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Ohio State Spring Practice: Will The Buckeyes Split Carries At Running Back Again? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: what we learned after talking to Ryan Day following the
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Speaker 1: Buckeyes first practice of the spring. Practice number two that
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Speaker 2: All right, so.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear from Ryan Day on some of the newest
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Speaker 1: buck Eyes. Here about some early impressions only day one,
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Speaker 1: obviously extremely early, but some early impressions of that group
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Speaker 1: of true freshmen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm impressed with with the way these
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Speaker 2: guys have worked. I'm impressed with the way they look.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's probably not a guy in that class
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Speaker 2: where I'm like, physically that you know, they can't have
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Speaker 2: an impact as a freshman. Yeah, I've been I've been impressed,
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Speaker 2: and they're coming in with that mentality too. It'd be
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Speaker 2: hard for me to just point one guy out, but
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Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean at all positions.
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Speaker 1: One of the true freshmen who I think everyone is
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Speaker 1: very excited about is true freshman cornerback Devin Sanchez. He
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Speaker 1: was a five star prospect really just a really really
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Speaker 1: talented player overall and someone who might be able to
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Speaker 1: contribute earlier than you might expect. So, all right, is
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Speaker 1: Devin Sanchez someone who could crack the too deep at
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Speaker 1: some point this year?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? If if, if guys deserve the play, we're going
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Speaker 2: to play him, and you know, we you saw a
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Speaker 2: steven roll of the offensive linement at the end of
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Speaker 2: the year because we felt like those guys deserved to
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Speaker 2: play and they needed to play. It'll be the same
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Speaker 2: thing there, and you know if that means moving guys
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Speaker 2: you know around, we played with like three safeties last year,
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Speaker 2: and then how do you how do you see Lorenzo?
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Speaker 2: Is he more of a safety? Is he more of
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Speaker 2: a corner? So? Is that more of a three corner? Look?
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Speaker 2: You know, I think that that's that's all going to
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Speaker 2: a conversation that's going on right now in the defensive
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Speaker 2: staff room. And then you know, it's just like on offense.
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Speaker 2: You know, if you have like four really good receivers,
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Speaker 2: you might find yourself and you know, more wide receiver sets.
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Speaker 2: You know, we have more tight ends this year, so
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Speaker 2: what is you know, So those are all the conversations
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Speaker 2: things that need to be worked out, not right now,
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Speaker 2: but it's their job to do everything they possibly can
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Speaker 2: to say, hey, I need to play, and I think
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Speaker 2: we had some great candidates for that.
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Speaker 1: When you've been around the program for a while, you
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Speaker 1: sort of figure out the cycles of things and it
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Speaker 1: sort of goes year over a year, it's sort of like,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, this feeling again, okay, And you kind of
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Speaker 1: got that on Monday walking in and there were a
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Speaker 1: bunch of familiar faces who weren't there anymore obviously sort
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Speaker 1: of part of a college football program. But no more
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Speaker 1: Jack Sawyer, no more j T. Twoy Moloow, no more
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Speaker 1: Denzel Burke out there during Ohio State football practice. So
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Speaker 1: you know, that's obviously just part of turning the page
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Speaker 1: from last year to this year. And that process has
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Speaker 1: already started for Ohio State. But for Ryan Day, was
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Speaker 1: it a little weird to not see those guys out
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Speaker 1: there every year?
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Speaker 2: That happens though, that you think about, that's a great
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Speaker 2: thing about being Ohio State is you know we get
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Speaker 2: such great impact players and you know, once spring starts,
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Speaker 2: you know you have to all right, restart and look
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Speaker 2: at it differently. But it started with mat drills. You know,
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Speaker 2: we've had two really good mat drills and in those
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Speaker 2: match drills, we didn't have some of those same guys
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Speaker 2: out there. But that's that's part of the process and
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Speaker 2: it's a great opportunity for guys to step up. And
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Speaker 2: now we'll we're on to the next year now, and
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Speaker 2: it doesn't make it. It doesn't mean it's going to
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Speaker 2: be easy, but it's a different group of guys, and
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Speaker 2: you know, all these guys are gonna have to step
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Speaker 2: up in a big way. So just getting started, but
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Speaker 2: it is a transition for sure.
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Speaker 1: One of the big transitions this year is going to
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Speaker 1: be at running back. No more Traveon Henderson, no more
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Speaker 1: Quinn John Judkins.
