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Ohio State Football Lands Commitment From AMAZING Australian Prospect · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buck Guyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, March ninth. I'm your host,
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  tom Or. The Akron game is in one hundred and seventy five days.
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  The game against Michigan in two hundred and sixty six days. We don't
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  even really have time to talk about any of that stuff because I have I
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  don't want to oversell this, but it might be the single most exciting piece
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  of news in the history of Ohio State football. Okay, brace yourselves.
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  The Buck Eyes just landed a commitment from number one, an Australian punter.
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  Already, this is a plus news. Number two. He is six foot
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  seven and two hundred and forty pounds. Number three, there is a video
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  of Twitter on him kicking a ball Australian Reals football, apparently ninety plus yards
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  over the roof of a stadium. I'm joined by Mark Giffler. Mark,
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  I'm just going to be here breathing into a paper bag real quick. Let
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  people know what you know about Nick McLarty. Yeah, so's he's up the
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  two fifty five now, Tom, So you know, we we continue.
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  You know, they got to figure out this right tackle situation at some point,
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  you know, maybe Josh Friar moves inside. I don't know, but
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  but massive, biggest punter I've ever seen in my life, like not even
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  close watch him walk around practice this week was something we're trying to figure out
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  which offensive line in her defensive end. He was as a punter twenty years
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  old. I believe he's from the Melbourne area in Australia for all you geography
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  enthusiasts, big big strong leg, big strong kid. And he'll be able
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  to enroll this summer and he'll be thrust right into the punter competition, which
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  is wide open right now and clearly wide open as Ohio State doesn't do this
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  if they don't feel he can come right in and compete for that position.
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  So you've got a chance to talk to him. So what made him want
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  to come to Ohio State? What made this the place that he wanted to
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  do come punt? Yeah, there were a few things, and we've talked
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  kind of throughout the week. I kind of caught up them on Tuesday after
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  his first after we kind of figured out who he was. He was on
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  campus, and of course I've talked to him since his commitment and a couple
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  of things that he kept. We're mentioning was, you know, Ryan Day
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  seemed to really impress him. I think he loved the energy of practice.
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  I think he really felt that environment was was suitable for him. And the
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  thing he told me after the commitment was that, you know, he appreciates
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  how Ohio State kind of treats and respects the specialists in the program and that
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  they're valued as you know, key members of the team. And I just
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  felt that this was the right fit for him. And he was at that
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  practice, as she said on Tuesday, the first practice at the spring,
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  and I would imagine it probably had to resonate with him a little bit that
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  they stretch, they do all that stuff, they talk, and then the
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  first thing they do the first part of practice is they go out and punt.
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  And that is like period one punt okay, boom, Like you were
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  coming right out of the gate with that. And you know, they had
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  Joe McGuire and Austin Snyder and I think someone else hunting. But you know,
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  very clearly this is a is a wide open job this year. This
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  is also you know, Ohio State has a pretty good history of Australian punters
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  coming in and being you know, not only effective but also sort of beloved
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  players on the team and Cameron Johnston and Jesse Murco. You know, I
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  would I would imagine that, you know, people in Australia in general probably
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  don't know a ton about American college football, but if you're a punter,
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  that's got to be a you know, looking at college football from Australia from
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  an Australian's perspective, Ohio State has to be kind of near the top of
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  the list of places that you know, you've heard of, You've you've seen
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  them have a lot of success, and you've seen Australians have a lot of
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  success there. Yeah, and Joe Maguire is on campus now, is on
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  the roster now, and other Australians. So yes, it's it's I think
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  it's becoming a bigger thing over there. Of like, okay, this is
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  kind of how you get to the NFL, as you you know, it's
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  it's you know, things sports are kind of different in that part of the
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  world where there's not a lot of like college it's kind of like you start
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  as like a youth and you kind of work up through these like international programs
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  or these national team programs and stuff like that. But with football obviously works
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  quite a bit differently, and I think I think O High State again,
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  as you said, I think a High State success their continued relationship with with
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  Australian punters and bringing them over. I think that's obviously giving them a leg
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  leg up on a lot of these other programs as far as recruiting these guys,
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  because there's so many of these guys who whether it's they try soccer or
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  rugby or whatever it might be, and you know, maybe they're good at
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  it, but they're not maybe professional good, and they kind of choose this
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  path a little later. You know. Cameron Johnson was was a much older
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  guy. Nick is twenty already, so he's gonna be a pretty old guy
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  for a freshman. So yeah, it's just it's it's when you can do
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  something like this. I kind of look at it as like here kind of
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  an obscure hockey reference. But like before like hockey went national, like international,
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  like the NHL went international, the Red Wings were like a huge thing
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  because they would bring overall all the Russian guys went to Detroit at first,
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  and so like the Red Wings became kind of this dream program for these international
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  players, these Russian players, and so I think Ohio State's kind of building
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  a little bit of something like that where it's like, hey, we just
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  keep bringing these Australia guys over they keep doing well and then they go to
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  the NFL or they have success. So it's definitely helping. And you mentioned
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  a couple of sports that they play over there, and rugby and soccer,
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  but Australian rules football feels like that's where they're getting a lot of these guys
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  as well, because you know, I mean, I'm going to sort of
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  lean on you a little bit here, but my understanding is there's a lot
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  of you know, it's sort of like rugby, but you're sort of running
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  and you kick the ball and you've got to be really precise with your kicks,
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  which feels like that has translated pretty well in terms of you know,
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  how is Cameron Johnson able to kick the ball sixty yards and kill it on
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  the one yard line, or how is Jesse Murco able to have a you
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  know, line drive punt that rolls out of bounds at the one And it's
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  like, well, you know, this is a small portion of the Australian
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  rules football game, but it is kind of the entirety of the job.
