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BREAKING: 4-Star Defensive Tackle Karlos May Commits To Ohio State · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to a special breaking news episode of Buckeyes Tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host Tom Moore. The Buckeyes just got some
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  Speaker 1: very very good news in the recruiting world. I've got
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  Speaker 1: some good news for you as well. I'm joined by
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  Speaker 1: Juck Maletti, the recruiting insider for Buckeye Insiders dot Com. Juck,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State just landed a commitment from Carlos May, defensive
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  Speaker 1: tackle out of Birmingham, Alabama. That is not a place
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State hold a lot of recruits for decades
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  Speaker 1: and decades and decades, and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: it's essentially a pipeline area for the Buckeyes somehow. So
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  Speaker 1: what is Ohio State getting in Carlos May.
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  Speaker 2: Carlos May a big kid at six foot three three
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  Speaker 2: and twenty pounds, not just a guy who is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a double team eater, but a guy with
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  Speaker 2: the ability to make plays in the backfield as well.
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  Speaker 2: Forty four tackles last year I think about sixteen or
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  Speaker 2: seventeen tackles for loss. And that was part of Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State's pitch to him. We're not just bringing you in
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  Speaker 2: here to play in the run game. We want to
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  Speaker 2: see you get after the quarterback, and it was one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that separated Ohio State from some of
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  Speaker 2: his other contenders. He added about fifty to fifty coming
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  Speaker 2: up to his official visit between Georgia and Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: and the Buckeyes won him over. But the original thing
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  Speaker 2: that really turned him on to Ohio State was his
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  Speaker 2: visit to the Penn State game last year and seeing
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  Speaker 2: the attitude in the locker room from the Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: players from coach Johnson right then, he said, that's the
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  Speaker 2: culture I want to be a part of. He said,
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  Speaker 2: they were hyped, they were amped up. That's the type
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  Speaker 2: of player I am, and I want to be a
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  Speaker 2: part of that. And apparently that stood out more than
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  Speaker 2: Georgia and Auburn, his other two finalists.
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  Speaker 1: So you got a chance to talk to him a
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  Speaker 1: little bit in recent days and there was a comp
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  Speaker 1: I'm always a little RETI is it to throw comps
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  Speaker 1: on players, because it's like, well, okay, if I compy
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  Speaker 1: you to someone who turned out to be a first
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  Speaker 1: round pick and then you're merely a second round pick,
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  Speaker 1: then oh boy, have you disappointed everyone. But when the
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  Speaker 1: coaches give a player comp all right, then it's like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, then they're the ones who are sort of
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  Speaker 1: putting that out there, and they're probably a little more informed.
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  Speaker 2: On these things.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought the comp that the coaching staff put
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  Speaker 1: on Carlos May was really really interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I love to ask this question to guys
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  Speaker 2: because coaches who've had success putting the guys in the league,
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  Speaker 2: like Larry Johnson, have so many different guys to point to.
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  Speaker 2: And the way he recruits him is he'll find a
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  Speaker 2: guy that he thinks this guy fits the mold of
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  Speaker 2: and he'll pull up that player's film and it helps
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  Speaker 2: if that's a recent player and it's someone that they
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  Speaker 2: know already. So I thought that he would probably comp
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  Speaker 2: him to k Mack when I asked him the question,
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  Speaker 2: and he did say k Mack, but he didn't just
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  Speaker 2: say k Mack. He said, coach Johnson sees me as
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  Speaker 2: a hybrid between Caden MacDonald and Tylee Williams and a
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  Speaker 2: little more twitchy. So I don't know how much better
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  Speaker 2: you can get than that time, but we'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is not one that I would have felt
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  Speaker 1: comfortable putting out there, But if Larry Johnson's willing to
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  Speaker 1: put that went out there, great, that's fantastic. He certainly
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  Speaker 1: would know what those guys look like at this point
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  Speaker 1: of their careers. And I think if Ohio State fans
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  Speaker 1: were not immediately recognizing the name Carlos May or not
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  Speaker 1: immediately doing cartwheels, that one might sort of get them there,
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  Speaker 1: and somebody else that might get them there. Is just
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  Speaker 1: looking at this twenty twenty seven defensive line recruiting class
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  Speaker 1: on the whole, because this felt like, I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: were bringing in there loaded at the edge positions and
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  Speaker 1: you got, you know, maybe some people who could be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit like edge slash play inside depending on
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  Speaker 1: how they want to line up, but they were really
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  Speaker 1: missing that big interior body. This feels like this really
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  Speaker 1: kind of checks that last major box for this twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven defensive line class.
