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BONUS: Ohio State Basketball Lands Commitment From Top-50 Recruit · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, we have a little bit of a breaking
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  Speaker 1: news bonus episode for you. It is the middle of
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  Speaker 1: football season, so we are talking a lot of football,
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  Speaker 1: but there is basketball news happening right now as well.
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  Speaker 1: And we know you have, we have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State basketball fans out there. We have, we heard
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  Speaker 1: in previous years, we want more basketball coverage. We know
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  Speaker 1: it's football season. You're getting a little more basketball coverage
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  Speaker 1: right now because there is some exciting news for Jakey
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  Speaker 1: Diebler and the Ohio State men's program, Deng Noor. whose
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  Speaker 1: name is not pronounced the way it is spelled. However,
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  Speaker 1: he is a 2027 recruit, top 100 player nationally, just
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  Speaker 1: committed to Ohio State for the class of 2027. Joined
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  Speaker 1: by Marcus Hartman, our basketball insider at BuckeyeInsiders.com. Marcus, what
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  Speaker 1: is Ohio State getting in Yang Nor?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's a 6'8, 200-pound wing from– Fort
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  Speaker 2: Erie International Academy in Ontario, and it sounds like the
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  Speaker 2: scouting report that I'm looking at is very intriguing. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: very good all-around games that he's already turned 18, and
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  Speaker 2: they are valuing him as being fairly mature for his body.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of 6'8, 200-pound kids that are 18 are,
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  Speaker 2: especially if they're elite athletes, typically maybe they haven't quite
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  Speaker 2: caught up with some of their athleticism and everything, but
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  Speaker 2: This scouting report says this is a guy who already,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of carries himself pretty well. He's built
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  Speaker 2: pretty well for his age and everything like that. And
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  Speaker 2: a good all-around game. He can make open threes. He
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  Speaker 2: can score a little bit off the dribble and get
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  Speaker 2: his own shot a little bit. And is a very
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  Speaker 2: willing defensive player who really knows how to use his
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  Speaker 2: length already. So, you know, very intriguing skill set. You
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  Speaker 2: talk about, you know, Uh, it's, you can't help think
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  Speaker 2: about him. They've already got, um, with, uh, with Anthony
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  Speaker 2: Thompson being on campus this year as a McDonald's all American,
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  Speaker 2: who's kind of a six, nine ish, but still a wing,
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  Speaker 2: not a forward, not a, not a post guy. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: but if you watch him play, he is, he is
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  Speaker 2: still kind of raw. Uh, and, and I think maybe
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  Speaker 2: spot up shooter may be his best role early on.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like, um, you know, that, uh, nor maybe a
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  Speaker 2: little more, you know, a, um, a composite basketball player as,
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  Speaker 2: as a freshman when he shows up next year, if
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, funny you use the word composite there.
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  Speaker 1: I was just pulling up his recruiting rankings and in
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  Speaker 1: the two, four, seven composite, he's 95th two, four, seven
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  Speaker 1: has him as 55th in the class rivals has him
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  Speaker 1: like as a top 20 prospect in the class. So
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  Speaker 1: the rating is still a little bit all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, regardless top 100, according to everyone and
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  Speaker 1: substantially better than that, according to other guys, He is
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  Speaker 1: the first commit to Ohio State's 2027 recruiting class. They
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  Speaker 1: had LJ Smith reclassify from 27 to 26. I guess
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  Speaker 1: he's not technically their first 27 commit, but he's the
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  Speaker 1: first guy who's currently in the class of 27 who
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  Speaker 1: is committed to the Buckeyes. But there are other names
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  Speaker 1: that are sort of out there right now in terms
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  Speaker 1: of people that Jake Diebler could be adding to this
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  Speaker 1: class at some point soon. You were just talking to
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  Speaker 1: me right before we hit record about someone who was
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  Speaker 1: at least someone who's got some substantial interest in Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jackson Davis, who is a small guard from Kansas City,
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  Speaker 2: he visited for the Ball State game along with Noor,
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  Speaker 2: which maybe isn't a bad thing. We've seen some indications
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  Speaker 2: that 247 did report this week that Ohio State is
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  Speaker 2: in the driver's seat for him. So that would be
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  Speaker 2: a guy to keep an eye on. reading his, he's
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  Speaker 2: another four-star guy, reading his profile, he's kind of, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if poor man's, they were comparing him a
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  Speaker 2: little bit to Bruce Thornton, and he has said in
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  Speaker 2: some interviews that Ohio State is sort of selling him
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  Speaker 2: on the same kind of a plan to develop him
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  Speaker 2: the way they did Thornton, and that he's not a
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  Speaker 2: real tall guard, but he's kind of got a good
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  Speaker 2: all-around game, who is a score-first guy, but he can pass.