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  If you're a punter in college football, yeah, I think you know,
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  Look, I'm not an Australian football rules expert, but what I would say
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  is you're seeing these guys have several different types of kicks in their bag,
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  which is unusual. You know. I think when you think of, like,
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  you know, the old American philosophy, and I think this is I
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  think Australia has kind of pushed some of their influence into how like now younger
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  American punters are training. But when you think of like traditionally, like American
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  punters, it's just kind of your straight drop back, you know, kick,
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  snap and kick, and so you've got all these different kicks that they
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  have to execute for these other sports they play, and so it gives them
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  all these different you know, whether it's a different angle, a different trajectory,
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  spin, like, there's all these different things they can do because they
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  have to do those things for these other sports they play in Australia, and
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  it just situationally makes them really really good punters. I mean, like I
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  said, there's almost a different punt for every situation. And right before we
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  started watching it started recording, I sent you the video of McLarty that he
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  posted on Twitter last November that the caption says he's punting a ball ninety plus
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  yards over the roof of a stadium. Now, I have not gone out
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  there and you know, paste this out, so I cannot personally vouch for
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  the fact that this is ninety plus yards. That was still he kicked it
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  and you kind of went whoa and that you know, you gotta have a
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  lot of you gotta have a lot of clubs in your bag. If one
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  of those clubs is can kick a ball, even if it's just seventy five
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  or eighty yards, that feels like, you know, sometimes you got to
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  pull the driver out mark and it feels like that is potentially a really exciting
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  club for an Ohio State punter to have in his bag, just in case,
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  Yeah, I saw the lip. I'm going to assume that he and
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  his team are not sophisticated enough to like do like some AI like crazy edit
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  on that because it definitely leaves the stadium and it Yeah, do we have
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  the tape measure out? No, But I can just tell by looking at
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  the field that's a long way. He kicked that ball far and high,
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  so it looks like he's got a big leg. You would obviously suspect he
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  does. At six seven, two fifty five, the expect to get some
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  power behind that. But yeah, he's just uh, this is fascinating.
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  It's it's been a story that's kind of kind of sprouted up on us on
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  Tuesday and it just kind of been a fascinating thing here to follow this week.
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  This just popped into my head. But have you seen the video or
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  the photos of Andy Reid in the punt passing kick competition when he's a little
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  kid. It feels a little kid that that might be not quite an accurate
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  representation of what those photos show. But you know, boy, I am
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  so intrigued what a six foot seven punters looks like. Australia punters we have
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  seen before, always you know, always entertaining, always, you know,
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  able to do stuff that you kind of go, wow, how the heck
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  did he do that? Six foot seven Australian punter. That's a new one
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  on me. I'm guessing that's a new one on probably just about everyone out
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  there. Finally, finally mark something for people to look forward to with Ohio
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  State football in twenty twenty four, all of the other stuff, plus the
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  new guys, plus a six foot seven Australian punter, Man oh Man,
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  should be a lot of fun stuff to watch this spring and summer and fall
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  in Columbus, Ohio. There should be a lot of stuff to talk about
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  as well, and if you'd like to talk about it all with us,
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  you can do that at Buckeyehuddle dot com. That's where Tony Kevin and I
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  cover the team, Mark covers recruiting. Mark is in a hotel room right
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  now because he is out of town talking to a bunch of top prospects.
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  He just posted some great insider information on the huddleboard at buckeyehuddle dot com about
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  that trip. He also was talking to Nick McLarty this week. Lots of
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  good stuff coming all at Buckeye Huddle dot com and at YouTube dot com slash
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  Buckeye Huddle. We hope to see you there. That'll do it for today.
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  Thank you us all for joining us every great day. We'll talk to
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  you tomorrow.