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Speaker 2: So while those guys are.
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Speaker 1: Gone, the tandem approach that worked really well with them,
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Speaker 1: is that going to.
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Speaker 2: Be back this year. Well, you know, for James, James
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Speaker 2: has obviously been here and he knows it. So he's
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Speaker 2: gonna have to step up. And it's not easy to
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Speaker 2: figure out what running backs can do. In the springs.
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Speaker 2: We're not tackling him, but he knows what it looks like,
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Speaker 2: he knows the offense. CJ has played more but doesn't
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Speaker 2: really know what we do here. And obviously when you
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Speaker 2: come to Ohio State, there's a transition. It was a
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Speaker 2: transition for Quinn Shawn, so I'm excited to see how
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Speaker 2: that looks. He did a nice job in the first
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks. As you know, he actually was a
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Speaker 2: scout team back he played Jeremiah Love and some of
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Speaker 2: the guys we had the guys at Texas and did
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Speaker 2: a good job with that. I thought he ran hard.
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Speaker 2: But then it's going to be interesting to see these
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Speaker 2: young guys bo Jackson, Isaiah. You know, have turbol coming
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Speaker 2: in Sam, you know, so we need these guys, like
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Speaker 2: you said, to just provide some depth and some work
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Speaker 2: there and step up. So to say that, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's solidified, we know what's going on in that room
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Speaker 2: is not not the case, but but we do have
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Speaker 2: some really good options there and excited to see where
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Speaker 2: these guys go. And sometimes when I think it's a
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Speaker 2: great example of the offensive line, like take you take
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Speaker 2: Luke Montgomery for example, Like here's somebody that really didn't
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Speaker 2: play the majority of the season. When he finally had
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Speaker 2: the opportunity stepped up and everything changed in his world.
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Speaker 2: I think it's the same thing for the running backs,
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Speaker 2: like James is a great example. You know, James ran
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Speaker 2: pretty hard in some of the games early on in
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Speaker 2: the season, but when Quinn, Schawn and Travion were in
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Speaker 2: there and he wasn't getting you know, the carries, you know,
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Speaker 2: you kind of go about the business of all right,
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Speaker 2: this is my role, and you embrace the role. Now
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Speaker 2: your role has changed. Now he's gonna have to step up,
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Speaker 2: and he seems to be having a great offseason.
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Speaker 1: In addition to the true freshman, the Buck guy's brought
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Speaker 1: in a lot of big additions to the transfer portal.
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Speaker 1: None bigger literally and figuratively probably in terms then Ethan
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Speaker 1: oneon Lack, the left tackle who they brought in from Rice,
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Speaker 1: someone who was projected as one of the top offensive
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Speaker 1: tackle prospects in the entire nation. So how big given
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Speaker 1: an addition was he to this year's team. You can
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Speaker 1: hear that answer, and then a quick follow up from
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Speaker 1: Dave Biddle of Buck unts.
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Speaker 2: Well, when you lose two guys to the portal, two tackles,
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Speaker 2: that that certainly affected the room. So yeah, I think
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Speaker 2: it was important for for both those guys to come in.
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Speaker 2: You know, we needed that for the depth of the
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Speaker 2: room and you know, and just for the room in general.
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Speaker 2: But you know, it's been exciting to see those guys work.
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Speaker 2: I'm excited to see what it looks like with the
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Speaker 2: pads on. You know, Biggie's already changed his body a
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Speaker 2: little bit, so that's been good. And he's embraced the culture.
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Speaker 2: Phillips the same way, so you know, he's an Ohio
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Speaker 2: guy too, so he knows Ohio State well, and the
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Speaker 2: guys seem to embrace them. You know, it's important to
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Speaker 2: have the right fit. I keep saying that over and
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Speaker 2: over again, and I think that we did that again
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Speaker 2: this year with the guys that we brought in. They
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Speaker 2: were the right to fit culture wise. They they came in,
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Speaker 2: understood that this is Ohio State, worked earned the respect
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Speaker 2: of the guys around them, and that was important with
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Speaker 2: guys like Will and Quinn Shawn last year, you know
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Speaker 2: Caleb and Seth. Well, it's the same thing with these
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Speaker 2: guys coming in, Max Claire and you know Ethan and
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Speaker 2: fill Up and these guys so important to make sure
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Speaker 2: we continue to do that when we add pieces in
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Speaker 2: they fit the culture. So I thought it was a
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Speaker 2: really big get for us.
