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Why One Buckeye Decided Against Entering The Transfer Portal · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buck guys tomorrow morning for Tuesday, December nineteenth. I'm your host,
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  tom Or the Cotton Bowl game against Missouri in just ten days, the
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  game against Pishing in three hundred and forty seven days. Early signing day is
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  tomorrow. A little bit of give a few piece of news on that front.
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  Defensive lineman Carlin Jones, I'm when I talk to Mark Givler about on
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  a show just a couple of days ago. He committed to USC on Monday,
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  So you can go ahead and scratch him off of your of your board
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  if you are scoring at home. Mark actually dropped a skull session column for
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  by Jeff Ruby Steakhouse, you can find updates on seven other top recruiting targets
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  and current commits. Lots of rumors swirling. Mark tries to separate fact from
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  fiction on you guys who might be headed to Ohio State, guys who might
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  not be ahead of to Ohio State, Guys who might be flipping lots of
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  stuff. To keep your eyes on very very busy week in the recruiting world.
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  Keep track of everything at Buckeye Huddle dot Com. One other piece of
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  actually interesting news for Ohio State fans on the recruiting front, former Ohio State
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  commit and now former Georgia commit five star quarterback Dylan Roola. He flipped his
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  commitment on Monday from Georgia to Nebraska. So some interesting interesting to see Nebraska
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  getting the better of Georgia on the recruiting trail. What a wild time to
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  be alive. When the final piece of really interesting news for the Buckeyes potentially
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  former Ohio State linebacker target Packett Curtis. He just went in the portal on
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  Monday evening as well. He just signed with USC a year ago. That's
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  one they might want to keep an eye on for the Buckeyes as well.
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  Recruiting season, transfer season, Oh yeah, there's a bowl game coming up
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  in ten days. Lots of stuff going on right now. So today we're
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  going to be talking a little bit about the transfer portal, but a little
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  bit about some other stuff you're going to be hearing from Ohio State offensive lineman
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  Josh Fryer. I'm got a chance to talk to Friar last week, and
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  this is one of these things that I've had on my list that I wanted
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  to get a show done because he had a lot of interesting things to say,
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  and there's just been a lot of news going on. So we are
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  finally now getting to it. We're going to start with joh Fire and his
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  thoughts on the transfer portal. You get to hear lots of people talking about
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  who's going into the transfer portal, who's leaving the transfer portal. You don't
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  get to hear players talk about it in any kind of real depth all that
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  often. So I thought this was kind of interesting. This is actually gonna
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  be two separate answers kind of butted together. But I think you know,
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  you'll you'll figure it out. You're not going to need me to explain it
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  to you in the middle. Yeah, it's kind of it's crazy now,
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  I think the thing what Dion said, it's like free agency. It's like
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  who can get in the transfer portal and get the most nil and go somewhere
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  that you're going to win. So I don't I don't like it. So
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  yeah, that's just my opinion. I mean, if you look at what
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  I was, I started my fourth year. This is my fourth year,
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  and it took me time to start, and then when people just want to
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  go somewhere else and start right away. It's you have to earn it.
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  You can't. You can't just be given it. When people give it.
