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Ohio State Recruiting: Next Up? Buckeye Quarterback's Brother Showcases Big Arm · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Thursday, June nineteenth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: at gratefulgriddleh dot com. There will be an announcement at
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  Speaker 1: least one coming up on Thursday of a potential commitment
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State. It's potentially going to be a very
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  Speaker 1: busy day. Joined by Mark Givler offuckehuddle dot com. Mark,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we can touch real quickly on the one
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  Speaker 1: announcement that we know is coming on Thursday before we
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  Speaker 1: dive into sort of the main topic for today's show.
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  Speaker 1: That is linebacker Sincere Johnson from up in Cleveland Glenville.
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  Speaker 1: He set to announce his decision on Thursday, deciding between
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  Speaker 1: three very high profile programs. Where does that one stand
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  Speaker 1: right now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all signs are pointing to Oart Ohio State. Here
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday to get forstrole linebackers. Since here Johnson keep
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  Speaker 2: the Glenville thing rolling, Ohio State obviously has has made
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  Speaker 2: him a priority. James Lornidis has not kind of taken
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  Speaker 2: the Glenville pipeline for granted on this one. And sincere
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  Speaker 2: i meanin this past weekend after camping the previous week
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  Speaker 2: with Ohio States to kind of work with Wornis for
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  Speaker 2: a bit. So all signs are pointing for Columbus there
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  Speaker 2: and again, as you alluded to, it would not shock
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  Speaker 2: me if there were multiple bits of good news on
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  Speaker 2: Thursday for Live State.
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  Speaker 1: So we will have plenty of coverage of whatever happens
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday on the YouTube channel bucke Huddle, the YouTube
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  Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash bucke Huddle as well as bucke
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  Speaker 1: huddle dot com, so you're gonna want to be in
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  Speaker 1: both of those places. Could be a busy day, or
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  Speaker 1: at least a busy several days for Ohio State. Is
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  Speaker 1: potentially some news coming in one way or the other
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  Speaker 1: on a number of commitments in the short to medium future.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just say so, we'll keep an eye on all
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  Speaker 1: of those. Two Wednesday at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center
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  Speaker 1: buck guys are wrapped up their summer camp season. Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: was sort of the last traditional camp. Wednesday was the
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  Speaker 1: final seven on seven camp of the summer, and there
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  Speaker 1: were three players I wanted to talk to you about.
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  Speaker 1: Two quarterbacks and a linebacker. One already committed. Two really
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  Speaker 1: interesting prospects potentially at the quarterback position. The first one,
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  Speaker 1: the last name is going to have sound familiar. That
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  Speaker 1: last name is Saint Clair. It is Rain Saint Clair
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  Speaker 1: out of fell Fountain. Yes, the younger brother of Tavian
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  Speaker 1: Saint Clair. And I always think of these seven on
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  Speaker 1: seven camps at Ohio State. Would to think of Tavan
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  Speaker 1: Saint Clair because it was twenty twenty two, I think
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  Speaker 1: when we saw him and he was kind of young
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  Speaker 1: and you know, a little spindly and just sort of
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  Speaker 1: looked like he was sort of figuring things out. And
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the next year when he
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  Speaker 1: came back to the same camp, it was like, WHOA,
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  Speaker 1: who is that guy? And that was sort of when
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  Speaker 1: you the legend of Tavan Saint Clair really sort of started.
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  Speaker 1: And now his younger brother was there. You saw Rain
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  Speaker 1: last fall, and then you saw Rain on Wednesday and
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  Speaker 1: kind of had the same reaction like, you know, boy
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  Speaker 1: he has. He has been growing since the last time
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  Speaker 1: I saw him, and he was impressive when we saw
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  Speaker 1: him on Wednesday at the Woody.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a really good day. You know, Bell
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  Speaker 2: Fountain didn't have the greatest day as a team, just
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  Speaker 2: kind of got in some bad matchups in the seven
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  Speaker 2: or seven tournament. But Rain showed a lot, showed a
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  Speaker 2: very strong arm, a lot of accuracy on his deep ball.
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  Speaker 2: The physical maturity was fascinating because we watched Tavian sort
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  Speaker 2: of morph from this you know, six two and a
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  Speaker 2: half one hundred and seventy pounds skinny kid into being
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  Speaker 2: you know, six four two thirty in a relatively short
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  Speaker 2: period of time. And I noticed Rain looked much bigger
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  Speaker 2: than I had last seen him in beginning of September,
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  Speaker 2: and so, you know, I asked his dad, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what's his grossbert look like? And he said he's he
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  Speaker 2: was six feet tall in the basketball program in November,
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  Speaker 2: which probably meant he was a little bit under six
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  Speaker 2: feet tall at that point. And he's now a legitimate
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  Speaker 2: six two and he's one hundred and ninety ninety five pounds,
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  Speaker 2: so he is hitting a similar growth spurt and kind
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  Speaker 2: of filling out the way Tavian did. So that's always
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  Speaker 2: interesting because going into Tavian sophomore year, we weren't sure.
