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Will Marvin Harrison, Jr. Play In The Cotton Bowl? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning. For Friday, December eighth, I'm your host
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Tom Moore. The cotton Ball game against Missouri in twenty one days, the
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game against Michigan in three hundred and fifty eight days. Joined live for the
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special live episode with Tony Ritiman at Buckehuddle dot com. We just got a
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chance to hear from Marvin Harrison Junior about the heistand trophy that the Litany Call
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award, his plans for the Cotton Bowl, his plans for the a twenty
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twenty four NFL Draft, the transfer of his former high school quarterback Kyle McCord,
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former Ohio State quarterback Kyle McCord. So many different places to start,
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I guess let's start. Let's start with the question everyone is asking. Okay,
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is Marvin Harrison going to be back for the Cotton Bowl? And is
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Marvin Harrison going to be back for the twenty twenty four college football season.
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Weed he doesn't know. He does know. He will be at the Cotton
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Ball. He's definitely going to the game. Whether or not he plays is
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a separate decision, but he did say same year, yes, yes,
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he is not decided whether or not. He is turning pro and he gave
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some very interesting reasons as to why he is undecided. Well, don't don't
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keep us in suspense. Basically, he wants to beat Michigan and he wants
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to win the Big Ten. And somebody asked about the financial side of things
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of coming back in the NIAL that can help. He said, finance,
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You know, financial won't be the decision. It's do I want to come
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back bad enough to beat Michigan win a Big Ten. And he didn't even
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say, like the National Championship is always a goal, but they haven't even
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made it, so he doesn't even think about that. He just is focused
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on beating Michigan winning the Big Ten. Those will be the two deciding factors.
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And he did say if I choose to go forward into the NFL,
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that's gonna be it's gonna be something he's gonna have to live with, like
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that's something he's going to take with him, because he did say he did
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agree that his career is incomplete without those two things, especially having his dad
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played Indianapolis for so long. The assumption when he signed with the Ohigh station,
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oh you just you played Indianapolis every year for the victim championship. He
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never got to do that. So there are some significant reasons why he is
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torn right now. And I think the natural reaction from everyone is going to
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be yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. He is
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not someone who has to jump to the NFL to you know, get his
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family out of grinding poverty or anything like that. You know, that's I
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think less of a concern with Nil. Now. You know, if you're
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at the point where you're a top five NFL draft pick, you're probably doing
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just fine with Nil in college if that's something you would want to prioritize.
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So it's not quite as laughable as it might have seemed a couple, you
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know, ten years ago to say something like that. My default assumption is
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that when they you know, he said, they really haven't sat down and
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talked about it yet. And my default assumption is when, and I'm sure
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you know, if you put biggest odds on this, the biggest odds for
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Marvin Harrison sits out the Cotton Bowl and turns pro is probably about I don't
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know what minus twenty five hundred give her take. I was gonna say twelve
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hundred, just twelve hundred, just pretty nice. Yeah, well maybe maybe
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if you parlay those two things together. Yes, but I mean it's possible.
