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Ohio State Football: More Transfers To Come On Special Teams · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyees tomorrow morning for Friday, January twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: podcasts Tony Garterman and I and we have developed some
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  Speaker 1: really annoying habits over the years, not the ones you're
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  Speaker 1: thinking about, but really just having terrible, terrible timing on stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We waited multiple days to make sure the portal was
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  Speaker 1: closed for Ohio State and then talked about the last
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  Speaker 1: guy going into the portal for Ohio State. We talked about, well,
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  Speaker 1: here's where we're hearing he might be going, and then
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  Speaker 1: we hit stop, and then literally like five minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: Tony text means's Tody Kitad has committed to Iowa. It's like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we just talked about that, but man, it would have
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  Speaker 1: been great if you could have done that five minutes earlier,
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  Speaker 1: but we didn't.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: And then on that show we also talk to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that Boyle heis State really could use a punter.
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  Speaker 1: They really could use another punter, so I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they're done in the portal yet. And then a matter
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  Speaker 1: of like an hour or so later, they go get
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  Speaker 1: a punter.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna be talking about that punter.
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  Speaker 1: Edition what else they maybe need to do on special teams,
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  Speaker 1: because we know special teams is always a hot topic
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  Speaker 1: this time of year, especially after the last season for
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State's welcome and Tony Gerderman, which of course will
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  Speaker 1: cause Ohio State to sign a kicker in the next
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven minutes or so, just after we are done.
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  Speaker 1: But Tony, let's start with the addition of the punter.
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  Speaker 1: This is you know they have Joe Maguire, you feel
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  Speaker 1: good about you know you have a multi year starter
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  Speaker 1: returning it punter. You know you needed someone else. The
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  Speaker 1: guy they brought in feels like, yeah, this is exactly
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  Speaker 1: the kind of player you bring in to give yourself
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  Speaker 1: some proven depth and the kind of guy you can
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  Speaker 1: bring in who's not demanding that he start.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly and that's pretty young out of Houston Christian originally
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  Speaker 3: from Perrysburg, Ohio, is a red shirt senior one year left.
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  Speaker 3: Began his career at Cincinnati, never played, went to Houston
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  Speaker 3: Christian this past year was their punter. Averaged forty one
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  Speaker 3: yards of punt with a long of sixty six, even
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  Speaker 3: got to throw a pass, did not connect. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: sixty seven punts this past year, five touchbacks, which I
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  Speaker 3: think is pretty pretty decent, seventeen kicks inside the inside
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  Speaker 3: the twenty twelve of his sixty seven kicks went over
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  Speaker 3: fifty yards, but forty one point seven yard per kick average,
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  Speaker 3: which is, you know, it's not great, but obviously it's not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, sure they would take great, but great's not
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  Speaker 3: out there in terms of the portal and the punny game.
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  Speaker 3: But they just needed another guy that for one could
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  Speaker 3: provide some competition, but two can be a the backup.
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  Speaker 3: You never just want to have one guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think this kind of goes back to
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  Speaker 1: the conversation conversations we've had around Justin Martin, the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: they brought in from Maryland and then U c LA.
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  Speaker 1: He was not he's not coming in necessarily to be
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  Speaker 1: the starter, and I don't think he's coming in expecting
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  Speaker 1: to be the starter. But you need another veteran guy
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  Speaker 1: who you know has done it, because you just need
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  Speaker 1: what they're looking for out of punting is they don't
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  Speaker 1: you know, they had the guy who could, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kick the ball to the moon, but was you know,
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  Speaker 1: how were the mechanics, how was the consistency not great
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  Speaker 1: all the time? And that's why Nick McLarty never really
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  Speaker 1: took off at Ohio State and it is now at
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  Speaker 1: Arizona State. They're just looking for consistency, They're looking for
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  Speaker 1: reliability at that punting position. And to me, this this
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  Speaker 1: feels like a really safe just in insurance, you know, case,
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  Speaker 1: if nothing else. And the numbers are not so dissimilar
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  Speaker 1: from Joe maguire that you know, you look at it
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  Speaker 1: and go, well, he certainly can't beat out Joe McGuire.
