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Ohio State Football: One Crucial Addition, Two Big Returns For Buckeyes · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Thursday, January fifteenth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom Or the ball State game in two
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  Speaker 1: is today. All right, on today's show, we got a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a two fer, and it is all
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  Speaker 1: good news for Ohio State fans. I'm sure you won't
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  Speaker 1: mind that one. First of all, the piece of news
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  Speaker 1: that Ohio State fans have seemingly been waiting on more
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  Speaker 1: than any other piece of news this offseason, Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: has its placekicker for the twenty twenty sixth season. I'm
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  Speaker 1: joined by Tony Gerderman of Buckeye Huddle dot com. Tony,
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  Speaker 1: having read the YouTube comments and the Twitter comments and
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  Speaker 1: all the other comments over the last couple weeks, I
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  Speaker 1: know this is the thing that Ohio State fans have
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  Speaker 1: been waiting for. Did you hear like an audible of
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  Speaker 1: relief when this news broke on Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 2: When the news broke that Connor Hawkins from Baylor had
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  Speaker 2: committed to Ohio State, a red shirt freshman with years
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  Speaker 2: yet to play, it was like felt in your heart,
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  Speaker 2: like something, something good, something. There's an immense amount of
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  Speaker 2: happiness in the state and you could just feel it.
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  Speaker 2: And so kudos to Ohio State fans finally getting this.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, some people are like, would you Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State could go one in eleven, but as long as
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  Speaker 2: that win is against Michigan, they're happy. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: if Wasio State could have only gotten one player in
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  Speaker 2: a transfer portal and it was a good kicker, they
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  Speaker 2: would have been happy. And so they did. Counter Hawkins
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  Speaker 2: eighteen of twenty two this past year from on field goals,
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven of thirty seven on extra points, three or
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  Speaker 2: four on kicks of over fifty yards. The only miss
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  Speaker 2: of fifty or more was a fifty three yarder against
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma State. He was perfect on kicks under forty yards.
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  Speaker 2: And now Ohio State has somebody that if they're to
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  Speaker 2: the forty, they have a decision to make right, has
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  Speaker 2: a decision to make and not that you want him
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  Speaker 2: relying on that, but it's nice to have in your
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  Speaker 2: back pocket.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And we did a whole show breaking down Hawkins
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  Speaker 1: in the time between when he entered the Portal and
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  Speaker 1: when he committed to Ohio State. You can find that
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  Speaker 1: on the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed. But one of the
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  Speaker 1: stats we talked about there and have talked about a
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  Speaker 1: couple other times recently, Ohio State has not kicked a
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  Speaker 1: field goal successfully of fifty plus yards since two thy
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  Speaker 1: and nineteen. So that is a streak that very well
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  Speaker 1: might end in twenty twenty six, Tony go, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go ahead and place dibbs on that Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: kicks a field goal of more than fifty yards for
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  Speaker 1: the first time since twenty nineteen when we do our
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  Speaker 1: season long Bold Prediction show. So you all hurt, You're
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  Speaker 1: all my witnesses, I called dips. All right, now on
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  Speaker 1: to some more good news for Ohio State, And why
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  Speaker 1: don't you all grab a cant of doctor Pepper to
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  Speaker 1: toast this particular bit good news because to Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: offensive linemen who could have theoretically been off to the
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  Speaker 1: NFL or the Portal both announced that they are coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Carson Hinsman Luke Montgomery, two guys known for celebrating a
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  Speaker 1: win with an icy cold doctor Pepper on the airplane
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  Speaker 1: on the way home from road games, both coming back.
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  Speaker 1: And I know Tony that this is Ohio State fans
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  Speaker 1: have been grumbling about the offensive line. To bring back guys,
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  Speaker 1: two starters from an offensive line that was relatively young
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  Speaker 1: and which played reasonably well for most of the season
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  Speaker 1: and which should you know, obviously be expected to develop
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit with another season of work together, this
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  Speaker 1: seems like phenomenally good news for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. Anytime you can bring back We'll
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  Speaker 2: just start with Carson Hinsman, an experienced center and now
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  Speaker 2: this will be his third year of starting at center.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's something that is invaluable and every coach
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  Speaker 2: would love. And he was an ex He's a a
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  Speaker 2: third I think is honorable mention All Big Ten this
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  Speaker 2: year and I think played better than that. Actually, he's
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  Speaker 2: a third team All Big Ten guy, and not only
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  Speaker 2: has the experience at the center, which we know is
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  Speaker 2: the redchherd freshman and then this year, but last year
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  Speaker 2: playing guard and having that experience and being on call
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  Speaker 2: to do whatever you need is every coach, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: every coach would love to have somebody that has the
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  Speaker 2: two years of experience. The center has seen everything, has
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  Speaker 2: been played in big games, has been the National championship center,
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  Speaker 2: replacing Seth McLachlan in the playoffs last year, and has
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  Speaker 2: done everything that you've asked and has done it in
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  Speaker 2: a very not ideal way. You know where started as
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  Speaker 2: a red shirt freshman kind of got broken down. They
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  Speaker 2: replaced him in the portal he could have left. He
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  Speaker 2: stuck it out and he's come out the other side
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  Speaker 2: much better for it. And again an older guy that
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  Speaker 2: the older the team right now, the better they do
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  Speaker 2: it seems. And look at the playoffs. And then Luke Montgomery,
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  Speaker 2: a guy that has versatility to play pretty much anywhere,
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  Speaker 2: and he's been at guard the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 2: but we've seen him snap a center, we've seen him
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  Speaker 2: play tackle, shoot, we've seen him play tight end and
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  Speaker 2: in his early days, and a guy that is physical
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  Speaker 2: and again experienced and last year as what as sophomore,
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  Speaker 2: basically didn't play for most of the season, and then
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs start and he's splitting reps in the first
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  Speaker 2: two games and then he just takes over and then
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  Speaker 2: he was you know, in a line up the entire
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  Speaker 2: time this past year, second team all Big ten by
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  Speaker 2: the coaches and the media. Two experienced guys, two guys
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  Speaker 2: that have played well, and two guys that you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to replace. That's the other thing, like they're here,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to go fix the problem now.
