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Ohio State Football Recruiting: 6 Players Visiting This Weekend · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Friday, June fifth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a reservation today. All right, This weekend week number two
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  Speaker 1: of official visits for the Ohio State Buckeyes in the
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  Speaker 1: month of June, and I'm going to be talking about
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  Speaker 1: six players who are going to be visiting Columbus this
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  Speaker 1: weekend can be welcoming in Juck Maletti from Buckeye Insiders
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Juck, let's start with a couple guys who
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  Speaker 1: are committed to the class. We know no problem. Wyatt
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  Speaker 1: Smith top one hundred defensive end from Saint Thomas Aquinas
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  Speaker 1: and Eli Johnson, four star safety commit. Both of those
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  Speaker 1: guys going to be in town this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Rock solid dudes, rock solid buck guys, Cowboys Junior. Can't
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  Speaker 2: wait to get that dude on campus. Man, I love
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  Speaker 2: that kid. And Eli Johnson top two hundred overall safety
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  Speaker 2: out of Sobolo Texas six foot three, two hundred pounds.
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  Speaker 2: This is another three years in a row, top of
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  Speaker 2: the board guy for Matt Greary that he fell in
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  Speaker 2: love with when he came up for camp last year
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  Speaker 2: and locked in on him and brings the kid out
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  Speaker 2: of Texas. So McCrary has been just a stud since
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  Speaker 2: he's been here on the recruiting trail, and this is
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  Speaker 2: another one, no must, no fuss. There's not been a
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  Speaker 2: single word of anything else but Ohio State out of him.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So there are two guys who are committed
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  Speaker 1: who are visiting this weekend. There is a third guy
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  Speaker 1: who was committed who is also visiting this weekend. That
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  Speaker 1: is Angelo Smith, the safety commit out of South Florida,
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  Speaker 1: who is also the probably better known to some people
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  Speaker 1: as Jeremiah Smith's younger brother. He's also visiting this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: but he's in maybe a little bit of a different
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  Speaker 1: category from the other two guys.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean as everybody knows. Angelo is a kid
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  Speaker 2: who's going to need a gross spurk to play at
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State. There's just no other way to put it.
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  Speaker 2: We don't see many five foot eight and a half
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  Speaker 2: football players on the field Ohia State, so there is
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  Speaker 2: a caveat there about him. But he's a heck of
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  Speaker 2: a football player that can't be denied. He's a great athlete,
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  Speaker 2: he's got a great mentality. He's also one of the
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  Speaker 2: very few Ohio State commits who has taken an official
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  Speaker 2: and is being recruited by someone else while committed, and
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  Speaker 2: that of course is USF and Brian Hartline. And I
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  Speaker 2: do think it's a note there because there is a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with Hartline, and because he is from down there,
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  Speaker 2: and because you can play at USF as a five
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  Speaker 2: foot nine safety, if you're an excellent safety. It's a
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  Speaker 2: different caliber of football. So I do think it's something
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  Speaker 2: to keep an eye on.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Wyatt Smith we mentioned earlier out of Saint
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Aquinas, he is not the only Saint Thomas Aquinas
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  Speaker 1: player coming to Ohio State this weekend. There's also Jaden Carey.
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  Speaker 1: He is a four star cornerback out of that same
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  Speaker 1: school in South Florida that has produced a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of talented football players. He will be visiting the Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: and Tim Walton this weekend as well.
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  Speaker 2: One of the few that is on Waltz board remaining
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  Speaker 2: that is six foot or above, right, And we know
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  Speaker 2: that he's been going for those bigger body corners and
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't call him a bigger body corner, but he
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  Speaker 2: does hit that six foot mark. And he's kind of
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  Speaker 2: flirting with Miami right now, but there's some question as
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  Speaker 2: to how serious that really is on their end. As
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  Speaker 2: far as Ohio State. I don't, I mean, he's not.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe the top of the tier guy. There's
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  Speaker 2: an interesting thing going on with really all the visitors
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  Speaker 2: this week is that. And he's one instance where I'm
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  Speaker 2: not so sure it's an immediate like take. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: so sure Ohio State would want a commitment immediately from
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  Speaker 2: him because I think that when we look at the
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  Speaker 2: local guys in Deontay, Malone out of Maslin, Mon Santa Torbert,
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  Speaker 2: the Indiana commit out of Princeton, that those aren't the
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  Speaker 2: two guys that Walt would prefer. And I think he's
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  Speaker 2: only going to take two, so interesting stuff with Jaden Carrey.
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  Speaker 2: My personal opinion, I would prefer both the in state
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  Speaker 2: guys to him, and rankings wise that that would correspond
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  Speaker 2: as well as the in state guys are both ranked higher.
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  Speaker 2: But personally, I just think you got a real interesting
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  Speaker 2: crew with Deontay Malone, just a crazy athlete in Montana
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  Speaker 2: Torbert an absolute burner. But It'll be interesting to see
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  Speaker 2: how this goes with Jaden Carey because I'm just not
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  Speaker 2: quite sure if it's there yet, but this official might
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  Speaker 2: change all that.
