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Ohio State Recruiting Insider: 4-Star Offensive Lineman Commits To Buckeyes · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, April twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: then your host Tom Moore. They ball State game in
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty nine days, the game against Michigan
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  Speaker 1: The Ohigs State Buckeye's got some good news on Monday
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  Speaker 1: with the addition of off four star offensive lineman Davis
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  Speaker 1: Seamen from Bishop Watterson to the class of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven recruiting class, joined by Tony Gerderman I Fucky Huddle
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Tony, where does David Seaman project at the
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  Speaker 1: college level?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's probably an interior guy around six foot four.
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  Speaker 2: Plays right tackle for Bishop Watterson in their run based offense.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of movement that he does and
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  Speaker 2: they run behind him, and he's kind of the focal point,
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  Speaker 2: one of the focal points of the offense. So the
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  Speaker 2: height alone makes you think that he's probably an interior
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  Speaker 2: guy and the movement that he has I think would
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  Speaker 2: fit in well for polling and things like that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like an interior guy, and one that is
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  Speaker 2: rated twenty four to seven has him as the number
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  Speaker 2: fifteen interior alignment in the nation. And you look through
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  Speaker 2: his offers and there's good offers, not necessarily a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of like great like Alabama and Texas and all of
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  Speaker 2: those things. And I'm thinking to myself, well, how often
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  Speaker 2: are a bunch of these schools going to waste time
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  Speaker 2: on a kid in Columbus that they've probably done some
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  Speaker 2: homework on And it's just one of those things like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: don't bother, he's not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: You sort of figured with this one, if Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: was an option, then Ohio State was probably going to
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  Speaker 1: be the decision. And there you know, there were some
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  Speaker 1: other good choices on his list of offers, but you
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  Speaker 1: sort of figured that was probably where this was trending,
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  Speaker 1: because that has sort of been where things have been
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  Speaker 1: trending on the whole with Tyler Bowen inruiting over the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years, where it feels like for several years,
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  Speaker 1: but at the end of the Greg's Didwara tenure especially,
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  Speaker 1: but even a little bit under justin Fry, it felt
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  Speaker 1: like they would lose these guys who are in state players,
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  Speaker 1: who are clearly power conference good type in state players,
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  Speaker 1: and they would lose them to Clemson, or they'd lose
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  Speaker 1: them to Michigan, or they'd lose them to wherever, and
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  Speaker 1: then at the end of the class it would be like, well,
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  Speaker 1: they're just one or two offensive lineman short of what
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  Speaker 1: they really need. They've really needed to have five, and
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  Speaker 1: they've got three, and they really like the three they've got,
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  Speaker 1: but boy, they really needed to have five. And it
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  Speaker 1: has felt like just that, like Tyler Bowen, since he
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  Speaker 1: showed up, they have really sort of adjusted that recruiting philosophy, which,
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  Speaker 1: you know, number one, they're hitting their numbers and the
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  Speaker 1: results have been pretty good so far. But number two,
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  Speaker 1: I think in the world of nil, where you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to you know, there you are going to
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  Speaker 1: be teams that are trying to pull people away with
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  Speaker 1: the offer a big money if you have people who
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  Speaker 1: grew up as Ohio State fans, and that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like that's sort of been the a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the guys they've been sort of pulling in recently
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  Speaker 1: from Ohio or bordering states. Maybe you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: drop an enormous bag and you have people who are
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  Speaker 1: willing to come in in state.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's one of the few. Every position is developmental, right,
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  Speaker 2: but it's one of the few where everybody understands it. Players, coaches, parents, agents,
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  Speaker 2: Everybody understands that this eighteen year old who is six
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  Speaker 2: foot five and two hundred and seventy five pounds is
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  Speaker 2: not ready to be blocking on the edge against Michigan
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  Speaker 2: or Penn State or whatever like that. So everybody knows
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  Speaker 2: that things take time. Now, some players are more advanced
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  Speaker 2: than the others and they want won it right now.
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  Speaker 2: But for the most part, these guys take time, and
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  Speaker 2: so you have to recalibrate and understand that the numbers
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  Speaker 2: will be less. But then you know you can build
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  Speaker 2: and you can eventually make a lot of money. But
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  Speaker 2: first you've got to show it. And I think recruiting,
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  Speaker 2: continuing to recruit the Ohio footprint is I think we've
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  Speaker 2: sent it for many years now in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line. Just bring them in, develop them. See what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Urban Meyer, I've said it before. Urban Meyer probably never
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  Speaker 2: recruits Pat elf line, but the fact that he was
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  Speaker 2: committed when he got the job, fine, you can stay
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  Speaker 2: and he was an All American. You got to give
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  Speaker 2: the Ohio kids time and frankly, you got to give
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  Speaker 2: all of the offensive linement time. And then, as you
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  Speaker 2: know in today's age, you can process them if they're
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  Speaker 2: not working out. But offensive line in the transfer portal
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  Speaker 2: very expensive. Offensive linemen in your own state that want
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  Speaker 2: to be buck eyes, that know it'll be a little
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  Speaker 2: while before they're on the field much less expensive. But
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  Speaker 2: by the time they're ready, they can plug in and
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  Speaker 2: play and you know them, they know you. And I
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  Speaker 2: just wonder how much the experience of with with Ethan
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  Speaker 2: Oneonua last year has colored things in terms of going
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  Speaker 2: out and spending a lot in the portal because they
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  Speaker 2: went out and they got Seth McLachlan the year before
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  Speaker 2: didn't spend a ton. He could have gotten more money elsewhere,
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  Speaker 2: but that that one paid off. The ONEONWA, which costs
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  Speaker 2: much more money, did not. So you never want to
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  Speaker 2: get away from developing your own guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for for every Uh, for every Seth McLaughlan, there's
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  Speaker 1: an Ethan Oneonua, and for every Jonah Jackson. There's a
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  Speaker 1: Vic Cutler and they've they have. You know, your hit
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  Speaker 1: rate doesn't get that much better even with guys who
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  Speaker 1: have started at lower levels. They have hit really well
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  Speaker 1: with guys like Josh Simmons, but it doesn't always work.
