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Ohio State Recruiting Insider: 6 Storylines For A Massive Visit Weekend · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Friday, June twenty. First time your
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host Tom Moore. The Akron game in seventy one days, the game against
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Michigan in one hundred and sixty two days. We're talking recruiting on today's show,
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and that is because this is one of the biggest recruiting weekends of the
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year for Ohio State. A ton of official visits with some very very big
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name players including Tavian Saint Clair, Devin Sanchez, many more, Nate Roberts.
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Here, those are just the committed guys. We're going to be talking
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about some guys who are not yet committed to Ohio State, but for whom
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that might change at some point this weekend or in the foreseeable future. We're
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doing that with our buddy Mark Givler Buckehuddle dot com. Mark. Let's start
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with three guys from the Deep South. Three guys from Alabama, one of
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whom already committed to Ohio State Naimaford five star Corner, but a couple other
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defensive players of note, Zion Grady and Malik Autrey, also out of Alabama.
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Couple those are some potentially very big names could be potentially a really significant
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coup for Ohio State in an area of the country where they don't typically pull
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lot of talent. Yeah, I think this is the most interesting thing to
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watch this weekend because I think they're all linked together at least in some way.
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I wouldn't go as far as saying it's an all or nothing proposition,
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but I feel like it's trending towards being an all or nothing proposition with the
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Alabama guys, like they either get them all or they don't. Maybe Name
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Offered could be the the one guy who's in the class when the dust settles.
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But I personally do not think you're going to get Malik Autry if you
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don't get Zion Grady. I think that I think those two are definitely an
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all or nothing proposition, and I think name offered status in the class and
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how solid he actually is goes a long way towards getting those two. So,
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you know, in a way, it's kind of why I alluded to
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it at the beginning. In a way, it is kind of feeling like
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it could be an all or nothing proposition. Zion Grady and Malik Autry are
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really close. They train together even though they live in different parts of Alabama.
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They meet halfway in Montgomery to train together. Autry is a huge nose
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tackle, you know, kind of a throwback three and twenty pound nose tackle.
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Grady's an edge guy. So they would really like to play together in
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college. But it's not so much that they're a package deal anywhere. I
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could see them going to separate schools in the Southeast, but I don't think
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one's coming up to Columbus without the other. That's really interesting because generally,
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you know, the typical response to the package deal thing is always, you
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know, you hear about it a lot, and it rarely works out.
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So it's very interesting to have, you know, and you're usually one of
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the people sort of poo pooing that as an idea. So that's very interesting
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to hear that that's actually maybe going to be something to that factors into that
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decision, something else that could factor into that decision. I have to recruiting
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a bunch of other very talented defensive linemen. They had Isaiah Gibson, Jarquest
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Carter on campus earlier in the week. I mean, this is this is
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a very very deep group that Larry Johnson is looking at. How does the
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you know, a visit from someone like Jark West Carter maybe factor into what
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could happen with the Alabama guys. Yeah. I think what they're trying to
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do right now at defensive tackle is let the whole thing, Let the whole
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month play out, So let all the camps play out, and let all
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the official visit weekends play out. So we're just about to that point now,
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and then decisions have to be made. Obviously the players have to make
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decisions, but Ohio State has to make decisions too. You know, they're
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in on four or five defensive tackles. They're not going to able to take
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all of them. This might only be a two defensive tackle class. They
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are fairly young at the position. They've got some young guys they really like
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on the roster right now, so I don't think they're going to force the
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issue too much with maybe more than two. I think the preferred two would
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be maliek Autry and Jarq West Carter because they can play together. Carter is
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a classic three Techre's a classic one tech, and I think those two are
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at the top of the board right now. But you've also got Max Roy
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out of out of Saint Joe's prep who just visited last week. He'll wrap
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up his official visits this weekend as well, and he's a guy who could
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maybe fit into this as well. So they've got a lot of irons in
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the fire defensive tackle. With defensive end, I think it's a little more
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simple. I think with guys like Zion Grady and and you know some of
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the other guys they have out there, some of the speed rusher guys they
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have out there, they'll kind of just take them. Those those just take
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them until they can't until Ryan Day finally tells Larry Johnson, you can't take
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any more. Guy, he just can't do it anymore. So I think
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they would go all the way up to certainly four, if not five defensive
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ends in this class if they can, especially if they can play together in
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some capacity, whether it's rushman package or just kind of you know, jack
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position, strong side week side, whatever it might be. So I think,