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  Speaker 2: We knew he'd be probably at least a big ten kid,
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  Speaker 2: but we weren't sure that he would be you know,
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  Speaker 2: the five star kV he grew into. And so now
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  Speaker 2: you've it makes you wonder like, okay, where's this going
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  Speaker 2: now with Rain? Are we going to come back again
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  Speaker 2: next year? And he's going to be six three and
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  Speaker 2: a half six four, you know, two hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 2: pounds like his brother kind of morphed into. So that
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  Speaker 2: was a very interesting little bit of eye opening performance
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  Speaker 2: to now.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got a couple more years because he's at
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Eight, correct, Yeah, he's going to be a sophomore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, so you got the benefit of yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's several more years to potentially develop. But also
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  Speaker 1: with his older brother at Ohio State, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be around the program quite a bit, He's
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  Speaker 1: going to be around the Woody, he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: around Ohio Stadium on game days quite a bit. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, certainly that is one where Brian Day has
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  Speaker 1: the phone number and Billy fest Or has the phone
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  Speaker 1: number whenever they need to reach out to the family,
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  Speaker 1: there may be someone else in the Ohio State quarterback
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  Speaker 1: room who probably has Rained Saint Clair's phone number as well.
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  Speaker 1: So just just kind of a put a pin in
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  Speaker 1: it right now. Not you know, as of right now
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  Speaker 1: we either hasn't been an offer, I don't believe, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, certainly certainly one that you're going to want
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  Speaker 1: to keep an eye on that we're going to want
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  Speaker 1: to keep an eye on over the next few years.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that is a your twenty twenty eight quarterback
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  Speaker 1: dujor to just kind of keep an eye on moving forward,
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  Speaker 1: Rain Saint Clair. Another quarterback twenty twenty seven out of
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  Speaker 1: Georgia that was Teddy Girard. He was not at the
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  Speaker 1: seven on seven camp with his team. He was played
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  Speaker 1: with the house team, which is just sort of they
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  Speaker 1: sort of could throw guys together who have not really
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  Speaker 1: played together, just kind of if you're there by yourself
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  Speaker 1: without a team, it's a chance to play, but you
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  Speaker 1: really are kind of thrown together. So you know, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about this a couple days ago with someone else
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  Speaker 1: where it's a little bit, you know, the timing can
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  Speaker 1: be a little wonky. But man, I only watch one
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  Speaker 1: of Teddy Gerard's games, but holy smokes, the U see
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  Speaker 1: guys just jump out. He was someone who really kind
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  Speaker 1: of jumped out, and you know I was, I was
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  Speaker 1: standing about five feet away from Ryan Day, so Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Day was kind of keeping a close eye on that
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  Speaker 1: one as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's interesting. Obviously, he's a four star kid. He's
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  Speaker 2: ranked very highly. He's got a lot of big offers
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  Speaker 2: out of North cop High School, so he transferred into
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  Speaker 2: North cop He was playing at a small private school,
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  Speaker 2: so now he's up in the six A in the
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  Speaker 2: greater Atlanta area. So I think that was a move
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  Speaker 2: that was made to maybe play better competition and prepare
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  Speaker 2: him better for the next level. But like you said,
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  Speaker 2: he had a great day, very accurate, very good arm,
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  Speaker 2: a lot to like there, kind of athletic. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you don't get to run and seven on seven as
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback, but he's had an athletic look to him.
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  Speaker 2: Really nice release, So a very very interesting player. Ohio
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  Speaker 2: States offered him, and it looks like Ohio is very
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  Speaker 2: seriously exploring the possibility of having two quarterbacks in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven, So that's going to be an interesting thing
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  Speaker 2: to watch. You know, Miami, Georgia, Penn State some of
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  Speaker 2: the team to watch out for here as well. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, got a chance to kind of poke around
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  Speaker 2: that recruitment here at the seven on seven, and it
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  Speaker 2: sounds like Ohio State's made a really good impression so far.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting to have a two quarterback class. That is
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  Speaker 1: something that has happened in the past at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I go back to like the Jack Miller CJ.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud class, And with the way that quarterback recruiting is
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  Speaker 1: going right now and quarterback retention is going just on
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  Speaker 1: a national level, it feels like that might become somewhat
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  Speaker 1: of the norm at least every few years, just to
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  Speaker 1: kind of make the numbers work, because if you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to. They brought in two quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: last year and only one. I mean it was technically
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  Speaker 1: one was a transfer, but you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And already one of those guys has gone, Aaron Noland
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  Speaker 1: on his way to is now in South Carolina. So
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  Speaker 1: with as difficult as it is to hang on to quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: you wonder if a two quarterback class might it might
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  Speaker 1: not be an every year thing, but it might be
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  Speaker 1: more of a sometimes thing than it used to be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's just you know, every school would
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  Speaker 2: love to just take one quarterback a year, and you
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  Speaker 2: just kind of everyone waits their turn, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you keep that but it doesn't work that way. Guy's transfering.