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I don't I'm certainly not expecting it, but it's certainly possible because with
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his sort of unique family situation, you do have the luxury of choosing to
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stay. And I'm sure he would do just fine nil wise if he chose
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to stay for another year as well, if he chooses. If he does
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choose to stay, he's gonna have a different quarterback throwing to him. You
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asked him which quarterback that was going to be. I thought it was a
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great question. Rather disrespectfully, he didn't answer it, but he is,
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you know, you know it's not going to be his former teammate and former
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high school teamate, former college teammate, comic coord What did he have to
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say about commic cord Kritsford obviously said, it's sad to see him go,
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and he's going to continue to support wherever he goes and a friend for life,
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that sort of thing, And he said the same thing. I mean,
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they've been through a ton together over the years and they've always been close,
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and Marve said many times before, he's my quarterback, he's my friend,
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and that's obviously going to continue on past this. And yes, I
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did ask him who's going to be the quarterback next year? And he said
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he didn't know. I don't know if he's lying to us now, which
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of these lies from Marvin or truly lies? We don't know, but hey,
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you got to you got to shoot your shot, you know, so
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to speak and see what he's gonna say. But I don't I don't know
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that anybody knows that question. So it's not an unfair question. Now,
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don't worry about that. It was totally fair. But yeah, obviously gonna
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miss Kyle accord. And you know, but that's that's the way of life
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now in college football. And he said talked about everybody has to make their
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own decision that is best for them in their individual situations, and that's what's
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going on. Somebody asked about, you know, what does it say about
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the culture, and he's like, basically, players just have to decide what's
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best for them and head towards that, right. And you know, I
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think with Kyle McCord leaving, you wonder if you go back to was it
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in the the twenty twenty one season, Kyle McCord played in five games that
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year. If Kyle McCord had played in four games and had two years of
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eligibility left, you might be having a whole different conversation right now than you
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you would have, you know, than you are with twenty twenty four being
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his last season, because you wanted to be guaranteed the starting spot, because
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if it's your last season, you want to be the starter, because you
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don't want to go into your last season with the potential of the NFL Draft
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and all that kind of stuff coming up, you know what, sixteen months
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from now. You don't want to go into the twenty twenty four season with
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uncertainty because this is something he's worked his whole life for, so it's you
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know, from his end of things, it's understandable. I think, you
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know, everyone can say that this is like, oh boy, everything's going
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to hell right now, and I think you're seeing people making the exact same
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decisions they would have made ten, twenty, thirty, forty years ago if
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that was an option, if you had the option to transfer and not have
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to sit out a year, don't I don't think this is a kid these
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days thing as much as a college football has changed, and you know,
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you're that's sort of one of those realities of that situation. Yeah, I
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think this is the world we're living in now, so you just have to
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stop trying to make excuses for it or demonize it. It's just it is
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here now, the old it is what it is. So I want to
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know the team up north kept being brought up, and how much do you
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think the Roman Wilson comments bothered Marvin Harrison And I just thinking about this after
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the interview session, that would have been that would have been a good question
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to ask, But I wasn't thinking about that about you know, thousand dollars
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suits or whatever being soft, that sort of thing, Like, clearly that's
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not going to be something that is agreeable to Marvin Harrison. No, it's
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certainly not going to be agreeable. It's certainly not the deciding factor either.
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I mean, you know this is something where he's you know, very obviously
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you come to Ohio State and the goals are you know, there is a
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big wall and inside the facility with pictures of Ohio State Michigan, and there's
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a countdown clock. It's it's very clear this is a big foot point of
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emphasis and if the game is going to be a point of emphasis, Well
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you might as well go out and win it every once in a while.
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That that's nothing new. And you know, they have stuff on the walls
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for all the Big Ten champions and boy, they haven't had to update that
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in a while. And all of you know, this is this is all
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stuff that's sort of built into the Ohio State football program and stuff that was
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sort of being taken for granted. I keep looking up at you know,
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right above our heads is the twenty nineteen Big Ten Champions banner, and there's
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a twenty twenty Big Ten Champions banner around here somewhere, and then there's a
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batch of blank wall and they think that the annual win over Michigan, the
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annual trip to Indianapolis, the annual win in Indianapolis, and the confetti and
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all that kind of stuff. They didn't even get confetti the last time,
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that's right, who cod covid. They didn't even get the Big Ten logo
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or now state logo now there did they? No? So you know,
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I can tell you when we were in Indianapolis in twenty nineteen and the confetti
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was falling, I did not think, well, I bet something crazy is
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about to happen in about three months and then something else crazy is good about
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to happen. And obviously it's not going to have confetti for at least the
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next four football seasons for various reasons. But this is, you know,
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this is something where you could you could see this being something that would be
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enough of a draw. And there was a question in the there was a
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question in the chat about whether well, first of all, there's a chat
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from Jordan Kapeler about whether I can answer the enter the transfer portal. No,
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my eligibility was exhausted decades ago. Plus there has to be interest.