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  Speaker 1: And the final picture for the twenty twenty six offensive
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  Speaker 1: line is not complete at the moment. We are still
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  Speaker 1: we're recording us on Wednesday evening in the NFL Draft
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  Speaker 1: declaration deadline is still a little over four hours away.
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  Speaker 1: And we have not officially heard that Austin Siraveld is
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  Speaker 1: coming back. We haven't heard that he's leaving. We haven't
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  Speaker 1: officially heard that he's coming back. You know, if he
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  Speaker 1: does come back, that would be another enormous piece to
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  Speaker 1: the puzzle for Ohio State, because it just feels like
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  Speaker 1: when you look at Ciraveld, and you know Ciriveld, we
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  Speaker 1: have seen him play left tackle, We've you know, right tackle,
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  Speaker 1: We've seen him at guard. You can sort of slot
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  Speaker 1: him in wherever you need to slot him in. You've
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  Speaker 1: seen Hinsman at guard and center. Josh Badia was you know,
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  Speaker 1: has played a little bit guard, looked pretty good in
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  Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl, but also as the backup center. It
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  Speaker 1: just feels like there's lots of different combinations here, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe you're working Ian Moore and maybe you're
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  Speaker 1: working Gave Van Sicklin. There's just there's so many different
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  Speaker 1: possible solutions here that it just feels like whatever the
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  Speaker 1: combination is, if Ohio State gets all these guys back,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to end up with five pretty good offensive
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  Speaker 1: lie I'm playing.
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  Speaker 2: Together, yeah, and versatile and experienced and enjoy playing together
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  Speaker 2: and are able to they know each other. I think
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  Speaker 2: that is an underrated aspect of having an offensive line
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  Speaker 2: that is experienced where it's not really new. Even the
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  Speaker 2: young even the new guy like a Josh Bidier, Gabe
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  Speaker 2: Van Sickle, they've played and their experience playing next to
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  Speaker 2: the guy that they would play next to. And you've
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  Speaker 2: got a group that is reliable, has knows the coaches knows,
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  Speaker 2: the offense knows everything. And you'd much rather have four
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  Speaker 2: or five guys returning that you know, than trying to
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  Speaker 2: build it where it's like, well, you know, Spring, we're
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  Speaker 2: all trying to find out who you know, who works
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  Speaker 2: best together, who works at all together? Try to find
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  Speaker 2: your best five when you go into spring. Knowing who
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  Speaker 2: your best five is, or you know, trying to figure out, like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we know who five is, who is six? Who is seven?
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  Speaker 2: Makes things a lot easier. You're kind of hitting the
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  Speaker 2: ground running and hitting the ground running. It would be
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  Speaker 2: something that the ISID offense could certainly use more of.
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  Speaker 1: If you catch my drift, Tom, I do very subtle,
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  Speaker 1: very subtle, but I do. I do think I am
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  Speaker 1: picking it up and guessing the listeners are as well.
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  Speaker 1: And some exciting breaking news right this very second. Austin
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  Speaker 1: Siriveld is in fact coming back. Literally just hit Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: I am at this point just reflexibly checking Twitter as
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  Speaker 1: we're sort of wrapping up these shows, just to see
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  Speaker 1: or are we about to miss something? So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: You are the first to know unless you are also
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter right now and then in the or anytime
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  Speaker 1: in the intervening twenty minutes or so between now and
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  Speaker 1: when this gets posted, and then of course we will
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  Speaker 1: have an instant reaction show to Austin Seerveld as well,
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  Speaker 1: but that'll be on the Buckeye Weekly podcast Feed anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So my point is you need to make sure you're
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  Speaker 1: subscribed to the Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning Feed, the Buckeye Weekly Feed,
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  Speaker 1: YouTube dot com, slash Buckey Huddle, and of course bucke
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  Speaker 1: Huddle dot com because the news is coming fast and furious,
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  Speaker 1: and news has been pretty darn good for Ohio State recently,
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  Speaker 1: so it is it has been a fun time to
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning podcast Feed and probably some other
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  Speaker 1: stuff that I'm forgetting, but that's okay. I'm sure we
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  Speaker 1: have more shows to do. There's more news coming soon,
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  Speaker 1: so make sure you're subscribed all those places you can
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  Speaker 1: find us there. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great day. We will talk to you tomorrow.