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Speaker 1: Spring to you and vision Ethan as a left tackle
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Speaker 1: and do you want to keep them around?
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Speaker 2: I think he's listen at three hundred and fifty seven pounds.
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Speaker 2: Do you like that or no? We like it a
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Speaker 2: little lighter than that. That's a little heavier. I've gotta
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Speaker 2: cut that down. Just a little bit. But the good
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Speaker 2: thing is he can carry weight, and so now if
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Speaker 2: we cut him down, we're just going to see more
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Speaker 2: and more athleticism and bend. So that's good. He's going
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Speaker 2: to start out left and then we'll go from there.
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Speaker 2: But again, the more flexibility we can have with these guys,
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Speaker 2: the better for the room, because you know, you typically think,
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Speaker 2: all right, we have five, who's the sixth, and then
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Speaker 2: who does what does the six do? Well he plays
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Speaker 2: tackle or he plays center? Well, that really pigeon holes
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Speaker 2: you because now if you lose a guard, now you're
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Speaker 2: going to like, quote unquote your seventh guy. But if
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Speaker 2: you have swing guys, now you're playing your best seven
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Speaker 2: or your best eight, you don't get yourself jammed up.
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Speaker 2: So I think that's something that we have to do
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Speaker 2: moving forward. Does guys have to have almost a primary
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Speaker 2: and secondary position.
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Speaker 1: In addition to the new faces in terms of true
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Speaker 1: freshmen and the new faces in terms of transfer players,
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Speaker 1: there are also some new faces on the coaching staff.
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Speaker 1: The only one on the defensive side of the ball
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Speaker 1: is new defensive coordinator Matt Patricia, but he's in the
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Speaker 1: middle of starting to install a new defense and sort
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Speaker 1: of figure out how things work inside the Ohio State program.
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Speaker 1: So is Ryan Day maybe more involved with the defense
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Speaker 1: right now than he typically would be with Matt Patricia
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Speaker 1: still sort of getting acclimated. You'll hear the answer to that,
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Speaker 1: and then a follow up from Adam King of ten TV.
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Speaker 2: No, No, it's it's everybody involved. It's just the whole
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Speaker 2: defensive staff. It's myself. But Matt's done a great job of,
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Speaker 2: you know, building relationships early on. Here is excited to
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Speaker 2: get going. It's just a start. We're just getting moving.
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Speaker 2: But I think there's just a lot of things that
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Speaker 2: you know, he's going to bring to that room. That's great.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that we've already done that's
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Speaker 2: going to stay in place. So it's good again just
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Speaker 2: getting started, Like literally just taught a couple of defenses
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Speaker 2: today and get them lined up, get them moving around,
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Speaker 2: and and we'll keep moving from there and keep building
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Speaker 2: on the packages.
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Speaker 1: When you have someone that's so you know, just football
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Speaker 1: in minded. Do you like that, especially coming from the
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Speaker 1: NFL background with him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you love being around smart guys and uh
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Speaker 2: and he's smart. I mean he's been a lot, he's
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Speaker 2: been a lot of or played a lot of football,
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Speaker 2: or coach a lot of football and then coach some
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Speaker 2: really good players. So has a lot of credibility when
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Speaker 2: he speaks, and I think it's great for him just
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Speaker 2: be around the culture, see how we do things. And
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Speaker 2: he's jumped in with two feet and embraced it. Again,
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Speaker 2: it's the same thing as when you bring in a transfer,
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Speaker 2: when you bring in a coach, it's the same type
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Speaker 2: of thing. Do you have the right fit? And I
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Speaker 2: think it takes a you know, a certain guy to
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Speaker 2: be able to walk into a room with you know,
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Speaker 2: four other coaches like James and Larry and Tim and
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Speaker 2: Matt and being able to embrace what's already been here.
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Speaker 2: We just wont a national championship. But then also you know,
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Speaker 2: look to enhance and and so you know, we'll see.
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Speaker 2: We're just getting started. But uh, certainly so far, it's
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Speaker 2: been very positive.
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Speaker 1: Talked earlier about some of the guys who are gone,
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Speaker 1: and those are impacts that are not just going to
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Speaker 1: be felt on the field, but also in terms of leadership.
