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How Ohio State's New Assistants Could Change The Buckeyes' Offense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, February third, I'm
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  Speaker 1: today's show, going to be talking about a couple of
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  Speaker 1: the additions to the Ohio State coaching staff on the
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  Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. Over the weekend, the hiring
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  Speaker 1: of Arthur Smith as the offensive coordinator was finally made
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  Speaker 1: official by Ohio State, welcoming in Tony Gerderman of Buckehuddle
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  Speaker 1: dot com and Tony before the Arthur Smith hire was official.
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  Speaker 1: This was a little like recruiting where the coaches can't
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  Speaker 1: talk about the guys by name, but you can sort
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  Speaker 1: of like, so if you did take a quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: this class, what would you think about the quarter But
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  Speaker 1: you know, you get that whole deal. There was a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of that on Ryan Day's radio show on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: where he couldn't say Arthur Smith's name, but he did
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  Speaker 1: talk about what he liked about Arthur Smith that ultimately
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  Speaker 1: did make him the choice for Ohio State's new offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he talked about what he liked and all of
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  Speaker 2: the feedback that he got about this particular person and
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  Speaker 2: all of the people that he asked and said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he was asked, you know, did you talk with former players?
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  Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, you can do the math and that
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  Speaker 2: on who I would talk to without naming, of course
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  Speaker 2: any of the franchises or players or coaches. But ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: I think it came down to the idea that you
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  Speaker 2: can just hand the offense over to Arthur Smith. And
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  Speaker 2: that's somebody who's had experienced doing that in the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: has called plays as an experienced offensive court and a
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  Speaker 2: successful one, and so wanted to do that. And he
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  Speaker 2: mentioned how, you know, like we did with Chip and
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  Speaker 2: referring to Chip Kelly in twenty twenty four that turned
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  Speaker 2: into a national championship. Is it rare for a coach
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  Speaker 2: to look back and be like, we should maybe try
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  Speaker 2: to do the same thing we did when we won
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  Speaker 2: a national championship. Probably not. It's rare for a coach
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  Speaker 2: is to win national championships, But is it rare for
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  Speaker 2: them to try to do the same thing. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think so. And so you see this opportunity for Ryan Day,
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  Speaker 2: who probably was more involved in the offense last year
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  Speaker 2: than maybe he would have liked to have been, or
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe he was a regression of sorts, And
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  Speaker 2: so this is something you can you have faith that
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  Speaker 2: you can hand over an offense to somebody who has
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  Speaker 2: run an entire NFL team as a head coach as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I just think there's a lot of comfort there
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  Speaker 2: along with the scheme and all of the fits that
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  Speaker 2: you know, liking what he does as well. But then
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  Speaker 2: you can just kind of set it and forget it,
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  Speaker 2: even though he will be involved, but it's it's not
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  Speaker 2: as much of a concern as it was a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say, yeah, you can be involved, but you can
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  Speaker 1: be a little less involved, which will allow you to
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  Speaker 1: be a little more involved with your other job responsibilities.
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  Speaker 1: And it feels like this is a lesson that Ryan Day.
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  Speaker 1: I remember sitting in that press conference at the Cotton Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: where Eli Drinkwitz of My Missouri was talking about how
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  Speaker 1: wonderful that was to have sort of turned over the reins,
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  Speaker 1: and Ryan D's sitting right there and how boy, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a real mistake to try and do too much.
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  Speaker 1: And Ryan D sitting there kind of listening to it,
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  Speaker 1: and we're all kind of going, oh boy, I do
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  Speaker 1: you like subtext? I love subtext. And then Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: brings in Chip Kelly, they win the national championship, and
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  Speaker 1: then last year you want to keep Brian Hartline around,
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  Speaker 1: and Brian Hartline has aspirations, so you get turned the
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  Speaker 1: rains oord to Brian Hartline, and I think that was
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  Speaker 1: a chance to see, Okay, really, really, I've learned the
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  Speaker 1: lesson you can tell the lesson that Ryan Day has learned.
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  Speaker 1: And Ryan Day has gone back to that sort of
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  Speaker 1: Chip Kelly kind of model there, which then you know,
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  Speaker 1: sort of frees him up to do all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: other stuff. And then now you also have you kind
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  Speaker 1: of have the head coach of the defense and Matt Patricia,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got the head coach, you know, sort of
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the defense and Arthur Smith. Although
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Dy will probably be somewhat involved on that side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball nonetheless. But man, that's that's one thing
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  Speaker 1: where Okay, you've replaced Brian Hartline there, you've brought in
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  Speaker 1: brought in this guy to sort of run the offense. Great,
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  Speaker 1: now you've got to also replace Brian Hartline and the
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  Speaker 1: other thing that he was doing, which was coaching the
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers. And he turns to former LSU wide receivers
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  Speaker 1: coach Cortez Hankton. What made Court I would imagine that
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  Speaker 1: being Ohio state wide receivers coach is probably a pretty
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  Speaker 1: sought after position among college wide receiver coaches. So what
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  Speaker 1: made Cortez Hankton the guy that Ryan Day ultimately chose.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it didn't take him long. I think Cortes
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  Speaker 2: Hankton was the only guy that we heard to interview
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  Speaker 2: for you know, through the through the grape vine there.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the things was that all of the
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  Speaker 2: players already knew him through the recruiting process, and we're
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  Speaker 2: familiar with him and liked him. And so you have
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  Speaker 2: that where your own players can vouch for a quality
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  Speaker 2: recruiter and then you see the development of the players
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  Speaker 2: that he's coached. Then you see the production and the
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  Speaker 2: guys in the NFL, and so it didn't seem to
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  Speaker 2: take him long, you know, to be convinced that Cortess
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  Speaker 2: Hancton was the guy, and then you bring him in
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  Speaker 2: and for an interview and then you have him interacting
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  Speaker 2: with the players at that point. And we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: it before in the past where the players will have
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  Speaker 2: some input. It's same with the running backs and Carlos
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  Speaker 2: Lachlan a year ago, where they came in and he
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  Speaker 2: came in and you know, basically the players signed off
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  Speaker 2: on it. And again here players signed off on Cortess
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  Speaker 2: Hancton as a guy that they're willing to play for,
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  Speaker 2: would like to play for. And I think it helps
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  Speaker 2: that there's familiarity already there. And it also allows Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State to like not miss a beat when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to recruiting because the guys that Ohio State has probably
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  Speaker 2: been recruiting, Cortes Hancton had been recruiting, so like there's
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  Speaker 2: already familiarity there in the recruiting classes as well. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it just allows you to pretty much progress smoothly.
