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Hartline vs. Walton: Ohio State's Elite Recruiters Going Head-To-Head In Practice · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, March twenty third. I'm your host,
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  Tom or the Akron game in one hundred and sixty two days, the
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  game against Michigan in two hundred and fifty two days. We're going to get
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  to football in just a minute. But boy, oh boy, is there
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  are a lot of news happening around Ohio State athletics. We're going to get
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  you up to speed with as much of it as we can right now.
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  Let's start with the Ohio State women's hockey team. They beat clarkson Friday evening
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  four to one, three goals in the span of five minutes late in the
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  third period to break a one to one tie and end up with a four
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  to one win. They advance to the national championship game on Sunday. We
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  will see who they play. I would guess it'll be their arch rival from
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  the WCHA Wisconsin. Those two teams have found a way to meet up in
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  the postseason quite a bit over the last couple of years. That other semi
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  final game still happening a little later on on Friday night. All right,
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  that's women's hockey. Now let's talk Ben's basketball. Jake Diebler and his team
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  moving on to the nit second round. They're going to play Saturday at seven
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  pm at the Shot against Virginia Tech in the second round, which a game
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  on ESPN Plus or you can go and see it in person. Tickets at
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  Ohio State Buckeyes dot com. All right, that's men's basketball. Now let's
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  talk women's basketball. I told you there was a bunch of stuff going on
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  here. Women's basketball opened the NCAA Tournament Friday afternoon at the Shot with an
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  eighty to fifty seven win over Maine. Now get a remember they lost in
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  their first game in the Big Ten Tournament as the top seed there, so
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  that probably cost them a number one seed in the NCAA Tournament. So coming
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  as a number two against number fifteen, Maine started a little slowly. Maine
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  hit their first four to three pointers, hit them in the game for the
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  first quarter before the Buckeyes pulled away, really answered the bell in that first
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  round of that Big Dance. Here's a Higo State head coach Kevin McGoff with
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  his thoughts. Yeah, it was just good to play a game. I
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  feel like it's been forever since we've played a game, and you know,
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  we've been practicing against each other and our scout team, and so to have
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  another opponent was refreshing. And you know, like I said, I think
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  we looked much more like ourselves today than we did in that Maryland game.
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  So, you know, I think we handled the time in that law appropriately
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  where we watch film, we process it, and we kind of put it
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  behind us and moved on to this one. Now, if you've been watching
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  the men's tournament or the women's tournament, you've probably seen some high seeds get
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  upset. You've seen others just barely escape. So I would guess it was
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  probably rather refreshing for Ohio State. They just have a nice, comfortable first
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  round win, have a two versus fifteen game that kind of looked like a
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  two versus fifteen game. Good look. Jacey Shelton for the Buckeye scored a
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  team high nineteen points. She was a big part of a stifling Buckeye press
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  that forced twenty two main turnovers. Here's Jac's thoughts on the game. Yeah,
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  it's big for us. I think we've done a good job all season
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  in the big time regular season, especially just focusing on the game in front
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  of us. In the next game, and that's what we're going to continue
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  to do. So we'll stay and watch this game and same thing, be
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  prepared and just be focused on our next matchup. Well, you heard her
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  talking about scouting out that next game. That next game ended up being Duke.
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  They beat Richmond in the first round. There seventh seed to Duke beating
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  ten seed Richmond. So that means Buckeye forward Celeste Taylor we'll get a chance
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  to face her former team on Sunday when the Buckeyes host Duke in that second
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  round of the NCAA tournament. We are still waiting on a tip off time
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  as of right now, but check your check your social media. It'll be
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  out there as soon as they have one. Now onto football, let's talk
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  a little bit. We're gonna let you hear from Ohio state wide receivers coach
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  Brian Heartline. Brian Hartline talked to us a little earlier in the week about
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  a whole bunch of stuff. I have seen. I have seen the numbers,
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  I have seen your interest on social media. We're going to start with
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  a question that I'm sure everyone wants to hear all about. Jeremiah Smith,
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  Drew freshman phenom talked on yesterday' show about the fact that he had broken an
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  Ohio state record for losing his black stripe faster than any player in program history.
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  So, all right, Brian Hartline, what do you like about Jeremiah
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  Smith. I love the way he lives. I love the way he approaches
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  things. I love the way the questions he asks. I love the way
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  he makes mistakes and then correct mistakes, very veteran, like, I mean,
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  there's so much ball he has to learn. Like he literally does things
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  that are good. I'm like, do you know what that workd he goes
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  coach, I have no freaking idea, So like, I'm trying to teach
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  him all of that why it works, so then you know the consistency at
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  which it works just goes through the roof. And so but I'm very you
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  know, excited and proud of the conversations we're currently having, and I'm exciting
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  for them to keep going. If you ask Ohio State fans which position groups
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  are recruiting the best right now, you're probably gonna hear them talk about the
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  wide receivers and Brian Hartline and the cornerbacks and Tim Walton. So guess what
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  those two position groups go up against each other every single day in practice.
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  And when you have really really talented players playing at a very very high level,
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  well sometimes you can get a little chippy. Sometimes you can get a
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  little chirpy back and forth between those two guys, those two groups. What
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  does Brian Hartline think about that? Oh, it's great. It's competition's even
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  even more awesome, like the chippiness, the chirping, the fun. You
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  know, it's even heightened because, like you said, I mean at one
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  point, you know, you know, it wasn't that way. So it's
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  a lot of fun. They win, we win. It's back and forth.
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  It's a heavyweight, you know, fight daily and and it's a lot
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  of fun. And it's pretty cool because when guys do come visit as recruits,
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  they see it and that's one of the first things they say is the
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  chippiness. The competitiveness is really different. So we're having a lot of fun
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  with it. It's been a fun first four days. Ohio State has lost
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  plenty of players to the transfer portal over the last few years. They've gained
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  a few through the portal as well. And we're gonna talk about someone who
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  they both lost and gained through the transfer portal, that is Bryson Rogers.
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  He left through the transfer portal in December and then decided in January, you
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  know what, I'm gonna come back. We're gonna come back and take another
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  season as an Ohio State Buckeye. So what did it mean to Brian Hartline
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  to get Bryson Rodgers back after it looked like he might be gone. Yeah,
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  I mean, I think college football is different and ilogies and understandings and
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  have changed, and I think that, you know, the portal is a
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  variable, and I would say that not him in particular, but I wouldn't
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  say everyone doesn't really know how to handle it properly. You see it currently.
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  I mean, it's just it's a variable that's new and how to handle
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  it. There's not a transcript on how to handle that variable. So you
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  just guys just trying to do what they think is right. That's all they're
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  really trying to do. And I'm not saying they're right or wrong. But
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  he was trying to do the same. And you know, I think at
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  the end of the day he realized man made the wrong decision, and we
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  connected on it. We talked about it and you know, it was a
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  great opportunity to to write or wrong. And obviously we're very glad he's here.
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  I've always believed in him. We believe in him, and he believes
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  in himself and that's part of the just trying to understand what's my path right.
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  So, uh, but yeah, it's been great. Stuff's been made,
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  he's growing, but he's nowhere near where he knows he's bulletbean. Brian
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  Hartline's role on this year's Ohio State team is a little different than the one
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  he held last year. Last year he was the offensive coordinator, even though
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  he wasn't calling plays. Now Ohios did is brought in Chip Kelly to call
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  plays and be the offensive coordinator. So, you know, anytime you see
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  your job change, you see a new guy come in and you could have
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  some bad blood there. So what has it been like for Brian Hartline to
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  work alongside Chip Kelly so far? Oh? I love working with Chip chip
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  Is. I love talking ball, I love the viewpoints, I love I
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  love the veteran that he has, you know, uh, and I love
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  yeah, like I all love all of it. I think that you know
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  early on the biggest impact, you know, just you know, feeling perspective.
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  I think in the run game has been awesome, you know, and
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  then you know, off of the run game, some of the actions or
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  or relief throws or all that. I love where it's at. I love
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  working with them, and he's a great person to be around. And I
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  mentioned earlier exactly how high the level of recruiting has been in both the corner
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  room and the wide receiver room. Tim Walton and Brian Hartline operating at the
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  absolute top of the sport right now as a very good thing for Ohio State
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  fans, and it's a good thing for the players on the field as well.
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  Iron sharpens iron. You hear that all the time this time of year,
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  and it certainly seems like both sides of the iron are getting sharpened as
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  the wide receivers and corners go up against each other. So what is it
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  like for Brian Hartline working both with and sort of against Tim Walton. Yeah,
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  we obviously feel off each other, right, I mean, it really
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  is a team sport, and we can't do without them, and they can't
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  do it without us, and we can't do it without the quarterback. We
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  can't do without the old line. So the more that can seep into other
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  positions, and we work as a team and operate as a team and identify
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  we're a team. The healthier we are and when we are we think that
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  you know already, but I would say me and Tim ever really you know
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  met on that talked about it. Like we talk about technique, we talk
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  about recruiting. We do all that together and not on a crazy level,
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  but definitely, like you know, more than I have in the past.
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  So I love working with og. I mean, he's he's awesome, He's
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  got a great perspective, and we definitely feed off each other in practice and
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  then maybe while building our rooms we've done the same. Well, that'll do
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  it for today. We've got plenty more coming up this weekend. Men's basketball
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  on Saturday night, women's basketball on Sunday, women's hockey on Sunday. Lots
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  of big time games, postseason games happening this weekend in Columbus and elsewhere.
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  We'll be covering it all at bucke huddle dot com. Lots of stuff to
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  talk about and oees the football stuff too. Another big week of practice coming
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  up next week and you'll have the Student Scrimmage or the Student Appreciation Day on
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  Saturday next week. We will be there for that, plus interviews during the
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  guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.