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Ohio State Recruiting: Which 5-Star Visitor Is Most Likely To End Up A Buckeye? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: their schedule, but maybe they can get the Grateful Griddle
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  Speaker 1: truck over to the Wooty Hayes Athletic Center for the
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  Speaker 1: first weekend of official visits for the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: your twenty twenty six class first official visit weekend in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. These recruiting classes are kind of confusing.
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  Speaker 1: You know that already if you follow recruiting at all,
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  Speaker 1: But this is the first weekend of official visits. One
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  Speaker 1: thing is not confusing. We get our buddy Andrew Ellis
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  Speaker 1: from Bucke huddle back on with us.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: There are I counted three five star players, the number
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  Speaker 1: seven overall player in the two four to seven composite
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  Speaker 1: Felix Ojo, the offensive tackle out of Texas, the number
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  Speaker 1: seventeen overall player running back Savian Hyder out of Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: and then the number twenty seven overall player, linebacker Xavier Griffin,
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  Speaker 1: a recent d commit. They are all going to be
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  Speaker 1: in town this weekend. Let's start with the big man
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  Speaker 1: up front, Felix Ojoe. How big is this visit for
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big visit.
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  Speaker 3: But we've talked about this before, the different philosophy right
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  Speaker 3: now with offensive line recruiting, Whereas if Ohio State missed
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  Speaker 3: on a guy like this in years past, it's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what are we going to do? Now You've
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  Speaker 3: got Sam Greer in the fold already, They're going to
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  Speaker 3: obviously take at least two, if not three tackles. If
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  Speaker 3: they can get this kid from from Texas to come
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  Speaker 3: to Columbus rather than Austin, it would be one of
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  Speaker 3: the bigger recruiting wins at any position in recent history.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen many experts say that, you know, he's crystal
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  Speaker 3: ball to Texas, but it's not really like an ink.
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  Speaker 3: It's very much in pencil. And if there's any team
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  Speaker 3: that has the chance to kind of change that that
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  Speaker 3: it would be Ohio State. So that's a big one.
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  Speaker 3: Five star offensive tackles are very hard to find, They're
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  Speaker 3: very hard to land, and if they could get him
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  Speaker 3: to go along with Sam Greer, it would be I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it would be incredible.
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  Speaker 2: I think hitting the first official visit.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not ideal since he's you know, got others to take,
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  Speaker 3: but just getting him up here again and being right
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  Speaker 3: there with Texas for the top spot, that's that's a
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  Speaker 3: pretty big deal for for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Next up, let's go to the running back
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  Speaker 1: room and save Yon Hyder. We've seen Carlos Laughlin or
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  Speaker 1: kiss Magic on the recruiting trail.
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  Speaker 2: This would be a big addition.
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  Speaker 1: We actually talked about Savan Hyder put a week or
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  Speaker 1: two ago and on a show where we're kind of
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  Speaker 1: looking deeper at the running back recruiting situation. So we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about him a little bit. But I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is a clear top of the board guy that they're
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  Speaker 1: bringing in this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's one of maybe two guys along with Derek
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  Speaker 3: Cooper that if they could land one of them, that
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  Speaker 3: that would be that might be it for the class
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  Speaker 3: at running back. It's I don't think the Ohio State
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  Speaker 3: leads for either of them right now. It seems like
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  Speaker 3: they're in a better spot for Hyder than they are Cooper.
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  Speaker 3: But the other side of this, and we talked about
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  Speaker 3: it the other week, if he doesn't end up at
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State, there's a solid chance that he's going to
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  Speaker 3: end up at Michigan. Georgia and Tennessee are also involved.
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  Speaker 3: I think he kind of popped up on Knoxville's campus
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  Speaker 3: last weekend. So huge, huge weekend for Carlos Laughlin. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's the scenario where even if you hit
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  Speaker 3: a grand Slam, the kid's going to shut down his
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  Speaker 3: recruitment or anything like that, But I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: a pivotal weekend for running back recruiting in the twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty sixth class.
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  Speaker 1: And then the third five star I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 1: about linebacker Xavier Griffin. This is one of these recruitments
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  Speaker 1: I love was recently committed to USC, then decommitted. Now
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  Speaker 1: he's about to start his official physits and he already
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  Speaker 1: has the decision date set for less than a month
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  Speaker 1: from now, June twenty ninth. So what are the odds
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes can bring in a five star linebacker in
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  Speaker 1: Xavier Griffin.
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  Speaker 2: I would say pretty low.
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  Speaker 3: If you're looking for for a five star linebacker, you
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  Speaker 3: might you might want to look at Tyler Atkinson a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more. I think usually when it came has
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  Speaker 3: a decision date set most times, that means they have
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  Speaker 3: a solid inclination of where they're going to go.
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  Speaker 2: Ever since the de.
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  Speaker 3: Commitment from USC and they've gotten very good at losing
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  Speaker 3: commitments from these got from these guys from the southeast
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  Speaker 3: part of the country. It's almost like Ohio State's running
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  Speaker 3: back recruiting for Florida. It seems like every year the
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  Speaker 3: state of Florida, they lose one of those guys to Miami.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully that doesn't happen this time. But I would say
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  Speaker 3: the odds for Ohio State landing Xavier Griffin are very low.
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  Speaker 3: After the Bama buzz started after that de commitment. I
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  Speaker 3: think some picks have come in for him to end
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  Speaker 3: up at Alabama, but who knows, maybe Alabama lands him.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that would kind of maybe if Alabama knows they're
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  Speaker 3: going to land him, that might help Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: State in the pursuit of a Sincere Johnson or somebody
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  Speaker 2: like that. As we talked about you, and we've.