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  Speaker 2: And now you also have a more engaged wide receiver
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  Speaker 2: coach than perhaps they had last year because Bright harlines
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  Speaker 2: being pulled in multiple positions, as any offensive coordinator would.
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  Speaker 2: So then this just gives them a guy that can
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  Speaker 2: just continue to focus on the receivers, get them to
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  Speaker 2: progress as best they can, and be in that room
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  Speaker 2: as much as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Carlos Lachlan comp is kind of an interesting
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  Speaker 1: one because Lachlan, of course came from Oregon, where you're
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  Speaker 1: also sort of recruiting from the same basic pool and
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Laughlin was rather famously recruiting Turbo Rogers when he
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  Speaker 1: was at Oregon, was the first guy to offer him,
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  Speaker 1: and so you're kind of swimming in the same sort
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  Speaker 1: of pool of recruits as you were, so that you
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  Speaker 1: do have a lot of that familiarity there. So those
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  Speaker 1: are the two new faces on the offensive coaching staff,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot like the transfer portal retention is also
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe an underrated portion of this, where yeah,
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  Speaker 1: those are the two guys who are everyone's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: moved excited to go talk to and you know, the
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  Speaker 1: new faces, and everyone's going to want to hear frombout
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  Speaker 1: those guys all spring and all that, and we get that,
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  Speaker 1: but they also managed to retain everyone else off of
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  Speaker 1: that coaching staff. You kept Billy Fessler, you kept Tyler Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: and you kept Carlos Locklan, you kept Keenan Bailey, all
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  Speaker 1: those guys coming back this year. That feels like that's
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  Speaker 1: you know, those are guys who probably had some other
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  Speaker 1: options out there, other opportunities out there. To keep those
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  Speaker 1: guys without having to necessarily give someone a big title
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  Speaker 1: bump or a huge raise or something like that, that
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  Speaker 1: feels like that's kind of a real underrated win as
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  Speaker 1: part of this conversation too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially for you're bringing in a new coordinator and
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  Speaker 2: the same with Matt Patricia last year. Coming in, you
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  Speaker 2: had all of these coaches, the assistants on the defensive
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  Speaker 2: side that Ryan Day really liked, and so you need
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  Speaker 2: somebody that can mess with them. The same thing here.
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  Speaker 2: You keep everybody aside from Brian Hartline. You bring in
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  Speaker 2: somebody that should be able to measure with everybody. But
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  Speaker 2: to keep those guys, and as you said, they Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Day said it on Friday, every everybody had opportunities to leave.
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  Speaker 2: Billy Fessler could have left, like just thinking of the
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  Speaker 2: Penn State situation. He's a Penn State alum. They've got
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  Speaker 2: a new head coach there. You know, there's there's probably
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  Speaker 2: some poll there. Tyler Bowen could have gone and they
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  Speaker 2: kept him. And Keenan Bailey has been again, he's been
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  Speaker 2: here longer than Ryan Day, and we know how Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Day feels about him, and so that's somebody that they
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  Speaker 2: really don't want to lose. And at some point he's
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  Speaker 2: probably going to either be calling plays or going on
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  Speaker 2: somewhere else to call plays. And so to keep all
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  Speaker 2: of those guys together, and again you know Carlo Sloughlan
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  Speaker 2: as well that you know all of those guys and
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  Speaker 2: you can prepare your new offensive coordinator for for for
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  Speaker 2: what to expect. And now again you've got you still
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  Speaker 2: have Tyler Bowen in there, who has called plays. You
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  Speaker 2: got Billy Fesler who has called plays. So you've got
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  Speaker 2: a good collection of veteran coaches.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. There is your sort of update
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  Speaker 1: on the Ohio State coaching staff and Ryan Day's views
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  Speaker 1: of the Ohio State offensive coaching staff and the changes
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  Speaker 1: he made and the changes he didn't have to make,
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  Speaker 1: and why he thinks those are sort of the best
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  Speaker 1: series right now in terms of what to expect from
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  Speaker 1: some of the true freshmen for Ohio State, as well
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  Speaker 1: as potential areas of concern and a couple different areas
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  Speaker 1: in the team and how concerned should you be about
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  Speaker 1: certain things with the offensive line. And that's when we
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  Speaker 1: just recorded that will be coming out in the next
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  Speaker 1: day or so. I know there are a wide variety
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  Speaker 1: of answers about how concerned you should be. You get
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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