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BOOM: Buckeyes Add Commitment From 2027 LB Prince Goldsby · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, May twenty seventh.
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  Speaker 1: Im're your host, tom or the ball State game in
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  Speaker 1: some breaking news that broke kind of late Monday evenings.
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  Speaker 1: We're getting into you a little later than we normally would,
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  Speaker 1: but it is good news and it was a holiday weekend,
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  Speaker 1: so you know how it goes. Prince Goldsby a four
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  Speaker 1: star linebacker in the twenty twenty seven recruiting class out
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  Speaker 1: of Missouri. He committed to the Buckeyes on Monday night
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  Speaker 1: and welcome in Tony Gerderman of the Buckeye Weekly podcast, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of a prospect are the Buckeyes getting in
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  Speaker 1: Prince Goldby.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's listened as the number seven linebacker in the
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  Speaker 2: twenty four seven Composite, number one oh one overall top
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  Speaker 2: player in the state of Missouri. And I think anytime
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  Speaker 2: you can get the top player in the state of Missouri,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and do it listed at six three two
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  Speaker 2: oh five. And in the defense that they employ, it
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  Speaker 2: always kind of makes me nervous when you're a linebacker
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  Speaker 2: trying to scout or project a linebacker because they play
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  Speaker 2: in an odd man front where he is, and then
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  Speaker 2: they have like the three defensive linemen, then they have
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  Speaker 2: two outside rushers, and there are times where he's so
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  Speaker 2: far outside he's like he's not a nine tech, he's
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  Speaker 2: like a fifteen tech. And they don't bother blocking him,
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  Speaker 2: and so there's a lot of lack of engagement with
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line and any aspect when he's just run
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  Speaker 2: it brushing the passer. And I thought offensively as well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get the ball back, we'll get the ball away
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  Speaker 2: before he gets there, or we'll roll away from him.
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  Speaker 2: Except he's really fast and he's really athletic, and he
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  Speaker 2: can get there before they get rid of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: You know, So is you know, can he do the
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  Speaker 2: the rfl rees thing and a penny front or something
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  Speaker 2: like that, or will he become an inside linebacker eventually?
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  Speaker 2: Like there's just not a lot of clips, at least
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  Speaker 2: on a huddle of him playing inside, it's mostly outside
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  Speaker 2: and the times you do see him between the tackles,
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  Speaker 2: he's almost more of a spy on the quarterback. So
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  Speaker 2: you're looking at him and you've got two spectrums. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: this is kind of what Ryan Chazier did, but this
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  Speaker 2: is also what CJ. Hicks did, And there's a there's
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  Speaker 2: a wide spectrum of possibilities there. But that's like, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's nothing against him because he looks, he tracks the
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  Speaker 2: ball down, and he brings the quarterback down. It's just
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  Speaker 2: when you're in that system trying to project what that
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  Speaker 2: guy becomes. But that's why, you know, so why James
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  Speaker 2: lord Nidis is arguably the best at what he does.
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  Speaker 2: And certainly you know, he had offers from Alabama and
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  Speaker 2: you know, Texas and those kinds of places, so there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot to like there. I just think it's the
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  Speaker 2: projection is what is interesting to me, because he's not
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  Speaker 2: just going to be an untouched pass rusher at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: So what's that going to look like?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they have two linebackers committed for twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven right now. Now, Goldsby is six three, two oh five,
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  Speaker 1: so that's obviously someone who's going to have to put
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  Speaker 1: on some weight before he gets on the field at
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  Speaker 1: the college level. And then you've got Quinton Cipher, who's
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  Speaker 1: the other guy. Goldsby is seventh in the two four
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  Speaker 1: seven Composite among linebackers. Quintin Cipher he's nineteenth, He's six
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  Speaker 1: two two twenty, So you know, again gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: put on a little bit of weight, but probably a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more of a traditional middle linebacker type, will
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  Speaker 1: linebacker type, where the roles a little bit more spelled
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  Speaker 1: out in terms of what you're going to get there.
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  Speaker 1: I think when I look at those two guys, and
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  Speaker 1: if you just go by the two four seven recruiting rankings,
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  Speaker 1: one of them is like ninth and one of them
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  Speaker 1: is eleventh, So you're, you know, these are guys who
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  Speaker 1: are both, no matter the source, considered top one hundred
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  Speaker 1: to two hundred players in the in the country. So
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  Speaker 1: these are, you know, two very very good linebackers already
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  Speaker 1: for James Lorinidis, and I think there's there's questions in
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  Speaker 1: terms of where do they fit in terms of just
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  Speaker 1: being linebackers. But also Matt Patricia has demonstrated he's willing
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  Speaker 1: to do a lot of different stuff where it's not
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  Speaker 1: just are you a Will? Are you a Mike? Are
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  Speaker 1: you a Sam? There's a bunch of shades of gray
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  Speaker 1: there and other opportunities in that Matt Patricia defense that
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  Speaker 1: maybe didn't exist a few years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think everybody remembers Justin Hill leaving for Alabama
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  Speaker 2: being the Winton Woods pass rusher, and you know he
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  Speaker 2: was ranked rated as an edge and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, High State didn't really necessarily have his position,
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  Speaker 2: and Matt Patricia is now is showing like what position
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  Speaker 2: you what position you're looking for, because we've got a
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  Speaker 2: bunch and we can We're not gonna have to pigeonhole you.
