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What Are The Biggest Questions For Ohio State Football Right Now? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckey's Tomorrow Morning for Tuesday May sixth, im
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  Speaker 1: your host Tom, or the Texas game in one hundred
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  Speaker 1: this surprisingly close to the one thousandth episode of this show.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that recently and thought that can't possibly be right,
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  Speaker 1: But here we are. It turns out we've been doing
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  Speaker 1: this for a while, but today we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: a first time guest. He's also now a brand new
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  Speaker 1: staff member at Buckeye Huddle dot com. His name is
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Ellis. If you are on Twitter, you may know
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  Speaker 1: him better as Teddy Heisman. Andrew, Welcome to the show,
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  Speaker 1: and even more importantly, welcome to the staff at Buckeye Huddle.
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  Speaker 3: Tom.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, it's a pleasure to be on here. Honestly, I've
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  Speaker 2: been I've been following you an Tony for I can't
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  Speaker 2: even tell you how long. I remember the Buckeye Watch
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  Speaker 2: back in the day was one of the first columns
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  Speaker 2: that I that I read all the time, and couldn't
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  Speaker 2: be happier to be here.
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  Speaker 3: You got there's an awesome community over there.
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  Speaker 2: It's really cool to see a lot of names that
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  Speaker 2: I that I saw twenty years ago on scout dot com.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just kind of crazy how the how much
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  Speaker 2: things change and also how little they change at the
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  Speaker 2: same time.
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  Speaker 3: So can't can't wait to continue talking to you.
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  Speaker 2: I've known Jeremy Birmingham for a couple of decades now,
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  Speaker 2: I talked to Mark all the time, and a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of great people over there, and.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't be more excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned Burham Burma is also We've talked about
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  Speaker 1: him a couple of times on these shows, mentioned that
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  Speaker 1: he is going to be uh. He is already on
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  Speaker 1: staff there as well are one of our other new
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  Speaker 1: editions at Bucket Huddle. It has been a very very
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  Speaker 1: busy few days as you guys have come on board,
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  Speaker 1: and there has been a big inflow of new members there,
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  Speaker 1: folks who have sort of followed you guys, I think
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  Speaker 1: at various previous stops. But for people who might not
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  Speaker 1: know you or know your background as much, let people
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  Speaker 1: know just a little bit about you and how you
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  Speaker 1: came to, you know, follow and be covering Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: and just you know, sort of your career up till now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So first thing I'll say is I don't want anyone
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  Speaker 2: to think I'm some like super recruiting insider.
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  Speaker 3: I leave I save that for the professionals with Mark
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  Speaker 3: and Burm.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I've just kind of been following this
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  Speaker 2: closely ever since. I mean, gosh, I remember back in
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and one just going to the grocery store
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  Speaker 2: and buying a you know, a magazine when it used
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  Speaker 2: to have it in magazines, and it was talking about
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  Speaker 2: some running back from Youngstown who is probably gonna go
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  Speaker 2: to Notre Dame. And obviously Mauric's colorette ended up signing
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  Speaker 2: with Ohio State. And I've been following this closely since then.
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  Speaker 2: And then I kind of got into the scout dot
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  Speaker 2: com message boards back in the day, and that I mean.
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  Speaker 3: That seriously, it was like twenty years ago. It's just
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  Speaker 3: it's crazy how time flies.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I helped helped out over at eleven
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  Speaker 2: Warriors for a bit, and I've been podcasting with Burm
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  Speaker 2: ever since. Then again, I'm not I don't speak to
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  Speaker 2: I don't speak to recruits or now now agents and
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  Speaker 2: all that crazy stuff you got going on. I just
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  Speaker 2: I just try to follow it as best as I can,
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  Speaker 2: kind of from afar, try to keep a you know,
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  Speaker 2: keep my finger on the pulse as best as I can.
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  Speaker 2: And I like talking to I like talking to people
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  Speaker 2: about it, whether it's you or Burm or all the
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  Speaker 2: other members over on huddle.
