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Ohio State Lands Top Offensive Line Prospect Carter Lowe · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Sunday, January twenty eighth, I'm your host,
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tom Or. The Akron game is in two hundred and sixteen days.
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The gam against Michigan in three hundred and seven days. The big news on
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Saturday was it will house ate his land of commitment from twenty twenty five offensive
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tackle Carter Low out of Toledo Whitmer High School. Lowe gives the Buckeyes the
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true tackle prospect they really need in this twenty twenty five recruiting class. Kevin
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Noon of bucket Huddle dot Com went up to Toledo to cover that announcement.
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He also recorded an episode of the Skull Session recruiting podcast with Mark Givler of
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bucke Huddle dot Com breaking down the importance and the impact of Carter Low's commitment.
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Since that's the big news of the day, we're just gonna let you
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hear that here as a special bonus episode. No need to record a second
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episode saying the exact same thing. So here is the Skull Session Recruiting Podcast
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a nice thing to do, so hope you guys enjoy. Hello everyone,
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Welcome to the Skull Session Recruiting podcast, brought to you by Buckie Huddle dot
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com. Mark Givler here with Kevin Noon. Another We've had a lot of
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these lately, Another commitment episode. Ohio State has landed class of twenty twenty
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five Toledo Whitmer offensive tackle Carter Low, the top offensive lineman in the state
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of Ohio, arguably the top prospects, certainly one of the top prospects in
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Ohio, and arguably Ohio State's biggest priority target in the twenty twenty five class
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given his ability and the position he plays, which is of course, offensive
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tackle. So everyone can kind of take a deep sigh of relief they've landed
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an offensive tackle, a big time tackle prospect. I know that's been offensive
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line recruiting has been a hot button issue for a lot of Ohio State fans
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over the last couple year or so. Great to get a player of this
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caliber in the fold this early. Kevin this feels like it's been trending Ohio
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State's direction for a while now, you know, So are you surprised at
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the timing? He just kind of felt like this was moving this way maybe
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the last couple months. Yeah, when it comes to an end, State
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guy, I can't say that I'm really surprised when it comes together sooner rather
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than later. I mean, it's not like Carter Low didn't have a bunch
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of offers two dozen plus offers going on at this point. But you know,
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he was a fixture at Ohio State. He constant. I mean,
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he's somebody you know Ohio State wanted. Apparently he wanted to go to Ohio
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State. Why why Deli dally? Yeah? And I think you know,
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there are a couple of big things here. Well, first of all,
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the decision right now makes sense. He had clearly been telling people he was
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probably going to decide soon, but he also been showing people he's probably gonna
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decide soon. He made some late visits toward you know, south and nationally
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through the fall and into the winter, gets back to Ohio State. Just
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felt like a kid who was in decision making mode. Ultimately, though,
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this was kind of a Michigan Ohio State battle for the majority of it,
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So kind of icing on the cake here to beat Michigan in a somewhat had
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to head battle for a kid right there on the Ohio Michigan border. Again,
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good recruiting vibes here for the Buckeyes beating Michigan. And you can never
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kind of overstate that importance. Yeah, we could talk about Toledo being that
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little, you know, DMZ area between Ohio and Michigan, but this isn't
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you know, this isn't twenty some plus years ago to where those were really
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coin flips. I like Ohio states chances in landing most Toledo kids, And
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you know, I think this is a huge get at a position of need.
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We see year in and year out, Ohio State has not necessarily been
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hitting its number. Maybe not getting those high profile guys. Carter Low maybe
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won't get that type of of of talk from people because he commits so early
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and he's an in state guy. But you know, once we put his
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film on here in a second, I think people will see just what Ohio
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State is getting. Yeah. I feel like unfortunately the early commitment, in
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the fact that he's from Ohio might take away from this for some people,
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but this is a highly highly skilled left tackle prospect. Great feed, great
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finisher, the type of kid who will be excellent in pass protection. But
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he's made a lot of strides I thought this past season as a junior in
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becoming a better run blocker, getting a better push, playing a little bit
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lower, plays with great pad level. Really continues to I have those legs
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in the run blocking game, and again a super athletic kid on the outside
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who has the profile to be a tremendous pass protector. Really to me,
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a very very talented left tackle prospect for my money, probably the best offensive
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line prospect to come out of Ohio since Paris Johnson, which about what five
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years I have five years of separation, I guess between those two, I
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think Paris was twenty twenty. So this is a This is an enormous pickup
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for Ohio State. This is again has been my top offensive lineman in the
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state of Ohio for a long time, and I think all the ranking services
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agree with that. And again, is one of those two or three guys
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who I think is in the discussion is the number one prospect in the state
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of Ohio in twenty twenty five. So again, enjoy this one, don't
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you know, don't let this one kind of I don't take it for granted
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or whatever because it's early. Because he's an Ohio kid. Ohio State has
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not, under previous regimes, always been able to lock up the Ohio offensive
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lineman that they wanted. So it's you know, kind of getting back to
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normal, getting back to business on that front of locking up these top Ohio
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linemen. And you know, now you can StarChase a little bit out of
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state. There's a there's a couple of things in state. I think there's
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a couple of guys in state. They're going to continue to look at.