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  Speaker 1: And Jaden Carey is not the only Jaden visiting this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Miles. He spills his first name with a y
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of it. He is a twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven running back out of Louisiana. And we know who
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  Speaker 1: is number one on the board at running back. That
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  Speaker 1: is David Gabriel George. That has not been a secret
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  Speaker 1: for quite a while, and David Gabriel George visited last weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Miles also a very very talented running back. He
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  Speaker 1: is on the He's gonna be on campus this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, six foot two, two hundred pounds, so a big dude,
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  Speaker 2: smooth runner, not a really physical runner for a guy
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  Speaker 2: that size from Blaine Bradford's high school, Catholic High School
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  Speaker 2: in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and LSU is in on this recruitment,
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  Speaker 2: but so is Florida State in Kentucky. And I actually
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  Speaker 2: think Florida State right now would be the one I
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  Speaker 2: would choose as the leader in this recruitment after an
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  Speaker 2: official visit there last weekend that just went fantastic. And
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  Speaker 2: Jaden Miles is coming up here under this awkward scenario,
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  Speaker 2: right he knows he's not Ohio State's number one target.
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  Speaker 2: They know he's not the number one target. Is he
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  Speaker 2: the fallback plan? I mean he's really the only one.
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  Speaker 2: Now that Nigel Newkirk, the other guy they had scheduled,
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  Speaker 2: who I liked a lot more, committed to Alabama, And
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  Speaker 2: now it's essentially we're going to hope that DGG makes
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  Speaker 2: his decision July twenty second before Jaden Miles makes his decision.
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  Speaker 2: What if he wants to commit, do they take him.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to scare off David Gabriel George, but
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  Speaker 2: does he want to be in a class with DGG
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  Speaker 2: and make that decision before DGG? So you got this
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  Speaker 2: real awkward spot here with him as how do you
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  Speaker 2: hold him off before July twenty second and then if
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  Speaker 2: it goes wrong with DGG, pushed really really hard and
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  Speaker 2: say we loved y'all along. It's just one of those things, man,
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  Speaker 2: That's what happens when you go all in on somebody,
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  Speaker 2: you got to win.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, roster management has gotten even more fun. And that's
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  Speaker 1: for depending on your definition of fun. I know that
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  Speaker 1: if you are a college for football personnel guy, but
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  Speaker 1: it is probably not as not the typical definition of fun.
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  Speaker 1: But yet things are always a little complicated, It'll always
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  Speaker 1: a little bit interconnected. The last guy we've got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about Kaylon Bailey. This is a high school and
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  Speaker 1: position where Ohio State has had a ton of success
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  Speaker 1: over the years. He is a linebacker from Glenville. You
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  Speaker 1: may remember that combination from players such as Arvel Reese
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  Speaker 1: and Sincere Johnson and probably many others over the years.
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  Speaker 1: What do we need to know about him?
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  Speaker 2: Six foot one two, twenty thick built kid who is
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  Speaker 2: rated right about one thousand in the country, and boy
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  Speaker 2: that does not align with his film. He's an edge
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  Speaker 2: and maybe that has a little bit to do with that,
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  Speaker 2: he's obviously moving a linebacker and lauren Itis is the
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  Speaker 2: one recruiting him because he is super twitched up and
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  Speaker 2: he's got a nose for the football. I think that
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  Speaker 2: this dude is, without a doubt, a four star blue
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  Speaker 2: chip player that has been mischaracterized as of such. And
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  Speaker 2: it's almost interesting when you look at Glenville the players
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  Speaker 2: they've produced, the fact that Ohio State has offered him,
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  Speaker 2: which means Ted Ginton Senior has endorsed him. A guy
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  Speaker 2: that's put handfuls of players at Michigan and Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: that they would have any doubt and still have him
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  Speaker 2: ranked in the thousands. He's a dude, and Vince Morrow
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  Speaker 2: knows he's a dude. And we know that Vince Merrow
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  Speaker 2: from Youngstown with the Stoops Brothers, was running things with
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  Speaker 2: Stoops at Kentucky. He's all over him now that he's
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  Speaker 2: the AD or the GM at Louisville and they're coming
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  Speaker 2: after him really, really hard. What once looked like an
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  Speaker 2: absolute layup for the Buckeyes doesn't look like a layup anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And now they're going to really have to get into
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  Speaker 2: the nitty gritty of trying to convince him to get
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  Speaker 2: in this class as the you know, the clear LB
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  Speaker 2: three at Ohio State versus the well paid star linebacker
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  Speaker 2: at Louisville. And we've been in this situation a lot recently.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's gone our way, sometimes it hasn't. But what
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  Speaker 2: once looked like a lot doesn't look like one anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And it's gonna be really interesting to watch how this
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  Speaker 2: plays out here. This is always this awkward scenario that
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  Speaker 2: we find ourselves in. Now when you're the top dog,
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  Speaker 2: you know, these really good players are sometimes your third choice.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you go. There's a look at six guys
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  Speaker 1: coming in this weekend for official visits at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: They always do a nice job with those official visit trips.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of you know, get the chance to tour the campus,
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  Speaker 1: you get a chance to get all your questions answered,
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  Speaker 1: also get treated pretty well. I don't know if they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be at Jeffruby Steakhouse, but if they are,
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  Speaker 1: they will get an a plus meal as you always
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  Speaker 1: a reservation today. That will do it for today. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow