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Did Ryan Day Just Hint At A Big Change To The Offensive Line? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Monday, February second. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom or the ball State game in two
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  Speaker 1: So on todays show, we're going to be talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State offensive line and some interesting comments from
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day on his Coaches show on Friday evening that
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  Speaker 1: may be a little bit of a hint of some
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  Speaker 1: changes to come on the offensive line. One thing that
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  Speaker 1: has not changed is it I'm welcoming in Tony Gerdiman
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  Speaker 1: if bucke Huddle dot com. Tony. I guess let's start
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  Speaker 1: with sort of the broader view, which is Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: talking about why they didn't bring in anyone through the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal on the offensive line because I know that
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of Ohio State fans who were
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  Speaker 1: sort of hoping that they would.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's tom remarkably, it's a lot of what
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  Speaker 2: we talked about, and he did say the reason they
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  Speaker 2: didn't is because it took everything they had, basically their
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  Speaker 2: their offensive line, money allotment to keep the guys and
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  Speaker 2: to retain the guys that they had. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if that makes Ohio State fans that wanted to
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  Speaker 2: change feel better, but that's the state of affairs right now,
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  Speaker 2: where you know, I wish people understood that if Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State's offensive line went into the portal, all of those
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  Speaker 2: guys would be sought after by teams from around the nation.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, they were sought after from by teams from
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  Speaker 2: around the nation. As Ryan Day said, they had to basically,
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  Speaker 2: you know, step up and keep those guys from from
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  Speaker 2: walking not walking out, but you know, you get a
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  Speaker 2: what you can to retain them because everybody had other opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: And it's it's interesting, like it's almost like everybody's coaches
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  Speaker 2: that had other opportunities to leave and the offensive line if,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, if any of those guys go into portal,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be sought after. So just they didn't
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  Speaker 2: go into the portal, they're still sought after by Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: They get to Ohio State keeps them and they've got
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  Speaker 2: you know, eight or nine guys that they like, and
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  Speaker 2: that's that's if you can't do enough, if you can't
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  Speaker 2: put five guys on the field with that, then I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that bringing in the three best guys in
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  Speaker 2: the portal is going to make any any much of
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  Speaker 2: a difference either because you'd probably just be wasting your
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  Speaker 2: time there as well. And further, I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: I don't think this was a great portal class either.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of words to say that they liked
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  Speaker 2: what they had, they were able to keep them. Everybody's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a year better. Everybody likes it when
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  Speaker 2: you offensive line has been together for multiple years. Right,
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  Speaker 2: there's lots to like about what had, what what Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State has brought back. I understand that Indiana and Miami
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  Speaker 2: games both happened. Also, I understand that Indiana's offensive line
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  Speaker 2: struggled against Miami's defense and Miami's defense. You know, their
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  Speaker 2: offensive line struggled against Indiana's defense, Indiana's offensive line, and
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  Speaker 2: it's like when you play the best teams, tough things happen,
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  Speaker 2: and yet you know, you bring these guys back and
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  Speaker 2: I think there. I think everybody's going to be the
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  Speaker 2: better for it. We'll see, but that's that's what the
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  Speaker 2: coaches thought as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think you can I can almost hear
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  Speaker 1: people sort of scoffing. Who would want these bombs from
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State offensive line? Did they did? No? One
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  Speaker 1: watch the last couple of games. I will remind everyone
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  Speaker 1: this time last year there was an offensive lineman for
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State who went in the transfer portal who Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State fans were at ready to run out of town
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  Speaker 1: on a rail. His name was Zen Mahalsky. He started
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  Speaker 1: the North Nebraska game at left hack. Didn't go great,
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  Speaker 1: not gonna lie about that. One did not go great.