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Speaker 1: So losing as many team leaders as they did after
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Speaker 1: last season, does that change what the coaches have to
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Speaker 1: do this spring? You're going to hear that answer, And
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Speaker 1: then a follow up from Jeremy Birmingham of the podcast.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, there's no question, you know, like you said,
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Speaker 2: the number is certainly significant. And so yeah, as coaches,
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Speaker 2: you know, we got to better do our part and
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Speaker 2: make sure that we're developing. And to me, it isn't
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Speaker 2: it isn't like the older guys. To me, it's like
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Speaker 2: the next level of guys that we've really got to
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Speaker 2: bring along and explain to them what it means to
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Speaker 2: you know, become really good football players, how to build
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Speaker 2: trust in their teammates, how they're going to go about
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Speaker 2: building discipline in their life, what it means in the
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Speaker 2: run that we need to go on next year and
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Speaker 2: that first game, what that's going to look like, and
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Speaker 2: all those types of things. So we got to be
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Speaker 2: on our game as coaches to develop at at a
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Speaker 2: high level. And and that's that's the job of each
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Speaker 2: individual coach. You know, they got to make sure they're
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Speaker 2: recruiting at a high level and bringing in the right guys.
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Speaker 2: But ultimately, each coach is responsible for their room. I
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Speaker 2: say that over and over again, like it's your job
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Speaker 2: to develop, to make sure that your room is producing
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Speaker 2: at a high level, showing great leadership, and you're recruiting
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Speaker 2: the right guys. You have enough debt for late in
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Speaker 2: the season, and so when each of their each guys
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Speaker 2: doing their job. You know, we talk about being ten strong,
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Speaker 2: We've done that for a long time. Then then you
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Speaker 2: got a chance to win them all. Just a couple
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Speaker 2: more questions. You feel different as a head coach right now?
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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously coming off to the National Championship, you
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Speaker 2: seem a little bit more relaxed. Yeah, definitely more relaxed, Jeremy,
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Speaker 2: I mean to say, I'm not as crazy, there's no question. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: we're in a different place than we were a couple
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Speaker 2: of months ago. I mean, let's call for what it is.
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Speaker 2: But that doesn't change, like the approach. And I think
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Speaker 2: that's the thing, Like, you know, some days you wake up.
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Speaker 2: I said, it was kind of like when I had
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Speaker 2: the opportunity to become the head coach, ohiose State. You know,
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Speaker 2: you walk down the hall and you see what he
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Speaker 2: Hayes and Tressel and Urban and Cooper and Earl Bruce,
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Speaker 2: and you know, you pinch yourself, and you know a
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Speaker 2: month later, you wake up and you're like, I'm in
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Speaker 2: the head coach ohouse state like. Man, it's the same
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Speaker 2: thing with Winter National Championship, Like some days you wake
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Speaker 2: up and you almost forgot you want it, you know,
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Speaker 2: because life just moves on. It just does, and it's
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Speaker 2: onto the next challenge. It's on to the next group
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Speaker 2: of guys. But winning just gives you an opportunity to
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Speaker 2: continue to have an impact on young people's lives. And
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Speaker 2: that's why you get into coaching period, and if you're not,
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Speaker 2: then you're in it for the wrong reasons. And so
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Speaker 2: that's it. And the staff, you know, when I talk
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Speaker 2: to guys and hire them and bring them in here,
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Speaker 2: that should be the number one goal. Bring in young people,
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Speaker 2: help help them reach their dreams and goals in the
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Speaker 2: game of football and in life. Winning just allows you
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Speaker 2: to do that because if you don't win them, they're
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Speaker 2: going to find somebody else. That's just the truth. And
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Speaker 2: I share that with the coaches all the time. But no,
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Speaker 2: it's it's great to have a certain level of testimony
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Speaker 2: and credibility to the work that we put in around here.
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Speaker 1: As the buck guys look for new lead. Is Sonny
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Speaker 1: styles the linebacker Is he going to be one of
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Speaker 1: those guys.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's finding his voice. I hear him
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Speaker 2: speak up a lot. I think I've been impressed so
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Speaker 2: far with his leadership, and I think when you speak
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Speaker 2: with him, you'll you'll feel the same way. Just just
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Speaker 2: a stud in all areas, a man's man works at it,
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Speaker 2: takes it very seriously, speaks up when appropriate. We'll ask
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Speaker 2: a tough question when he needs to. And that starts
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Speaker 2: with his family, with his dad, with his brother, with
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Speaker 2: his mom. That's the way he's raised and being a
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Speaker 2: Buckeye mean something, you know, obviously his lineage and his family,
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Speaker 2: but also growing up in Pickerington, and then you know,
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Speaker 2: just being here with his brother now. So he's certainly
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Speaker 2: one of the biggest leaders on the team.