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  Speaker 3: So here I am, here you are.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that I know you have
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  Speaker 1: done in the past is almost sort of been like
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  Speaker 1: the voice of the community in some ways and sort
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  Speaker 1: of be you know, obviously being on the board a lot,
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing, you're answering a lot of the questions, but
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  Speaker 1: you're also just seeing the questions that people are asking
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  Speaker 1: and sort of what's going on in the minds of
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State fans right now. And you know, at various
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  Speaker 1: times in the last twelve months, what's going on the
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  Speaker 1: minds of Ohio State fans. You know, may have gotten
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  Speaker 1: you a community warning on YouTube or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But now I think everyone's more, a little more happy
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  Speaker 1: and settled down than they have been at various times
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  Speaker 1: in the past. So right now, you know, coming off
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  Speaker 1: of a national championship season, just had a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: guys get drafted. The vibes generally pretty good right now.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's Ohio State fans. There's always going
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  Speaker 1: to be self to worry about. So what, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what are the biggest questions that Ohio State fans or
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  Speaker 1: biggest concerns maybe that Ohio State fans are that you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing right now, you know, whether whether it's on the
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  Speaker 1: huddle or somewhere else online.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So if you ask Burn, he'll tell you that
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  Speaker 2: I'm a pessimist about Ohio State athletics and I'm an
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  Speaker 2: optimist about the Cincinnati Bengals, which is just extremely weird. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: But I'm I'm not I'm not a pessimist pessimistic person
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  Speaker 2: with Ohio State. Just some of the recruiting stuff I
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  Speaker 2: think has haunted stands over the last you know, decade
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  Speaker 2: or so. I think I'll start with, you know, Tyler Bowen,
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  Speaker 2: I think has completely changed the perspective of the fan
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  Speaker 2: as far as offensive line recruiting. And you know, we
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  Speaker 2: all saw what the what the offensive line did during
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  Speaker 2: that playoff run, and it was, you know, it was phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: So I think if that was, you know, the number
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  Speaker 2: one on the list of concerns there for a while,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's kind of dwindled down a bit. No
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  Speaker 2: one's ever going to be concerned about receiver. We just
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  Speaker 2: we just saw Ryan Hartline at another one just yesterday
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  Speaker 2: or just.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of days back.
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  Speaker 2: I think right now, I think a lot of fans
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  Speaker 2: have questions about Larry Johnson the depth right now. You
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  Speaker 2: guys have talked to lot about and Ryan days talked
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  Speaker 2: about the portal and defensive tackle depth and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: and he's you know, he's not a spring chicken anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So I think you're seeing all these commitments safeties and
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  Speaker 2: you know, and wide receivers of course, and cornerbacks over
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  Speaker 2: the past few years. But I think defensive line recruiting
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  Speaker 2: right right now might be the one kind of thorn
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  Speaker 2: in the side that people are sort of wondering what's
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  Speaker 2: going on. There's there's all these names, and Mark talks
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  Speaker 2: about him all the time. With Kevin There's all these
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  Speaker 2: names out there that Ohio State's in a great spot
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  Speaker 2: for but there's just not defensive linemen. It seems like
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  Speaker 2: it's it's just it's just a different game there. And
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  Speaker 2: and Mark knows this better than anybody. I think Larry
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  Speaker 2: Johnson kind of marches to the beat of his own drum.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just his age or whatever, but he kind
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  Speaker 2: of operates in silence. So you really, you really don't
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  Speaker 2: know what's going on there. So I think the lack
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  Speaker 2: of commitments on the defensive side of the ball, combined
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  Speaker 2: with some of the comments about the defensive tackles and
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  Speaker 2: the portal, I would say, if anything right now, defensive
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  Speaker 2: line is the concern. But I mean the program's coming
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  Speaker 2: off sational championship, So it's how concerned are people right now?
