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Ohio State Recruiting: Can The Buckeyes Hold Off Alabama For Elite LB Cincere Johnson? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Thursday, May twenty ninth
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  Speaker 1: t I'm your host, Tom or the Texas game in
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  Speaker 1: ninety three days, the game against Michigan in one hundred
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  Speaker 1: coming up. It is one of the big days on
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  Speaker 1: the college football calendar. Take a minute think about why
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  Speaker 1: you think that might be. Yeah, you're wrong. It is
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  Speaker 1: College Football TV release Day. We're going to get a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of kickoff times coming up on Thursday, including potentially
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  Speaker 1: that game against Texas to open the season in ninety
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  Speaker 1: three days. Now, one thing we know is that game
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  Speaker 1: is not going to be on Sunday. You need to
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  Speaker 1: give our buddy Patrick Murphy from Buckout's a shout out
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  Speaker 1: on breaking that news about a week ago. Pete Thamil
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  Speaker 1: talk to Texas ad Crys del Conti about that. On Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: He said they were reached out to about moving that
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  Speaker 1: game at Ohio State. Quote, why would I want moved
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  Speaker 1: the game to Sunday night and have a short week?
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  Speaker 1: He said, he said no to the Sunday game. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to go to church. Andreilla is a Buckehuddle
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  Speaker 1: dot Com joins me. Andre Ellis. We know he's a
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  Speaker 1: god fearing man, possibly an Ohio State fearing man as well.
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  Speaker 1: My question, why are you so scared of night games?
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  Speaker 1: You and I were both at in Ohio State Texas
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  Speaker 1: night game twenty years ago and we know how that end.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty years ago. I believe that might have been
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  Speaker 2: my first game in the shoe and I think I
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  Speaker 2: was right around twenty years old then. So crazy it
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  Speaker 2: took me that long, but yeah, drop passes in the
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  Speaker 2: end zone and penalties by Chad Hubler that still haunts me.
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  Speaker 2: Limas suite in the end zone I've had. I've had
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  Speaker 2: some tough days against Texas, So I will stay out
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  Speaker 2: of Ohio Stadium this year, I think for that game.
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  Speaker 2: I also, when I was in grad school, a couple
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  Speaker 2: of my buddies and I drove drove down to the
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  Speaker 2: Fiesta Bowl when they lost another heartbreaker there. I remember
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  Speaker 2: that because we were kind of us with it's always
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  Speaker 2: sunny in Philadelphia then, and they had the green Man
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  Speaker 2: outfits and myself and my buddies were supposed to wear
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  Speaker 2: scarlet and gray like body suits. And I want to
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  Speaker 2: say Marcus Hartman or one of the BSB guys did
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  Speaker 2: a story on it back in the day, and we
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  Speaker 2: ordered these. We ordered these outfits from some like Taiwan
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  Speaker 2: store on eBay and I was the only one that
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  Speaker 2: got it in the mail before the game, so I
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  Speaker 2: was the only one wearing that. And it was a
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  Speaker 2: long drive and it was a long night for Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State fans. So I do not have good luck against Texas.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm hoping it's it's different this year, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: at well, it's going to be at noon, and it's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be on Sunday, as you said, So
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to stay away from that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it could still be at three thirty. Fox
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  Speaker 1: does have noon and three thirty slots available on that
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  Speaker 1: first Saturday of the season. We will probably probably find
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  Speaker 1: out which one of those time slots that game will
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  Speaker 1: be in a little later on today. Jny Gerderman and
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  Speaker 1: I are planning to do a show potentially a live
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  Speaker 1: episode of Buckeye Weekly, depending on when this all comes
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  Speaker 1: out on the Probably just keep an eye out. That
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  Speaker 1: might be like three three point thirty something like that
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, but your mileage may vary, things may change,
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  Speaker 1: plans may change. We'll see if how whether that comes together,
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  Speaker 1: but just want to give you a heads up that's
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  Speaker 1: a possibility that we may be talking about that. One
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  Speaker 1: thing we're definitely gonna be talking about for pretty much
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  Speaker 1: the whole month of June is recruiting. There's a ton
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  Speaker 1: of stuff going on right now. There's next This weekend
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  Speaker 1: is the first official visit weekend. That's gonna be tomorrow show.
