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BONUS: Ryan Day's Thoughts On NFL Players Returning To College Football · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is another bonus episode for you. We got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of these coming this week. I hope you guys
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  Speaker 1: have found The Offense Show and The Defense Show already.
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  Speaker 1: This is the third in that series, and this is
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day, just some general thoughts on the team, on
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  Speaker 1: the whole, on the sport, on the whole bunch of
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  Speaker 1: stuff going on right now. He had some very very
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  Speaker 1: interesting things to say, and not only what he said,
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  Speaker 1: but also just the way he said it, some of
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  Speaker 1: the tones. If you're familiar with Ryan da press conferences,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you can learn a lot just by the way
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  Speaker 1: he says stuff. So let you do your own detective
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  Speaker 1: work on that. But we'll start with a question about
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  Speaker 1: team leadership. This year, the back Guy's named seven captains
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. That's a lot, not unprecedenteditional here and
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  Speaker 1: his answer just the seventh time they have had as
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  Speaker 1: many as seven captains in a season, and it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: more than they've had in some recent season. So all right,
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  Speaker 1: what was the thinking there and also the thinking behind
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  Speaker 1: giving Brandon Innis the block o jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, every year you look at it and try to
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  Speaker 2: decide what the right number is. In the past couple
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  Speaker 2: of years we've had, you know, four, we had three
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  Speaker 2: of the year before that, and I thought the way
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  Speaker 2: that the voting shook out this year, this was a
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  Speaker 2: great representation of who our team voted for, but also
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  Speaker 2: the positions I think for the offensive line, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Carson and Luke were you know, you know, we're certainly
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  Speaker 2: going to be leaders of this team. But when you
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  Speaker 2: have Austin, Luke and Carson, you know, and you get
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  Speaker 2: the the offensive line union we call it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like they they sort of took from each other, I think.
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  Speaker 2: But it was important that that Austin was a two
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  Speaker 2: time captain and based on how the vote came out,
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  Speaker 2: that worked out. But then you know, when you look at,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the rest of the guys that were named captains,
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  Speaker 2: it's a good representation from each group almost you know,
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  Speaker 2: not everybody's represented, but close. And when you have fifty
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  Speaker 2: one new players on the team, it's it's a big challenge.
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  Speaker 2: And so this has been a new experience, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for all the coaches, but for the players to you know,
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  Speaker 2: bring these new guys into the program and teach them
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  Speaker 2: the culture, teaching the tradition, teaching the expectation, the standard.
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  Speaker 2: I thought they've done an excellent job of that. So
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  Speaker 2: it was more than just one or two guys. And
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  Speaker 2: if there was just you know, four guys that certainly
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  Speaker 2: in the voting there was a huge gap, we probably
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  Speaker 2: would just name that. But you know, those numbers are
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  Speaker 2: fairly close, and so we went with seven, which I
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  Speaker 2: think is a sixth time in Ohio state history. For
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  Speaker 2: that seventh time, Yeah, so you know it every year,
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  Speaker 2: what are you trying to do with your captains? Trying
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  Speaker 2: to find the guys who represent the team. I think
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  Speaker 2: these guys do a great job of that. For Brandon
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  Speaker 2: to get the block, oh that that that's the respect
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  Speaker 2: of So the players vote for the captain for block, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's Mick and his staff and myself, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a pretty strong vote for Brandon Nis. Just
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  Speaker 2: what he's done on a daily basis, the way he
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  Speaker 2: shows up his work AFTHA, his leadership certainly inlign with
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  Speaker 2: the Leadership award, and what he's brought to the table
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  Speaker 2: off the field, and certainly you know he's made clutch
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  Speaker 2: plays for us as well on the field, which we're
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  Speaker 2: going to need him to do this season as well.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a great answer from Ryan Day, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to provide some context around this. This is the question
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  Speaker 1: is about five for five, the fact that guys can
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  Speaker 1: now have a new NCAA rule where you have five
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  Speaker 1: years to play five seasons and there's no more red
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  Speaker 1: shirting and all that kind of stuff. Now, the question
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  Speaker 1: is about the guys who left after last year who
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  Speaker 1: would have had another year if they hadn't left for
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. So guys who finished their four years of eligibility,
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  Speaker 1: they went off the NFL, but would have had a
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  Speaker 1: fifty year of eligibility had that rule been passed a
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  Speaker 1: little earlier. So now you're seeing these reports about guys
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  Speaker 1: coming back from the NFL, guys who signed with pro teams,
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  Speaker 1: maybe going through training camp with pro teams, and then
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  Speaker 1: coming back and joining college teams. We're going to give
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  Speaker 1: Austin Board credit for this question because Ryan Day credits
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  Speaker 1: or Ryan Day says right at the beginning, it's a
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  Speaker 1: great question, and it was a great question. It also
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  Speaker 1: got a great answer from Ryan Day.
