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Ohio State Recruiting: Is A Big Flip Coming Soon For The Buckeyes? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Tuesday, June seventeenth, time
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to be talking about a different
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  Speaker 1: kind of vibes on today's show, talking about the vibes
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  Speaker 1: for some of the top prospects who are visiting Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: Last weekend got some great information on the huddle board
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  Speaker 1: presented by Jeff Ruby's Columbus That's Jeremy Birmingham wrote about it.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew ellis here to talk about some of that information,
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  Speaker 1: and we're just going to give you some of the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I go to the huddle board to get all the
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  Speaker 1: details and everything. But Andrew, I want to start first
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  Speaker 1: with a name that was in the Buckeye news cycle
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago that had everyone running
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  Speaker 1: around with the hair on fire. Jamiir Perez out of Glenville.
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  Speaker 1: He committed to Florida just a couple weeks ago, maybe
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  Speaker 1: a month ago now. Then he came to Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: for camp. Then he came to Ohio State for a visit,
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  Speaker 1: and it feels like maybe everyone may have been freaking
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  Speaker 1: out just a little bit early on this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think any freak out a couple weeks back
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  Speaker 2: when he committed to the Gators was definitely premature. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think people expected him, at least the OSU kind
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  Speaker 2: of media didn't expect him to be at that camp.
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  Speaker 2: And then Berman and some of those guys show up
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  Speaker 2: there and oh, there's there's the Florida Gator commit just
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  Speaker 2: standing there, all three hundred and sixty pounds of him
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. I mean. I think even the people who
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  Speaker 2: have followed the Glenville pipeline dating back to when it
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  Speaker 2: was really run and weren't really freaking out about this
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  Speaker 2: when he did commit. So I think getting him on
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  Speaker 2: campus was big. Getting him back on campus this weekend
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  Speaker 2: for an official visit was you know, really big, and
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  Speaker 2: I you know, last week leading up to this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: we saw some of the tweets from you know, Hayes Faucet,
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  Speaker 2: who does a lot of these commitment graphics and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that, And say what you will about the eyeballs
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  Speaker 2: and all that stuff. I know we've all got our
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  Speaker 2: thoughts on that, but what the bottom line is, if
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  Speaker 2: you're the guy who's making the graphics for people, you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have an idea of what's going on. He's sort
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  Speaker 2: of hinted at some good news coming for Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe even two pieces of good news coming for
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State and me, my personal opinion is that Jamiir
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  Speaker 2: Perez flipping from Florida could be one of those bits
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  Speaker 2: of good news. I know you can't take Twitter bios
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that to heart, but I just got
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  Speaker 2: back from work today and I saw the scuttle butt
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  Speaker 2: on the forum about how he took his Florida commitment
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  Speaker 2: and his graphic out of his social media profile. And
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  Speaker 2: then I make my way to the Florida side and
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  Speaker 2: they're absolutely freaking out about this. So I reading the
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  Speaker 2: tea leaves here maybe maybe he's one of these commitments
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  Speaker 2: that could pop anytime this week. Obviously, his you know,
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  Speaker 2: his teammates since here Johnson has said to commit on Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you get a double dose of Glenville good news
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  Speaker 2: that day. But you know, again, three stars, but you
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  Speaker 2: don't find those body types in the Midwest or in
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  Speaker 2: Ohio very often, so getting him is a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: I think if they do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just a space eater in the middle of that
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  Speaker 1: defensive line would be a It's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: where you look at the recruiting rankings and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: people go, yeah, but he's only a three star. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, that's not that's not a body type
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  Speaker 1: that you can just you know, find on every Ohio
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  Speaker 1: high school team. So yeah, that could be a both
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  Speaker 1: a literal and figurative big addition for the Buckeyes. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: Sincere Johnson also committing later this week. That's another another
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  Speaker 1: name that was in that report. You can get the
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  Speaker 1: get the inside information there on Sincere Johnson at the
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  Speaker 1: Huddle Board presented by Jeff Ruby's columbus at buckeyehuddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: So switching from reading the tea leaves on Twitter bios too,
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  Speaker 1: do you remember the magic eight balls where you'd shake
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  Speaker 1: it and you know'd say yes or no or my
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  Speaker 1: favorite was always reply hazy, try again and there is
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  Speaker 1: a sort of reply hazy try again in this among
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  Speaker 1: last weekend's visitors, and it is the top interier offensive
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  Speaker 1: linemate in the class Darius Gray where he visited. And
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  Speaker 1: depending on how you want to look at it, it
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  Speaker 1: could be still an uphill climb for Ohio State. There
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  Speaker 1: could be the news for Ohio State. It just kind
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  Speaker 1: of depends on which way you want to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I know Burham was semi optimistic on
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  Speaker 2: that one. I don't think I'm quite there. He made
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  Speaker 2: a midweek official visit to Ohio State, and those are
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  Speaker 2: always a little bit strange, I think. But then he
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  Speaker 2: turned right around and went back to the presumptive favorite
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  Speaker 2: down in Baton Rouge this past weekend. So I know
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  Speaker 2: LSU has gotten the dream school label, and usually if
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  Speaker 2: you get the dreaded dream school label, that's not where
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  Speaker 2: the kid's gonna go. But in this situation, I tend
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  Speaker 2: to think that that one is still gonna gonna work
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  Speaker 2: out in the Tigers favor. But you know, Tyler Brownen's
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  Speaker 2: done a heck of a job since he's been up here.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he can pull a rabbit out of the hat
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  Speaker 2: with that one. But my spidy senses are kind of
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  Speaker 2: down in the bayou with that.