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  Speaker 1: I think it could be an interesting positional battle, but
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  Speaker 1: no matter which one of them wins out, I think
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  Speaker 1: that Ohio State is going to get kind of what
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State tends to want at that punting position, which
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  Speaker 1: is just boring consistent reliability for.
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  Speaker 3: Knowledge that's all it is. It's like, we know exactly
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  Speaker 3: what we're going to get. We don't need any more
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  Speaker 3: than that, don't certainly don't want any less than that.
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  Speaker 3: Every in coverage knows what's happening here, and it's just
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  Speaker 3: you don't want any mysteries in the special teams. And
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  Speaker 3: Joe McGuire is not a mystery.
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  Speaker 1: No, Joe McGuire is not a mystery. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know what you're going to get there. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be fine. It's not going to be incredible, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be fine. It'll be You're not probably going
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  Speaker 1: to win the game or lose the game with punting.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to get you you know what you got there.
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  Speaker 1: Should feel pretty good about that. So now they move
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  Speaker 1: Let's move on to a kicking position, which is a
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  Speaker 1: position that has been one of It's gotten quite a
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  Speaker 1: lot of a ten at Ohio State and among Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State fans over the last.
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  Speaker 2: Few weeks, months, years.
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  Speaker 1: We know that they brought in Connor Hawkins from Baylor,
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  Speaker 1: who is you know, I think the most important part
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  Speaker 1: of that other than has kicked a bunch of fifty yarders,
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  Speaker 1: the most significant part of that within this conversation is
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  Speaker 1: he has three years of eligibility left, so you're probably
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  Speaker 1: not going to be able to bring in another really.
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  Speaker 2: Really top kicker. If you know, kicker.
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  Speaker 1: Number one is going to be here for another three years.
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  Speaker 1: But with that, you know, with that said, we know
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  Speaker 1: they need to add another kicker. You cannot go into
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  Speaker 1: the year with just one kicker, so you've got to
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  Speaker 1: bring in someone else, whether that's from high school or
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  Speaker 1: the portal. Right after the Cotton Bowl, like a day
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  Speaker 1: or two after the Cotton Bowl, they made an offer
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  Speaker 1: to Jacobo at Traveria. He's someone who that had kicked
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  Speaker 1: at Ohio State camps a couple summers ago, one of
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  Speaker 1: the top uncommitted kickers in the nation. He had gotten
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  Speaker 1: an offer from Ohio State a couple of days after
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  Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl. But then when you bring in Connor Hawkins,
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  Speaker 1: that probably changes that picture a little bit for the
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  Speaker 1: top uncommitted kicker in the nation. He ended up committing
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  Speaker 1: to Purdue. So then the question for Ohio stated kicker
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  Speaker 1: is now what And we don't have an answer. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: maybe wait ten minutes and the answer will present itself.
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  Speaker 1: That tends to be how this works at this point.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it feels like they have to add
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  Speaker 1: someone there. But I don't have a real strong opinion
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  Speaker 1: on whether that needs to be a high school player
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  Speaker 1: or another portal guy or you know what.
