was scheduling to come see him, but
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  Speaker 2: it's UCLA and Chesney who've really been impressing. Brady made
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  Speaker 2: a move obviously got him there twice over the spring,
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  Speaker 2: but he was holding off on this official And essentially
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  Speaker 2: what he was saying was if Ohio State ends up
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  Speaker 2: bringing in someone for a visit, didn't seem to publicly
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  Speaker 2: mind kind of the barnstorming tour that Billy Fessler did
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  Speaker 2: over the last month to see all these other quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 2: but basically said, if it starts to move enough where
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  Speaker 2: they schedule an official, he's going to have to then
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and look out for himself and make sure
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  Speaker 2: that his options are open and available as well. And
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  Speaker 2: did something happen different with at Ohio State that has
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  Speaker 2: made him schedule this now because he scheduled it and
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  Speaker 2: immediately it was for this weekend. I don't know, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that, but the timing
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  Speaker 2: also lines up with a little bit about maybe another
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  Speaker 2: quarterback potentially saying I'm not going to be in a
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  Speaker 2: two quarterback class that they may be pursuing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's talk about that other quarterback, and that
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  Speaker 1: is Trey Taylor. He is out of Omaha. He's actually
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  Speaker 1: ranked a little bit of higher than Brady Edmonds. He's
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  Speaker 1: been committed to Nebraska for more than a year and
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  Speaker 1: right now his only visit, official visit, is scheduled for Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: But dot dot dot, Yeah, he in a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people's minds, and he did. He won the Elite eleven.
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  Speaker 2: But even going into the Elite eleven, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people think this is the number one quarterback in the
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  Speaker 2: country and he's the only one that Billy Fessel went
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  Speaker 2: and well, legitimately saw twelve quarterbacks throw and this was
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  Speaker 2: over the spring or over this most recent period, and
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  Speaker 2: this was the only one that he offered, pursued, some
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  Speaker 2: kicked the tires on some, but this was the only
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  Speaker 2: one that they're really going after. And his dad has
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  Speaker 2: made that clear and put Ohio State out in the
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  Speaker 2: news twice in on three articles for everyone to read,
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  Speaker 2: the most recent one saying Billy Fessler called me three times.
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  Speaker 2: I got to call him back, just kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: making it look like Ohio State's really chasing us. And
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  Speaker 2: he also made sure to make it a point in
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  Speaker 2: that article to say that we've said we're not interested
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  Speaker 2: in a two quarterback class, and just a day later
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  Speaker 2: we hear the news here goes Brady's visit to UCLA.
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  Speaker 2: The timing is interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're sort of connecting dots here, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not you know, no one has come out and said officially, yes,
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  Speaker 1: this is exactly what's happening and why it's happening and
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  Speaker 1: when it's happening and all that kind of stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: you can connect the dots. Certainly, what is it about
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  Speaker 1: Trey Taylor that Ohio State likes?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think any of this is as much about
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  Speaker 2: Trey Taylor as it is about Brady Edmunds. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that this is not Ohio State cooling on Brady
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  Speaker 2: Edmunds as much as Brady Edmunds style. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that what they've done here has kind of gone through
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a philosophical change. It's just my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: but I think that they want to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: moving forward, they have the option to include some quarterback run.
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  Speaker 2: Brady does not give you this option at all. He
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  Speaker 2: can you move a little bit in the pocket, but
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  Speaker 2: he's not a guy you're ever going to call his number.
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  Speaker 3: And that's basically it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what caused Billy Fessler to once they missed
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  Speaker 2: out on Champ minds, which was a different story, right.
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  Speaker 2: Champ was their twenty eight guy who reclassified. They weren't
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  Speaker 2: going after two quarterbacks, but Champ reclassified and then it
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  Speaker 2: was like, okay, we'll take two.
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  Speaker 3: Champ commits to Notre Dame and then immediately he goes and.
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  Speaker 2: Sees twelve different guys and it's just like, Okay, they're
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  Speaker 2: making it clear in every single one of those guys
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  Speaker 2: is a guy that could move. That to me, just
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  Speaker 2: kind of reading the tea leaves here, I think this
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  Speaker 2: is about mobility and Brady doesn't have it in. As
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  Speaker 2: loyal as he's been and as awesome as he's been,
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  Speaker 2: he's looking at the best of the bunch here, and
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  Speaker 2: the best of the unch is Trey Taylor. Also, can
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  Speaker 2: you beat out Nebraska maybe easier than you can potentially
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  Speaker 2: beat out Israel. Abrams committed to Miami, et cetera. Maybe so.
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  Speaker 1: And with Trey Taylor, this feels to me like one
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  Speaker 1: of those we can talk about it a bunch, his
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  Speaker 1: dad can talk about it a bunch until he gets off
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  Speaker 1: a plane at John Glenn Airport in Columbus. It feels
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  Speaker 1: like this is a lot of talk and and kind
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  Speaker 1: of wake me up when wake me up the when
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  Speaker 1: the plane lands.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, you know it's a real scenario that he could
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  Speaker 2: be working Nebraska to beef up his offer. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's what many of us would do in the
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  Speaker 2: business world. We're gonna leverage this guy off this guy
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  Speaker 2: if we get an opportunity to do so, and Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State is in a convenient spot to assist them to
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  Speaker 2: do that, if that's what they want to do, and
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  Speaker 2: if that's the way it ends up, we would look
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  Speaker 2: at him and say, well played.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's done it. Very savvy.
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  Speaker 2: Brought brought up Ohio State a couple of times and
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  Speaker 2: and put it in Nebraska's ear. They know who the
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  Speaker 2: big bully on the block is in the big ten.
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  Speaker 2: But you know they beat us not too far up
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  Speaker 2: ago for a five star cornerback, so they can swing,
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  Speaker 2: they can swing for the fences for sure. And when
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  Speaker 2: we look at Nebraska getting the number one quarterback in
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  Speaker 2: the country again. They got Dylan Roola a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years ago. It didn't work out, but getting another swing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody thought after Dylan Reola that these
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  Speaker 2: guys would get another swing in a number one dude,
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  Speaker 2: and they got another one committed. As matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: the family is supposedly moving down from Illinois to Nebraska
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  Speaker 2: here real soon to live closer to Lincoln for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of his senior year.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. There's your update on the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: recruiting right now. Brady Edmonds making a visit to UCLA
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. We will see if that impacts his standing
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  Speaker 1: in the Ohioate class, if Bob Chesney can sell him
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  Speaker 1: on being a Bruin. And if you watch the show
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  Speaker 1: that Tony Gerderman and I did ranking the Big ten coaches,
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  Speaker 1: he and I are both very impressed with Bob Chesney's.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring on there. Tom.
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  Speaker 3: I think you guys awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. The track record of winning everywhere
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  Speaker 1: he's been and winning in places where it has been
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  Speaker 1: hard to win, and other people have not won. Lots
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  Speaker 1: of people have not won, and he has won. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's he is a rising star in the
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  Speaker 1: coaching profession and UCLA seems like they have maybe woken
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit as a football program. So that's
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  Speaker 1: one to watch this weekend. We'll probably have an update
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  Speaker 1: on that for you sometime early next week. If you
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  Speaker 1: posted on the Trey Taylor front as well and whatever
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  Speaker 1: else is going on in recruiting, we will talk about
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