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  Speaker 1: One, all right, And so while we're bumming people out,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about PJ. Dean. He was someone that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when Mark and Kevin did their Southern Swing trip just
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  Speaker 1: a couple months ago, he was someone who felt like
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  Speaker 1: he was trending towards Ohio State. It sounds like me,
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  Speaker 1: that's not the case any longer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, It's kind of always been one of those weird
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  Speaker 2: situations where he looks like he's kind of between a
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  Speaker 2: defensive end and a defensive tackle body type. So that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of always been a weird thing that Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: would just have to figure out there. And truth be told,
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  Speaker 2: I think i've from what I've been told, they viewed
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  Speaker 2: him as kind of a defensive tackle target more than
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  Speaker 2: an edge guy. And then I saw some of the
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  Speaker 2: pictures of him on his visit and I you know,
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  Speaker 2: just by based on the looks of those, it looks
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  Speaker 2: like a kid who's going to have to add thirty
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  Speaker 2: or forty pounds to play defensive tackle in the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not to say this kid's not going to
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  Speaker 2: be good in college, because he could go to Georgia
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  Speaker 2: or South Carolina or any of those places and be great.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know if you know. We always see
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  Speaker 2: the measurements listed on the profiles for rivals and on
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  Speaker 2: three in all those places, and it's great to see those,
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  Speaker 2: But when these guys come on to campus for an
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  Speaker 2: official visit, I mean, Ohio State is taking those measurements themselves.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe this was a situation where he's listed at
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  Speaker 2: you know, like six five two fifty five. Maybe he
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  Speaker 2: got to Ohio State and he's more like six five
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  Speaker 2: two thirty five or something like that, and you're just like,
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  Speaker 2: what's this kid's body gonna do? So it's weird to
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  Speaker 2: talk about an official visitor who's just was there two
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  Speaker 2: days ago or a day ago, and it's not the
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  Speaker 2: best news in the world. But it doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 2: that one's trending in the right direction just based on
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  Speaker 2: the post visit vibes, all right, So.
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  Speaker 1: Then that means that some of the other defensive linemen
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  Speaker 1: who were visiting, and it was a busy weekend for
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  Speaker 1: defensive lineman visit, that makes them potentially more important to
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  Speaker 1: have them trending in the right direction. And one of
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  Speaker 1: the names there are a couple other names, and again
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  Speaker 1: you can go to the huddle board at jeff huddle
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  Speaker 1: Board presented by Jeff Ruby's Columbus at bucke huddle dot
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  Speaker 1: com to get all the information. But one of the
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  Speaker 1: names that I did want to ask about was Carter
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  Speaker 1: Meadows because he feels like someone who Okay, if some
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  Speaker 1: of the other names we've been talking about over the
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  Speaker 1: last few months don't pan out, adding Carter Meadows to
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  Speaker 1: this class could be potentially even more important. So how
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  Speaker 1: are things trending there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Tom, it seems like every time we try
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  Speaker 2: to talk about Larry Johnson's recruiting like, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I'm just talking myself into circles. I wish I wish
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  Speaker 2: we had a magic eight ball that was just Larry
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  Speaker 2: Larry Johnson focused. I think that Carter Meadows the Washington
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  Speaker 2: d C edge defender and Luke Wayfole, the the edge
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  Speaker 2: defender that's looking at USC seriously now are probably the
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  Speaker 2: two top guys for the edge for Larry Johnson, and
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  Speaker 2: Wayeful was just at USC and now USC maybe the leader,
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  Speaker 2: which is always That's a whole other conversation as to
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  Speaker 2: how they keep doing that but Carter Meadows, I think
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  Speaker 2: he's kind of a guy who maybe handles his recruitment
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  Speaker 2: kind of quietly, So there's not really a ton of
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  Speaker 2: buzz as to does Michigan lead, does Ohio State?