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  Speaker 1: And when you miss boy, you need to have other options,
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  Speaker 1: and they did have other options last year. But you
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  Speaker 1: look at that line last year unless like boy, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Ohio guys starting left tackle, Austin Siravell,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio High school players, starting left guard, Luke Montgomery, Ohio
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  Speaker 1: High school player, starting right guard, Taker Shabola, Ohio High
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  Speaker 1: school players, starting right tackle, Philip Daniels, Ohio High school player.
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  Speaker 1: And the only guy who wasn't was Carson Hinzman. He's
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  Speaker 1: from Wisconsin. But you know that's basically like cow was
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  Speaker 1: cut Cow Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: Basically it's Ohio Upper Peninsula.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, Ohio, Ohio with probably better
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  Speaker 1: cheese curds. Yes, But you know behind him is Josh Pidia,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio high school product. And you go through this year's
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  Speaker 1: lineup and it's like, yeah, there's a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 1: guys who were Ohio players and with if you're willing
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  Speaker 1: to bring in five guys every season, and they brought
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  Speaker 1: in up believe five last year. They've got five in
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  Speaker 1: the class already. If they only have eleven commits, five
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  Speaker 1: of them are offensive linemen. They're probably not done on
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line either. You can still you want to
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  Speaker 1: go big game hunting, Like, sure, go big game hunting,
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  Speaker 1: but know that if you miss, you have five guys already,
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  Speaker 1: and are all five of those guys going to be
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  Speaker 1: All Americans? No? Do you know which ones are going
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  Speaker 1: to be. No, it's a developmental position. But whichever of
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  Speaker 1: the one to two to three of them develop into
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  Speaker 1: future starters, develop into future All Conference or even All
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  Speaker 1: American kind of players. Like, you're giving yourself lots of
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  Speaker 1: chances to hit, And as you said, not all of
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  Speaker 1: them are going to hit, and some of those guys
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  Speaker 1: are going to end up finishing their careers in the
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  Speaker 1: MAC or in you know, at you know, at a
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  Speaker 1: mid tier Big twelve school or whatever it is. But
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  Speaker 1: you give yourself enough opportunities to hit, if you know,
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  Speaker 1: if your evaluation is reasonably good and your development is
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  Speaker 1: reasonably good, and both of those seem like they've been
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  Speaker 1: at least reasonably good right now, then you've got a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good chance of being successful.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm just looking at Austin Sierraveald's recruiting rankings.
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  Speaker 2: By twenty four to seven, he was the forty first
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  Speaker 2: ranked interior offensive lineman and David Sieman fifteen, like I said, fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: So Sierravald worked out just find But he is one
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  Speaker 2: of those guys that I don't think they knew that
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  Speaker 2: he was going to be this good. Nobody knew is
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  Speaker 2: gonna be this good this early, and then to have
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  Speaker 2: somebody that has been this good, that's that's the hope,
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  Speaker 2: that's the plan. That's why you five guys a year,
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  Speaker 2: I think is a good plan, because you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to keep five guys necessarily. Every year. You're going to lose,
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  Speaker 2: whether whether one guy transfers out or you know, guys
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  Speaker 2: are leaving all the time through graduation NFL. So you
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  Speaker 2: continue to replenish and you hope that as guys go
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  Speaker 2: through the system they're ready to step in. And we've
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  Speaker 2: seen that they've done a pretty darn good job of
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  Speaker 2: doing that. When Carson Hinzman thrown in as a red
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  Speaker 2: Cher freshman, was it great? He wasn't ready but he
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  Speaker 2: still did it, and he was out there, and then
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  Speaker 2: when his time was called again, he was great. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it's now you've got another offensive line coach
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  Speaker 2: trying to be able to get that same thing done.
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  Speaker 2: And the recruiting has been there. I think also the
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  Speaker 2: talent in the state helps, but Ohio generally has talent,
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  Speaker 2: and they haven't always capitalized on keeping the guys in
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  Speaker 2: Ohio and it just seems like they're doing a better
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  Speaker 2: job of that. You're never going to keep them all,
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  Speaker 2: but like you said, you can go big game hunting.
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  Speaker 2: But the good news is now that if they do
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  Speaker 2: go big game hunting and they strike out, they're still
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  Speaker 2: going to be able to eat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. They have carried plenty of buffalo meat back
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  Speaker 1: to the wagon already and now you can go go
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  Speaker 1: strike out for more. But you're already already in pretty
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  Speaker 1: good shape. As I said, eleven guys in the class,
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  Speaker 1: five of them offensive linemen already. So the people griping
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  Speaker 1: about the offensive line recruiting philosophy, great news. It has
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  Speaker 1: changed dramatically. And another piece of testament to that, testimony
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  Speaker 1: to that is Davis Seaman, the commitment from Bishop Watterson
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  Speaker 1: High School on Monday. So there you go, an update
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  Speaker 1: on recruiting for the Ohio State buck Eyes. We'll have
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