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  Speaker 2: We can have you do some different things. But like
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  Speaker 2: if if you can't do something, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: ask you to do it. What can you do? We'll
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  Speaker 2: figure out how we're gonna employ that, because if you
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  Speaker 2: can do it, no reason we shouldn't do it. Is
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  Speaker 2: the way Matt Patricia used it. So it's an interesting,
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  Speaker 2: you know, prospect in terms of what he does and
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  Speaker 2: how do you employ that. But with with Patricia, like
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  Speaker 2: it's just you look at all these different guys and
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  Speaker 2: he did the same thing this this spring as he
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  Speaker 2: did when he when he arrived a year ago in
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  Speaker 2: terms of all right, let me see what everybody does. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we can do this and this and this, and everybody's
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  Speaker 2: got their things that they can do. And when you
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  Speaker 2: look at Prince Goldsby, there's things that he can do,
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  Speaker 2: and then you build on that and you make them
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  Speaker 2: you know, well, we do need you to be able
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  Speaker 2: to stick between the tackles of times. You are going
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  Speaker 2: to need to be able to do that, so we
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  Speaker 2: can teach that. But also the things that they do
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  Speaker 2: naturally and things that they excel at you accentuate and
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  Speaker 2: build on that, strengthen your strengths and build up your weaknesses,
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  Speaker 2: that sort of thing. And you know, that's the kind
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  Speaker 2: of the fun thing year to year that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to see for Matt Patricia as long as he's around,
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  Speaker 2: is the different employments of these players. And it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I never thought about it that way, or oh, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I see what you're doing there. And with Prince Goldsby,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, yeah, he's a dynamic pass rusher, he's fast,
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  Speaker 2: he's long, and now you just got to turn him
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  Speaker 2: into a two hundred and thirty five pound guy that
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  Speaker 2: can get after the passer or spy the quarterback or
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  Speaker 2: whatever else. And certainly as he's looking through all of
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  Speaker 2: these tapes and clips and games, you're like, he's sure, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I can use that. I can do something with that.
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  Speaker 2: I can do something with that. And we know James
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  Speaker 2: Lauren Night just wants to have three linebackers on the
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  Speaker 2: field as much as possible, So the best way to
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  Speaker 2: do that is to recruit versatile guys.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the third year in a row at
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  Speaker 1: least that James Laura Nitis has brought in a pair
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  Speaker 1: of four star linebackers. Two years ago it was Riley
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  Speaker 1: Petty john and TJ. Alford also had Eli Lee in
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  Speaker 1: that class. He was a three star. Last year it
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  Speaker 1: was Sincere Johnson and CJ sona both of those guys
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  Speaker 1: four stars. And now this year you got the two
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  Speaker 1: in Quentin Cipher and then the latest commitments from Prince Goldsby.
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  Speaker 1: This is James Laurinidis. You know, it's not quite as
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  Speaker 1: flashy as the Brian hartline wide receiver pipeline was, where
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  Speaker 1: it was just kind of stacking five stars, but man,
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  Speaker 1: it just feels like James Lauriniis really has it rolling
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  Speaker 1: right now where it's just you're stacking talent. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: know you're bringing in folks through the transfer portal every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while as needed to sort of supplement things,
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  Speaker 1: but that just feels like a linebacker room where how
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  Speaker 1: are you going to get all these guys on the
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  Speaker 1: field is much more of an issue than where do
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  Speaker 1: you have enough guys to fill all of these spots?
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  Speaker 2: Well, and you mentioned Brian hartline stacking the five stars,
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  Speaker 2: that's fine, But when there's an entire class where you
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  Speaker 2: get nothing out of that's that becomes an issue where
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  Speaker 2: you know, we got two classes where you only get
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  Speaker 2: one or two players to contribute. Right now, with James Laurniis,
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  Speaker 2: he's getting contribution after contribution from class after class, and
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  Speaker 2: that's then you're not in a situation where you're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: we've got this big gap and we're gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: rely on a true freshman. And if you have a
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  Speaker 2: true freshman like Jeremiah Smith or Andy Kats somewhere, great,
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  Speaker 2: But there's a reason those two players were separated by
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  Speaker 2: thirty years. You know, you can't just expect that to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And the best way to keep that from happening is
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  Speaker 2: making sure you have a hit after a hit. And
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  Speaker 2: I think he's done a good job of that. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, since here Johnson's a five start, Briley Petty
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  Speaker 2: john may have been a five star at one point.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, as long as you're recruiting guys that
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  Speaker 2: can play and play well and can play in a
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  Speaker 2: little bit in year one and then year two, they
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  Speaker 2: can be a reserve like that's that builds depth and
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  Speaker 2: that allows you to avoid any issues, whether there's injuries
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  Speaker 2: or transfers or whatever. As long as you continue to
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  Speaker 2: just build and stack guys that can play, that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what you're looking for. That's your Ryan Day wanting a
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  Speaker 2: linebacker you and quarterback you and wide receiver you like.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, he's on a path, James Lord to turning
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State into a linebacker you with his recruiting and development.
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  Speaker 1: There you go the commitment of Prince Goldsby four star
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  Speaker 1: linebacker out of Missouri to Ohio State that happened Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: There's gonna be he will be visiting Ohio State not
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, but next weekend. And then Clinton Seifer will
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  Speaker 1: be visiting Ohio State the weekend after that, heading into
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  Speaker 1: official visit season, heading into camp season. We are finally
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  Speaker 1: out of the sort of low low season for college
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  Speaker 1: football news, heading into the sort of slow ramp up
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  Speaker 1: to the start of the season as we have visit season,
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  Speaker 1: camp season, media days, season fall camp season, and then
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  Speaker 1: season season. That's all coming up. You're gonna be wanting
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  Speaker 1: to follow us at the Buckeye Weekly Podcast the Buckeye
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow Morning Podcast. We're gonna have lots of coverage for
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  Speaker 1: you both of those places all season long. That'll do
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  Speaker 1: it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great day. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: Assass