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Well no, no, there doesn't have to be interested to interest to enter.
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There has to be interest to entest except to leave. There was a
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question about, you know, the chances that Mecca buchis days and that's you
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know that I think is I think there's a much more logical argument beyond just
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you know, I mean not that there's not that there's not logic behind the
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idea that Marvin Harrison could decide to stay, but you know, Meccabuka in
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terms of a personal interest, in terms of a draft stock thing, Marvin
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Harrison, draft Harrison's draft stock is not going to get materially better twelve months
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from now a Mecca Bukas could. So you know, what are the chances
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of Meccabuka stays better than Marvin Harrison? I would say, but you know,
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I mean, is that is that a coin flip to you? Is
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that better than a coin flip to you? Well? I think there are
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a number of factors. He had half the numbers he did last year,
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but obviously injuries were the main factor there in the quarterback situations, I think
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one one factor is does he want to come back and show that he can
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be an outside receiver and maybe move him into the top ten because if you
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are if you are just a slot receiver, then your draft slot is probably
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closer to Jackson Smith and Jigba, and there's nothing wrong with that. But
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we also saw what Jackson Smith and Jigba did as a as a sophomore,
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and obviously he missed his junior season but end up being with the twenty fourth
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pick something like that. Do you want to be closer to shoot to be
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closer to the tenth pick like Garrett Wilson Chris Lave at number twelve or are
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you okay and really not even knowing if you are going to be in that
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top twenty four ish range because you did miss some of the season and your
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numbers did decline and there were some drops, and so I am am I
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cautiously optimistic and he's going to return. It seems foolish to say that about
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any of these juniors making a decision, but I don't expect all of them
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to go. I think they're going to get a feedback. Yeah. I
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don't want to necessarily put a you know, final pick in on that stuff.
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But you know, if you're if you're just kind of going through Trevan
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Henderson, Marvin Harrison Junior, A Mecca a Book, A Cage Stover,
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Kate Jeffer get up another year, right? I think, technically, I
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believe he could because nineteen he red shirted. Twenty was obviously count Yeah.
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Yeah, I think he could technically come back, you know, if you're
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gonna kind of give me, you know, Nickberg, technically yeah, and
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he's declared for the NFL or for the Senior Bowl, but you that's not
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you know, with an NFL draft declaration where you can't take it back.
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I think you've got a lot of those guys that I'm not going to say
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this guy's coming back, but you know, you've sort of heard some rumblings
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that this guy or that guy might come back. So you know, if
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you're if you're asking me to parlay all of these guys are going to the
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NFL Draft. I don't think that that cash is but I don't necessarily want
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to say this guy and this guy are both coming back for sure. So
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all right, so that's that's that. Let's let's touch real quickly on what
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Marvin Harrison Junior is going to be doing this weekend. He's going to New
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York City and again I get to wear a fancy suit Roman Wilson, we'll
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get to watch him on TV and he will be a finalist for the Heisman
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Trophy. He brought up the idea he was he was asked, you know
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who's your who would your vote before? And man, this is media training.
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Well I'm gonna be around all these guys I don't really want to,
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which is like, that is tremendous media training right there. But you know,
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this is this is a great honor for him. He's up for the
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Blittan Kof Award, He's up for the Heisman. This week. You know,
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whether he wins the Heisman or not, this is six guys. You
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know, six years in a row High State has had a Huisman finalists,
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which is wild. That has to be the longest streak I can I would
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think of in history, because they didn't used to do Hidsman finalists. That's
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a really new thing. So I would assume that that's got to be the
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longest streak of six years in a row having a Heisman finalist. But you
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know, this is something he was very excited about, and he talked about,
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you know, won't be the first time he's been to New York either,
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Well, no, and the first time he was in New York talking
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about how he went with his dad, probably the rest of his family to
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New York when they were waiting for the Pro Football Hall of Fame call and
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they did not get it. So there's better sweet memories of New York.
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Now. I don't think he expects to win the has been on Saturday.
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So this to me is one of those truthful answers where it's just an honor
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to be nominated because you are the loan non quarterback and honestly, that should
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be an award in itself. You are like what Aiden Hutchinson to one year
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or Chase Young in twenty nineteen. If you are the loan non quarterback,
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that should be another award, like they should give the Heisman. And then
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here is the loan the highest ranking non quarterback. You are the otherwise player
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of the year. And so there is definitely some pride that he takes with
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that and the politanik Off talking about all of the Ohio state wide receivers.
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I tweeted out last year when he didn't win, like all of the names
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from Ohio states wide receivers that have never won the award, the only award,
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the only one being Terry Glenn in nineteen ninety five, And there's a
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long list of names there. And I fully expect him to win the Bolittanic
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Off. He should. I think he should have won it last year.
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Jalen I had some tremendous numbers, but I think you look back and you
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realize the wrong decision was made and now maybe this is a chance to right
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it right it wrong, even though like lack Neighbors, there's some dudes who
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have been up some big numbers this year as well. But I expect him
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to win that one. Well and it you know, I mean the kid
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from Washington too has had a great season and this has made some incredible plays.
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It just this feels a little like ten years from now, if Marvin
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Harrison doesn't win the Blatantkoff Award, you're gonna look back and go, wait,
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what, Like you know, this can be one of those like bar
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trivia things. But you know how many times did Marvin Harrison Junior win the
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Blatant Koff Award? And the choices will be zero, one, two,
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or three, and no one will pick zero because everyone will go, well,
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that's not possible. Well, I remember when Ted Ginn junior and Adrian
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Peterson both came into college the same year two thousand and four, and I
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don't think anybody would have bet that neither one of those guys is gonna win
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a Heisman in there six combined years in college football. Yeah, all right,
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so we're gonna do. We're gonna run through a couple questions real quick,
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drowsy dragon, and says Chris al Lobbe stayed sometimes it happens. I
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mean that that that can happen. You know again, I think more likely
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that you see a Mecca a book would come back than yeah, and that's
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Harrison. But that's maybe the more apt comparison because well, Labbey was a
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fringe first rounder in the twenty went to one when when he was a junior
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toime. Yeah. Yeah, so he was a fringe first rounder, came
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back and turned that into the twelve pick overall. And that's really I think
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where Mcca's decision time, decision frame, the rangefinder is for him. Yeah,
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Aaron Taylor wants to know who is QB one in practice right now?
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We don't know that officially. I think my assumption would be, you know,
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based on the guys who were on the roster and based on how the
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depth chart has shook out so far this year, I would certainly assume Devin
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Brown is QB one right now. You're probably, I would guess, going
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to see both guys in the Cotton Bowl because as much as they want it
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to be, you know, Brian Day talked about this. You know,
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job one is winning the Cotton Bowl as well. You know, Job one
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A is start to figure out the twenty twenty four quarterback situation, and you
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know they could very easily have a transfer quarterback, you know, signed and
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committed before that game happens, and that sort of changes the conversation around the
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twenty twenty four quarterback position. They could very well not take a transfer quarterback
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at all, and then that makes you know, that's a different conversation about
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the Cotton Bowl in the twenty twenty four position. Yeah, and there's so
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early right now in practice that there's probably a one A in a one B.
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You're splitting up the reps pretty eavenly, I would assume, and then
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once you get into game planning and then the week of practice out there,
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it's going to be more maybe seventy to thirty type of thing. And generally
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this early part of bowl prep, even in a college football playoff, here
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you're playing more of your younger guys. You're getting your younger guys some more
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runs. So I would bet you know, Carnell take is probably getting more
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run. Noah Rodgers, maybe you know some of the some of the younger
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receivers, some of the younger July Thurman, you know, all those kind
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of guys. I think you're probably getting more run from them. As you
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know, the older guys give him a little extra time to heal up and
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all that and see what you got with some of the younger guys, because
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even in a college football playoff year, there's a certain amount of take a
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little peak forward that you get with with bowl practices. Ye. Next question,
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Next question, Micky Hannon wants to know. Uh so, how does
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get offer Carter Smith? Carter Smith, of course the transfer offensive lineman and
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oll in Tanjie High School one of the old Intenji high schools. And how
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there's only eighteen of them. This is your neighborhood, that's not mine.
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Uh yeah, I'll uh, I can tell you which Grandell High School Grandell
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High School player went too old and Tanji that's your problem. Uh one of
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the old intangis he ended up. I'm gonna say liberty and make you tell
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me I'm wrong old in Tanjie Liberty, Let's say uh. He then went
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to He then went to Indiana, took a red shirt season, started in
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the twenty twenty three season as a tackle. As a red shirt freshman,
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entered the transfer portal Ohio State. Has you know there has been Mark Givler
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has talked about the fact there'sertainly been communication there. I don't know if they
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currently have an offer out to him or not. I think, you know,
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if I was going to put in a transfer portal, crystal ball old
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in Tangi Liberty, Tony had it the whole way. Look at that an
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old and Tangi expert. If you know, if I had a crystal ball
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to put in, I would say Ohio State for Carter Smith. But I
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don't have a crystal ball, so I don't have to say that. Dang.
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Yeah, I would agree. It's almost to the point where I've almost
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moved past him because I just assumed that he's going to be part of the
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team next year. And that's that's the fun part about the transfer portal,
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when you already have the guys in and you don't even know if they're kind
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of yeah, let's next one. One of this is I think a little
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bit of a misconception for Marcy Jesse. What about the reports of limiting nil
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the thirty thousand dollar This is the show that Tony and I did earlier in
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the week, and it's not quite what the proposal was. The proposal was
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from NCAA President Charlie Baker, and this was just basically a you know,
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this is not an official NCAA proposal. Yet it's just like a proposal for
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a proposal, and the idea was splitting off, you know, offering schools
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the opportunity to split off. So it's not just one hundred and thirty three
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FBS schools, but there's you know, a separate subdivision where you could pay.
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You know, you would have to put at least thirty thousand dollars in
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a trust every year for athletes, because that would be limiting nil. That
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would be the school putting at least thirty thousand dollars and there would not be
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a limit on it, so it would only be for half, Like yes,
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yeah, for half. You know, at least half of the athletes
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would have to comply with Title nine. It's a very complicated thing. Tony
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and I did a whole show about it two days ago that you should be
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able to find on the YouTube channel. I would view it more of like
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just ending up and it has nothing to do with the actual bidding of the
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hands going on. Yeah, Mika wants to know. Is it possible the
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NCAA won't do anything to Michigan. I'm worried. I think that the odds
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that there is no further action taken against Michigan are functionally zero. I think
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there's there's been a lot of confusion out a couple different points. One is
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I haven't heard anything. It was there was all this flurry of activity,
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and then I haven't heard anything for a couple weeks. Does that mean it's
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over? The flurry of activity was the big ten, trying to figure out
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any kind of in season punishment that it felt was it was necessary or worthwhile.
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That was the punishment that you had come out where Jim Harbor was suspended
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for three games, which Michigan agreed with, which Michigan, Yes, Michigan
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chose not to appeal, chose not to appeal for whatever reason. Not to
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be confused with the self imposed three game suspension for Jim Harboro at the beginning
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of season, which is also not settled, which is also not settled.
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Yes, So the NCAA has the case from last spring, which you have
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seen sort of shorthanded as Hamburger's, which actually is COVID visitation rule violations and
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that kind of stuff. Harball has served a three game self and post suspension.