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  Speaker 2: It really does. And they'll end here. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: there'll be another addition. But they wanted one big time
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  Speaker 2: interior guy because I Curry was their number one option.
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  Speaker 2: He went to Texas. Carlos May was clearly right below
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  Speaker 2: him because they had in addition to Carlos in that
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  Speaker 2: third and fourth official visit weekend scheduled, Malik Lee, Nate Kamba, Tyler, Alexander,
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  Speaker 2: and one more guy that they were going to also
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  Speaker 2: bring in that fit that mold. They canceled all those visits.
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  Speaker 2: They said, we're just going to concentrate on you, Carlos,
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  Speaker 2: and we're proving it to you right here by canceling
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  Speaker 2: all these visits. You're our guy. And they successfully sold
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  Speaker 2: him on that, and he feels valued as the one
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  Speaker 2: big time dude. And in addition, he was the fourth
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  Speaker 2: of those guys to commit, and they told him, look,
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  Speaker 2: we're putting together something special on the defensive line with Marcus,
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  Speaker 2: with Wyatt and with DJ and he was like, I'm in,
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  Speaker 2: let's make it. Let's make it a legendary four And
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  Speaker 2: apparently all four of these guys are very excited to
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  Speaker 2: be part of this foursome that they've put together. It's
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  Speaker 2: something they've talked about, it's something they'll continue to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: They want to be legendary together.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I think the natural comp for this class
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  Speaker 1: it's not positioned by position, guy by guy, but man,
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  Speaker 1: this feels a lot like the twenty twenty one class
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  Speaker 1: that was the Jack Sawyer, J T. Twoey, Moloow, Tyler, Williams,
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  Speaker 1: If you want to throw a Tyler Williams comp on someone,
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  Speaker 1: how about HYLERK Williams himself, and then Michael Holl was
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  Speaker 1: also part of that group. Hall was gone before the
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  Speaker 1: national championship season in twenty twenty four. The other three
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  Speaker 1: guys were starters on that group. Man, that really is
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  Speaker 1: the class that reminds me the most of you know,
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  Speaker 1: not exactly ratings, but pretty similar ratings for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these different guys, and it just that one really
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  Speaker 1: just reminds me a lot of what this class could
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  Speaker 1: end up meeting for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if we're looking in the modern recruiting era, that
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  Speaker 2: was certainly the gold standard coming in with Jack and
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  Speaker 2: JT both five stars, top ten players in the country.
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  Speaker 2: Then you had Mike Hall, who was just a borderline
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  Speaker 2: top one hundred, and then you had ty Leek as
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  Speaker 2: a top two to fifty guy. I mean, that's an
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  Speaker 2: incredibly impressive haul. But if we're just talking strictly rankings,
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  Speaker 2: this one takes the cake. When you've got DJ the
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  Speaker 2: number one player, Marcus a consensus five star, Wyatt Smith
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  Speaker 2: is a top fifty now I believe he'll end a
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  Speaker 2: five star, and Carlos May is a top one hundred
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  Speaker 2: without a doubt. On paper, this is the best defensive
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  Speaker 2: line haul the Buckeyes have put together in the modern
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  Speaker 2: recruiting era.
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  Speaker 1: And they are not done yet on the defensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. They may be done at defense on
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  Speaker 1: the defensive line, they're not done on the defensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball necessarily. And we talked a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that there's probably a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: work still to do in the secondary. But they also
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  Speaker 1: have another decision coming up in the next week or so.
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  Speaker 1: You know, David Diabriel George is set to announce soon
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not going to put you I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that anyone's quite ready. They put a final pick out there,
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  Speaker 1: but is that the only big announcement that we know
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  Speaker 1: of that's coming soon. It is.
