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3 More Buckeyes Entering The Transfer Portal · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Thursday, January eighth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: work up an appetite today. All right, so we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be talking about three more Ohio State Buckeyes who entered
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  Speaker 1: the transfer portal on Wednesday. No enormous names here, but
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  Speaker 1: three players certainly of some note that we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. Welcoming in Tony Gerderman at bucke Huddle dot com. Tony,
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  Speaker 1: We're going to start in the trenches. We know that's
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  Speaker 1: where football starts, so we are going to start right
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  Speaker 1: up front on the offensive line. Javon McFadden played just
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  Speaker 1: one season at Ohio State fifteen snaps against Grambling that
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  Speaker 1: was it and his true freshman season, and has already
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  Speaker 1: entered the transfer portal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one is not a huge surprise, just because
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  Speaker 2: if you got to pick some guys out of each
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  Speaker 2: class that are gonna be the first to leave. And
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  Speaker 2: McFadden came in kind of undersized, as you said, played
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  Speaker 2: in one game. Was he saw other players playing ahead
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  Speaker 2: of him, including Jake Cook who was the same class,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it just never really there's wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: lot of opportunity for him. But also you could make
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  Speaker 2: your own opportunity, and that just didn't happen. And sometimes
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  Speaker 2: freshman year you find a place and it's just not
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  Speaker 2: what you thought it was, or it looks like you're
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  Speaker 2: further away from playing then than you wanted to be,
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  Speaker 2: or it's the transfer portal, and boy, I could be
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  Speaker 2: making more somewhere else, doing just about the same, but
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  Speaker 2: maybe a little bit more as well, Like I could
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  Speaker 2: also I could be playing more and also making more.
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  Speaker 2: That's everybody's idea when they go to the portal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is this is certainly something where you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not expecting him to drop down to Division two
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that. But if you go down to
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  Speaker 1: a lower level power school and you have a you know,
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  Speaker 1: an easier, cleaner path to the two deep or maybe
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  Speaker 1: even to a starting job that probably comes with a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more of an opportunity in terms of nil
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  Speaker 1: in addition to being more of an opportunity in terms
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  Speaker 1: of playing time. And he was someone you never expect
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  Speaker 1: a true freshman offensive lineman to be in the too deep.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it can happen from time to time, but
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  Speaker 1: it's certainly not the expectation, and he really was not
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  Speaker 1: anywhere close to the too deep during his true freshman season.
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  Speaker 1: But he's probably in a much better position than we
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  Speaker 1: are to know exactly how close he would be going
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  Speaker 1: into this second season. And the fact that there's no
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  Speaker 1: longer a post spring portal you know in past years,
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  Speaker 1: maybe this is one where you stick it out. You see, okay,
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  Speaker 1: once you go through winter workouts, once you go through springball,
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  Speaker 1: where do things stand then? Now you got to make
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  Speaker 1: a decision now, And if you don't do it now,
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  Speaker 1: you got to sort of hold your piece for twelve months.
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  Speaker 1: So I think you're seeing more guys jump into the
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  Speaker 1: portal now than you would have probably in previous years.
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  Speaker 1: Another guy who maybe fits into that sort of group
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  Speaker 1: is Maxwell Roy, defensive lineman, true freshman. He is one
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  Speaker 1: where you know, he came in, was a little banged up.
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  Speaker 1: We knew he was not going to play a lot
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  Speaker 1: last year, and then was sort of banged up again
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  Speaker 1: last last fall, missed a ton of time, and really
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  Speaker 1: it feels like he never even got a chance to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, show what he could do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, never really got out of the starting gate, and
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  Speaker 2: certainly came from a good school in Saint Joseph's in Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 2: where other famous Ohio State alums have come from. But
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  Speaker 2: four star recruit number three hundred and fifty seven player
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  Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty five class, number thirty six defensive
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  Speaker 2: lineman as the recruiting profile of somebody that could certainly
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  Speaker 2: become something but just could never get started at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: I came in with the the what the wrestling injury,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, and then just dealt with various other things.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many other things are if it
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  Speaker 2: was just the major one, because there was never much
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  Speaker 2: talk about him, and even talking with Larry Johnson. I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to think of what I had to talk to
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  Speaker 2: Larry Johnson about a year ago, and I know we
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  Speaker 2: talked about Maxwell Roy, but I don't remember much of
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  Speaker 2: what we talked about, because it was more just like
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  Speaker 2: it's to wait and see, we'll see, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: it is for so many defensive linemen talking to him
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  Speaker 2: about guys in the past and he's like, well, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's a developmental position, as we know,
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  Speaker 2: unless you are a complete freak. And it's some of
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  Speaker 2: these guys. You can look at the numbers that are
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  Speaker 2: brought in every year to see how many pan out,
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  Speaker 2: and that's you just you don't know. But what you
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  Speaker 2: do know is six foot four, six foot three, three
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen pounds or whatever. I was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: that profile sticks and we'll see if we can do
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  Speaker 2: something with it. But I don't know. Maybe a fresh
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  Speaker 2: start is exactly what he needs in someplace maybe closer