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  Speaker 1: Talked a bunch about the concern around defensive line recruiting
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  Speaker 1: and that that's sort of the one big question mark
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  Speaker 1: really for this twenty twenty sixth class and just sort
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  Speaker 1: of the general state of the program right now is
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  Speaker 1: on the you know, the depth and the intro of
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  Speaker 1: the defensive line, but just the future of the defensive
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  Speaker 1: line as well with the recruiting. This is a big
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  Speaker 1: week that bringing in four defensive linemen this weekend on
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  Speaker 1: official visits. Who are the names that people need to know?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So Larry Johnson is just so hard to figure out.
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  Speaker 3: I've always said that that Mark Givler is kind of
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  Speaker 3: the guy when it comes to actually deciphering Larry Johnson's
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  Speaker 3: puzzles here. So nobody knows what's going to happen with
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  Speaker 3: defensive line. There's really not anybody as far as edge
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  Speaker 3: guys defensive ends that Ohio State seems to lead for
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  Speaker 3: right now. I would say that tackles in a better spot.
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  Speaker 3: And none of these guys are visiting this weekend, but
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  Speaker 3: Deuce Gerald's and PJ. Dean are supposed to be here
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  Speaker 3: later in June. But this weekend, there's a guy named
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  Speaker 3: Cameron Brickle who's visiting. There's a kid named Carrie Wilder
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  Speaker 3: who's visiting. These are honestly still names that I think
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  Speaker 3: the Ohio State fan base are learning about because you
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  Speaker 3: just don't know what the heck Larry Johnson is doing.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to complain about him given the defensive line
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  Speaker 3: performance in the playoff, but it's one of those scenarios
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  Speaker 3: where I think somebody is just going to commit out
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  Speaker 3: of the blue along the defensive line and you're just
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  Speaker 3: going to be It's just gonna be one of those
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  Speaker 3: things where I didn't even know Ohio State was in.
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  Speaker 2: It for that guy.
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  Speaker 3: So a couple of visitors this weekend. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: either of those names or guys Ohio State leads for.
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  Speaker 3: But again, Larry Johnson behind the scenes just kind of
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  Speaker 3: is like a ninja or something. And maybe maybe Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State secretly leads for one of those guys and nobody knows.
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  Speaker 3: But biggest concern right now in the class. June's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a big month with with Gerald and Dean
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  Speaker 3: and some of those guys coming in and then defensive end,
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  Speaker 3: it's just a crapshoot at this point. There's not even
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  Speaker 3: really any names that we know that are likely. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we talked about Richard Wesleydy committing from Oregon. That seems unlikely.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a crapshoot. And it's always this way along
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  Speaker 3: the defensive line. In a way, it's fun to follow,
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  Speaker 3: but it's also just kind of frustrating as a fan
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  Speaker 3: because you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't never know what the heck is going on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone is just sort of hovering with their hand
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  Speaker 1: just poised just about half an inch above the panic
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  Speaker 1: button at all times. On the defensive line recruiting front,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like right now a couple of guys who
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  Speaker 1: are Kurt commits who are coming in this weekend wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver Jaden Ricketts, he's out of Watkins Memorial High School
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  Speaker 1: in suburban Columbus, And tight end Corbin Fordham out of Florida,
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  Speaker 1: he's coming in. You're also bringing in a couple offensive
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  Speaker 1: linemen Aaron Thomas and Breck Kollajoy. You know, the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line recruiting, it seems like that's much less of a
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  Speaker 1: concern right now. That was an area where for years
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  Speaker 1: under Justin Fry, it seemed like that was the one
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  Speaker 1: where everyone is always deeply concerned for.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the whole cycle.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like that's sort of turned around a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: even just in the last little bit since Tyler Bowen's
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  Speaker 1: been in charge.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's completely turned around. And it's it's
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  Speaker 3: not just the commitments that he's landed, which obviously have
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  Speaker 3: been great, but it's just the number of guys that
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  Speaker 3: you actually can talk about, you know. The Felix Ojo
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  Speaker 3: is obviously the big fish out there, and I say
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  Speaker 3: it's probably unlikely that they do land him, but if
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  Speaker 3: they can land in Aaron Thomas or somebody like that
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  Speaker 3: to go along with, to go along with Sam Greer,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're looking at a really good offensive line class.
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  Speaker 3: So Tyler Bowen is his trajectory right now is seemingly
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  Speaker 3: in a different in a different direction as Larry Johnson's,
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  Speaker 3: as sad as that is to say, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: think the I think the Aaron Thomas that might be
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  Speaker 3: the bigger that might be the more realistic guy.
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  Speaker 2: They could get to kind of compliment Sam Greer.
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  Speaker 3: And I will say Larry Johnson does have that Jake
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  Speaker 3: Cruel kid from IMG Academy defensive end he's visiting this weekend,
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  Speaker 3: but I think that's another name that nobody views Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State as the clear leader.
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  Speaker 2: For anything like that. So big opportunity this weekend, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: Big opportunity this weekend, and then of course another good
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  Speaker 1: solid six months before anyone actually puts pen to paper,
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  Speaker 1: So gonna be plenty of time to let all of
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  Speaker 1: this drama play out and you can watch it all
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  Speaker 1: only official visit season, but also camp season. Official visits
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