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  Speaker 2: You get put in the situation like they're in right now,
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  Speaker 2: where you know they only have a few scholarship quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: And so, yes, this is gonna be something. I think
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  Speaker 2: that every team has to explore it at points, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's bringing in one transfer quorteral guy and one high
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  Speaker 2: school guy or two high school guys. It's difficult to
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  Speaker 2: work it out. It's difficult to get two really good
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  Speaker 2: high school guys because they both want to be the guy.
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  Speaker 2: But you know I did. I was able to poke
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  Speaker 2: around the Teddy Gerard situation a little bit, and like
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  Speaker 2: everyone around him knows that that Brady Edmonds is committed there,
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  Speaker 2: so they said that, you know, they wouldn't have come
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  Speaker 2: up if this was a problem. Teddy's willing to compete
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  Speaker 2: wherever he goes and kind of knows that all the
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  Speaker 2: schools that he's considering have really good quarterback situations. I
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  Speaker 2: missed Michigan they're in this one as well, so he
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  Speaker 2: knows that, like, hey, I'm going to have to compete
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  Speaker 2: wherever I go. So there doesn't seem to be a
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  Speaker 2: big issue there. And Brady Edmonds doesn't really seem he
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  Speaker 2: seems so all in with Ohio State that I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that that would really impact things with him either.
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  Speaker 2: So this may be a year that they're able to
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  Speaker 2: thread the needle, and it would be certainly positive if
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  Speaker 2: they could. I still think they're going to take a
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  Speaker 2: twenty six quarterback, either a high school prospect or a
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  Speaker 2: transfer guy in the off season. But you know, to
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  Speaker 2: have you really in this environment, you'd like to have
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  Speaker 2: five scholarship quarterbacks. Good, it's just truly hard to make
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  Speaker 2: that work in this environment, all right.
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  Speaker 1: And then so the last guy wanted to talk about
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  Speaker 1: different side of the ball, different commitment status. CJSNA out
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  Speaker 1: of Olan Tangi. He has already committed. You know, watching
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  Speaker 1: linebackers in a seven on seven is like you're kind
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  Speaker 1: of getting, you know, half of a chance to scout
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  Speaker 1: them because you know you're you're not you know, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to, you know, have run fits or any
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  Speaker 1: of that kind of stuff. You're really just seeing them
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  Speaker 1: in coverage. But what did you see out of cj
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  Speaker 1: s out of the sort of half of the linebacker
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  Speaker 1: job that he we saw him doing.
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  Speaker 2: On Yeah, I mean, you know, trying to evaluate a
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  Speaker 2: Mike linebacker at a seven on seven is kind of
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  Speaker 2: interesting because one of his one of his real strengths
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  Speaker 2: is playing downhill and kind of getting north and south
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  Speaker 2: and making his physical presence known. And so he was
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  Speaker 2: able to come up and do that in coverage a
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  Speaker 2: little bit and not tackling guys. The thing that impressed
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  Speaker 2: me though, and this is one thing that I did
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  Speaker 2: try and watch, and this is one thing you kind
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  Speaker 2: of get a feel for, is you meete a lot
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  Speaker 2: of like plays outside of his area. So like what
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  Speaker 2: would happen is they would a ball would be completed,
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  Speaker 2: you know, let's say CJS, you know, kind of in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the field, a ball would be completed,
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  Speaker 2: maybe on the outside, somewhere outside the hashes somewhere, and
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  Speaker 2: he would run it down and you know, tag the guy,
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  Speaker 2: you get him down. I thought that was really impressed.
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  Speaker 2: He showed a lot of sideline to sideline speed today
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  Speaker 2: and hustle and just you know, kind of get into
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  Speaker 2: the flying of the football. And that is what stood
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  Speaker 2: out the most to me. He wasn't put in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of really any man situation with the coverage wise,
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of had a controlling there in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the field, so a lot of stuff would be
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  Speaker 2: thrown maybe underneath me, which is and tag the guy.
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  Speaker 2: But it was the plays where the ball went outside
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  Speaker 2: his area, outside the hashes that he would run down.
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  Speaker 2: And he caught a kid from behind who's I looked
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  Speaker 2: like he was going to score down sideline and it
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  Speaker 2: was it was a receiver. It wasn't even know. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a tight end or anything. It was one of
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  Speaker 2: the receivers. He just kind of ran the kid down
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  Speaker 2: and tagged him before he was able to get to
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  Speaker 2: the goal line. And so he did a few things
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  Speaker 2: there that I thought really impressed me. Looks looks very
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  Speaker 2: good physically right now. I'm pretty eager to see how
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  Speaker 2: his senior year goes. He's a guy who I think,
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  Speaker 2: because he was kind of laid on the radar, I
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  Speaker 2: think has still has some upward mobility in terms of
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  Speaker 2: his ranking and kind of just the excitement level around him.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he is one part of the twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: Ohio state linebacker class. We will find out on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: whether there is going to be a new part of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six Ohio state linebacker class when Sincere Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: linebacker out of Glenville, announces his decision. When he does,
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  Speaker 1: we will have instant reaction here one way or the
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