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Ohio State Basketball: 3 Things We Learned Inside Buckeyes Basketball Practice · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning for Wednesday, October 21st.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Tom Moore.
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  Speaker 1: All right, yes, I recognize it is football season, and
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  Speaker 1: there is a whole heck of a lot going on
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  Speaker 1: around the football program right now. We'll be talking about
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  Speaker 1: that on a whole bunch of other shows this week.
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  Speaker 1: But we do need to talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State basketball because we get a chance to talk
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  Speaker 1: to Jake Diebler, Ohio State men's basketball coach, on Tuesday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: I'm joined by Marcus Hartman, the basketball insider at BuckeyeInsiders.com. And, Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: we got a chance to watch about half an hour
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  Speaker 1: of men's basketball practice, and then we got a chance
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  Speaker 1: to talk to Jake Diebler. And it felt like the
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  Speaker 1: clear theme of both, both practice and the interview, was defense, defense, defense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was interesting because, you know, we got to
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  Speaker 3: see him a couple weeks ago in that scrimmage. And
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  Speaker 3: he kind of came away and he said, well, forget
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  Speaker 3: the shooting.
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  Speaker 2: We're good at shooting.
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  Speaker 3: It's not that big a deal. But, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 3: the defense and the rebounding could have been better, which
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  Speaker 3: I thought my main takeaway from that was, well, that's
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  Speaker 3: the only thing that we were going into it looking for.
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  Speaker 2: It was the defense and the rebounding, and it didn't
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  Speaker 2: seem like it was very good.
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  Speaker 3: So I think maybe he put a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: of a happy face on it after that exhibition game
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  Speaker 3: than maybe he really felt it.
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  Speaker 2: Because, yeah, we saw them working hard.
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  Speaker 3: He really laid into them a few times right out there,
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  Speaker 3: and he knew that the media was there. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying he was doing it for our effect, but he
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  Speaker 3: wasn't trying to hold anything back for getting into some
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  Speaker 3: guys about things. There was a time he yelled at
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  Speaker 3: Djokovic for not stopping guys from making cuts and just
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  Speaker 3: kind of some some things in the post defense and
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So there was a lot of stuff. It was technical.
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  Speaker 3: It was, um, you know, some, some, some, uh, some
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  Speaker 3: stuff where he was pretty angry and, and, uh, it was,
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  Speaker 3: it was interesting, especially, it was almost the opposite of
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  Speaker 3: the summer stuff. It almost seemed more like a summer
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  Speaker 3: practice than, uh, an October practice from the, in terms
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  Speaker 3: of all of what they were doing with the, they
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  Speaker 3: really didn't need a ball.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the last time we saw him was the Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: the outdoor scrimmage. They have since had the secret scrimmage
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  Speaker 1: against Louisville where, uh, No media, no anyone. His takeaway
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  Speaker 1: from that sounded like, well, still got to work on
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  Speaker 1: the defense, but the rebounding was better. So I guess that's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we weren't there, but it sounds at least
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  Speaker 1: like there's some tangible signs of progress there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he said it was better overall, but not
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning or the end.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess kind of a weird thing to take.
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  Speaker 3: So I think, and he talked about that a lot,
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  Speaker 3: that that's going to be a big point of emphasis.
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  Speaker 3: And again, I think that tells you that he's concerned
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  Speaker 3: about it. and it didn't look good against Cincinnati. I
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  Speaker 3: do think Cincinnati really looked like they're going to be–
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  Speaker 3: they've got a Bob Huggins disciple as their coach, and
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  Speaker 3: they look kind of like a Bob Huggins rugged get-after-it
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  Speaker 3: type of a team, physical team. But Ohio State needs
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  Speaker 3: to be able to play against those teams, and that's,
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  Speaker 3: I think, been their Achilles heel the last few years.
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  Speaker 2: I think this year they've got plenty of skill. They're
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  Speaker 2: a lot bigger.
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  Speaker 3: They're a lot bigger. at least in terms of length
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  Speaker 3: and everything. Now that doesn't, but how do you play,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with that size? So obviously there's a big
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  Speaker 3: deal that he, obviously, again, that's been a point of
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  Speaker 3: emphasis for him.
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  Speaker 2: That tells you what he's seeing from them too.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that's kind of fun when you go watch
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  Speaker 1: practice now is you're watching the players and yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: You're watching the current players on the team.
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  Speaker 1: Watching the scout team is a lot more fun than
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  Speaker 1: it used to be because you got Jared Sullinger out there.
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  Speaker 1: You got William Buford out there. Keyshawn Woods was out there.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little bit of kind of old home week,
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  Speaker 1: and it's kind of fun to just watch Will Buford
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  Speaker 1: just stroking threes in the Ohio State practice gym. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how fun it is for Jake Diebler
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  Speaker 1: when he's watching his defense watch Will Buford stroke threes,
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  Speaker 1: but it's kind of fun, and he Jake Debo talked
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that there's a ton of benefit to
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  Speaker 1: having these guys. It's not just like, oh, isn't this
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  Speaker 1: fun to have these old guys back here? There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of benefit to.