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Speaker 1: Spring is a time when there's done a lot of
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Speaker 1: evaluation done of the players on the team. Randy talked
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Speaker 1: about the fact that it's really about growing the players
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Speaker 1: during the spring, much more so than getting defenses and
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Speaker 1: offenses and that kind of stuff. Playbooks installed, you do
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Speaker 1: some of that, but really the main focus is on
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Speaker 1: getting better. And when you're evaluating young guys who don't
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Speaker 1: have the switch experience, like for example, like the quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: Young quarterbacks not a lot of on field experience. How
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Speaker 1: different is that versus last year when you had veterans
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Speaker 1: like Devin Brown and Will Howard.
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Speaker 2: In that rook Well, it's like we were just talking about,
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Speaker 2: when you've done it before, you get the benefit of
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Speaker 2: the doubt. When you don't, you don't. And it's the
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Speaker 2: same amount with being a quarterback. And Will get the
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Speaker 2: band for the doubt because he had won a Big
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Speaker 2: twelve championship, he had done it before, he had won
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Speaker 2: big games at Kansas State, so we we had tape
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Speaker 2: of him doing it. We know that he had physically
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Speaker 2: done it. So when there were some days you get
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Speaker 2: off the fields, you know you still went back on that.
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Speaker 2: When you're a young quarterback that hasn't done it, you
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Speaker 2: got to prove yourself every day because you don't have
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Speaker 2: a body at work to go back on. And that's
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Speaker 2: just being a young quarterback. Until you kind of prove
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Speaker 2: yourself and you make those win those big games, you
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Speaker 2: know that that's kind of how it goes. That's life,
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Speaker 2: and so we'll keep evaluating them much like that. But
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Speaker 2: we've been in this situation before, We've had young quarterbacks.
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Speaker 2: We brought them along, and a couple of those guys
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Speaker 2: once they got into year three, they moved on to
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Speaker 2: the NFL. We've finally got where we want them to go.
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Speaker 2: But that's life too, so you know, we know we
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Speaker 2: have a good supporting cast around those guys again, so
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Speaker 2: that's important. The offensive line will be critical and how
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Speaker 2: we run the football, but as you know, some of
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Speaker 2: the weapons we have that you know at the skilled
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Speaker 2: positions will allow us to just again make the routine plays, routinely,
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Speaker 2: take care to football, and then make the plays we
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Speaker 2: need them to make the plays.
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Speaker 1: And finally, the spring is not only an important time
15:22
Speaker 1: for the development of this year's team, it's also an
15:24
Speaker 1: important time for recruiting for the future. So we saw
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Speaker 1: a bunch of prospects in the Woody at practice on Monday.
15:31
Speaker 1: I'm guessing we're going to see more on Wednesday and
15:33
Speaker 1: then throughout all the whole spring. So how important is
15:36
Speaker 1: it to bring guys on campus over.
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Speaker 2: The next few weeks.
15:39
Speaker 1: You'll hear that answer and then a follow up from
15:41
Speaker 1: Andrew Gillis of Cleveland dot com.
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Speaker 2: Huge, huge to see our guys work, to see the
15:48
Speaker 2: energy when you walk into the Woody I think that's
15:53
Speaker 2: you just feel it when you walk in. You feel greatness,
15:54
Speaker 2: you feel excellence. You walk into the indoor, you see
15:57
Speaker 2: the new banners up on the wall, like it's all there.
15:59
Speaker 2: And so we take a lot of pride in developing
16:02
Speaker 2: the most of the leade players in the entire world,
16:04
Speaker 2: and then you know the expectations of winning championships, and
16:07
Speaker 2: so it's great for recruits. It's one thing to put
16:10
Speaker 2: it on Instagram. It's it one thing to follow our
16:12
Speaker 2: social media or talk to coaches. Another thing to walk
16:14
Speaker 2: in the building and see it and be around great
16:16
Speaker 2: people and be around a culture of great players and
16:19
Speaker 2: great coaches, you know. So I think that's obviously what
16:23
Speaker 2: separates us. And anytime you can physically walk in and
16:25
Speaker 2: see it, it makes a big difference. I think it's
16:27
Speaker 2: good for parents to see as well. I know as
16:29
Speaker 2: a dad, I want to take a look at the
16:31
Speaker 2: people and look them in the eye. There's a lot
16:32
Speaker 2: of great weight rooms, a lot of great facilities across
16:34
Speaker 2: the country, a lot of great stadiums, But to me,
16:36
Speaker 2: ultimately it comes down to the people. And it's been
16:39
Speaker 2: like that a lot longer than I've been here. See
16:41
Speaker 2: the kids here.