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That that is still an open matter for the nc DOUBLEA. That is
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likely going to get combined with this current case with the we're just gonna call
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it the Connor Stallions thing because we're going to shorthand everything here. That all
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is still still to come in terms of what is gonna you know, what
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is going to happen in the NCAA. That's an ongoing investigation. Then the
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NCUAA has to issue a notice of allegations to Michigan that that officially, you
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know, it's basically an official document saying we think you did all this,
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and we you know, here's what you know, here's what we can prove,
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basically, and then Michigan has ninety days to respond to that, and
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then the nc DOUBLEA can issue a punishment after that. So you're gonna have
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probably you know, if and when the notice valigation comes out, which is
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probably early twenty four, say quarter one of twenty twenty four at some point,
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then at that point you'll hear so to sort of have another flurry of
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activity, and then Michigan has ninety days to address that, and then you'll
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have another flurry of activity. This is going to drag out, and I
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know Ohio State fans are going, why why, why, you know,
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when are we going to get to the fireworks factory, and in reality,
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this is you know, the sort of damicles hanging over Michigan's head. Is
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Jim Harball going to be there? Sharon Moore remember served a self imposed one
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game suspension back in September as well, so you know the plug and play.
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Well, we'll just put this guy in here, Like, how sure
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are you that he's not going to be facing some kind of you know,
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additional whatever. How much does that impact what they're able to do in the
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portal? How much is that impact what they're able to do in recruiting?
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All this stuff is still sort of hanging out there. This is all going
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to be like a twenty twenty four conversation at this point. Well, and
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remember his COVID stuff, As you said, remember how far how long ago
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the COVID stuff was, and it's still being dealt with, all right,
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So let's see lots of surly Michigan oaks in the chat. We're just going
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to clean this up right now. So always believe in Alabama with a photo
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of Nick Sabe and holding the trophy in a nearly empty there's a hard rock
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stadium at that point, Tony and I were two of the I don't know,
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fifteen thousand or so people there for that one. Who are you guys
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picking Bama or Michigan. I kind of feel like I want to wait and
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let that game get a little closer before make sort of any sort official pick.
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I did think it was rather notable the video of Michigan. You know,
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when Michigan was announced, Michigan cheered very loudly when Alabama was announced.
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I think they were expecting not Alabama to be their opponent, and there was
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you know, I said, there was like this audible gas and people like
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that wasn't an audible gas. But I was like, how would you describe
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the reaction on that video? It was audible grown no one, No one
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yelled. Bet, there was not a lot of clapping, I mean,
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whatever it was. You know, the point spread is like very very close,
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I know, I know. So yeah, I think that's going to
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be probably a pretty good game. I think I think the final poort looks
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very interesting to me. Yeah, it should should be. Now it's been
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a while since. I don't know if it's ever happened where you have three
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good games out of the CFP. Maybe this will be the first year.
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People wondering why so many people are leaving off at higher state? Like so
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many guys are transferring out? How many players that have hit the transfer portal
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were material contributors in twenty twenty three. I've got Kyle McCord, chip train
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him and Luene Fleming that's it, right? And you what is Gyre Brown?
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No, he played like three or four games, right, Yeah,
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he's like that next tier. Yeah, I think, And I've said this
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before. You lose a third year quarterback, which is the norm at Ohio
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State. You lose a senior receiver, which is the norm. So those
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are losses that you expect to have once you recruit these guys. But everybody
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else again, I'll say that as much as people leave on their own,
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they're being told to leave. And that's around the country, maybe even more
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so. They're being told to leave. So I don't the only guy in
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there on this group that had start was a Gyre Brown. Cam Martinez had
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a couple of starts a couple of years ago, and there were there weren't
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going to be any starts for Cam Martinez in his future. And I don't
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know that anybody else that they lost, like the biggest losses in there I
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don't know that there were any in terms of there were going to be contributing
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next year. Jira Brown. I think this guy that could have played,
25:33
but he had been passed by a freshman, and in Jermaine Matthews really including
25:40
Calvin Simpson hunt up steam as well. Towards the end of the year,
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you sort of started to see guys who were younger suddenly appearing in games before
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some of the guys who were older, and ty Stokes was sort of in
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that same boat as well. That's that's sort of been the pattern. And
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you know, well, why hasn't this happened at Michigan yet, because this
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is a culture thing. Well, they're still playing front. You know,
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if you have the opportunity to potentially win a national championship, there's no reason
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to jump in the portal yet. If you were thinking, well, I'm
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not going to play on Cotton Bowl. I want to get a head start,
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you jump in the portal. That's yeah, that's I saw somebody link
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a story of the the top twenty five teams and the number of players already
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into portal. Obviously, the top four teams have the fewest names in the
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portal because they're still playing maybe like six total, and some guys leave because
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we know. I know I'm not going to play, so I'm going to
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jump in and then everybody else is like between Saturn and thirteen, and there's
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nobody that is clean. I think Michigan is the only team right now without
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anybody in the portal in the top twenty five. Yeah, but again you
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are playing in the playoffs, so right, Yeah, the year that Ohio
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State was in the playoffs and Michigan wasn't in whatever twenty twenty or whatever it
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was, they were like twenty five Michigan guys in the portal and no one
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for Ohio State until after the whole thing. Yeah, I think the number
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I saw twenty two guys from Michigan into portal and then one of those years.