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  Speaker 1: We got a whole mess of other stuff to talk
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  Speaker 1: about tomorrow with the official visits. But a couple big
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  Speaker 1: storylines we're following right now at bucke Huddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: The first is Sincere Johnson, linebacker out of the Cleveland area, Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: He has a decision coming, so let everyone know where
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  Speaker 1: that is, who's involved in potentially winning his commitment, and
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  Speaker 1: where things potentially stand for the Buckeyes right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Cleveland Glenville just has a special place in my
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  Speaker 2: heart dating back to the Tedgen junior recruitments Jamario O'Neil,
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  Speaker 2: Dante Whitner, those guys, and then the pipeline kind of
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say ran dry, but the talent
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  Speaker 2: pool there just hasn't really been the same as we
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  Speaker 2: saw in the early two thousands. So since here Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: some outlets have him as the top player in the
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  Speaker 2: state linebacker. Right now, it's down to Ohio State, Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: and Penn State. He's already taken the official visit to
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  Speaker 2: Penn State. He's going to take an official visit to
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  Speaker 2: Tuscaloosa this weekend, and then I want to say two
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  Speaker 2: weeks he's visiting Ohio State for that official and then
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  Speaker 2: I believe it's the nineteenth he's announcing. He's announcing his decision.
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  Speaker 2: So I think there's two sides to this. Like you
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  Speaker 2: look at Glennville Kidd and you just automatically think Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: even though we haven't seen the influx of talent from
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  Speaker 2: there like we used to. But then you see last cycle,
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  Speaker 2: Justin Hill, the top player in the state linebacker from Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 2: signed with Alabama, and I think that probably left a
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  Speaker 2: bad taste in some fans mouths because Justin Hill might
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  Speaker 2: have been the best defensive player in the country last
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  Speaker 2: year and if his ranking didn't kind of say that.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's important to remember these are two
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  Speaker 2: very different kind of guys. So Justin Hill needed proof
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  Speaker 2: that Ohio State was going to run that freakish edge
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  Speaker 2: rusher type of thing, kind of like what we're maybe
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  Speaker 2: hoping CJ. Hicks becomes, and it just really never happened.
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  Speaker 2: So he went to Alabama and I can't really fault
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  Speaker 2: him for that, but since here Johnson, I think it
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  Speaker 2: would be a major upset right now if if Alabama
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  Speaker 2: pulled that one off. It's Alabama and it's not Nick
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  Speaker 2: Saban's Alabama, but there's still you know, you just you
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  Speaker 2: see that, you see the crimson, and you kind of wonder.
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  Speaker 2: But I think Ohio State's in a good spot. James
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  Speaker 2: Loerniis has proven himself to be, you know, one of
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  Speaker 2: the best up and coming recruiters in the country. So
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  Speaker 2: at this point, I think it would be a pretty
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  Speaker 2: big surprise if he's not committed to Ohio State here
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  Speaker 2: in mid.
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  Speaker 1: June, all right, So from one one recruitment where Alabama
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  Speaker 1: is the potential elephant in the room to one where
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  Speaker 1: a commitment, ready for this, ready for this, just ducked
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  Speaker 1: out of his commitment and is headed back onto the
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  Speaker 1: open market. That is Richard Wesley. He is the five star,
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  Speaker 1: five star Borderline five star defensive lineman who committed recently
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  Speaker 1: in a video with Dan Lanning where they took off
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  Speaker 1: their shirts and jumped into the pool. Well, you can
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  Speaker 1: run the video back and make it look like you're
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  Speaker 1: jumping out of the pool. He decommitted shortly after that,
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  Speaker 1: after that video got released. He's back on the market
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  Speaker 1: and now he's got several visits on this down the calendar,
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  Speaker 1: including a visit to Columbus.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a visit to Columbus on the calendar.
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  Speaker 2: But I am skeptical of that, of that happening. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, like you hear Burnham and Mark and Kevin
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  Speaker 2: talk a lot about these kids that seem like seem
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  Speaker 2: like Ohio state types or and seem like they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be, you know, a tremendous culture fit and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that. I've never met the kid or talked to
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  Speaker 2: the kid, but just the splash video that we saw
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  Speaker 2: a few weeks a few weeks back and just a
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  Speaker 2: quick turnaround time for a de commitment. It just seems
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  Speaker 2: like that's going to be one of those wild recruitments.