16:42
Speaker 1: What things can they ask you or ask position coaches
16:45
Speaker 1: to kind of let you know that you know they're
16:46
Speaker 1: on the right track. But what clicks for you when
16:49
Speaker 1: you see it, and what can make what you tell you?
16:52
Speaker 2: Sometimes it takes care of itself, Like Ohio State's not
16:54
Speaker 2: for everybody, and you know some people just might be
16:59
Speaker 2: just too much, you know, I don't know. The expectations
17:01
Speaker 2: are high here, man like, and sometimes that takes care
17:04
Speaker 2: of itself, and that's okay. You have to want to
17:07
Speaker 2: be at Ohio State, whether you're from the state Ohio
17:09
Speaker 2: or not. And you know some people are just they
17:12
Speaker 2: gravitate towards it. You know, this is what they wanted.
17:14
Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith like, this is what he wanted. You know,
17:18
Speaker 2: I could name a bunch of guys that are that way,
17:19
Speaker 2: like they wanted to be around this where every day
17:23
Speaker 2: when you walk on that field, it is it is
17:24
Speaker 2: a war. I mean, you have to compete every single
17:27
Speaker 2: day for your position, and you got to compete every
17:29
Speaker 2: single week to win every game. And so you know
17:32
Speaker 2: that expectation is a big part of it. I think
17:35
Speaker 2: the second thing, though, is you know people and families
17:38
Speaker 2: who want to be around the style of culture. You know,
17:41
Speaker 2: when you walk in the building, it's it's a family atmosphere.
17:43
Speaker 2: A lot of people talk about family. That's another thing
17:46
Speaker 2: to actually live it and get around our players. And
17:48
Speaker 2: so what we try to do is open up our
17:50
Speaker 2: doors and please get around the locker room, like, get
17:52
Speaker 2: around our players, Go have you know, go have lunch
17:56
Speaker 2: with our guys, and be around our players because to me,
17:59
Speaker 2: you know, they're the ones who are you know, living
18:01
Speaker 2: on a daily basis. Please get around to our parents
18:04
Speaker 2: and let them tell the stories of how we've handled
18:06
Speaker 2: great situations, tough situations, how we've hung together, what their
18:09
Speaker 2: experience is like for their son, And to me, that's
18:13
Speaker 2: that's it. And you know people just gravitate towards that,
18:16
Speaker 2: and you can feel it because you in today's day
18:18
Speaker 2: and age, if you have to talk somebody to come
18:20
Speaker 2: into your school and you know it doesn't go exactly perfect,
18:23
Speaker 2: we all know what's going to happen. They're going to
18:24
Speaker 2: walk out the door and end of the portal. So
18:27
Speaker 2: we all know that there's other things involved nowadays, but
18:30
Speaker 2: it hasn't changed in terms of relationships. And you know,
18:33
Speaker 2: you want people to choose Ohio State for the right
18:35
Speaker 2: reasons to be a buck guye for the right reasons,
18:37
Speaker 2: so that when it maybe doesn't go as exactly as
18:39
Speaker 2: it goes as it was to plan, or doesn't go
18:42
Speaker 2: exactly perfect, they're willing to stick it out and hang
18:45
Speaker 2: in there and work through difficult times.
18:47
Speaker 1: Well, that'll do it for today's show, but we will
18:49
Speaker 1: be back at the Woody on Wednesday morning. Lots of
18:52
Speaker 1: coverage for your photos, videos, insight analysis, what we saw,
18:57
Speaker 1: what we learned, interviews, much much more. It's all coming
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Speaker 1: up on Wednesday at bucke Huddle dot com and YouTube
19:03
Speaker 1: dot com slash Buckeyehuddle. It's nice to have football back.
19:06
Speaker 1: It's only been a couple months, but it's good to
19:09
Speaker 1: have football back in everyone's lives of funny to talk about.
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Speaker 2: We hope to talk about it with you there at
19:13
Speaker 2: buckey Huddle dot com.
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Speaker 1: That aloot for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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Speaker 2: Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.