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  Speaker 2: to home or whatever, but somewhere where there's an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to play. And I don't know that that opportunity wasn't
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  Speaker 2: at Ohio State. It's this is there. This is the
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  Speaker 2: first defensive tackle to leave in the portal for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it'll be the last, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're losing Taiwan alone, probably losing Kaden McDonald. So again,
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  Speaker 2: you're getting closer to playing time, but just I can
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  Speaker 2: see why a year of not playing and you're like, boy,
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  Speaker 2: this is not what I thought it would be, right.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's sort of the same conversation as
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  Speaker 1: Javon mcmihn. You don't expect a guy who's an interior
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  Speaker 1: defensive lineman to play in year one, but you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what his expectations were coming in. It's very easy
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  Speaker 1: for us to sit and say, well, this is the norm,
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  Speaker 1: but these are all these guys are you know, he
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  Speaker 1: may not have been the single best player on the
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  Speaker 1: Saint Joseph's prep team, because man, they were some talented
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  Speaker 1: players on that Saint Joseph team over the years. That's
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  Speaker 1: the school that produced Kyle McCord, Barvin Harrison junior, Isaiah West.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's some big time bawlers that have
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  Speaker 1: come off of that team. Jeremiah Trotter junior. We went
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  Speaker 1: down to Clemson. He came off that team, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's probably been one of the best players on
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  Speaker 1: every team he's ever been on, and that can be
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  Speaker 1: a tough adjustment to then go to your just watching
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  Speaker 1: and you're banged up and I'm sure that's frustrating, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, a fresh a fresh start maybe sort of
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  Speaker 1: appealing there. The third guy who we need to talk
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  Speaker 1: about is Keenan Nelson. He's a safety. He transferred to
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State two years ago from South Carolina. Another guy
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  Speaker 1: who didn't record a stat on defense in two seasons
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  Speaker 1: with the Buckeyes. And you know, they've sort of shuffled
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  Speaker 1: through some guys and there was a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a safety position battle this spring and wasn't gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a Lake Hartford, wasn't gonna be Jadalen Dylan McClain, and
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  Speaker 1: he was just it never felt like he was particularly
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  Speaker 1: close to breaking into that rotation through two seasons at
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State. Lost his black stripe this fall, but didn't
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  Speaker 1: get much closer to the field on any kind of
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  Speaker 1: regular basis than that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and surprisingly another Saint Joseph's prep alum, and he
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  Speaker 2: was part of the class of twenty twenty two. He
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  Speaker 2: was number number seventeen safety in that class. You know,
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  Speaker 2: started his career at South Carolina, started a handful of
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  Speaker 2: games as a red shirt freshman at Nickel and thought
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  Speaker 2: that when he was coming in he could be the
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  Speaker 2: you know, be somebody who could play safety or nickel
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  Speaker 2: and have some of that versatility, not unlike Jahad Carter
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  Speaker 2: from a year's past, who also eventually transferred out for
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  Speaker 2: his last go But yeah, when when you look at
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  Speaker 2: the I'm just looking past at past articles I've written
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  Speaker 2: that included Keenan Nelson as you know, one of the tags,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just about the position as a whole. It's
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  Speaker 2: like a spring recap, spring preview, and it's like those
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  Speaker 2: are the only time he ever would get mentioned because
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  Speaker 2: he just he was never close to the field and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even sure how how often he was out
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  Speaker 2: there on special teams. But surprisingly he you know, he
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  Speaker 2: stuck it out for two years at Ohio State and
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  Speaker 2: gave it as all, but it wasn't enough for him
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  Speaker 2: to see the field. So hopefully now this last go round,
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  Speaker 2: he'll go find somewhere where you can play some football
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  Speaker 2: and have some fun in his final season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you walk out after two seasons with a pair
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  Speaker 1: of gold pants, a national championship ring. That's you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's not so bad in terms of two years
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  Speaker 1: in Columbus and then yeah, you get a chance to
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  Speaker 1: go you know, somewhere else and with a clearer path
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  Speaker 1: to the field. So yeah, we'll see where those guys
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  Speaker 1: end up. We're gonna end up having to do a
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  Speaker 1: show in the next couple of days where with where
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  Speaker 1: some of these guys who have hit hit the portal
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  Speaker 1: from Ohio State where they have ended up. Because some
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  Speaker 1: of these guys are starting to find their new homes.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do an update on that for you at some
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  Speaker 1: point in the next couple of days, and we'll have
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  Speaker 1: to do another sort of a portal update on where
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State the biggest needs for Ohio State in the
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  Speaker 1: portal are. Maybe that'll be tomorrow's show. We got to
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  Speaker 1: We have so many shows coming for you this week.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like we are in mid season form right now.
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  Speaker 1: Between the Buckeyes going in the portal, the Buckeyes coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the portal, Ohio State landed a new wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver in the portal. You want to find that, you
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  Speaker 1: can find that on the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed. Tony
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  Speaker 1: and I did a show on that got the guys
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  Speaker 1: going in the portal, got a couple of guys making
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  Speaker 1: NFL draft decisions. That's also in the Buckeye Weekly podcast speed,
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  Speaker 1: tons of coverage, tons of news coming for you all
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  Speaker 1: week long at bucke huddle dot com and YouTube dot
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  Speaker 1: com slash Buckeye Huddle. That'll do it for today. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow