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Ohio State Football Recruiting: Is A 5-Star Ready To Commit? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckey's Tomorrow Morning for Wednesday, June third. I'm
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to the show and welcome to the team.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Tom, appreciate you for having me
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  Speaker 1: Now, you know, I'm not going to say no. I'm
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  Speaker 1: So if you're looking for something to celebrate, there could
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  Speaker 1: be some stuff to celebrate in the coming weeks or
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  Speaker 1: months for the Ohio State Buck guys on the recruiting trail.
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  Speaker 1: They just had three huge official visitors last weekend and
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  Speaker 1: it feels like things are trending in a positive direction
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  Speaker 1: with at least a couple of them. Let's start with
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  Speaker 1: David Gabriel George. He is the five star twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven running back out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is the
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  Speaker 1: top of the board guy, not just in the recruiting,
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  Speaker 1: the running back room, but maybe in the whole class
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  Speaker 1: for the Ohio State buck guys, very very very important
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  Speaker 1: official visit for them last weekend. What is the word
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  Speaker 1: on how that all went?
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic? Couldn't have been better, And I don't think anybody
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  Speaker 2: expected anything but that coming out of this. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's a relationship that Carlos Lachlan and Ryan Day have
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  Speaker 2: cultivated for years now, Carlos Lachlan taking his time to
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  Speaker 2: go up to Montreal to visit the family. Then we
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  Speaker 2: saw over the spring the entire staff went down to
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  Speaker 2: visit him at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And
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  Speaker 2: they have made it abundantly clear to him in the
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  Speaker 2: family that he is, you know, top of the board priority,
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  Speaker 2: made it abundantly clear to the parents that he did
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  Speaker 2: in good hands, and they believe that they came into
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  Speaker 2: town with the aunt and the uncle as well as
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  Speaker 2: his two little cousins. One little cousin, Jordan, stayed for
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday's camp and was practicing and he's a priority target
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  Speaker 2: now too, so as far as the family goes and
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  Speaker 2: the family feel, I mean everything went perfect, couldn't have
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  Speaker 2: been better, And coming out of this it feels, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people felt going in like
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  Speaker 2: the Buckeyes were if you know, all things, if this
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  Speaker 2: was a five years ago Typer Crew meant and there
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  Speaker 2: was nothing else involved. This is all buck Eyes, and
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody feels that way coming out of it.
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  Speaker 1: So there is I think of the thumbnail for this
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube is going to be something like ready to
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  Speaker 1: commit question mark and the answer that might be a
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  Speaker 1: complicated question because he's not announcing his commitment for a
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  Speaker 1: little while. What do we know about the timing of
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  Speaker 1: all of this right now?
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  Speaker 2: So July twenty second is the date that he's going
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  Speaker 2: to make it official. But as we know, he's got
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  Speaker 2: three other official visits scheduled to Tennessee, Georgia, and Old Miss.
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  Speaker 2: Now the Georgia, George's got common spell the number one
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  Speaker 2: back in the class shares that spot kind of with DGG,
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  Speaker 2: and that's certainly off the table. I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: why they're taking that visit, respect or something, just a
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  Speaker 2: nice kid. He had it scheduled. I think he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to cancel it. Old Miss. That one is one
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  Speaker 2: that's never really had a ton of momentum, and it
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  Speaker 2: also really makes little sense. This is all about Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State and Tennessee and that Tennessee visit coming up. So
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  Speaker 2: here we go. We're gonna have the first two big
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  Speaker 2: ones out of the way quickly, and uh that one
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  Speaker 2: will be uh, you know, kind of well, we'll see
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  Speaker 2: how it feels coming out of that. But this is
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  Speaker 2: all gonna come down to me to the Tennessee go
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  Speaker 2: with the Godfather offer, because as we know, Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: has really kind of set this up for two years now.
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  Speaker 2: They sacrificed last year's class with their eyes on DGG. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee last year was going after saving On Hyder the
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  Speaker 2: number one back against Michigan, and they lost, and they
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  Speaker 2: went ahead and just kind of grabbed a walk on
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  Speaker 2: running back in his stead with their eyes on DGG.
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  Speaker 2: So you got two powerhouse schools. They both have two
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  Speaker 2: classes invested into this one kid, and uh, somebody's gonna lose.
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  Speaker 1: Tom. Yeah, you want to You don't want to ever
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  Speaker 1: say a guy is must get but boy, when you
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  Speaker 1: frame it like that, it's like, well, I would strongly
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  Speaker 1: suggest you get him if you've sort of hung the
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  Speaker 1: last couple glasses kind of around him specifically. So all right,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's one of the three guys. We got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about number two, Marcus too. He is a twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven defensive lineman two hundred and seventy five pounds,
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  Speaker 1: so probably going to play inside, but I guess theoretically
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  Speaker 1: could be someone who they rush off the edge, depending
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  Speaker 1: that the profile is changing a little bit there in
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  Speaker 1: that Ohio State defense. Larry Johnson's got a heck of
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  Speaker 1: a defensive line class kind of cooking already, and this
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  Speaker 1: would be another really really big addition for him if
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  Speaker 1: they could get that, get that signed, sealed and delivered.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're really It's very clear they've decided we need
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  Speaker 2: to invest heavily on the defensive line this year. And
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't be happier. Man, these these this is the
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  Speaker 2: class I love right here, and it is looking great
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  Speaker 2: by the way, Georgia floating outside linebacker for fact or
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  Speaker 2: two out, which is just like WHOA, he really wants
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  Speaker 2: to come off the edge. I could tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, odds are this Dude's gonna eat a big
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  Speaker 2: Mac in one month, Mariauti, and he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: about two hundred ninety five pounds. He's just a massive,
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  Speaker 2: massive young man, but incredibly smooth to go with that
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  Speaker 2: massive size and powerful as well. This is a guy
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  Speaker 2: who's got you know, five official visits scheduled. He's going
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  Speaker 2: to make all his trips. The buck guys wanted to
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  Speaker 2: shut that down after you know this one. He came
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  Speaker 2: in announced in Ohio State as this number one school,
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  Speaker 2: his front runner, his first official and you know, the
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  Speaker 2: hope was maybe they could get get it to end
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  Speaker 2: right there, as he is a very impressionable young guy.
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  Speaker 2: In the spring, he went to every single one of
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  Speaker 2: his visits pretty much and came out saying, this is
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  Speaker 2: my new leader. But then he circled back when he
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  Speaker 2: thought about it, and Ohio State was his leader. Coming
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  Speaker 2: in Ohio State certainly his leader coming out. He's in
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  Speaker 2: Georgia right now. He's down at Georgia. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: the biggest thing for me on this one, Tom the parents.
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  Speaker 2: These parents feel like Buckeye parents. And everybody knows what
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  Speaker 2: I mean when I say that. They're they're those type
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  Speaker 2: of folks that are just like, oh, this feels a
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  Speaker 2: little different here. These folks are really mature, they know
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  Speaker 2: what they're doing, and they're they're just you know, really
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  Speaker 2: good solid people. They're from Alaska. He was raised in
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  Speaker 2: Alaska with them. Uh, so you know, a new one there.
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  Speaker 2: But to me, ultimately this one is uh, this one
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  Speaker 2: is a Buckeye prediction. Solidly, I believe he ends up
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  Speaker 2: in this class.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So it sounds like they have a decent
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  Speaker 1: chance of going too for the first two. The third
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  Speaker 1: name we got to talk about is Benny Easter. Now
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  Speaker 1: this is a little bit of a different dynamic because
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  Speaker 1: he is currently committed to Texas Tech twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver. And this is also potentially a somewhat consequential
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  Speaker 1: one because some other names are sort of coming off
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  Speaker 1: the board at wide Receiver right now, and you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be the one left standing without a chair
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  Speaker 1: when the music stops.
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  Speaker 2: Been a really confusing class here, as you know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: you got Cortes Hankton coming in in an abbreviated class
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  Speaker 2: take over Brian Hartline's board, and we know when a
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  Speaker 2: guy comes in, you know a lot of those guys
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  Speaker 2: aren't going to make his cut. They're going to go
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  Speaker 2: by the wayside. And then he's going to go out
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  Speaker 2: and offer his guys, and he seemed to wait quite
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  Speaker 2: a while to go out offering his guys. But when
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  Speaker 2: he did, you know, we saw a few little bit
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  Speaker 2: momentum building with a couple of him. A couple of
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  Speaker 2: them are off the board now already in Torrian Rawlins,
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  Speaker 2: he was just offered three weeks ago. He just committed
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  Speaker 2: to George over the weekend. Then we saw Trey Moore,
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  Speaker 2: who I really liked out of Flugerville, Texas, a bigger body,
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  Speaker 2: six two and a half, commit to Washington. That was
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  Speaker 2: just today. And we also heard that longtime Buckeye leen
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  Speaker 2: Eric McFarland not going to be making it for his
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  Speaker 2: official this week, so he's officially off the board for
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  Speaker 2: the Buck guys. That's a real bummer. That's a guy
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  Speaker 2: that you know, we've been talking about him since he
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  Speaker 2: was a freshman in high school. He made seven visits
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  Speaker 2: to Ohio State. The next closest was two visits somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: So that was kind of devastating, Like everybody love that kid.
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  Speaker 2: But Benny Easter committed to Texas Tech early on, right
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  Speaker 2: before he got big time offers, so he's been there
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  Speaker 2: a while, and you could certainly make the argument, Look,
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  Speaker 2: this guy committed there because it was his biggest offer
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  Speaker 2: at the time. Maybe he didn't think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: offers were coming. And now he's getting some bigger offers
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  Speaker 2: and he's entertaining old miss in Ohio State. And if
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  Speaker 2: somebody were to flip him, I think Ohio State could.
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  Speaker 2: But ultimately, when I look at guys that are Texas
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  Speaker 2: Tech commits, there is this part of me that thinks, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: if your priority, if you're going to commit to Texas
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  Speaker 2: Tech over Texas over Ohio State, the people running your
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  Speaker 2: camp right, their priority is to maximize your college earnings.
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  Speaker 2: And when he comes out of this visit and the
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  Speaker 2: agent goes back to Texas Tech, what do they do?
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  Speaker 2: I think we know what they do, and I think
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  Speaker 2: ultimately that's how this one ends.
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  Speaker 1: There is always money in the banana stand as a
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  Speaker 1: wise man wants it. So yeah, there you go. So
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  Speaker 1: if if I have a day goes two for three,
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  Speaker 1: there that's probably you know, to six sixty seven batting average.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get you in the Hall of Fame. That'll get
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  Speaker 1: you in the recruiting Hall of Fame. That'll get you,
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  Speaker 1: that'll get you in just about any hall of fame
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  Speaker 1: you want to. So there you go. So an update
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  Speaker 1: on three official visitors from last weekend. There's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot more recruiting to talk this month. All
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