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  Speaker 2: One name came off the board today in Monshine Sales
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver out of Indiana, who was originally from Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: and that one looked like it was going to be
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  Speaker 2: Indiana Alabama, and then Texas came in late and it
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  Speaker 2: ended up being between Texas and Indiana, with Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: kind of finishing a distant fourth. We never really talked
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  Speaker 2: about them being in on that because it was pretty
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  Speaker 2: clear from the beginning they were not going to put
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  Speaker 2: forth the investment to get themselves in on that one,
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  Speaker 2: as good of a player as he is. They held
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  Speaker 2: pat there and save that big swing with that big
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  Speaker 2: package for David Gabriel George and again that decision here
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  Speaker 2: on the twenty second. As far as David says, the
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  Speaker 2: decision has not been made yet, contrary to what his
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  Speaker 2: uncle said, and he is just kind of looking for
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  Speaker 2: I guess the sign here at the end to swing
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  Speaker 2: him one way or the other. The figures that have
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  Speaker 2: come out seem to sound like Ohio State is coming
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  Speaker 2: in a little bit over a million dollars per year
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  Speaker 2: for a multi year deal. Tennessee pushing in close to
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  Speaker 2: two with their Tennessee Adidas loophole deal, which is not
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  Speaker 2: a real Tennessee deal. It is essentially Tennessee gets ten
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  Speaker 2: million dollars a year in deals to spend on players,
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  Speaker 2: but it's Tennessee's money. It's part of the money Adidas
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  Speaker 2: was going to pay to Tennessee. This is just the
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  Speaker 2: way to get it through the CSC. So that is
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  Speaker 2: about two million a year in compensation for DGG, which
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  Speaker 2: is really all that matters, and you know those deals
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  Speaker 2: aren't too close. If I was him, it'd be tough
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  Speaker 2: to pass up six versus three and some change. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. It seems like it's going to Tennessee in
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  Speaker 2: my opinion, so.
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  Speaker 1: We will find that out in a few days. That
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  Speaker 1: again is coming up on the twenty second. But the
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  Speaker 1: news today for Ohio State very very good as they
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  Speaker 1: add Carlos May defensive tackle again, a badly needed big
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  Speaker 1: body in the middle of this defensive line class to
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  Speaker 1: really really seal the deal for it to secure this
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  Speaker 1: place of this defensive line class as maybe the best
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  Speaker 1: that Larry Johnson has had at Ohio State, which that
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  Speaker 1: is pretty good company to be able to go through
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  Speaker 1: some of his other classes. But it is hard, as
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  Speaker 1: Jock said, to match even the twenty twenty one class,
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  Speaker 1: to match just the numbers, the quality and quantity of
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  Speaker 1: talent that Larry Johnson bringing in this year in the
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  Speaker 1: defensive line class oral husting.
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  Speaker 2: So let's tom, let's not forget too now. It's we're
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  Speaker 2: kind of starting to look at this more in two
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  Speaker 2: year blocks because you can't just put these these classes
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  Speaker 2: together that look like a full little mini team anymore,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have holes here and there. When we look
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  Speaker 2: at the defensive line in a two year block, my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: when you add Carlos May to Emmanuel Ruffin to Jamir
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  Speaker 2: Perez to Damari Simeon, and we've seen all them already,
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  Speaker 2: they look like they're gonna be guys that are ready
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  Speaker 2: to go early. Now you've got four guys on the
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  Speaker 2: interior that they're going to make up the future of
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  Speaker 2: this defensive line. Ed Carrie Wilder and dre Quinn onto
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  Speaker 2: the defensive ends. And this defensive line now in a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years should be right up there with with
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  Speaker 2: you know, top three defensive line in the country.
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  Speaker 1: And for as much as has changed in college football
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  Speaker 1: over the last few years, you win the game in
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  Speaker 1: the trenches. I remember Earl Bruce pounding on the desk
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  Speaker 1: in the press box in the row behind us a
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  Speaker 1: number of years ago and yelling about winning game in
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  Speaker 1: the trenches. And it was true when he was coaching,
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  Speaker 1: it was true when he was playing. It is still
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  Speaker 1: true today, and Ohio State certainly seems to be well
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  Speaker 1: on their way to winning a bunch of football games
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  Speaker 1: in the trenches with this defensive line class also a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good offensive line class, and so that is kind
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  Speaker 1: of the two big storylines for the class of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven for Ohio State. We'll be talking about that
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