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  Speaker 2: Great question. Yeah, I told myself I would stop saying
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  Speaker 2: that this is crazy because it's just, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: sounds Yeah, So I'm not going to say that, but
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  Speaker 2: to think that we're in a situation where where this
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  Speaker 2: late in the season and our rosters are not locked
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  Speaker 2: in is frustrating at the very least. But I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to sit here and keep saying that. So what
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  Speaker 2: does that mean for us? That's the bottom line. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I think, in my opinion, you know that the conferences
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  Speaker 2: have to decide if there's a point where their rosters
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  Speaker 2: have to be locked in, because once some of these
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  Speaker 2: guys become available, adding them to the roster is going to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, provide advantage for certain teams. So we're certainly
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  Speaker 2: having conversations. I've had conversations with Tony Patiti about this.
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  Speaker 2: I know he's all over it and trying to do
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  Speaker 2: what's best for the conference. But we also, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if there are teams that have some players out there
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  Speaker 2: who are cut from NFL rosters that are going to
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  Speaker 2: be on other teams, we have to at least consider
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  Speaker 2: it and look at it. Do I like anything about it,
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not, But we got to do it. Tried for
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  Speaker 2: Ahouse State, So it's sort of a day to day
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  Speaker 2: thing right now, and like anything, we're just going to
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  Speaker 2: try to adapt. But I think we would all agree,
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  Speaker 2: maybe not everybody but that, you know, there has to
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  Speaker 2: be a certain point where your roster gets locked in.
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  Speaker 2: But whenever I heard that, we were in a meeting
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  Speaker 2: and someone says, yeah, LSU just got to come in
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  Speaker 2: and from the Browns tight end, I said, we are
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  Speaker 2: certainly in a different world right now.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to give you a quick follow up
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  Speaker 1: on that one news that came out on Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: A statement from the Southeastern Conference. After a Monday evening
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  Speaker 1: conference of the Presidents and chancellors of the Southeastern Conference,
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  Speaker 1: the conference is issuing the following statement. College athletes, not
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  Speaker 1: former professional athletes, have been at the heart of the
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  Speaker 1: Southeastern Conference. Individuals who choose to leave college athletics, sign
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  Speaker 1: professional playing contracts and compete professionally should not then be
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  Speaker 1: permitted to return to college competition. Allowing that to occur
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  Speaker 1: will blur the line between college and professional sports, creating
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  Speaker 1: significant competitive equity concerns and reduce opportunities for high school
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  Speaker 1: and current college athletes. College sports are for college athletes.
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  Speaker 1: The current confusion around national eligibility standards emphasizes the need
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  Speaker 1: to advance the Protect College Sports Act. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: That is the SEC's statement on that. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: whether the Cleveland Browns really did lose a tight end
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  Speaker 1: to the LSU fightin Tigers. One of many guys who
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  Speaker 1: are sort of in that situation right now. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: how that all plays out. So all right, next question
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  Speaker 1: was about Arthur Smith his first camp. How things are
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  Speaker 1: going there this month with Arthur Smith as the new
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator at Ohio State. You'll hear that answer and
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  Speaker 1: then a quick follow up from Joey Kaufman off the Dispatch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's been a great communicator, a good leader, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, confident with it with the guys. Talk to him.