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Nolan Davin Poured out of Maslin is another potential offensive tackle prospect who's going to
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visit Ohio State in March, converted tight end. So I think there's another
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there could be a second offensive tackle just in Ohio, which, boy,
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wouldn't that be nice for the buck Eyes. But you know, this will
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allow them to continue to to take their swings, you know, guys like
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Micah Debo's or you know, some of these big out of state targets and
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big names out of state and get this thing rolling here. You know,
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Kevin. The one thing people are gonna kind of probably be curious about,
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what is the number do you think? You know, offensive line they took
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full last year, they get a portal guy, but that's you know,
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kind of a one, one and done. It looks like, uh with
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McLaughlin, you know, so they didn't quite hit their number. They wanted
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another tackle in twenty twenty four. I I look at this as probably a
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four man line class. I don't know that they have to push it to
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five, especially if you can plug a gap with a portal guy. They
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get some guys back. You know, Donovan Jackson doesn't leave, so maybe
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that does you know, maybe maybe you can push to five if you if
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you feel like you're getting a a top flight player with that fifth spot as
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well. But I think it probably four is probably the minimum. You know
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what kind of what do where you see at as someone who covers the actual
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team and like has a has a good handle on what the roster is.
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Yeah, I was gonna say four plus one. You sit there and you
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say four is the number you have to hit, and then if you get
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like a Micah Debo's or somebody like that, that is over and above kind
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of what the number is you do that. I mean, I think every
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position goes into a cycle with a you know, this is our real number
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and this is our reach number. I mean, I would certainly like to
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see Ohio State hit the reach number with running backs in twenty five more so
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than maybe other positions. Does Ohio State determine it needs to go to the
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portal after spring to bring somebody in to shore up the numbers. I mean,
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you would look moving forward and hope that the that the uh Luke Montgomery
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class starts to bear fruit. You know, we were calling it the Luke
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Montgomery class because he's the guy who's the furthest along. But you mean you
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still have you know, Josh Badia, Austin Serreraveld and guys like that in
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that class. So I think that, you know, I think four is
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realistic with the understanding McLaughlin's going to be gone, Donovan Jackson's going to be
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gone, So you got two right there. I think we still could potentially
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see a little bit more attrition coming out of the offensive line post spring as
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Ohio State tries to shore up its eighty five number. But I think four
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is the right number to hit and then if you can go and get that,
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well, we just can't live without this guy type of player, then
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you go to five. You know, I don't know if I necessarily see
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a path to six. It would have to it would have to be just
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kind of the absolute opposite of what we've seen out of Ohio state recruiting and
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that they're just having to turn top flight players away. So yeah, I'll
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say four for now, but I see a very easy path to five.
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Well easy to say it right now here in January. Executing and landing that
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can't miss type of player has been a bit of a bugaboo. Yeah,
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And no doubt attrition over the next eight to ten months will impact that number
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one way or the other. You know, you also have look, I
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mean that Montgomery class we talk about thirty, your two. They're getting a
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bunch of these guys in in twenty four, are getting in early. So
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they got four, They are coming in at some point, three are coming
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in early. So I think by you know, September, I think they're
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gonna know, like, okay, which of these guys in twenty twenty three
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can play? And I think they're gonna have maybe not know as well but
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I think even in twenty twenty four, they're like, Okay, we like
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what we've seen out of these guys, and that could impact things as well,
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because now you're you've got you know, you're talking about a group of
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like eight offensive linemen there. If you think six of those guys can play,
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you probably aren't going to force the issue unless again, unless it's like
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a mic at Debos or something like that that we're talking about. And the
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other thing to consider here, and you don't want to get into this habit
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too much, but I think this is one spot where you might have to
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consider. This is. Look, I think the twenty twenty six Ohio offensive
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line class is at minimum the best class in seventeen years in Ohio along the
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offensive line. I think you go back to Corey Linsley, Jack Muhort,
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Marcus Hall class. I think that's like the last class I would go back
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to where I'm like, yeah, I would definitely put that one on the
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same tier. Like, twenty twenty six Ohio offensive line class is loaded to
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the point they've already offered three of these guys. None of these guys are
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still sophomores in high school. They've already offered three of them, there's three
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or four more guys that they haven't offered that they're gonna look at. I
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mean, at least so Ohio alone in twenty six might give you four or
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five offensive linemen. That's very, very possible, which would allow you some
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incredible opportunities out of state to go. Basically say, here's the three best
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offensive linemen in the country. Let's recruit the Ohio guys and those three guys
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and see how many we can get. And so I think for roster spacing,
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if you feel good about the twenty twenty six is and they should,
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I think they're leading for all three of them guys they've offered, you may
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not want to force the issue in twenty five. Again, unless it is
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a special, special player, you may not want to force the issue in
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twenty twenty five. And if you need, in fact, like for the
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twenty twenty five team, if you need an immediate jolt, maybe you do
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a one and done out of the portal or something to get you through.
