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Ohio State Recruiting: Brady Edmunds Reaffirms Commitment To Buckeyes · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyees tomorrow morning for Friday, July twenty fourth.
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  Speaker 1: on the recruiting trail on Wednesday, and then they got
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  Speaker 1: some good news on the recruiting trail on Thursday, and
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  Speaker 1: welcome in Tony Gerdaman of Buckeye Insiders dot com to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that Tony, Ohio State added a quarterback. They
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  Speaker 1: never technically lost to this quarterback, but it seemed like
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  Speaker 1: maybe they had lost this quarterback. But now Brady Edmunds
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  Speaker 1: is officially once again something he has never not been,
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  Speaker 1: which is the quarterback in Ohio State's twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: recruiting class.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Brady Edmonds committed to Ohio State December second, twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, and has reaffirmed his commitment on Thursday, July
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  Speaker 2: twenty third. And it's been about a month almost a
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  Speaker 2: month later than we thought, you know, at least three
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  Speaker 2: weeks later than we thought it would be because when
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  Speaker 2: we talked to him, I think it was around the
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  Speaker 2: June seventeenth or so, he said, you know, he had
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  Speaker 2: some things to think about. He wanted to get some
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  Speaker 2: questions answered from Ohio State on his visit, and when
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  Speaker 2: it happened, he would, you know, he would know, And
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  Speaker 2: he said if if the answers are good, like what
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  Speaker 2: he's looking for, then it wouldn't take long for him to,
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  Speaker 2: you reaffirm his decision. And then the longer this takes,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of like the jury has not come back yet.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean? Is this good for the defense?
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  Speaker 2: Is this bad for the defense? And it turns out
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know who's the plaintiff and
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  Speaker 2: who is the defense here, but reaffirms his commitment and
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  Speaker 2: will be a part of the twenty twenty seven recruiting
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  Speaker 2: class for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: And this was a situation where, you know, there was
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  Speaker 1: some question that Ohio State was maybe sniffing around on
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  Speaker 1: some other guys, and we got it. We got a
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  Speaker 1: chance to talk to Brady when he was in Columbus
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  Speaker 1: back in June. He was there for a camp day,
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  Speaker 1: he was there for a seven on seven day, and
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  Speaker 1: he was, I mean, an unbelievably impressive kid. Just I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is a very difficult point in his life and
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  Speaker 1: his decision making process, and the last thing in the
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  Speaker 1: world you would want to do if you were in
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  Speaker 1: this situation as a high school senior or senior to
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  Speaker 1: be is to go up to you know, a half
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  Speaker 1: a dozen or a dozen guys who look like us
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  Speaker 1: and say, you know, let me just lay it all
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  Speaker 1: out for you. And he did. And that's one of
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  Speaker 1: those things where I did not expect that, and he was.
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  Speaker 1: He stood there and talked to us for I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: eight ten minutes something like that and really just kind
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  Speaker 1: of went through the whole process. And I came away
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  Speaker 1: from that thinking, I don't, you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where he's going. I don't if he's going to Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State or UCLA or somewhere else. But man, he just
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  Speaker 1: he's a very very impressive kid on the field too.
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  Speaker 1: You watch him around a bunch of other quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 1: some other good other quarterbacks were there and just man,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, he just he can sling the football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, camp and the seven on seven circuit is really
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  Speaker 2: that's that's made for him and that's not all that
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback is. But he was throwing the ball. He
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  Speaker 2: was accurate, which was good to see. Obviously a stronger
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  Speaker 2: I mean six foot five, two hundred and twenty five pounds.
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  Speaker 2: He looks like your prototypical drop back quarterback. And I
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  Speaker 2: think it's the prototypical drop back quarterback label that was
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  Speaker 2: maybe a little concerning. He was like can he run
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  Speaker 2: well enough? And he was even asked about that because,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, he answered every question and even up
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  Speaker 2: until that point, like throughout the day, we're all going
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  Speaker 2: up to him and like, hey, you know you're gonna talk.
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  Speaker 2: When are you gonna talk? He's like, can we do
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  Speaker 2: it after this? Like he's asking like, is it okay
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  Speaker 2: if we do it after I played football? Fine, if
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna wait until you're done playing football for the day,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, and he was asked about his mobility
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  Speaker 2: he's like, well, you know, my leg was injured. I
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  Speaker 2: was playing injured. So it's like he had answers for
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  Speaker 2: that as well. So kind of what you have seen
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  Speaker 2: so far as he's been limited, but the arm is
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  Speaker 2: certainly not limited. And you know, I've been able to
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  Speaker 2: see him grow. We've been able to see him grow
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  Speaker 2: over the last couple of years. It's not first camp
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  Speaker 2: he's been to Ohio State. He was here last year,
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  Speaker 2: probably the year before as well, but he's gotten more accurate.
