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2 Ohio State Running Backs Ruled OUT For Spring · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, February first.
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  Speaker 1: So on Friday, Ryan Day broke some news on his
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  Speaker 1: Coaches show on ninety seven to one, and presumably Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State Radio affiliates across the state of Ohio. A couple
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  Speaker 1: players from the Ohio State Running back room going to
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  Speaker 1: miss spring ball. Pretty consequential names as well, joined by
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  Speaker 1: another consequential name. It is Tony Gerdaman at bucke Huddle
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Tony, I think we should preface all this
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  Speaker 1: with this is not like terrible news, This is not
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  Speaker 1: bad news, this is not readjust your expectations for the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty sixth higher State football season news, but it is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some relatively significant news about two guys who
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  Speaker 1: are expected to play a pretty big role in this
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  Speaker 1: year's Ohio State football team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, both Bo Jackson, leading rusher one thousand and ninety
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  Speaker 2: yards rushing in twenty twenty five, and Isaiah West, the
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  Speaker 2: fourth leading rusher, both out this spring getting some shoulders
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  Speaker 2: cleaned up, and again not long term, just something that
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  Speaker 2: needed to happen following last year's season. And you look
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  Speaker 2: at those were your two leading returning rushers coming back
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  Speaker 2: this year. And I don't know if you've gone ahead
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  Speaker 2: and looked at the leading returning rushers on the Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State football team this year, do you happen to who
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  Speaker 2: do you think? Who would you think is the leading
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  Speaker 2: returning rusher for the Buckeyes who will be taking part
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  Speaker 2: in spring ball this year as far as we know
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, uh, the first name that came to mind was
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  Speaker 1: Julian Saying, and I'm pretty sure it's not him, but
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  Speaker 1: I think the next name that comes to mind that
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  Speaker 1: it might be is Jeremiah Smith. Is it Jeremiah Smith?
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  Speaker 2: It is Jeremiah Smith. Three carries twenty one yards? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: And then you also have Brandon Innis three for sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: Nate Roberts two for one, and then of course Julian
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  Speaker 2: saying forty two attempts forty four lost yards. So you
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  Speaker 2: and I I have more yards rushing returning than Julian saying.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, there's not a lot of there there in
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  Speaker 2: terms of there's nothing returning in terms of running back
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  Speaker 2: yardage this spring for Ohio State. So that's that'll be
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  Speaker 2: interesting to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, this is not the first year
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  Speaker 1: for either of those guys, and Isaiah West missed a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of time last year as well, so this will
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  Speaker 1: be two years in a row that he's really missed
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  Speaker 1: pretty much all of spring ball. You wonder how that's
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  Speaker 1: going to impact his development. You would obviously like to
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  Speaker 1: have the those guys back, and you'd like to have
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  Speaker 1: them going through the full winter workout program and all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, which obviously is not happening now.
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  Speaker 1: But it's also these are guys who are going to
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  Speaker 1: be better because it is their second year, they have
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  Speaker 1: some experience under their belts, and it does also open
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  Speaker 1: up some opportunities for some other guys. Ohigh State brought
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  Speaker 1: in a transfer running back who is obviously going to
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  Speaker 1: have a decent amount of experience. He doesn't have experience
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  Speaker 1: at Ohio State, but he has experience at Florida. That's
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  Speaker 1: going to be potentially a someone who's going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to pick up a lot of those extra reps
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  Speaker 1: and that that's something that could show up on the field.
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  Speaker 1: And you also have someone like Legend Bay. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's someone who we have recorded a Buckeye Weekly episode
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  Speaker 1: about him that is going to drop at some point
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  Speaker 1: relatively soon. Yeah, I think the expectations for him are
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  Speaker 1: at least intriguing, and this could be a great opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for him as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Legend Bay is already being talked about highly by
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Day. Jacoby Jackson injured last year after russ for
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  Speaker 2: like ninety eight yards ninety seven yards in the first
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  Speaker 2: few games, but in twenty twenty four rush for over
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  Speaker 2: five hundred yards and in a kind of a one
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  Speaker 2: to two role. A couple of starts there, I believe,
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  Speaker 2: and you know he's he's going to be involved. Favor
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  Speaker 2: ra Key, true freshman incoming will be involved as well.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course you've got Turbo Rodgers who we
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  Speaker 2: didn't get to see last year it was it was
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  Speaker 2: a summer enrollly, so a bunch of new faces that
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to watch and see how they figure into
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  Speaker 2: all of this, and it'll be an experience for each
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  Speaker 2: of them, and you know, it will be interesting to
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  Speaker 2: see does Jacoby Jackson come in and kind of lead
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  Speaker 2: or is it going to be uh, is it turbo Rodgers,
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  Speaker 2: because this is you know, I've been here. I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: the the old head basically in this group of players
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  Speaker 2: who have never run the ball for Ohio State. But
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  Speaker 2: I assume you know Jacoby Jackson is he's been around
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  Speaker 2: what the a few years of junior college, a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years of Florida, so he's a very he's an
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  Speaker 2: older guy. But again, this is a new experience for everybody,
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  Speaker 2: so it's gonna be interesting to see how they mesh
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  Speaker 2: and uh, what Carlos Laughlan does with them. But each
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  Speaker 2: of these guys that we talked about, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: have an opportunity and we started talking about legend Bay.