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  Speaker 2: He's listed, he's only listed at six foot, I believe,
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  Speaker 2: if I remember correctly, but Obviously, you bring a good
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  Speaker 2: wing player and another point guard if they are able
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  Speaker 2: to do that. That is a good start to any class,
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  Speaker 2: especially the way they've been loading up with big guys
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  Speaker 2: of various ages here starting with this coming year. It's
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  Speaker 2: hard to evaluate year to year. These rosters are all
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  Speaker 2: year to year now, so it's a little bit hard
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  Speaker 2: to project everything out. But I also assume that the
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  Speaker 2: more guys you've got in the building, it's easier to
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  Speaker 2: keep guys in the building. then you're going to go
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  Speaker 2: out and have to acquire everybody every year, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to guess that it's typically cheaper to retain talent
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  Speaker 2: than to bring it in as well. Plus, you get
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  Speaker 2: to look at these guys, and you get to develop
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  Speaker 2: them yourself, and coach them the way you want to
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  Speaker 2: coach them. Mario has never promised, especially in college basketball,
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  Speaker 2: if they can start that, if they can pull in
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  Speaker 2: a point guard, go with a really good all around start, especially,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I suppose if you think about when you're,
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  Speaker 2: if you are building a year, a roster from year
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  Speaker 2: to year, you know, that's two good spots to start
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  Speaker 2: and probably easy. A dynamic wing type guy and a
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  Speaker 2: point guard. So regardless of what else you've got. So
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  Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see, you know, if how that
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  Speaker 2: shakes out, if he takes some more visits, if he
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  Speaker 2: ends up committing at some point as, And again, it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of hard to project how many spots they have
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  Speaker 2: based on commitments and guys that may go pro or
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  Speaker 2: may transfer out or things like that. So they do
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  Speaker 2: have a few more guys at least that are scheduled
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  Speaker 2: to be coming in for visits. Not sure. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of a moving target. They've got the number
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  Speaker 2: 20 prospect in the country, Antonio Pemberton, is another five-star
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  Speaker 2: guard who I expected to visit this weekend, but he
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  Speaker 2: is announcing his– decision on Friday afternoon on CBS Sportsline.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not sure that that's a good state. So
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  Speaker 2: that may tell you where that is going. But I
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  Speaker 2: guess we'll wait and see from that standpoint. So he
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  Speaker 2: has not visited Ohio State yet. So that would be
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  Speaker 2: maybe someone to cross off the list. But we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what happens Friday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: And just to give people a sense for where Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Davis is on the recruiting rankings, he's another top 50 prospect,
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  Speaker 1: four-star top 50 prospect. And When you're looking at these guys,
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  Speaker 1: you're exactly right on roster construction. If the guys you
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  Speaker 1: get in and you can keep, it's probably easier. Once
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  Speaker 1: you have someone in-house, it's easier to sort of sell
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  Speaker 1: them on staying rather than going and trying to chase
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  Speaker 1: someone in the portal. But it seems like they're bringing in,
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  Speaker 1: this is a relatively strong recruiting class. You've got one
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  Speaker 1: guy in, you've got another guy who is leaning. If
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  Speaker 1: you end up with both of these guys, I go
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  Speaker 1: back to the conversation we had with Ross Bjork over
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  Speaker 1: the summer or sort of early in this summer, where
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  Speaker 1: he was asked about the resources available to the men's
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  Speaker 1: basketball program. They are now, if you're recruiting, if you're
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  Speaker 1: shopping in this aisle, this is at least suggestive to
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  Speaker 1: me of the fact that the resources that are available
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  Speaker 1: to the men's basketball program really are kind of in
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  Speaker 1: line with the expectation of be a top third, top
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  Speaker 1: quarter of the Big Ten kind of team and maybe
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  Speaker 1: be a second, weekend of the NCAA tournament team at
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  Speaker 1: some point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's no other way to interpret it there.
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  Speaker 2: If you're in on... top 50 guys and you're getting
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  Speaker 2: them there's probably everybody's offering money now you know it
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  Speaker 2: used to be you could assume everybody was offering money
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  Speaker 2: now we know for sure so you know sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: just pick who you like the best but I don't
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  Speaker 2: think many of these guys are going anywhere for free
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  Speaker 2: so you've got to at least be competitive even if
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  Speaker 2: you're not just the highest bid you know you've got
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  Speaker 2: to be in the room to to win it to
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  Speaker 2: win this competition so yeah I don't think there's any
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  Speaker 2: other way to look at it than that you know
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  Speaker 2: I think Ohio State probably just like with football you know,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't want, they didn't want to run over any
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  Speaker 2: lines that they thought might be there from a, from
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  Speaker 2: a rule standpoint. And now they're getting more clarity on
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  Speaker 2: the rules from that standpoint too. So, but again, and
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  Speaker 2: Jake Diebler, I think was regarded as being one of
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  Speaker 2: the strong recruiters on the previous staff. And so he's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you talk to him, he's an engaging guy.
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  Speaker 2: You can see how he would connect well with high
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  Speaker 2: school guys. You're seeing some proof of concept in terms
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  Speaker 2: of what kind of he's, he's building as a program
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  Speaker 2: and you need to be able to, have a financial
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  Speaker 2: offer there offer that is competitive at those two things.
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  Speaker 2: And you feel like, um, despite the building, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they would be in good position to land good recruits.
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  Speaker 1: All right. There you go. An update on Ohio state
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  Speaker 1: basketball recruiting. If you enjoyed that, we would love to
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