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  Speaker 2: The big arm has always been there, but like the
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  Speaker 2: deep accuracy I think has improved. That was one of
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  Speaker 2: the issues that I saw it just in a few
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  Speaker 2: of us stories back in twenty twenty five. And he's
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  Speaker 2: been on camp the last two years at Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: with some really really good quarterbacks and he was right
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  Speaker 2: there with them this time around. So that was good
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  Speaker 2: to see. And I think everybody watching basically, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as we're all talking, all of us who cover all
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  Speaker 2: of this, you know, we'll we'll just end up like
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  Speaker 2: looking over and talking to somebody else who's doing this,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, so, what's the issue. Why is there
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  Speaker 2: a question mark? And so now you know, good for him,
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  Speaker 2: getting into class. They certainly quarterback is not as important,
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  Speaker 2: Quarterback recruiting is not as important as it used to
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  Speaker 2: be because of the portal, But you don't want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, go empty handed too often. And so they
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  Speaker 2: got a guy who, like you said, really really mature,
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  Speaker 2: as like there's there's no concerns about anything like non
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  Speaker 2: football related or anything like that. And so it seems
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  Speaker 2: like a win win for both sides, and you hope
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  Speaker 2: things work out. But you know, the number of quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: at the schools sign and keep for five years or
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  Speaker 2: four years is not the same percentage that it used
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  Speaker 2: to be. But starting off at Ohio State or finishing
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  Speaker 2: at Ohio State both pretty good things for your resume.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely, you are going to get some pretty darn good
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  Speaker 1: coaching while you're at Ohio State and have an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to play with a pretty talented supporting cast. And so
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  Speaker 1: just let's take a quick run through the quarterback classes
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  Speaker 1: and what that depth chart is going to look like.
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  Speaker 1: Julian saying, obviously, this is his third year. He theoretically
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  Speaker 1: could be back for a fourth year and even a
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  Speaker 1: fifth year. I don't think the fifth year especially is
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  Speaker 1: particularly likely. And we may not even see him for
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  Speaker 1: a fourth year. We'll see how the twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: season goes. But beyond Julian saying Class to twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: they brought in Tavian Saint Clair, five star prospect. He
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  Speaker 1: is the backup this year by all accounts. If Julian
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  Speaker 1: Sayan does leave after this year, you would certainly assume
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  Speaker 1: Tavian Saint Clair as your front runner for the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven quarterback job. True freshman this year, Luke Fayhee.
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  Speaker 1: Brady Edmonds now locked back in for twenty twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: so he would be the quarterback for that next year
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  Speaker 1: and then twenty twenty eight. I mean Brady Edmonds. We
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  Speaker 1: were very very impressed with Brady Edmonds. Man oh Man.
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  Speaker 1: There was some really really good twenty twenty eight quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: that we saw at Ohio State camp over the course
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  Speaker 1: of the month of June. One of them, lucasproc came
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  Speaker 1: off the board. He committed to Indiana on Thursday. But
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  Speaker 1: we'll get some of those other names and some of
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  Speaker 1: those other guys that we saw. They could have a
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  Speaker 1: really really good player locked in for twenty twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: sooner rather than later too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Christopher Vargas was another one five star quarterback. He
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  Speaker 2: was there a couple of days there for the seven
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  Speaker 2: on seven as well, and he's sixty four or six five,
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  Speaker 2: about one hundred and eighty pounds or so, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: get we'll get bigger. He just very C. J. Stroud
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  Speaker 2: like in terms of his build, but a little taller.
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  Speaker 2: And he also excelled in that seven on seven stuff.
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  Speaker 2: That was easy for him. They didn't even have him
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  Speaker 2: doing most of the camp stuff because they've seen enough
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  Speaker 2: and I think he's their top target and if they
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  Speaker 2: can get him, then that's that's a home run certainly.
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  Speaker 2: I also have liked Donald Tebrown the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: We saw him last year in twenty twenty five as
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  Speaker 2: a young quarterback. He's from cast Tech in Detroit, so
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  Speaker 2: you wonder whether he's gonna end up at Michigan or
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  Speaker 2: something like that, but you know, he's always been impressive.
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  Speaker 2: So that was a good one to watch. And we've
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  Speaker 2: seen Neman Lawrence over the years. He finally committed to
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  Speaker 2: Texas a while back. But yeah, like there's been some
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  Speaker 2: good ones. Jojo Boyd, who's an uncommitted quarterback out of
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  Speaker 2: California who is a top one fifty guy, could be
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  Speaker 2: a five star type as well. And another guy with
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  Speaker 2: good size, good arm. There's there are a lot of guys.
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  Speaker 2: Titus Hewart another one that from the Hewart family, the
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  Speaker 2: Hewart family tree out of Colorado. They had some, they
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  Speaker 2: had some good ones in there. And if you can
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  Speaker 2: get your number one guy and get him locked in
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  Speaker 2: and then move on and have him help build your
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  Speaker 2: recruiting class, as long as you're sure about that guy,
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  Speaker 2: then that's what they want to do. But yeah, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: I know Vargas may not be in a huge hurry
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  Speaker 2: right now, but I think he's probably a guy that
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  Speaker 2: they all wait on. Maybe not put all of their
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  Speaker 2: eggs in that basket, Tom, but certainly somebody they're willing
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  Speaker 2: to wait for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm guessing some lessons may have been learned this
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  Speaker 1: week on that front. But yeah, a lot of very
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  Speaker 1: very good options at quarterback for twenty twenty eight for
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State and now for Ohio State, thankfully, a very
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  Speaker 1: very good option locked in in Brady Edmonds reaffirming his
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  Speaker 1: commitment and sort of closing that potential question mark for
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty seven recruiting cycle for the Buckeye So
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  Speaker 1: there you go, there is some good recruiting news for you.
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