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Yeah. I will also say Michigan does a really good, real good
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job of playing a ton of guys. Yeah, so a lot of these
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guys that are gonna be transferring at some point have played this year for Michigan
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because they do play a bunch of guys. Paul Wall says, Many Diaz,
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the DC for Penn State, will be the head coach at Duke.
27:18
I know that was he was you know discussed. I think I think the
27:22
framing was, you know, he's he's the favorite, or he's sort of
27:25
emerged as the favorite, you know. The reference to the relevance to Ohio
27:29
State there, of course, is the Jim Knowles with someone else who was
27:32
interviewed. There also many ideas going away from Penn State is probably a good
27:36
thing for Io State too, depending on who they bring in, depending on
27:37
who the Yeah, depending on who they bring in. But I mean this
27:41
is again now now Penn State. Well, if if this is how this
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plays out, Penn State will have lost both of their coordinators again because Mike
27:48
Ersitch was invited to take his talents to South Beach and many Diaz. You
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know, if he leaves, you've lost your offensive port or defensive coordinator again.
28:00
Feel like twenty twenty four might be one of those sort of defining seasons
28:03
for James Franklin. Like you're you're getting to a spot where you've got two
28:07
choices and one of them is get off the pot. And that's gonna be
28:11
you know, a season with a lot of new stuff. It would probably
28:15
be in James Franklin's best interest to uhbe, win some football games. They
28:19
went and got Kansas's offensive coordinator for con I think he won some sort of
28:23
offensive coordinator award by somebody, So I think that's a pretty good hire.
28:29
We'll see what they do there. I don't think they'll be bringing Jalen Daniels
28:32
with him, since you've got we've got Drew Allery. Yeah, but but
28:36
I mean that if you've watched Kansas, Kansas runs a fun offense, like
28:38
a fun interesting that just looks like, oh, that's probably a real pisson
28:42
in the butt, just right as opposed to Mike yours. It's just very
28:45
boring offense. Yeah, yeah, let's just see. Oh. I think
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we're I think we're caught up on the questions. I'm interested in answering,
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So I think we or I think we are good to go. Nothing from
29:02
Jordan Kapler, Well he had well we addressed his question earlier. Yeah,
29:04
Well he said he said earlier that he has been wrong a lot this year,
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So he's gonna say that Marv's going to the NFL. Oh, there
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you go. He says some things recently that I thought were very wrong,
29:15
but that's neither here north. I have not seen him say anything wrong yet
29:18
this year the past two or three years in fact, anyway, So that
29:22
will do it for now. We'll appreciate you guys hopping on with us for
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a little post post interview live session. We will be back next Tuesday,
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I believe is the plan talk to shastic players, possibly Ohio state coaches.
29:36
We're not sure right now. They are out on the road right now doing
29:37
some recruiting. So it is, you know, kind of always this is
29:41
always kind of an awkward time of year in the building because you've got a
29:44
bunch of people on the road, trying to do in home visits, trying
29:48
to seal things up, close things up for the for the end of the
29:56
recruiting recruiting cycle, and then you're trying to to get things also set for
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