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Will The Buckeyes Overlook Rutgers With Michigan On Deck? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a special bonus episode of the Buckeyes Tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: Morning Podcast and the show you're going to get to
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  Speaker 1: hear from Rutgers head coach Greg Sheiano. He held his
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  Speaker 1: press conference on Tuesday, same day as Brian Day. So
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  Speaker 1: we're a little bit out of our weekly routine here,
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  Speaker 1: so you're going to get this a little later in
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  Speaker 1: the week, but figured there's some interesting stuff here we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get. We're gonna start with just some general updates
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  Speaker 1: on injuries right now. I can hear you saying, boy,
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried I'm gonna get lost in all the specifics
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  Speaker 1: on the answer. I can assure you that won't be
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  Speaker 1: a problem. All these clips courtesy of Rutgers Athletics.
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  Speaker 2: There may be one or two that can come back.
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  Speaker 2: We got to see how they progress during the week.
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  Speaker 2: I think the guys, you know, we had prescriptions for
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  Speaker 2: every guy at this point in the season. Some guys
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  Speaker 2: really did nothing but recovery, lift and treatment. Other guys practice,
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  Speaker 2: and we had a kind of an individualized plan for
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  Speaker 2: each guy. Definitely that plan has helped them feel much
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  Speaker 2: better this week. So and like I said, great challenge
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  Speaker 2: going out to Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: Rutgers is five and five this year, looking to potentially
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  Speaker 1: earn a bowl bit with a sixth win, But they
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  Speaker 1: know this weekend that is not going to be easy
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  Speaker 1: to try and get that sixth win. They know they're
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  Speaker 1: also facing one of the best defenses in the country.
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  Speaker 1: So what is it, in Greg Ciano's eyes that allows
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State defense to play so well and so
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  Speaker 1: consistently from week to week.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you hit it on the head. First off, they're
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  Speaker 2: very very talented. Second off, they are really well coached,
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  Speaker 2: so they execute very well. Matt Patricia has done a
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  Speaker 2: magnificent job. You can see his fingerprints all over it.
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  Speaker 2: I've known Matt for a long time and doesn't surprise
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  Speaker 2: me one bit. They have very good coaching staff that
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  Speaker 2: is coaching very good players very well. So when you
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  Speaker 2: add all that up, it adds up to a very
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  Speaker 2: good defense.
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  Speaker 1: Rutgers had a week off last week. That's pretty late
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  Speaker 1: in the season to have your week off, So having
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  Speaker 1: an advance is that an advantage? Maybe to have your
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  Speaker 1: week off that late in the season when everyone else
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  Speaker 1: in the country is obviously pretty banged up and you
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  Speaker 1: just got a whole week off to maybe how you know,
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  Speaker 1: heal up, take some time, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Can that potentially be a game changer for Rutgers at
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  Speaker 1: a time when everyone else is really kind of banged up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Buys are a tricky thing, right, Like when you
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  Speaker 2: get them, you always say, oh, it's a good time,
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  Speaker 2: it's a bad time. It is what it is. Like
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  Speaker 2: I stopped trying to figure all that stuff out. It
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  Speaker 2: was good for us to be able to come off
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  Speaker 2: a win, recover and get ready for this challenge. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see what it results in. Well, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: like I said it was. You know, last week was
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  Speaker 2: all individualized prescriptions for the guys that were playing a
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  Speaker 2: lot of plays this season. There's also the developmental phase that,
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  Speaker 2: as I mentioned to you guys, with all the injuries
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  Speaker 2: we've had, our developmental has suffered just a little bit
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  Speaker 2: because we have to make sure that we keep the
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  Speaker 2: scout team healthy enough to give us a good look.
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  Speaker 2: So last week was an opportunity to get some really
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  Speaker 2: good developmental work in with our younger players. Overall, I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was very helpful. Yeah, so what we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: One player you're going to need to know for the
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  Speaker 1: Rutgers offenses, Antwoin Raymond. He was the Dope Walker National
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  Speaker 1: running Back of the Week last week or two weeks ago, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: when they played Maryland. Here was his stat line and
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  Speaker 1: just go ahead, make sure you're listening. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: hear these numbers and think that can't be right. Forty
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  Speaker 1: one carries two hundred and forty yards and a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: That forty one carry number that would rank third all
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  Speaker 1: time in Ohio State history, behind Champ Henson he had
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  Speaker 1: forty four in nineteen seventy two, John Brockington had forty
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  Speaker 1: two in nineteen seventy and then Antoine Raymond. If he
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  Speaker 1: had played for Ohio State, he would have been third
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  Speaker 1: all time. We just did a list of the most
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  Speaker 1: unbreakable records in Ohio State history and that was near
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  Speaker 1: the top of the list at some point last summer
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  Speaker 1: when we did that. Because who's going to run the
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  Speaker 1: ball forty times in a game? Well, the answer is
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  Speaker 1: Antoine Raymond from Rutgers. He is a native of Montreal,
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  Speaker 1: had a little bit of an unusual path to Rutgers.