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  Speaker 1: And he got a whole mess of money, big bag
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  Speaker 1: with a dollar sign on it from a team that
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  Speaker 1: ended up having a pretty darn good season last year,
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  Speaker 1: the Indiana Hoosiers, And they brought him in and he
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  Speaker 1: was sort of a rotational guy for them, But that
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  Speaker 1: is you know, I don't think anyone can say Kurt
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  Speaker 1: Signetty doesn't evaluate talent. Well, Kurtzignetti doesn't know what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: The Indiana Hoosiers had a pretty good sense and there
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  Speaker 1: is plenty of talent there in that Ohio State offensive
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  Speaker 1: line room. And another year to sort of grow together
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  Speaker 1: and work together and gel as we like to say,
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  Speaker 1: that is all probably going to work in their favor.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that is interesting is we don't know exactly
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  Speaker 1: where all these guys are gonna fit, and Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: basically said they don't either. This is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a you know, this is not okay, we know this.
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  Speaker 1: You've got basically everyone back except for Tiger Shabola. But
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  Speaker 1: it still sounds like there's going to be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of mixing and matching throughout the spring as they
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  Speaker 1: sort of try to figure out what that best fun
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  Speaker 1: it might look like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the most interesting part of everything that he
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  Speaker 2: talked about is when he was talking about right guard
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  Speaker 2: and I I'll just read what he said. He said
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  Speaker 2: at right guard, that's where now we need Josh Padilla
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  Speaker 2: to really step up. We need need Gabe Van Sickle
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  Speaker 2: to now take that next step, and then we need
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  Speaker 2: Philip Daniels to take the next step. So when you
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  Speaker 2: look at that, you know, Jake Cook has shown a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things for us that'll be as deep as
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  Speaker 2: we've been in a while in terms of being able
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  Speaker 2: to put guys in there. And then he also went
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  Speaker 2: on to talk about mixing and matching and guys will
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  Speaker 2: we be playing in different spots. To me, the most
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  Speaker 2: interesting thing of all of that is mentioning Philip Daniels
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  Speaker 2: as among the guards rather than the tackles. He was
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  Speaker 2: your starting right tackle this past season, after all, and
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  Speaker 2: did well also had some struggles. And when we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about why not go into the portal and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you've got you've got Austin crvel back. Everybody loves Ian Moore,
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  Speaker 2: which Brian Day also said, and if you can find
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  Speaker 2: a way to put Austin Sierveld, Ian Moore and Philip
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  Speaker 2: Daniels maybe all together, then maybe you've got something. And
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like that's the way things are going. That's
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  Speaker 2: something that you know, I think Ohio State fans should
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  Speaker 2: you know, their ear should perk up with that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Because your returning experience. You're utilizing that experience, but you're
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  Speaker 2: not just standing pat either. You're still trying to improve
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  Speaker 2: these offensive line And when you read between the lines
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  Speaker 2: and also read the actual lines, it sure feels to
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  Speaker 2: me like you're talking Austin Sierraveld to Ian Moore at
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  Speaker 2: tackle and then some mixture of what's going to happen
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  Speaker 2: at right guard. And I guess we should not be
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  Speaker 2: surprised if there continues to be a rotation there.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think you're going to see more than five
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  Speaker 1: guys getting meaningful snaps even if everyone is one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent healthy the full season, which of course they won't
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  Speaker 1: be because it's football and that's not how any of
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  Speaker 1: this works. I do feel like we're going into spring
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  Speaker 1: with a decent sense of who the two tackles are.
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  Speaker 1: I feel a lot less confident that I know who's
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  Speaker 1: going to be on which side of those two tackles
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  Speaker 1: coming out of spring ball, because you saw, obviously Austin
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  Speaker 1: Syrrell played a very solid left tackle for Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: for all of last season, and even you know, was
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  Speaker 1: pretty solid even in the games where they had some
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  Speaker 1: issues later in the season. He had that injury in
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  Speaker 1: the first half against Miami that that caused him to
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  Speaker 1: have to go out. But when they put Ian More
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  Speaker 1: in there and left tackle, he played pretty darn well.