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  Speaker 2: Nil is always a factor, I mean, defensive line recruiting.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say it's a disaster right now,
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  Speaker 2: but you and I have talked about it a couple
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago. It's just maybe the biggest question in the
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  Speaker 2: biggest concern right now. I'm an Ohio State fan, and
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  Speaker 2: I would encourage other Ohio State fans not to have
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  Speaker 2: Wesley anywhere kind of on the top of that list
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  Speaker 2: as far as defensive line targets go. I miss the
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  Speaker 2: days like I remember Clemson had a kid who just
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  Speaker 2: was out in the woods chopping a tree down and
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  Speaker 2: he just said, oh, hi, I'm committing to Clemson. I
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  Speaker 2: kind of miss like simple, simple videos like that compared
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  Speaker 2: to these pool videos and stuff we're getting nowadays.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my favorite is still the guy who pulled out
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  Speaker 1: the bulldog, the original time someone pulled a bulldog out
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  Speaker 1: of their jacket to commit to Georgia. That was probably
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  Speaker 1: pushing twenty years ago as well. Yeah, there's there's so
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  Speaker 1: many great ways to do it. We'll see where Richard
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  Speaker 1: Wesley ends up. Going One more spot I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk about, and this is kind of a position wide thing,
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  Speaker 1: safety recruiting. I mean, this is an area where the
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes have feel like they're in decent shape with some
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  Speaker 1: very very highly touted players. But it sounds like there
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  Speaker 1: could be potentially some changes there in terms of which
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  Speaker 1: names are going to be potentially closer to committing or
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  Speaker 1: higher on the board, and which ones may be should
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  Speaker 1: shuffling away from Ohios data.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so if defensive line is a concern right now,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, safety recruiting is anything. But they've got they
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  Speaker 2: went and plucked a kid out from Baton Rouge, Blaine Bradford,
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  Speaker 2: a five star kid that everybody thought was going to LSU.
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  Speaker 2: Still maybe one of the most surprising commitments that I
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  Speaker 2: can remember since following this stuff closely. They've got Simeon
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  Speaker 2: Caldwell committed. I believe he's the cousin of Tim Walton.
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  Speaker 2: There's some type of a relationship there. And kind of
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  Speaker 2: the other names that we've talked about. Braylon Womack is
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  Speaker 2: a kid from Mississippi. I mean, it seems like Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State leads for that one. He's not announcing until I
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  Speaker 2: believe August and he's getting ready to start his officials.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's in Florida this weekend. Auburn's in the
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  Speaker 2: running there, so I think right now it's just one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent focus on Braylon Womack. One of the names
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  Speaker 2: that had been on the visitor list this weekend, Donovan Webb,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a safety nickel type of player from from
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  Speaker 2: down in Texas. I know Burm had an update on
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  Speaker 2: him today, but it doesn't seem like that one's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: So it just seems like it's total focus on Braylen Walmack.
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  Speaker 2: And if you can sign two five star kids, one
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  Speaker 2: from Louisiana and one from Mississippi, I mean, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: something I don't think we've ever seen anything like that before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be maybe one of the one of,
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  Speaker 1: if not the greatest Ohio state safety classes in history.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's it's certainly all possible. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: that is going to start to take shape over the
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  Speaker 1: course of the next month as we get into not
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  Speaker 1: only camp season but also official visit season. You're thinking,
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  Speaker 1: it's June, what would they possibly have to talk about
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  Speaker 1: at buckeyeuddle dot Com. Oh Man We're gonna have so
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  Speaker 1: much to talk about, so many visits, so many camps,
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of that's all sorts of that fun recruiting stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you love it, You hate to love it,
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  Speaker 1: but you love it. Nonetheless, it is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a really, really interesting summer as the Buckey's class of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six take shape, and then of course the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five football team gets ready to take the
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  Speaker 1: field as well. That's going to be a whole, separate,
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  Speaker 1: very interesting story. We're gonna be following it all for
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  Speaker 1: you at buckeyehuddle dot com. We hope to see you there.
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.