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  It's just it's not as valuable to them as I think of it. I
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  mean I was behind great players too, so like I learned from them,
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  and then I progressed through it and then started and then during the season I
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  got a little bit better. And then now for the Cotton Bowl and then
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  the second season starting, Oh feel good. So was there a point during
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  Josh Bryer's career at Ohio State where he thought seriously about transfer? Yeah,
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  there was probably when I would say probably when I tore my a cl and
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  then coach try was coming in. But I think I grew during that time
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  when I tore my a cl and was I think I became a better person
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  out of that just stepping away from football. In that aspect when he was
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  sort of wondering about when he might transfer, whether he might transfer, there
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  was a former Ohio State offensive lineman who played before the transfer portal era who
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  gave him some advice on the portal. And again this is two answers back
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  to back. The guy that pops in my head was Josh Myers when he
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  told me, don't don't leave here. Even if you don't play, you'll
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  get great connections through Ohio State that'll boost whatever you want to do in your
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  life. When we had that conversation was it was I think it was COVID
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  when we had that conversation, because COVID was a difficult time as well,
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  because like my freshman year, I didn't know what to expect coming here,
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  such a jump. But then he told me to stick it out. And
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  I think I've progressed through these years, just learning about myself and more about
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  Ohio State in general, to make me appreciate everything that's gone on in my
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  time here. Well, you already know the story on what happened after Josh
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  Myers gave Josh Bryer that advice. Josh Brier did decide he's to stick it
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  out, ended up winning the starting right tackle job this year. How did
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  he feel this season went for him? I felt like I'd grown. I
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  think I regressed just a little bit. TAMT. North wasn't a very good
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  game for me. It was hard with the silent count. That's one thing
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  I think I got to improve on is the silent count as I go forward
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  and playing here. But other than that, like you're gonna have people say
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  I have sacks and all that, Yeah, that's first year. I think
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  everybody's gotten a sack or two, even like I don't know great like Joe
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  Thomas or some guy like that. But it just makes me learn from it
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  and grow as well when that happens and how not to do it. So
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  I probably don't need to explain to anyone who is an Ohio State fan that
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  there is a little bit of a mixed feeling. Let's say about the twenty
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  twenty three Ohio State season. Yeah, they won their first eleven games,
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  and we're writing College Football Playoff Contention yet again, and then they lost a
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  mission and then they're out of College Football play of Contention, another play in
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  the Cotton Bowl, and watching the College Football Playoff on TV. So it's
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  kind of a mixed bag for the team. And when you're a player on
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  that team, how do you evaluate that season eleven wins on one hand and
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  a lost to Michigan on the other. I think all the games we've grown,
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  and I think our loss is the biggest one that we've grown with it's
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  difficult because people think in eleven to one season's pretty good, but not here,
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  it's not. You want to go undefeated and win a national championship.
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  So it's just taking it day by day, honestly for our group as an
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  offensive line, looking at what we did wrong and what we could do to
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  make ourselves better and launch us into the Cotton Bowl and the twenty twenty four
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  season. And you heard him talk about some issues he had with the silent
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  count earlier in the show and now, just in case you don't know,
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  silent count is when they are on offense in a hostile atmosphere and it's too
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  loud, you're not missed going to be able to hear the quarterback signals.
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  You just got to look and they got to watch for the center to snap
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  the ball, and then you turn your head back and you're looking for the
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  defender. So when your tackle like Friar, that is a big change from
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  normally when you can just look ahead, look at the defender and just listen
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  for the quarterback. So he explained in just a little bit more why that's
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  such a big issue for a tackle when we're in silent cadence. It's tough
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  doing it because you have to look at the ball and then you don't know
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  where the defender's at. So then once the ball snapped, you got to
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  roll back and then look at the defender. So I think working on silent
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  cadence is the biggest thing for me, and just knowing more about like when
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  we were going in practice, I was always looking at GT or Jack past
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  settings, but I think looking more straight ahead to see and priffen the ball
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  to go back and then see in the defense. End. I hope you
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  guys enjoyed that one. I thought he was really interesting interview and not someone
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  we've gotten to talk to a whole bunch this season. You've probably seen a
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  lot of him this year, not necessarily heard a lot from him, so
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  I wanted to let you do that. We've got some more interviews in the
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  can. We'll try and get to some of those before we get down to
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  the Cotton Bowl. Got a few more shows to do before we head down
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  to Dallas, so we'll try and get to those for you. But boy,
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  oh boy, there's a lot to talk about this week. Yeah,
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  there's the Cotton Bowl. Yeah, there's early signing Day on Wednesday. Yeah,
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  there's a bunch of transfer portal, potential targets and news for the Buckeyes.
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