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Well, and yeah, if we have talked repeatedly about boy,
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  Speaker 1: the depth that the interior defensive line positions, Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: a problem. That's a you know, you can certainly lose
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  Speaker 1: games if you have an injury or something there and
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  Speaker 1: you are end up shorthanded in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: defensive line. But also if you were going to rank
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  Speaker 1: the I think it's one hundred and thirty six FBS
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  Speaker 1: teams right now, how many of them would really kill
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  Speaker 1: for this is our biggest concern is the depth at
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  Speaker 1: the interior defensive line positions. I'm guessing it's probably one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty something at the very least, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: more than that. So there's a lot of teams that
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  Speaker 1: are going BOYD, Penn State is you know, Penn State
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  Speaker 1: is as loaded as it can be, and they brush
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  Speaker 1: spread in some wide receivers in the transfer portal. And
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  Speaker 1: I still think they probably have some questions that are
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  Speaker 1: bigger than what Ohio State has and they might be
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  Speaker 1: one of the favorites to be a national champion this year.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, not terrible, you know, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's a concern, but not two too desperate of a
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  Speaker 1: concern probably, And I think you also have to remember
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  Speaker 1: longer term, they just brought in what six defensive linemen
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  Speaker 1: this last year, plus brought in a couple of guys
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  Speaker 1: in the portal, so you know, you can plaster over
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  Speaker 1: some of those concerns, you know, with the defensive line.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see, you know, the this year defensive line question
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  Speaker 1: mark is you know, a whole separate queste, you know,
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  Speaker 1: conversation from the twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven where
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  Speaker 1: they have had some sort of thin classes there in
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  Speaker 1: recent years. So that's sometimes something that takes a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years to show up. So that's that's definitely definitely
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  Speaker 1: a legitimate concern. As you said, you know things, there
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  Speaker 1: were some real concerns about the offensive line just a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and now it feels like between
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  Speaker 1: Justin Frye hitting you know, hitting some in state homers
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  Speaker 1: that you didn't necessarily know we're going to be home
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  Speaker 1: runs at the time, plus some really strong development, plus
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  Speaker 1: some you know, three portal editions this offseason. I think
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  Speaker 1: people are probably feeling reasonably good about that as well
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. One group that I think is probably not
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  Speaker 1: feeling great is the Michigan fan base, And well, I
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  Speaker 1: guess I should I should correct myself there. They probably
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be feeling good. I don't know how they're feeling
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  Speaker 1: the comments on our live stream. Tony and I did
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  Speaker 1: a live stream on Monday morning when Michigan's announced a
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  Speaker 1: self imposed two games suspension for Sharon Moore. Will it
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  Speaker 1: be the first two games of the season. No, he
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  Speaker 1: wants to coach those, so it'll be the third and
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  Speaker 1: fourth games of the season. This is not something the
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  Speaker 1: NCAA has, you know, given a thumbs up two or
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  Speaker 1: anything like this. This is just Michigan saying so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he deleted some text messages. We're we're gonna say what
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  Speaker 1: if we do these two? But the second game is
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  Speaker 1: against his alma mater, Oklahoma. He'd really like to coach that.
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  Speaker 1: So is it cool if he, you know, has like
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  Speaker 1: a delayed suspension for two games. The reaction from the
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  Speaker 1: Michigan side of things has been one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: degrees from the reaction from some other folks, which has
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  Speaker 1: been so interesting to me through this whole process. What's
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  Speaker 1: your take on the huron More two game suspension? Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: I think this.