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  Speaker 1: So what has allowed him to turn into the kind
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  Speaker 1: of player he has for the Scarlet Knights.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Antoine is certainly a very very talented guy, right,
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  Speaker 2: So that's first and foremost. I think he had a
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  Speaker 2: great opportunity to come here and have people mentor him
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  Speaker 2: right between coach Shaw and between Kyle and Coach Shaw.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was really put in a position where
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  Speaker 2: he grew quickly. You know, you don't always walk into
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  Speaker 2: a meeting room and a position room that is kind
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  Speaker 2: of staffed and has a veteran player like that, so
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  Speaker 2: I think, but really it's his talent and his want
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  Speaker 2: to write, Like, you could walk into that room and
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  Speaker 2: if you're not mature enough or you're not hungry enough,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the opportunity could just pass right by you.
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  Speaker 2: But that certainly wasn't the case with Antoine. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he was chomping at the bit, and if you remember
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  Speaker 2: he and Benji come to Minnesota game last year, they
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  Speaker 2: really stepped up, and then in the bowl game again,
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  Speaker 2: so in the games that Kyle didn't play.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier that the Scarlet Knights are five and five
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  Speaker 1: right now and still maybe hoping make a Bowl game.
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  Speaker 1: But of course there's also a little bit of an
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  Speaker 1: eye on the future as well, so have they sort
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  Speaker 1: of reached the developmental part of the season where you
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  Speaker 1: might see some of the younger guys playing more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not from a developmental standpoint. If they if they
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  Speaker 2: can help us win, if we feel like they give
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  Speaker 2: us the best chance to win, then they'll then they'll play.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the developmental stuff takes place out here on
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  Speaker 2: the practice field. Now, certainly there's no substitute for game experience,
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  Speaker 2: but we're never going to sacrifice, you know, the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to win a game to just have development on the
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  Speaker 2: on the game field. That's what practice is for.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a question you hear coaches get just about every
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  Speaker 1: week at these press conferences, and it's always just basically like, so,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith, what are you gonna do about him? And
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  Speaker 1: just sort of the challenge that someone like Jeremiah Smith poses.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously there's a little bit of a subtext of how
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  Speaker 1: healthy will he be? Will he play? YadA, YadA, YadA,
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  Speaker 1: you know that stuff. This is a more broad look
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  Speaker 1: at Jeremiah Smith and the challenge he poses as an
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  Speaker 1: opposing defensive co ordinator.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is. He is a fantastic talent. I mean
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  Speaker 2: he's big, he's strong, he's fast, he's detailed, runs great routes,
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  Speaker 2: great catch radius. You know, the last eighteen targets, he's
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  Speaker 2: caught them all. That's like, you know, going four or
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  Speaker 2: five games without in baseball, without being you know, getting
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  Speaker 2: out right. It's like being on base every time for
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  Speaker 2: four or five games. That's hard to do. Certainly it
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  Speaker 2: takes a quarterback throwing you in the pass, which saying
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  Speaker 2: is an excellent player, my goodness, but you know you
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  Speaker 2: can you can really say that across the board on
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  Speaker 2: their football team, they're an elite level team. That's why
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  Speaker 2: they're number one. That's why you know, I was reading
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  Speaker 2: the stats somewhere. I think it's like since twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: ninety something and nine right in Big Ten games. That's
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  Speaker 2: pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Seiano, of course, has his background as a defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: He obviously the head coach now for Rutgers, but he
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  Speaker 1: was a defensive coordinator at Ohio State and is sort
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  Speaker 1: of known as a defensive mind. And Rutgers is defense.