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yeah, I think defensive ends a little more open right now, and
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defensive tackles where some tough decisions are going to have to be made. Another
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spot where they are maybe it's going to be taking a pretty deep class is
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at a cornerback position, and really the secondary on the whole. They already
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have a very very talented secondary class locked in, a class that's at I
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think what five now already in terms of commitments, and you know that that
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normally would be the time of year where you kind of dust your hands and
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go all right, the class is full, see you next year, and
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that is not the case at all this year. They're they're looking to bolster
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that class potentially as soon as this weekend as well, with the visit of
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five star corner who may play safety at the next level. We'll see Dorian
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brew That. You know, he is an Ohio kid who has moved down
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to Texas. Obviously, always huge to get him back onto campus. Is
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this someone who you're kind of keeping an eye on commitment wise, or is
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this a you know, Ohio State needs to create some more separation from the
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rest of the pack. Where do you think this visit is big for Ohio
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State? Well? I do like Ohio State for Dori and Bruce still,
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and I know that's been an area of stress for Ohio State fans. Excuse
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me, but you know, I think they're still in pretty good shape there.
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You know, they they've done a really good job recruiting him since he
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moved to Texas. He's got the Ohio State ties, and you know,
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I personally think that they're in the lead, and it's just a matter of
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okay, you know, we got to get gott to see where he stands
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and got to see I think, I think I want an answer here pretty
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soon, because you know, they're going to take probably about seven defensive backs.
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But you know, we're starting to get to that point where they're gonna
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have to turn away some very talented players, and they don't want to turn
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those players away. If you know, if Dorian Brew isn't going to be
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in, if name offered isn't going to be in, if you name offer
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has been visiting a lot of different places. He's been in Alabama several times.
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I think this weekend you want to kind of get some type of really
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good feel for those two guys and be like, okay, like you know,
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we don't want to pressure you, but you know, this is kind
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of where we're at right now. We're holding you know, we're potentially holding
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off some other talented players because we want you in this class. But if
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you're not going to be in this class, we kind of need to know
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that right now, so there could be some interesting conversations there. But I
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do like where they are with Dorian Brew and you know, would he commit
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this weekend. He's one of the types of kids that could do just about
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anything in terms of his commitment. He does not like attention, He does
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not like the spotlight. You know, he could be one of those guys
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who just releases a commitment on Twitter, you know, and doesn't do the
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national announcement. Yeah, so that's going to definitely be one that is worth
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watching because this is a secondary class with a lot of pieces, but also
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potentially a lot of moving pieces. As Mark said there, if you're going
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to keep name offered and you get Dorian Brew, well that maybe makes simplifies
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the class a little bit. Trade McNutt still out there in the secondary obviously
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a safety. I know he's been making a bunch of visits as well.
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So you know, if you get those three guys, yeah, probably a
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very easy, simple solution, you know, simple conclusion to the class.
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Will it be that simple? Well, if you have followed recruiting for more
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than two weeks, you know the answer is it is almost never that simple.
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So we'll continue to follow that whole all the secondary drama as the class
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of twenty twenty five continues to take shape. Another spot where Ohio State has
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been known to have some drama is on the offensive line recruiting front, and
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they have the maybe the single best offensive lineman in the class of twenty twenty
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five on his official this weekend. David Sanders, Junior out of North Carolina.
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That's the name we've talked about a lot, because he has got to
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be one of the top targets on Ohio State's board at a position of significant
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need. If you can get one of those five star offensive tackles mark,
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that is always something you can really the hang the rest of the class on.
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And so this is a big visit. We've seen David Sanders on campus
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at Ohio State in a number of times, getting him back now for his
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official this feels like this is going to be a very very big weekend for
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the future of that Ohios offensive line room one way or the other. Yeah,
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I think Ohio State is going to have a good idea of if they're
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getting David Sanders or not coming out of this visit. He's been up twice
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in the spring. You know, I think they are the team with the
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momentum right now, which I honestly can't believe I'm saying right now after where
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this thing was at, you know, six seven months ago. But I
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think they're the team with momentum right now, and they're obviously the goals to
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carry that over. He's not going to get any ultimatums. He's not going
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to get any Hey, we're holding off other guys to we need to wait
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for you. We need to know. He's not going to get that speech.