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  Speaker 2: Ask the players about him. They'll tell you say, anytime
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  Speaker 2: you want to know about someone, just ask the players.
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  Speaker 2: But they they've enjoyed working with him, and I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: to see where the season goes. Somebody's last week one
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  Speaker 2: players talking about the structure that he's kind of righted.
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen that about that?
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  Speaker 2: It's been great, it's been great. Brings a great background
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  Speaker 2: of offensive football to the table where he's been able to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, morph a lot of the things that we've
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  Speaker 2: done with some things he's done in the past. And
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  Speaker 2: so camp has been great that way. It really has.
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  Speaker 2: Now what does that mean? We got to put on
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  Speaker 2: the field and everybody feels like they're they're good right now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we got to go put it on the field.
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  Speaker 2: You know, everybody's practicing against each other. There's no wins
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  Speaker 2: and losses right now, so you know we have to
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  Speaker 2: wreckize that. But you know, I know what I know,
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  Speaker 2: and i know what I've seen, and you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited to see this thing shake out here in the
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  Speaker 2: next couple of weeks and get on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Now. A recruiting question and quarterbacks, they feel like they
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  Speaker 1: are just getting hopping on board earlier and earlier every cycle.
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  Speaker 1: The buck guys just took a commitment from twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight quarterback Christopher Vargas out of Massachusetts. He still is
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  Speaker 1: two years away from being in Ohio state buck Eye.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a challenge to have to do that without
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  Speaker 1: even seeing junior film, let alone senior film. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of those answers that it starts one way and
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  Speaker 1: it goes a lot of interesting places.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't say that we've never I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think Lincoln was a senior e val. I think there's
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  Speaker 2: maybe been a couple other ones I can't remember off hand.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, you probably remind me, but we have done
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  Speaker 2: that before, and that's ideally what you would like to have.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes, you know, your hand gets forced a little
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  Speaker 2: bit in this world where you know, guys are coming
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  Speaker 2: off the board and you got to make some decisions
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  Speaker 2: early on, but you continue to evaluate everything and and
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  Speaker 2: that's it, and and you know, we try to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that guys understand that part of it as well,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, just because you know, you know you're committed,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean you know, you have to now hold the
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  Speaker 2: standard of being a buck eye, which for us, the
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  Speaker 2: good news is, you know, guys understand that they embrace that,
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  Speaker 2: and that's they've they've certainly answered when it comes to that.
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  Speaker 2: So we continue to evaluate everything. We feel really good
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  Speaker 2: about where we are right now in recruiting. We think
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  Speaker 2: that it's strong. We've got really good guys, not just
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  Speaker 2: not just players, but but as people, guys who understand
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  Speaker 2: what it means to be, you know, at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: So there's there's a lot of momentum there, especially in
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  Speaker 2: today's day and age with everything that's going on. So
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  Speaker 2: that's been great, but Yeah, there's nothing better than Friday nights,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, to see these guys get out there
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  Speaker 2: and compete and play. And we continue to communicate them
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  Speaker 2: and check in with them on a week to week basis,
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  Speaker 2: talk to them about the game that's coming up the
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  Speaker 2: next week and and then they're going to be here
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  Speaker 2: in like six months. So try to remind them that
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  Speaker 2: this is like probably one of the best times in
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  Speaker 2: their lives right now. The same thing I told my son,
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  Speaker 2: like senior year playing football in the fall, like, don't
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  Speaker 2: rush it, because a lot of these guys just want
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  Speaker 2: to get to college. But there's gonna be a time
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  Speaker 2: where you're gonna look back and wish you were back
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  Speaker 2: being a senior and having fun with your boys and
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room after the game and celebrating wins
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  Speaker 2: and you know, going through losses and figuring out all
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  Speaker 2: the problems and getting back to work and all the
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  Speaker 2: life lessons that come with it and being with your teammates.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's kind of the message for us. But
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  Speaker 2: then at the same time, get out there and be
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  Speaker 2: the most competitive dude in the country next up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna set this up. I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: let this back and forth play out. It starts with
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  Speaker 1: a question from Bill Rubinowitz. This is one of these
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  Speaker 1: questions where you tell me how Ryan Day feels about
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  Speaker 1: his football team this year.