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  Speaker 3: Entire fiasco is just hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot There's a lot of great content out there
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  Speaker 2: that I like to consume, but this I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: just feed it to me, all of it.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: I spent my trip back from work today listening to
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  Speaker 2: you and Tony earlier. Anybody that hasn't listened to that
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  Speaker 2: should you got to hear Tom do a Sopranos impression
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  Speaker 2: and speak like a toddler. So that pretty much made
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  Speaker 2: my day and would make anybody's day. I just think
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  Speaker 2: the most fascinating part of it is just there's you know,
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  Speaker 2: there are some Ohio State outlets that are saying, you know, oh,
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  Speaker 2: the death penalties come and is coming tomorrow anytime now,
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  Speaker 2: and then you have all these Michigan people, you know, saying,
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  Speaker 2: Chief Burgers, this is nothing. And I think if you're
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  Speaker 2: a ration, if you try want to be a rational
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State fan, just understand the truth is going to
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  Speaker 2: be somewhere in the middle there. I do think the
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  Speaker 2: picking and choosing of your of your games that you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be out, I think, you know, missing the
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska game is actually probably somewhat significant at least. But
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  Speaker 2: I just think it's hilarious how all of this is going,
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  Speaker 2: and the way it's been covered, especially by the Michigan side,
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  Speaker 2: is is I just can't get enough of it. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's hysterical. And I think Michigan fans think, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: every time something like this happens, they think, oh, this
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  Speaker 2: is it, you know, this is this is the end
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  Speaker 2: of it. And if you read the report, I mean
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  Speaker 2: my understanding of it was this is nowhere close to
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  Speaker 2: being the end of it. This is kind of what
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  Speaker 2: we are suggesting, So the NCAA maybe goes a little
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  Speaker 2: bit easier on us. My understanding is the end of
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  Speaker 2: this isn't going to come until what is it early June,
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  Speaker 2: they have the they have the hearing, and then I'm
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  Speaker 2: guessing it'll be weeks or a month after that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but I can't get enough of this.
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  Speaker 2: So if there's something written every day about this scandal,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be all over it and it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: great content.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have been trying to not overdo it with
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  Speaker 1: this because every time we do it, we get big,
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  Speaker 1: you know, big numbers on YouTube and everyone's excited to
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  Speaker 1: hear it. But it's like, we can't keep saying the
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  Speaker 1: same thing every day, so we're going to wait until
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  Speaker 1: there's actual news. There was actual news on Monday with
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  Speaker 1: the self imposed two game suspension from the University of Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: For sure on more, but that was again that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: deal with the sixth level one violations that they're potentially
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  Speaker 1: facing in their notice of allegations. That is all going
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  Speaker 1: to get sorted out, as Andrews said June sixth and seventh,
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  Speaker 1: through a hearing, and then after that the NCAA will
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  Speaker 1: announce serve the final penalties, and that'll be probably month,
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  Speaker 1: two months something like that. After that, we'll see when
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  Speaker 1: that all shakes out. But boy, it has been a
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  Speaker 1: fascinating story to follow, and it's going to, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 1: continue to be a fascinating story for us to follow
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  Speaker 1: in the coming days and almost even more important, fascinating
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  Speaker 1: story to talk about on the huddle Board presented by
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Rubies, Columbus at buckeyehuddle dot Com. All Right, I
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  Speaker 1: got to really think through this now, because, boy, we
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  Speaker 1: have more people on the staff. I always say, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin and I cover the team. Mc cooey. Got that,
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  Speaker 1: that hasn't changed. Got Mark and burm cover and recruiting. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: get Andrew on the board. We got Justin, We got Devin,
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  Speaker 1: we got Michael, we got Ross doing ex's and o's.
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  Speaker 1: It is a full house there at Buckey huddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: But we will make room for you as well. We will.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of room on the huddle Board, presented by
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  Speaker 1: a fun and active and relatively drama free board. It
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  Speaker 1: continues to be that, but it is much more active
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  Speaker 1: even than it was just a week ago.
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  Speaker 3: I've been picking up a lot of members.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to mail out the next batch of national
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  Speaker 1: Championship confetti probably sometime on Tuesday or Wednesday, So you
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  Speaker 1: great stuff we talked about. All this stuff you're getting.
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  Speaker 1: Burham has been absolutely killing it on recruiting coverage recently,
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  Speaker 1: just in the last few days since she's since he started.
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  Speaker 1: And then of course we've got Mark and Kevin down
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  Speaker 1: on their Southern swing and talking to all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: prospects all across the South. Great really unique content. You
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 1: joining us.
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  Speaker 3: Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.