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But he is going to be you know, informed. You know,
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he's going to continue to be hammered home how important he is to their class,
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how much they want to pair him with Carter Low as these bookend tackles
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in this class and build the offensive line of the future around those two guys.
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So this is this is big, and David is going to decide before
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his season starts. So this is going to be over in the next two
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months and when when he decides. David is the type a kid, the
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low profile kid that I think will stick where he commits to. Now,
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can things change if there's like massive coaching changes, of course, things like
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that can shake up a recruitment, but I don't see him committing somewhere and
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then instantly kind of oh, but I'm going to take, you know,
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some visits in the fall and do this and that and the other. I
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think the decision he makes this summer will be the final one. So that's
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one spot where Ohio State is definitely going to be watching him very very closely
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and may know more. As Mark said, coming out of this weekend,
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one last spot, we need to talk about running back. Ohio State already
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has two talents and running backs in this class. Bo Jackson and Isaiah West
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both committed already. You don't normally have a three back class, but they
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are looking at maybe taking a three back class this year. And if they
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do, that third back might be Jordan Davison third back at least in terms
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of sequence of commitment if nothing else. Maybe not, maybe not in the
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pecking order in other ways. But you know, this is another big weekend
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where you know, is this a weekend where they have to sell Jordan Davison
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on the idea of being in a three back class? Are they just trying
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to close the deal? Where do you think is on the line this weekend
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with him? I think it's all on the line this weekend. But you
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know, as far as you know his thoughts on this, that's going to
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be the million dollar question because this has turned into, you know, a
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three back class if he wants to be a part of it, and that
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maybe wasn't always going to be the case. I know there was a lot
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of discussions internally throughout the last several months if this will be a two or
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three back class. I think Ohio State had a ton of momentum with Jordan
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Davidson once they made the hire of Carlos Lachlan. There's a little kind of
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a couple of week window there where things got really shaky, but once they
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hired Lachlan, they regained momentum. They've done a great job there since a
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lot of people think he was leaning Ohio State. Now you take the second
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running back in Isaiah West, and now it's like, okay, let's get
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him hover, let's get around him, and let's let's feel this thing out.
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But you know, I think they can still get him as long as
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that plane touches down. He's serious about doing this, So you know,
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I think they're serious about getting him, or I think they're serious in terms
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of being able to get him, and we will see. But I think
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that's another one we may know pretty soon, you know, thumbs up,
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thumbs down. That may not take long. I think because he's sold on
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so much about Ohio State, because he's been here so many times. I
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think he's either going to be sold this weekend on his role in this class
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or not. And so I think this will go, you know, quickly,
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in one direction or the other. I don't think this is something that
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will like we'll have to wait, you know, three months to realize that
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he didn't actually want to be in a three back class. I think we'll
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find out pretty quickly, and we may find out pretty quickly about a few
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other guys this weekend as well. There are a couple of in state guys
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who just got offered scholarships in the last week or so who are both making
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their official visits this weekend. We are going to be following that news potentially
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all weekend long at bucke huddle dot com. There's another in state prospect who
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has set a decision date for July third, Well, we're going to be
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following that one as well. We are headed out of Ohio State summer camp
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season and now into commitment season. As we turn the page towards the end
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of June and into early July, that's typically when you see a sort of
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a rush of commitments for a lot of schools, including Ohio State, and
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that is going to be a very busy time at bucke huddle dot com.
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We hope to see you there. We're gonna have a lot to talk about
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there, and as the commitment season gives way to talking season, we'll be
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hit big ten media days in Indianapolis in just about a month. I can't
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believe that is almost here. That is sort of the unofficial start of the
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season, and then fall camp starts August first, and bing bang boom,
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there it is. The Acron Game will be kicking off before you notice,
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before you know it. There's gonna be a lot to talk about all summer
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long and into the fall. At bucke huddle dot com. That's where Tony
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That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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Have a great day. We'll talk John Monday,