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  Speaker 2: From the sound of what you said, you see him
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  Speaker 2: pretty happy with almost everything.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything I'm not happy with anything?
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  Speaker 2: Don't you put those words in my mouth? Happy this position,
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  Speaker 2: group position. There's no blame and complaining are defending in
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  Speaker 2: this program, So I'm not going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: How How happy are you with the progress?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not happy without it at all? Let me
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  Speaker 2: change my total tune. If that's what you got out
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  Speaker 2: of it is pissed off about everybody. I think. I think
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  Speaker 2: we're working. I think we have a monster schedule, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that you know, we have fifty one new guys,
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  Speaker 2: so there's a lot of unknown, a lot of unknown,
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  Speaker 2: and so we know, you know what, what's what's coming here,
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  Speaker 2: and there's going to be storms along the way. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think our guys have the right attitude.
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  Speaker 2: I think we have a chance to be a smart team,
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  Speaker 2: but we're gonna have to be a discipline team. And
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  Speaker 2: the first step to being a championship team is to
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  Speaker 2: not be yourself. We've talked about this before and so
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  Speaker 2: we have to make sure we're doing that. I will
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  Speaker 2: say this, in the scrimmage, there were too many penalties,
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  Speaker 2: too many penalties and and that's that's discipline, and so
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  Speaker 2: we cannot beat ourselves early in the season. So we
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  Speaker 2: are going to be you know, all over that part
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  Speaker 2: of it. There's a lot of areas that we got
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  Speaker 2: to improve in fast, but there's also a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things that I've seen that are encouraging, so that that's
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  Speaker 2: been good, but we're nowhere near we need to be.
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  Speaker 1: Is Ryan Day maybe sleeping a little better at night
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  Speaker 1: right now, knowing that he has veteran offensive line veterans
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  Speaker 1: returning starter at quarterback Jeremiah Smith, and improving running back
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  Speaker 1: room and all of that stuff. Is he sleeping a
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  Speaker 1: little better feeling a little better about life this year
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  Speaker 1: than he did at this point last year.
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  Speaker 2: I will say having a quarterback and a center in
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  Speaker 2: particular that have the experience that these guys do allows
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  Speaker 2: you to do more things this time of year than
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  Speaker 2: you ever would if you didn't. And you know, we
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  Speaker 2: think about like a couple of years ago, we had
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  Speaker 2: Will and Steth McLaughlin. Now they weren't here, they were transfers,
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  Speaker 2: but those guys had played a lot of football. I
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  Speaker 2: put Carson and Julian sort of in that same realm,
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  Speaker 2: and so they get everybody on the same page. They
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  Speaker 2: communicate well, and the center's got to communicate everything up front,
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback's got to commune everything to the back end,
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  Speaker 2: and they have to work together. So that part's good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when you break the huddle, everybody's on the
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  Speaker 2: same page. There's just a certain rhythm and tempo that
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  Speaker 2: that works. Just like on defense, you know your safety
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  Speaker 2: and you know you're Mike linebacker. They all have to
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  Speaker 2: be on the same page in their communication. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you're out there at practice and you know you
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  Speaker 2: feel it, there is a good rhythm about it. Now again,
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  Speaker 2: what is that going to translate to. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we know again, you know, the places we
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  Speaker 2: got to go play on the road early in the
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  Speaker 2: season is going to really challenge our guys. We've had
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  Speaker 2: the noise cranked up. We try to make it as
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  Speaker 2: hard as we possibly can. We're fired up that you
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  Speaker 2: know tomorrow class to start, so we practice in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like the heat's going to get cranked up,
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  Speaker 2: so that'll be good. So we're just going to keep
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  Speaker 2: making practice as hard as we can because we know
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  Speaker 2: we got to play good in the fourth quarter.
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