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Which Buckeyes Helped Their NFL Draft Stock Most At Pro Day? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning for Thursday, March twenty seventh.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Or the Texas game in one
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  Speaker 1: You know those nights when it's like mom and dad
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  Speaker 1: don't have any, you know, the ingredients to make exactly
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  Speaker 1: a typical dinner. You kind of just sort of throw
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  Speaker 1: some stuff together and it's a little bit of a hodgepodge.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of what today's show is because there's a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch to talk about, but none of it's exactly
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  Speaker 1: a full show. So we're gonna be talking about a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of differ stuff. You're going to get to hear
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  Speaker 1: from a couple different guys from Ohio State's pro day
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  Speaker 1: happened on Wednesday. A lot of stuff to talk about here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with basketball. Men's basketball Whiostate has landed its
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  Speaker 1: first transfer of this offseason, Gabe Cups out of Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: He played for Indiana in the last two years. He
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  Speaker 1: got kind of thrown into a bigger than expected role
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  Speaker 1: as a true freshman last year due to injuries ropes
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  Speaker 1: from other guys, and then this year he missed most
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  Speaker 1: of the second year his second year because of his
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  Speaker 1: own injury issues at knee surgery, back and sort of
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  Speaker 1: late November early December, missed the rest of the season,
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  Speaker 1: entered the transfer portal, and now he is coming back
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  Speaker 1: to Ohio and played for the buck Eyes. He was
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  Speaker 1: the third highest rated player in the state of Ohio
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  Speaker 1: in the class of twenty twenty three, coming back now
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  Speaker 1: home to his home state to play for the Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 1: In that class, he was ranked behind only Devin Royal,
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  Speaker 1: who is currently on the Ohio state basketball team, and
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  Speaker 1: Dalen Swain who went to Xavier played two years and
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  Speaker 1: he now also is in the transfer portal. He entered
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  Speaker 1: the portal on Monday, So I guess watch this space.
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes could go three for three potentially with the top
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  Speaker 1: three players from the state of Ohio in the class
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three. We'll see how that all goes.
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  Speaker 1: The transfer portal giveth and the transfer portal taketh away.
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  Speaker 1: Onto women's basketball now Cody McMahon she entered the portal.
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  Speaker 1: She's one of the biggest names around the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: program over the last few years. She led the team
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  Speaker 1: in scoring this year sixteen point five points per game.
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  Speaker 1: She also won the Big Ten Freshman of the Year
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  Speaker 1: award in twenty twenty three, which was the first team
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  Speaker 1: All Big Ten and Honorable mentioned AP All American in
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  Speaker 1: each of the last two seasons. But she is now
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  Speaker 1: in the portal. After their loss to Tennessee over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: she said she was quote very frustrated. It was the
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  Speaker 1: second year at a row where the Buckeyes had a
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  Speaker 1: second round exit on their home floor last year, to
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  Speaker 1: Duke this year, to Tennessee next year. Well, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what Kevin mcguffkin come up with. They've now lost all
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  Speaker 1: three starters in their front court from this year's team.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, there's a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: basketball update for you. Now onto football. We will be
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  Speaker 1: back in the Woody Hayes on Thursday talking to the
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  Speaker 1: linebackers and the tight ends. We'll have more, much more
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  Speaker 1: spring football coverage for you then today though the football
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  Speaker 1: coverage centers around Ohio States Pro Day. The Buckeyes were
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  Speaker 1: working out inside the Woody haes Let Center on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: for more than one hundred NFL folks, including about a
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  Speaker 1: half dozen eight gms and head coaches, so lots of
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  Speaker 1: big name folks there and the Buckeyes they had a
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  Speaker 1: pretty solid day overall. We'll just kind of give you
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  Speaker 1: a quick run through a lot of this stuff. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to see all this stuff, We've got footage
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of it on our YouTube channel, YouTube
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  Speaker 1: dot com slash Bucket Huddle. We'll start with Will Howard
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback. Very strong day overall for him. There were
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  Speaker 1: only two passes that were incomplete all day out of him,
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  Speaker 1: and those were considered drops by some of the folks
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  Speaker 1: who were there. So you can make your own decisions
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  Speaker 1: by watching all of his throws. We have every Will
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  Speaker 1: Howard throw on our YouTube channel. You can find that
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  Speaker 1: there YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle. So very very
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  Speaker 1: good day for Will Howard. Good day as well for
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  Speaker 1: a Mecca Abuka. You kind of know what you're getting
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  Speaker 1: with a Mecca Abuka, really strong hands, really good route runner.