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  Speaker 1: Randy talked about that a little bit, and it feels
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  Speaker 1: like you could make an argument for keep Austin Siravel
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  Speaker 1: that left tackle another year, or you could make a
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  Speaker 1: real good argument for put Ian Moore at left tackle,
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  Speaker 1: put Austin Sirevel that right tackle. Where you've got, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a little bit of a question who
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  Speaker 1: the right tackles right guard's going to be, you got
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  Speaker 1: a real solid right tackle next to him. I could
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  Speaker 1: make it pretty pelling argument for either alignment there. And
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  Speaker 1: then if you have Philip Daniels in there as even
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  Speaker 1: if he's your third tackle and you're going to rotate
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  Speaker 1: him in or however you want to do it, that's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's potentially at least a solid and potentially
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  Speaker 1: a very good pair of tackles there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like Ian Moore, even if he's not
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  Speaker 2: the left tackle this year, is going to be asking
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  Speaker 2: for left tackle money in twenty twenty seven, so you
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  Speaker 2: may as well make him your left tackle in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six. If he can handle it, so that you
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  Speaker 2: know what you've got. And it's always funny to me
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  Speaker 2: now that we have to think in those those terms.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, you know, you can't think too far in advance,
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  Speaker 2: but in some ways you have to think in advance
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  Speaker 2: of that, and so wouldn't shock me. And I think
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  Speaker 2: Austin Seerveld knows his future is on the interior, So
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  Speaker 2: being able to show left tackle, right tackle, all of
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  Speaker 2: the versatility that he has, I don't see that as
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  Speaker 2: like a slap in the face. And I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he would either. So those are two although I say that,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, I guess it doesn't matter now because
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  Speaker 2: all of the money has been paid out. But you're
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  Speaker 2: paying Austin Seerveld like a left tackle. But you want
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  Speaker 2: to you want the best fire that you've got out there,
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  Speaker 2: and if you can put Ian Moore out there, then
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  Speaker 2: you've got a multiple multi year starter at that position,
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  Speaker 2: you know, which would be a nice thing. But as
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  Speaker 2: we also know, Tom, what we see on day one
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  Speaker 2: of spring has doesn't mean that that's what we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: see on day fifteen, or doesn't mean that's what we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna see on day one of fall camp, and so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's all up in the air. The last thing
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  Speaker 2: I'll say is in terms of why didn't they go
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  Speaker 2: to the portal, They went to the portal last year.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody was happy with ethon on ionma. All the fans
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  Speaker 2: were happy with Ethan on the Ona. We talked about
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  Speaker 2: what a big deal it was. It wasn't so not
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  Speaker 2: everything in the portal is better than what you got.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've got people complaining about Philip Daniels now
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  Speaker 2: as well, and you know those are those are your
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  Speaker 2: two portal ads, and I think one will continue to
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  Speaker 2: pay off for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they brought in Justin Terry in the
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  Speaker 1: portal last year and he's already gone. So yeah, there
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  Speaker 1: are no guarantees in the transfer portal. There are certainly
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  Speaker 1: no guarantees on the offensive line. But it does feel
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  Speaker 1: like Ohio State has given themselves a lot of different
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  Speaker 1: opportunities and different combinations of guys to have it work
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  Speaker 1: out pretty well on the offensive line this year. And
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  Speaker 1: then you can't plan You can't really can't plan ahead
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  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty seven. But they're to whatever degree they can,
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  Speaker 1: they seem like they're doing that as well, So there
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  Speaker 1: you go, a little update on the offensive line. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a bunch more to talk about this coming
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  Speaker 1: week as we sort of begin the countdown to spring
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  Speaker 1: ball now just about five just over five weeks away
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  Speaker 1: at this point, to the start of Ohio State spring
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  Speaker 1: ball on March tenth, and then of course the spring
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  Speaker 1: Game on April eighteenth. We'll have plenty to talk about
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  Speaker 1: all month long at bucke Huddle dot com and at
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  Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle. But I'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. We'll talk to you four