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Ohio State Spring Football: The Legend Bey Hype Train Picks Up Steam · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeye tomorrow morning for Saturday, April eleventh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom Or the ball State game in one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty seven days, the game against Michigan in
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  Speaker 1: for more. We are one week out from the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State spring game that is happening next Saturday, April eighteenth.
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  Speaker 1: On Friday, inside what he Has Athletic Center, we had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to talk running backs, and we got a
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  Speaker 1: chance to talk a bunch with Carlos Laughlin, who may
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  Speaker 1: have vaulted himself to the top of best interviews on
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  Speaker 1: the team. I mean, he's up there. Certainly got a
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  Speaker 1: chance to talk to Bo Jackson, Jacobe Jackson and Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: West as well. I didn't say Legend Bay's name. I'm
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  Speaker 1: the only person in this building who has not said
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  Speaker 1: Legend Bay's name out loud during those interviews. Holy smokes.
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  Speaker 1: We have made a point over the years to not
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  Speaker 1: get too far out over our skis about guys. This
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  Speaker 1: is something where you go back to Garrett al Sudden.
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  Speaker 1: We watched Gatt Wilson in his first practice and it
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  Speaker 1: was like, Oh, Jackson Smith, giggbery. You watch him in
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  Speaker 1: his first party, Go oh Jeremiah Smith last spring, our
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  Speaker 1: whole we were driving with the parking break on all
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  Speaker 1: spring last year and it was kind of like he
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  Speaker 1: kept sort of forcing our hands on this. Carlos Laughlin
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  Speaker 1: had a great answer about talking about you know, I
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  Speaker 1: always view that as like, you don't want to put
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  Speaker 1: too much pressure on these guys. They're just eighteen year
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  Speaker 1: old kids, seventeen year old kids, like you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to put too much on them. It's not really fair
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  Speaker 1: to them. Carlos Lachlan takes a very different approach with
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  Speaker 1: guys like Legend Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, yeah, they're my kids. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about him. I brought them here. If I don't
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  Speaker 2: talk about him, if I don't like them enough to
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  Speaker 2: talk about them, who will? And what does it say
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  Speaker 2: about me and say about them? So yeah, he a
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  Speaker 2: very effusive in his praise. And we know other coaches,
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  Speaker 2: including head coaches, including this head coach at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Day will be like, yeah, I don't want to.
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  Speaker 2: He even did with jeremih Smith. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: put too much out there beforehand. But the way Locke
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  Speaker 2: talks about Legend Bay, for the people that saw it
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  Speaker 2: on the live streaming, they were buzzing about it as well.
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  Speaker 2: Everything that we have said leading up to this very
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  Speaker 2: show about Legend Bay in terms of what we're hearing,
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  Speaker 2: what people are saying, Locke just confirmed all of it.
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  Speaker 2: And we have not gotten to see him other than
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  Speaker 2: the first two practices, which were very basic, right, but
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  Speaker 2: the excitement he's very excited about having him in this offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is. And he's been limited. He's been a
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  Speaker 1: little banged up. Nothing concerning nothing long term. I asked
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  Speaker 1: afterwards just sort of what his status is. He's still
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  Speaker 1: a little bit limited. The expectation right now is that
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  Speaker 1: he will be good to go for the spring game.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. That's the expectation right now. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Faughlin is just going to tell you what he
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  Speaker 1: thinks and it is and he will tell you what
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  Speaker 1: he thinks in a good way. He will tell you
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  Speaker 1: what he thinks in a bad way. He is you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the stuff we said about Denzel Burke, like you
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  Speaker 1: would get the ultimate barometer of truth. He's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the Denzel Burke in some ways, which is rare for
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  Speaker 1: a coach to do that, and to do it in
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  Speaker 1: a way where he's not really blowing up his players
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  Speaker 1: in a negative way. It's just like you can tell
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  Speaker 1: he's doing it from a position of I want what's
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  Speaker 1: best for you when you're not doing what's best for
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  Speaker 1: you right now, and you need to get better in
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  Speaker 1: this area.
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  Speaker 2: And when he says I love legends, sometimes I want
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  Speaker 2: to choke him. This is all from a place of
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  Speaker 2: love and the frustration of a coach at times, knowing
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  Speaker 2: how good a player is and can be. Of course
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  Speaker 2: that coach coach, a coach choke is not a real choke.
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  Speaker 1: Know.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this is Bobby Knight.