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Because this twenty twenty six class is coming and it is phenomenal. So that's
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gonna be another thing I think they're gonna have to weigh, which normally you
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don't really worry about that too much. I think you have to think about
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that here well. And the thing too, is that based on that twenty
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six class, that could force out other guys on the roster who you know
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we talk about the term about getting recruited over. I mean, there could
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be a lot of guys that potentially could get recruited over so the numbers always
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work out. But I agree that's why I'm saying four plus one. I'm
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not saying five because at five, I'm insinuating that you've got to take five
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to hit your number, and you may go down a little bit in order
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to hit that number. I think you get to four and then that fifth
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one is if it's somebody who is a We're not saying that that that Ryan
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Day and Mark Pantoni sit there and use this service's numbers or that service numbers
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or any services numbers. But if it's a top fifty type of player nationally,
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might be hard to turn that guy down. But I think that the
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advent of the of the twenty sixth class, I think that those you know,
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that could chase off some guys who have been in the program a couple
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few years and maybe have not cracked the two deep or not, are not
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necessarily making a contribution whether or not it's an Ohio State kind of Hey,
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you may want to look around, or it's a decision they come to on
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their own of hey, I'm not going to play, so it all it
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all works itself out. So they're not there yet. But I think we
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are starting to see the beginning of a positive turn on Ohio State's offensive line
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recruiting. This this, this low commitment signifies to me a potential really good
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run on the offensive line between low some other opportunities in twenty five and then
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the coming potential of twenty six. Do you start you know, look,
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Justin Fry's taking a lot of heat. Greg Sajwara before him, Jim Bowman
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going back. You know, even even Ed Warner, who produced really good
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offensive lines, took a lot of heat for his you know, kind of
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lack of recruiting prowess. Do you sense like maybe a shift in the in
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the upward trend direction happening now right with the offensive line? Yeah? I
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do. And I think that if Justin Fry can survive the next month,
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he's locked in for a while because recruiting is a relationship, business and everything
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else, and he's the guy that's offered you know, the Sam Griers of
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the world and certainly Carter Low and everything else. So I think that we
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could be seeing it trend. But I think I think geography is helping out
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as well. When you have a kid like Carter Low in state, when
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you have a twenty six class shaping up the way that Ohio is, and
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that's all in your backyard, it's it's it's really amazing what a bunch of
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kids in your backyard, backyard can do for you as a recruiter. And
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yeah, I think that justin Fry, it took him maybe a little bit
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longer to get into the swing of his recruiting. Put some of the kids
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in the in the in the territory is going to help. But yeah,
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Greg Studarrara certainly had his issues with recruiting. Ed Warner kids loved to play
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for him. But if you were not already, if you hadn't bought in,
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you thought he was kind of a weird dude. Jim Boleman was Jim
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Bowman. I mean, I'm I'm hard pressed to think of the last time
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that people have sat there and say, I feel fantastic about where our offensive
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line is trending at this point. Necessarily been part of the DNA, but
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I think with the addition of Bill O'Brien as the OC, and as long
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as he and Justin Fry see eye to eye and there's no major changes,
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I think that the offensive line could be in pretty good shape moving forward,
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certainly starting in twenty five. We don't know twenty four. I think twenty
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four is going to be pretty good. You know, let's fast forward a
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couple months to post spring and see what happens with that portal window. If
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Ohio State after fifteen practices, like you know, we're pretty good here with
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you know, with with with this straight in our hands, or hey,
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we need to sit there and punt and see if we can draw a full
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house. I mean, I don't know there, but I think that I
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think things are looking up at the position, but things are looking up in
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general for Ohio State. You know, poor Ohio State, and it's horrible
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eleven and two season and the world is ending and I need to find a
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new hobby. And less than a month later, Ohio State is, you
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know, sitting in fantastic position on countless fronts. You said it, it's
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been a It's been quite a run here lately, the last several weeks for
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Ohio State, after that Cotton Bowl showing, which I think everyone, boy,
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it seems like it seems like a decade ago, and now doesn't it
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It just you know, seems like a decade ago. A lot has changed
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since then, much of it for the positive. For Ohio State. The
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recruiting run continues here. Again. I want to emphasize this again before we
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get off of here. This is a huge commitment. This should be treated
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as like a five star signing in December. Like you should be as excited
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about this as you were like Edric Houston or you know, or Jeremiah Smith.
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This is this is an important pick up. This guy, this was
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a must to get. There are very few must gets every cycle. This
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guy was a must get. They've got him. So he's an Ohio kids,
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So you don't take that for grants because they're from Ohio that they're expected.
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You know, you gotta recruit these guys. So I think everyone should
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take a moment and enjoy this one. But a huge pickup for Ohio State,
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huge pick up for Justin frying the offensive line, and we will see
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what else they're able to piece together here in twenty twenty five. As they
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got to hey, they're gonna be right up there at the top of the
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recruiting rankings again. We'll just have to see how far they can take it.
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So appreciate everyone watching, apply appreciate everyone listening. We will have more
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on buckey huddle dot com about this. We will have obviously several articles about
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this, what this means, and hop on the forum there presented by Jeff
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do whatever you want to do. It's a great time to be on the
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board right now, a lot of good energy. So appreciate everyone watching and
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listening, and we'll talk to you again soon