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  Speaker 2: I know, when we're out there hopefully for the first
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  Speaker 2: two practices of spring ball, seeing what some of these
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  Speaker 2: guys can do, it's not always easy to see to
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  Speaker 2: get a good look at the running game because there's
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  Speaker 2: no tackling and but early in early on there's no
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  Speaker 2: pads or there's no no contact anything like that. But
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  Speaker 2: you can see when they get these guys out in
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  Speaker 2: space as they're making guys miss what some of these
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  Speaker 2: guys can do. So everybody's the running game is always
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  Speaker 2: limited in the spring, but we'll get we'll get a
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  Speaker 2: look at some of these new guys. It is unfortunate
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  Speaker 2: for Bo Jackson and Isaiah West, two guys that need
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  Speaker 2: more work pass protecting, won't get that in this which
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  Speaker 2: I think is maybe a lot of what the running
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  Speaker 2: backs do in the spring. So it's unfortunate that they'll
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  Speaker 2: miss that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I am, however, intrigued to see Turbo Rodgers because
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  Speaker 1: we really just didn't get a chance to see him.
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  Speaker 1: As you said, he showed up in the summer and
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  Speaker 1: then was banged up for a huge chunk of the fall,
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  Speaker 1: so you didn't get to see him on the field
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  Speaker 1: really at all. We didn't get to see him really
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  Speaker 1: much in those early practice you know, the early practice
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  Speaker 1: windows in the fall are you know for running backs again,
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  Speaker 1: you run into the same issues where you're not taking
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  Speaker 1: guys to the ground. So how much are you really
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  Speaker 1: going to learn? The answer is not a lot. We'll
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  Speaker 1: hopefully see a little more from him and get get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to see because he's someone that Carlos Laughlin
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  Speaker 1: was the first guy to offer Turbo Rodgers. So Carlos
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  Speaker 1: Laughlin has been a big Turbro Rogers believer for a
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  Speaker 1: long time and right now you're just sort of taking
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  Speaker 1: everything on faith with him, but you don't. You haven't
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  Speaker 1: really seen it yet. So he'll be intriguing to watch
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  Speaker 1: this this this spring as well. The two guys that
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned there, Legend Bay favor Aki, two true freshmen
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  Speaker 1: who were early in rolling, and early in rolling is
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  Speaker 1: really just that's just enrolling. Now everyone is everyone early
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  Speaker 1: in roles, which means it's just you know, it's not
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  Speaker 1: the short you know, the old if it was easy,
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't be the shortcut. It would just be the
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  Speaker 1: way like that's just you're not shortcutting. That's just the way.
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  Speaker 1: Now everyone early in rolls. There is only one player
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  Speaker 1: who is not early in rolling from Ohio States twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six recruiting class. That is offensive lineman Tucker Smith
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  Speaker 1: with an offensive lineman Tony outside of the real, real,
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  Speaker 1: real edge case, elite, elite, elite guys. This is one
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  Speaker 1: where you know, running back last year, you go man
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  Speaker 1: would have loved to see Tobo Rodgers there earlier a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Hey really would have loved to
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  Speaker 1: see Milon Braham in there early because maybe you have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to maybe get on the field for an
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman. That's much more of a yeah, that's probably fine.
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  Speaker 1: You're not expected to do much as a true freshman
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman either way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, by the time you're actually expected to do something,
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  Speaker 2: and say year three, you've caught up. You've you know,
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  Speaker 2: you've been through springs and fall camps and summer workouts
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  Speaker 2: and winter workouts. So yeah, sure you'd love to have
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  Speaker 2: everybody in here as early as possible, but not getting
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  Speaker 2: a garden here until June. Again, that's not expected to
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  Speaker 2: play until you know, maybe twenty twenty eight or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna catch up. And really you don't want to say,
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  Speaker 2: but like the offensive line, it's it's not a crap shoot.
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  Speaker 2: But you know you're not gonna hit bat one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: You know, bat a thousand. You might bat one hundred,
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to beat a thousand and so like
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  Speaker 2: there's time to make up for that. And yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think they're worried about that one. But it's it's
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  Speaker 2: a huge number of early enrollies basically.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It is really just virtually virtually everyone
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  Speaker 1: will have a state. We'll almost certainly bat over one
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  Speaker 1: hundred with the offensive line this year. Will they made
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  Speaker 1: over the Mendoza line? Also? Probably? Yes, we're actually gonna
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  Speaker 1: be talking about that on tomorrow's show because Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: talked about sort of a hint at potentially a shuffle
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  Speaker 1: coming on.
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  Speaker 2: That offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that on tomorrow morning show.
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  Speaker 1: But if you want to talk about that with us
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  Speaker 1: before then, you can do that at Buckey Huddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be on the board talking about all this stuff
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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.