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  Speaker 1: Question was how fast will he run? He ran a
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  Speaker 1: four four five forty according to the results put out
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  Speaker 1: by Ohio State four p four four five. Sorry, that
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of numbers very quickly. Four point four
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  Speaker 1: four five on the forty yard dash for Mecca Abuca.
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  Speaker 1: That was a number that people seemed happy with. I
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  Speaker 1: think Jordan Hancock he was happy with how he ran
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  Speaker 1: as well. The cornerback he was to get listed as
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  Speaker 1: a four point four to two forty by Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: He seemed again happy with how he ran. That was
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  Speaker 1: like one of the questions around him. That question may
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  Speaker 1: have been answered there. Highest number of reps on the
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  Speaker 1: bench repping at two hundred and twenty five pounds on
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  Speaker 1: the bench press would be Ty Hamilton. We keep talking
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  Speaker 1: to him for his whole career of talked about him
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  Speaker 1: as sort of the guy who's a little bit underrated,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit forgotten, and there he is the strongest
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  Speaker 1: guy of those who tested on the on the bench
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  Speaker 1: thirty five reps for Ty Hamilton. Josh Simmons remember him tackle.
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  Speaker 1: He suffered a season ending knee injury against Oregon in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the season, missed out on the whole
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  Speaker 1: run to the national championship, had to watch from the sidelines.
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  Speaker 1: He pumped out thirty three reps on the and that
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  Speaker 1: was considered a very good day for him as well.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, so now I'm going to let you
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  Speaker 1: hear a little bit from some of the buck Eyes
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  Speaker 1: who took part in those in those events and took
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  Speaker 1: part in the pro day workouts. We're going to start
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  Speaker 1: with Donovan Jackson, just get his overall thoughts on the day,
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  Speaker 1: how things went for him.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it went pretty well today. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: was able to for the most part, I hit all
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  Speaker 2: the numbers I set out to hit in terms of
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  Speaker 2: jumping and you know, benching everything like that. In terms
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  Speaker 2: of the overall drills I did, I felt like I
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  Speaker 2: looked fluid strong, So I couldn't be more problem with it.
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  Speaker 2: But in the day, but I know it was just
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  Speaker 2: just to start. There's a lot more I have to
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  Speaker 2: do from here, but I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: Donovan Jackson spent most of his career at guard and
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  Speaker 1: then spent the last half of last season obviously at
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  Speaker 1: left tackle and did an incredible job for the buck Eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Then the question becomes Okay, where is he going to
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  Speaker 1: play in the pros? Where are teams talking about him
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  Speaker 1: playing in the pros? Where the guys where do they
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  Speaker 1: think he might fit? So here was his answer, and
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  Speaker 1: this is of a typical Donovan Jackson sense of humor.
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  Speaker 2: Answer here, Yeah, I mean I had a couple of
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  Speaker 2: conversations with people, you know, some as some positions, some
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  Speaker 2: how many different positions, some how many positions I've never
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  Speaker 2: even played yet. But you know, I just really need
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  Speaker 2: a job. So wherever they told me to play, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to play at it and do it the best
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  Speaker 2: of my abilities.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, Jack Sawyer. Jack Sawyer had a very minor
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  Speaker 1: tweak of his hamstring, nothing to be super worried about,
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  Speaker 1: nothing long term, but he didn't end up running the forty,
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  Speaker 1: but he did do some other drills. He was asked
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  Speaker 1: whether there was maybe a little bit less pressure as
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  Speaker 1: he was working out doing all this stuff for all
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  Speaker 1: these teams, just based on having so much good film
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  Speaker 1: out there from last season. We'll hear that answer, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Here a quick follow up from Dan Hope.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean for me and like Jat and these
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  Speaker 3: guys and Tyler Gut, today was just fun for us,
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  Speaker 3: and that's just one last time again to get together,
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  Speaker 3: one last ride in the Woodie and you know, get
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  Speaker 3: out here and work together.