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  Speaker 3: It as well. Yeah, he said he really talked up
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  Speaker 3: the basketball IQ that these guys bring. So they can
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  Speaker 3: physically kind of bang with these guys and show them
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  Speaker 3: what it's like to play with somebody who really knows
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  Speaker 3: how to play, who's got the old man game, so
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  Speaker 3: to speak. But then those guys can bring them aside
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  Speaker 3: whenever they want to and kind of give them some
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  Speaker 3: pointers and things like that, and they've got the respect
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  Speaker 3: of these guys. And I think there's probably some... more
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  Speaker 3: intangible benefits of sort of remembering what the program was
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  Speaker 3: like you know 10 or 15 years ago and that
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  Speaker 3: what it can be again at least in Jake Diebler's
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  Speaker 3: eyes and in the eyes of what everybody wants to
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  Speaker 3: see it be so it's a very interesting experiment I
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  Speaker 3: guess that it's playing out there that in terms of
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  Speaker 3: you could have any kind of people coming around and
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  Speaker 3: help out but if these guys with these these name
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  Speaker 3: brand players and who can still play and just kind
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  Speaker 3: of like I said I'm curious to see if some
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  Speaker 3: of these the intangible stuff kind of wears off on
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  Speaker 3: these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now speaking of the good old days of the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State basketball program, they will have their next scrimmage,
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  Speaker 1: their final scrimmage of the season on Sunday in the
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  Speaker 1: Schottenstein Center, and they're playing Butler. And this is something
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  Speaker 1: that got set up because Jake Diebler, the head coach
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio State, John Diebler, his brother, one of the
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  Speaker 1: assistant coaches for Butler, so that was probably not a
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  Speaker 1: difficult one to get scheduled, but they had a very
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  Speaker 1: good idea, a very cool idea. There is a basketball
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  Speaker 1: coach that those two schools have in common. who both
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  Speaker 1: Jake Diebler and John Diebler have a personal connection to,
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  Speaker 1: who is going to be honored at halftime of that
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  Speaker 1: scrimmage on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be Thad Mata Appreciation Day, at
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  Speaker 3: least unofficially.
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  Speaker 2: It may be officially. And so you'll want to be there.
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  Speaker 2: If you are there, you'll get to see them.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure there'll be some flashback videos and everything, and
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  Speaker 3: Thad will come around and shake hands with everybody, and
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  Speaker 3: they're going to honor him. Jake said maybe he would
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  Speaker 3: let him draw up a play even, but we'll see
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  Speaker 3: how that goes.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, again, that kind of goes back to it.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like Jake especially this summer, that's doing kind
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  Speaker 3: of everything right off the court and now including embracing
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  Speaker 3: the history of the program and utilizing all these resources
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  Speaker 3: that he's got. He said Thad came back. He said
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  Speaker 3: it took a while. They finally got to where Thad
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  Speaker 3: could come back. He was going to watch like an
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  Speaker 3: hour of practice and it ended up being like a
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  Speaker 3: two-day thing this summer. So they're trying to tap more
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  Speaker 3: into that and his expertise. And, you know, maybe that's
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  Speaker 3: a good olive branch for the fans as well. But
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  Speaker 3: I guess it'll be interesting to see, you know, It
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  Speaker 3: all actually, what it shakes out to and what it
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  Speaker 3: means in terms of wins and losses on the court,
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  Speaker 3: but it's another kind of good feel-good off-season story.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: For those who don't know, John Diebler, I'm sure Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State fans, I don't need to remind you, he was
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  Speaker 1: a sweet shooting guard on some of those great Thad
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  Speaker 1: Mata teams in the 2010s. But you also, Jake Diebler
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  Speaker 1: was a video assistant under Thad Mata at Ohio State. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they both have like a very personal connection.
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  Speaker 1: And Jake always talks, every time he talks about Thad Mott,
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  Speaker 1: he talks about how important he is to his family,
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  Speaker 1: like his whole family, a huge part of their whole
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  Speaker 1: basketball story. So there you go, a quick run through
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  Speaker 1: some things with the Ohio State men's basketball team. You
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  Speaker 1: probably have heard in the background someone on a microphone
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  Speaker 1: hollering at people, we.
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  Speaker 2: Are outside football practice right now.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as that ends, we're going to get to
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  Speaker 1: go inside and talk to Ryan Day, Arthur Smith, and
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  Speaker 1: Matt Patricia. Going to be a lot to talk about
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  Speaker 1: as Ohio State heads into their bye week, but... A
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on inside that building as Julian
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  Speaker 1: Sane had that injury. They're going to be talking about, okay,
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  Speaker 1: what next? What do you do for the at least
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  Speaker 1: interim period during the few weeks of that Ryan Day?
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  Speaker 2: At least a few weeks, I believe was his exact phrase. Several.
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  Speaker 2: Several weeks. Several weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so several weeks at least for Julian Sane. And
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  Speaker 1: then what's next for the Buckeyes as Luke Fahey takes
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  Speaker 1: over as the starting quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Going to be a lot to talk about there.
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  Speaker 1: We would love to talk with you about all of it.
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  Speaker 2: At BuckeyeInsiders.com.
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  Speaker 1: That's where we've got a whole team of insiders covering
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  Speaker 1: the team, covering recruiting, covering X's nose. Our scheme insiders
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  Speaker 1: have been killing it the last couple weeks, and there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a lot to talk about there over
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  Speaker 1: the next week or two as we get ready to
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  Speaker 1: head out to USC for that game. And, of course, Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: our basketball insider, basketball season tipping off Sunday in Columbus
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  Speaker 1: with that exhibition game against Butler. Lots to talk about there.
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  Speaker 1: We would love to talk about it with you all
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  Speaker 1: at BuckeyeInsiders.com. That'll do it for today. Thank you guys
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  Speaker 1: all for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.