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  Speaker 1: This building has been named after a person who has
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  Speaker 1: similar views. Yes, And that was about how he's carrying
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  Speaker 1: the ball like it's just it's just he wants him
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  Speaker 1: to carry you know, high and tight. And he said
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  Speaker 1: he's you know, he's still a quarterback at heart, and
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  Speaker 1: so you're trying to sort of not literally beat that
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  Speaker 1: out of him, but figuratively sort of, Okay, we got
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  Speaker 1: to you got to carry the ball a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: He said, he's excited to see a kid with that
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  Speaker 1: kind of juice. He said, you can give him the
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  Speaker 1: ball and he's gone. And that's what they need. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they need in that running back room because last
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  Speaker 1: year they had a lot of pot positives in that
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  Speaker 1: running back room. And we'll talk about that probably on
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  Speaker 1: the Bucky Weekly podcast feed. But you know, there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot to be positive about last year, but they
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  Speaker 1: didn't hit the big plays. They didn't you know, you
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  Speaker 1: didn't hit the home runs. That's something that Legend Bay
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  Speaker 1: brings that. You know, other guys that room could they
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  Speaker 1: bring it. Sure, But when you ask guys about who,
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  Speaker 1: you know, who is the home run hitter, it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about him before you were talking about other
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  Speaker 1: guys in that context.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and last year they had explosives, but they only
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  Speaker 2: went so far, you know, m eights versus the dynamite
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  Speaker 2: that could possibly be here with Legend Bay and just
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he said, like one moment he's here
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  Speaker 2: and then boom gone. That's that's the potential that also
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  Speaker 2: the defense has to worry about you got to know, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: where's number two? And that can help everybody else as well,
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  Speaker 2: and it's gonna be interesting to see. Hopefully he can
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  Speaker 2: play on Saturday and end up with four touches for
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  Speaker 2: two yards and everything is just like whoa, whoa wh're
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  Speaker 2: But it was just very interesting. After you watched and
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  Speaker 2: perhaps after you watch Bucky Weekly, and if you haven't
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  Speaker 2: watched Carlos Locklin the interview, go back and watch it
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  Speaker 2: because it's it's a it's a it's a great watch
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  Speaker 2: to see somebody who is so freely speaking about a
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  Speaker 2: true freshman who has been hampered for much of spring.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, exactly. You're you're only seeing little bits and
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  Speaker 1: pieces of him right now, but what they're seeing in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the winter workouts, and you know, he talks
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  Speaker 1: about his his just hip fluidity and just ability to
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  Speaker 1: change direction and that kind of stuff. That's the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that really he said, loosen the hips and he can
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  Speaker 1: find that sort of cadence in his run to really
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  Speaker 1: really move. So that's what he can do. There is
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  Speaker 1: stuff that he can't do. He is not the best
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  Speaker 1: overall running back, best all around running back, he was
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  Speaker 1: asked about, so could he be a goal line back
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, oh no, no, no, no, he's not
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  Speaker 1: the He is not the short yardage back this year
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  Speaker 1: because he said he better not run sideways because if
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  Speaker 1: he does, of us out around the job.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the question was, you know, do you do you
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  Speaker 2: prefer to have a preference for having goal line backs,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm not putting Legend back there, which is again,
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  Speaker 2: this is the kind of joking around you could do
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  Speaker 2: with players when they are on your lefl and know
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  Speaker 2: how you actually feel about them. So he's had that
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  Speaker 2: relationship with all of his players for forever, and he
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  Speaker 2: still does with all of the players that he's coached with.
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  Speaker 2: He was talking about that as well. But yeah, there
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  Speaker 2: there will be some opportunities. And I still think at
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  Speaker 2: some point legend By will touch the ball inside the
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  Speaker 2: five yard line, but in a way like a Mecca
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  Speaker 2: Buca would touch the ball outside the five yard line. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just sweet type of stuff. And he did say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be I'm gonna be pushing to have two
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  Speaker 2: backs out there as much as possible, including Legend be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you may go from fourteen personnel to twenty
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  Speaker 1: two personnel or yeah, You've got a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different options out there, and they do have
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  Speaker 1: talented backs. He talked about the three guys who would
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  Speaker 1: probably be those goal backs being Bo Jackson, Isaiah West,
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  Speaker 1: and Jacoby Jackson. Those are the three guys who he
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  Speaker 1: looks at right now as sort of the ones who
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  Speaker 1: maybe fit that best. Again, we'll talk about a bunch
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  Speaker 1: more on the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed latest on Turbo Rogers,
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  Speaker 1: the latest on Jacoby Jackson and how he's coming along,
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  Speaker 1: what Bo Jackson and Isaiah West have been doing this spring,
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  Speaker 1: and where you know where they are in terms of
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  Speaker 1: coming back from their stuff, and also just some really
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  Speaker 1: interesting oh oh oh, sorry, sorry I was wrapping us up.
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell. He talked about Kenneth Gainwell, who is someone
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  Speaker 1: that he is sort of like the bar for him.
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell, you may not remember the former running back
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  Speaker 1: at Memphis who he coached with the Memphis Tigers, who
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  Speaker 1: was the Sean Alexander Freshman of the Year when he
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  Speaker 1: was there, And he talked about comparing Legend Bay to
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell, which is like this is this is like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, give me a good analogy of you know.
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  Speaker 2: Ran, compare your quarterback now to c J. Stroud.
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  Speaker 1: Ye, yeah, yeah, I mean something like that where it's like,
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  Speaker 1: this is the person that is holding the highest esteem
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, you know, he reminds me some of him.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little faster. It's like, okay, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: is one of the things where if you know the
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  Speaker 1: context around that, that's him saying an awful lot with
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  Speaker 1: just a few words.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah very much, And again go watch it judge for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: This is a coach that is not worried about being
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  Speaker 2: wrong about somebody because he absolutely believes everything he is
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  Speaker 2: saying about him.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. The Legend of Legend Bay the
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  Speaker 1: latest edition brought to you by Carlos Laughlan and the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State running Backs. Hopefully, hopefully, if everything is holds true,
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  Speaker 1: we will get a chance to see him on the
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  Speaker 1: field next Saturday for the spring game that will kick
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  Speaker 1: off noon on Saturday the eighteenth. We will be there,
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  Speaker 1: of course for that. We'll have a whole lot to
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  Speaker 1: talk about between now and then at bucke huddle dot
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  Speaker 1: com and at YouTube dot com slash bucke Hudle. So
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  Speaker 1: we hope you can join us in both of those places.
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.