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  Speaker 1: So it has improved this year over the course of
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  Speaker 1: the season. They allowed only three points in the second
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  Speaker 1: half of their win against Maryland a couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: So what has allowed the Scarlet Knights to make the
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  Speaker 1: progress They have this season.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think we're I don't think we're making improvement
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  Speaker 2: at some things that we weren't doing as well to
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the year. And we've continued to do
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  Speaker 2: that in the bye week and to and in the
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  Speaker 2: last two practices. Again, I don't know what that will
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  Speaker 2: amount to Saturday. We're gonna find out, right, That's why
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  Speaker 2: it's it's such a great challenge and such a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: But as was mentioned, you know, they have elite players
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  Speaker 2: at every position offensively and elite players at every position defensively.
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  Speaker 2: So when you do that, you have to you know,
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  Speaker 2: you try to do this and your game plan well
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  Speaker 2: than this guy you're gonna get you, or you do
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  Speaker 2: that and that guy can get you. So it certainly
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  Speaker 2: is a challenge, but we're looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: Another name you're gonna want to know for this weekend
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  Speaker 1: is Kobe Asamoa. He is from Pickerington Central, just outside Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: He is a senior starting right guard for the Starlet Knights.
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  Speaker 1: He was an honorable mention All Conference player for them
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  Speaker 1: last season. So what's Kobe Asimoa's story as he goes
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  Speaker 1: back home this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we really liked him in high school,
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  Speaker 2: and boy are we glad we got him. He's been
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  Speaker 2: a great player for us and a great teammate for us,
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  Speaker 2: a great guy to have on the squad, and I
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  Speaker 2: really think has come in to his own as a player.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm sure that's exciting for him going back
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  Speaker 2: to his hometown. But again, all those things have to
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  Speaker 2: be kept in perspective because anything they can get you
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  Speaker 2: off your chop could be a problem. Right, use it
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  Speaker 2: as fuel, but don't let it be a distraction.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, I thought this was kind of an interesting question.
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  Speaker 1: I might title the whole show with this question. Is
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  Speaker 1: there any benefit to being the team that plays Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State the week before the Michigan game? Now, again, Greg
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  Speaker 1: Ciano probably has a little bit of insight into this,
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  Speaker 1: having been inside the wood he Hayes Athletic Center off
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of Michigan games back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: So is there any benefit to being the team that
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  Speaker 1: faces Ohio State when Ohio State may already kind of
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  Speaker 1: be taking a little bit of peek ahead to you
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  Speaker 1: know who up north?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'd love to tell you yes, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think I can tell you that because historically, when
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  Speaker 2: you look back, there hasn't been any kind of significant
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  Speaker 2: better or worse in that game. And I look at
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  Speaker 2: this team that they have put together out there. Now,
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  Speaker 2: they kind of just go out and execute. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a difference between being a really talented team and
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  Speaker 2: being a really talented team that executes. This is a
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  Speaker 2: really talented team that executes. And they've changed kind of
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  Speaker 2: the way they play. You know, it used to be
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  Speaker 2: and I remember when I was there, it was run
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  Speaker 2: as many play as you can't fast fast, fast fest fest.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's NFL. They're huddle. You know, they're averaging about
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  Speaker 2: snapping the ball at about eleven and a half twelve
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  Speaker 2: seconds on the play clock. That's a different approach, And
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  Speaker 2: I get it right, when you're playing as many games
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  Speaker 2: as they are every year, you need to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that you don't have an unlimited number of plays. Every
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  Speaker 2: time you have a play, there's an opportunity for someone
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  Speaker 2: to make a play, but it's also an opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: someone to get injured. So I think, really, really, I
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  Speaker 2: think a really really smart programmatic change that they've made.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go a little bit from Greg Sheiano
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  Speaker 1: this week and Rutgers buck guys will take on the
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  Speaker 1: Scarlet Night Saturday at noon. The game is on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: We will be there for our pregame show, postgame show,
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  Speaker 1: all the coverage you've come to know and expect from us.
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  Speaker 1: It is Senior Day for the Buck Eyes, number of
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  Speaker 1: seniors being honored, and then of course the moment that
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  Speaker 1: clock hit zero, you know what time it is. It
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  Speaker 1: will be Michigan week. We will have our full coverage
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  Speaker 1: that you have come to know and expect over the
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  Speaker 1: years bur Ohio State and Michigan. I can't believe we
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  Speaker 1: were just about ten days away from that. Incredible that
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  Speaker 1: the season's already that close to over. It has been
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  Speaker 1: quite a season so far, and it may still be
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  Speaker 1: quite a season still to come. We'll be there for
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.