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  Speaker 1: Lea?
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  Speaker 2: Does Penn State lead? And he's going to Michigan next week.
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  Speaker 2: But and say what you will about Larry Johnson's recruiting,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the the DMV and Washington d C. That's
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  Speaker 2: those are that's prime Larry Johnson territory. So this kid,
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, he's six six two twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: like that's what you look for in an edge defender.
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  Speaker 2: The vibes coming out of the weekend seem pretty positive.
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  Speaker 2: But he's going to be in Arbor next week, so
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  Speaker 2: hold on, I guess. But I mean, if they could
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  Speaker 2: get him, that would be that might be the number
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  Speaker 2: one guy on the board, regardless of position right now
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  Speaker 2: for Ryan Day and the entire staff.
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  Speaker 1: So that'll do it for the defensive line end of things.
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  Speaker 1: But we do want to talk just about one cornerback
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  Speaker 1: who was in over the weekend, and this is a
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  Speaker 1: name that I don't think we've talked about on this
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  Speaker 1: show before, Danny Odam. He's a cornerback, and he was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, someone who was not necessarily you know, penciled
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  Speaker 1: into the class before the weekend. But it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: there was at least some progress there over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're looking for another cornerback. Some things
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  Speaker 2: at that position group haven't exactly gone Tim Walton's way.
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  Speaker 2: Elbert Hills committed to USC doesn't seem to be wavering
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  Speaker 2: on that decision at all. Last week, or maybe it
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  Speaker 2: was two weeks ago. Justice Fitzpatrick seemingly out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 2: committed to Georgia. Coming off the official down to Athens,
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  Speaker 2: there was some question about whether or not he was
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  Speaker 2: going to come up to Ohio State this weekend, and
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  Speaker 2: he did not, So with those things at play, I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Danny Odom's a kid that Ohio State offered
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  Speaker 2: not long ago. His name's kind of been blowing up
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  Speaker 2: of late. I think everybody had him as a three
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  Speaker 2: star for a while and now some of the sites
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  Speaker 2: have him as a four star. Kind of a longer guy.
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  Speaker 2: I think in Burn wrote about this too, Penn State, Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: Those are just two of the schools that are in
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  Speaker 2: at Auburn's in it. But he's supposed to be announcing
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  Speaker 2: next week, I want to say, on the twenty third,
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  Speaker 2: and this might be a scenario where Ohio State could
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  Speaker 2: maybe benefit from like a delayed announcement, especially since he's
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  Speaker 2: visiting Penn State this coming weekend right before before the announcement,
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  Speaker 2: so that I mean, if they could add him to
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  Speaker 2: the class, you'd have a one two punch at a cornerback.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, that's that's the hope. But he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of skyrocketing up the board thanks to some of these
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  Speaker 2: other happenings around the country.
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  Speaker 1: So we will be monitoring those and many more recruitments
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  Speaker 1: over the coming weeks and.
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  Speaker 2: Days and weeks.
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  Speaker 1: This is this is tends to be commitment season for
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  Speaker 1: in recruiting, and we'll probably have probably has some news
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  Speaker 1: for you, probably have some breaking news shows for you
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  Speaker 1: as well. Also have the final camp of the summer.
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  Speaker 1: They have a seven on seven camp on Wednesday, but
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  Speaker 1: the final traditional camp setting is on Tuesday. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: out there at the What he Has Athletic Center to
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  Speaker 1: cover all of that. Should have plenty of interesting insight
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  Speaker 1: and analysis that'll probably be the topic of tomorrow's show,
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  Speaker 1: breaking down who we saw what we learned and all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff for you. But we're headed into
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  Speaker 1: the heat of recruiting season, the heat of the summer,
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  Speaker 1: and then boy, we're just just about a month away,
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  Speaker 1: holy smokes, just about a month away from Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: media days. The season right around the corner, even if
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like it, which means this would be
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