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  Speaker 3: You just explained it pretty well why it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be tough to get a top high school guy because
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna be sitting for a while. There are a
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  Speaker 3: lot of kickers in the portal. Many of them have
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  Speaker 3: not ever kicked, basically did not see game action. If
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  Speaker 3: you go through and look at the portal and look
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  Speaker 3: at the the bios, a lot of these guys have
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  Speaker 3: not seen game action. So it would wouldn't be surprising
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  Speaker 3: if they would also go to Ohio State to not
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  Speaker 3: see game action. You know that sort of thing where
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  Speaker 3: maybe harder to go get somebody that has I've been
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  Speaker 3: the kicker for three years at Ball State my last year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'll go be a backup at Ohio State. That's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be tough to find. What is easier to find is
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  Speaker 3: the guys who have not done much but are still
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  Speaker 3: looking to go do something. And there are were worst
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  Speaker 3: worst worst places to do something. Not much, you know, presumably,
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  Speaker 3: but the worst places in Ohio State I mean, we
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  Speaker 3: see them practicing, or we see them at practice, you know,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes practicing, but looks like a pretty decent existence. When
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  Speaker 3: you're a kicker at Ohio State, there's a there's a
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  Speaker 3: number of guys out in the portal that could end
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  Speaker 3: up at Ohio State. But I don't how many other
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  Speaker 3: teams are also looking for that second kicker. Probably quite
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  Speaker 3: a few. And what you don't want, Tom is we
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  Speaker 3: see it every every few years where we're watching a
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  Speaker 3: game and just like this guy just walked on to
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  Speaker 3: the team on Tuesday, and it's ok to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And every once in a while that turns
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  Speaker 1: into a Disney movie, but a lot of times that
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  Speaker 1: turns into you know, not not the right not, not
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  Speaker 1: the right kind of movie, not the kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Movie you'd want to want to be starring.
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  Speaker 1: And I do wonder if this is a spot where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you try and find someone in the portal.
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  Speaker 1: But we've talked over the years about, you know, should
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State and this is probably a.
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  Speaker 2: Little bit more of a several years ago conversation, but.
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  Speaker 1: Should Ohio State just take a commitment from the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the top, you know, pick a three star Ohio quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: Who they can bring in out of high school, who
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  Speaker 1: is going to be okay with sitting for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years and just sort of developing and just you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to dump a ton of nil in there.
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  Speaker 1: Do you just take the top high school kicker out
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  Speaker 1: of you know, who's available out of the state of
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  Speaker 1: Ohio right now, and just just take that person so
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  Speaker 1: you have someone who you know can kick. But you
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  Speaker 1: know this isn't you know, that's not someone who's coming
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  Speaker 1: in with the expectation that they're going to start.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't you know.
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  Speaker 1: I have not done a deep and exhaustive dive on
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  Speaker 1: the available kickers within the state of Ohio or the
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  Speaker 1: available kickers within the transfer portal. But it just feels like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you you're gonna have to bring in someone,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I think that that's worth at least exploring.
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  Speaker 3: The good The good news is once this show drops
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  Speaker 3: ten minutes later, we will have our answers. So, as
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  Speaker 3: we said leaving the show yesterday, they're going to add somebody.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll say the same thing, They're going to add
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  Speaker 3: somebody because you can't just have one. And sure, we
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  Speaker 3: all love to watch defensive lineman to kick the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know the coaches do, yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I'm just sort of scrolling through
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  Speaker 1: the portal right now. Cal's kicker is the top available
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  Speaker 1: in terms of ranking. There's a kicker from Akron who
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  Speaker 1: is available right now in the portal who is you know,
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  Speaker 1: rated as a you know, one of the top top
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  Speaker 1: few kickers available.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, yeah, there's there are.
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  Speaker 1: Guys out there. They will find someone if Tony and
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  Speaker 1: I are aware that Ohio State Needen is another kicker.
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  Speaker 1: Rest assured the Ohio State coaching staff is as well.
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  Speaker 1: But so those shoes will get filled. We know they
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  Speaker 1: have their their starting kicker. That I think is the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing that has brought a sigh of relief to
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State fan base to be continuing to sort
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  Speaker 1: of round out that roster. As we said on yesterday show,
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  Speaker 1: there's probably another fifteen ish spots available out there if
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  Speaker 1: they want to sort of fill that whole roster with
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  Speaker 1: walk ons and other portal guys and all that. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see how they choose to do that, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: We hope you enjoined us in both of those places.
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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.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day. We'll talk to tomorrow.