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  Speaker 4: Coach Johnson, what's it like when you look up there
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  Speaker 4: see those banners of the wall.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the dream come true, man. I mean, spent
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  Speaker 3: long four years here, the ups and downs, and I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't trade anyone for the world and be able to
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  Speaker 3: come back now and see that we left some here.
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  Speaker 1: It feels good now. Onto Seth McLaughlin, who is still
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  Speaker 1: rehabbing his achilles injury, so he really did not take
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  Speaker 1: part in Pro Day at all other than just sort
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  Speaker 1: of hanging out and talking to teams. He was not
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  Speaker 1: actively running or doing any of that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But he was asked that same question about sort of
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  Speaker 1: looking around the Woody. This is sort of the last
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  Speaker 1: time in that building for at least a while for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these guys, and Seth McLaughlin just sort
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  Speaker 1: of looking around and seeing the banners and realizing what
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  Speaker 1: this team has accompanied.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's cool. You know, we'd wint into those all
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  Speaker 3: offseason hoping to hang these and seeing all my friends
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  Speaker 3: up here on these I say, years of joy happiness.
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  Speaker 4: Soos like the happiest moments of you know, these guy's
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  Speaker 4: lives up to this point.
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  Speaker 3: So that's cool to see those kind of immortalized to
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  Speaker 3: be on fin the Woody.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, this was not just a day for the
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  Speaker 1: guys who were turning pro this year. This is also
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  Speaker 1: a chance for some of the younger guys to shine
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  Speaker 1: as well. Lincoln Keyholes, for example, got to throw a bunch,
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  Speaker 1: got younger ride receivers like Brandon Ennis, Bryson Rodgers getting
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  Speaker 1: to run routes in front of all these NFL guys.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of an opportunity is that for those young guys.
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  Speaker 4: And kJ Kate also came up. I think it's good.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's good experience. It's good for that we realize,
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  Speaker 4: you know, what's what's up in front of them, and
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  Speaker 4: it was good for all of our guests to support
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  Speaker 4: this class. You know, sometimes games of defense can get
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  Speaker 4: a little scales, so trying to turn up the music
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  Speaker 4: a little bit, try to create an atmosphere and have
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  Speaker 4: our guys cheer them on and know it's good. It's
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  Speaker 4: great to see our players.
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  Speaker 1: Every So that'll do it for Pro Day for the Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 1: Bucky football team will be back on the field tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be there after practice to talk to the tight
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  Speaker 1: ends and the linebackers. There's other stuff going on tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: as well. On for on Thursday, Buck Buckeye Hockey team
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  Speaker 1: men's hockey team taking on Boston University at two pm Eastern.
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  Speaker 1: They're playing up in Toledo in the first round of
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  Speaker 1: the NCAA Tournament. Winner of that game will get the
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  Speaker 1: winner of Michigan State and Cornell. So that is a big,
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  Speaker 1: big game. That's always a fun tournament, single single elimination,
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  Speaker 1: anything could happen. Lot of fun in that NCAA Men's
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  Speaker 1: hockey tournament. So if you are in the Toledo area,
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  Speaker 1: you can see it. If not, it will be on
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  Speaker 1: ESPNU and then we'll have plenty of coverage of football
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  Speaker 1: for you as well. So a lot of stuff going
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  Speaker 1: on this week. We hope you can be at buckeyehuddle
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  Speaker 1: For Tony Kevin and I cover the team, Mark covers recruiting.
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  Speaker 1: as well to make you a smarter football fan. All
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  Speaker 1: at Buckeye huddle dot com. That'll do it for today.
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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.