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What Does Ohio State Basketball Need To Change Before Next Season? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, March twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom or the ball State game in
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty seven days, the game against Michigan
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  Speaker 1: for more. All right, after every college football season, everyone
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  Speaker 1: always does their way too early predictions for the following season.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of what we're doing here for the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State basketball team. The NCAA Tournament still hasn't officially wrapped
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  Speaker 1: up its first weekend yet, and the Buckeyes are already done,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to take a way too early look
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  Speaker 1: at next season's Ohio State team what that might look like.
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  Speaker 1: And we're gonna be doing that with our buddy Tony
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  Speaker 1: Gurnaman of bucke Huddle dot com. Tony, we were kind
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  Speaker 1: of going through the Okay, here's the guys who are
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  Speaker 1: going to be back next year on this list, and
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  Speaker 1: just unfortunately, with the modern realities of college basketball, you
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  Speaker 1: can have a list. You can go, boy, look at
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  Speaker 1: all these names, all these guys they've got coming back,
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  Speaker 1: and then you look at sort of the last few
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  Speaker 1: years and it's like, yeah, I mean, odds are probably
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  Speaker 1: half of these guys will be playing somewhere else next year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's why you have to go into the
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  Speaker 2: offseason when you talk about retention, who do we need
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  Speaker 2: to have back and what players can we not lose?
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  Speaker 2: And that's where your focus is, like last year, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and the last few years to focus on you can't
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  Speaker 2: lose Bruce Thornton. There are certain guys that you want
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  Speaker 2: to make sure this is the nucleus of your team,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it's going to look like, you want it resembling
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  Speaker 2: these three players. And sure it would be nice to
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  Speaker 2: keep everybody that you want, but prices change, wants change,
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  Speaker 2: a season of not playing as much as you thought
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  Speaker 2: you were going to will change. So yes, it's a
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  Speaker 2: nice idea to think you know what your team is
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  Speaker 2: going to look like or be, but it's a wholly
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  Speaker 2: different exercise. And I'd like to know what you think,
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  Speaker 2: Like ask j Jake Deebler right now, give me your
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  Speaker 2: fifteen players right now that are going to be on
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  Speaker 2: your team next year. And then when he talked to
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  Speaker 2: him in November, BEI like, fifty five percent, dude, that's
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  Speaker 2: all you hit.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he can give you many of those
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  Speaker 1: names legally, or Debo Sweeney will come after him for tampering.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's probably again a little early on this exercise,
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  Speaker 1: but just to give you sort of a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a state of the state of the union right
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  Speaker 1: now for the Ohios date basketball team, the guards returning
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  Speaker 1: at least right now, the guards who have eligibility left
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  Speaker 1: on this team. John Mobley figure, he's probably going to
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  Speaker 1: be high on that list of guys they really want
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  Speaker 1: to bring back, Payson Chapman, Gabe Cups, and then two
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  Speaker 1: guys who really did not play a lot this year,
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  Speaker 1: Brilain Nash and Miles Harrow. Four of those guys are juniors.
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  Speaker 1: Harrow a red shirt freshman next season. But I look
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  Speaker 1: at that list and I'm like, I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: I see a point guard there that I would trust
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  Speaker 1: to go into big ten plays. That might be right
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the shopping list for the often.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely that's the number one thing, is securing a point
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  Speaker 2: guard in the transfer portal. Good thing is there are
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  Speaker 2: going to be some good ones, and Ohio State has
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to bring in somebody who can just boom
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  Speaker 2: you're you're ready to go, like, let's let's bring you in.
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  Speaker 2: You this is the nucleus that we plan to have
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  Speaker 2: around you. So I think there's some encouraging parts, some
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  Speaker 2: enticing parts for any perspective point guard. But also the
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  Speaker 2: guy that you bring in is going to be a turnkey,
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  Speaker 2: ready made and if you don't bring you one in,
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  Speaker 2: that's trouble. That's why it's priority number one and you
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  Speaker 2: have to nail it.
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  Speaker 1: Moving up to the forwards now, and there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: more a lot more names here that are people who
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  Speaker 1: are either going to be new or going to be
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  Speaker 1: returning contributors from this year's team, I think we probably
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  Speaker 1: have to This is not necessarily a personal we would
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  Speaker 1: have started the list with a month ago, but I
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  Speaker 1: think we have to start the list with Amari Byam
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  Speaker 1: who really came on strong late in the season. Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Thompas at the five star recruit, who was just named
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  Speaker 1: the Gatoray Ohio Player of the Year, the first player
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  Speaker 1: of the Year from State to join the buck Eyes
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  Speaker 1: since Tony do you know the la answer to that,
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  Speaker 1: the last last one.
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  Speaker 2: Last Catoried Player of the Year to join Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: DJ Carton, Bruce Thornton in twenty twenty two. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: was in Georgia, not at Ohio, but yes, so Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Thorton was the last one to do that, and that
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  Speaker 1: now Anthony Thompson joins him. You also have Devin Royal back,
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  Speaker 1: you also have Colin White back, adding four star recruit
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  Speaker 1: Alex Smith. And then kind of the mystery man, Matthew Gruchisich.
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  Speaker 1: He was the came over from Europe, joined the team
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  Speaker 1: very late, wasn't able to practice until like September last
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  Speaker 1: year because of some of the international transfer rules, and
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  Speaker 1: so he is he really was a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a mystery this year. Lots of potential there, lots of
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  Speaker 1: scoring potential there, but played one minute of basketball for
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  Speaker 1: the buck Eyes after November due to injuries and just
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  Speaker 1: kind of I think the adjustment so I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what you're getting out of him, but that you know
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  Speaker 1: the forwards feels like they might have what they need
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  Speaker 1: down the roster. And then the question is can you
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  Speaker 1: keep everyone that we just talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and that's the other thing Amari byn Them, Devin Royal,
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Thompson. I think that's your your triangle there, and
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  Speaker 2: the question that I have is can they co exist?
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  Speaker 2: And you know, Amari Bynham and Devin Royal were able
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  Speaker 2: to co exist this year, But now you bring in
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  Speaker 2: somebody else who also kind of plays like this where
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  Speaker 2: you know that they could play on the way, they
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  Speaker 2: can shoot, they can post up. Uh, is there such
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  Speaker 2: a redundancy that it becomes diminishing returns type of things?
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  Speaker 2: So I'll be interested to see how they operate there
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  Speaker 2: and how Jake Diebler wants to manage that because these
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  Speaker 2: are three talented players, But can they can they co exist?
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  Speaker 2: And it's crazy to make is it too much talent?
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  Speaker 2: How could they You know, other programs can coexist, can manage.
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  Speaker 2: But I think when you're talking about the the the
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  Speaker 2: who do you need back boy? I think for me,
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  Speaker 2: in the front court, it starts with the Mary Biden
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  Speaker 2: because the potential there is out of control. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: up there with anybody we've seen at Ohio State in
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  Speaker 2: quite some while. In the front court.
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  Speaker 1: And then at the center position, you've got a couple names,
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  Speaker 1: and boy, these are last names for you. Josh of Genua,
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  Speaker 1: which is the he was the guy who they brought
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  Speaker 1: in as a transfer from Baylor last year, had suffered
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  Speaker 1: a knee injury, sat out this whole season. He has
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  Speaker 1: another year of eligibility, so you know, you think that
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  Speaker 1: that's that's probably where this starts. And then Ivanne and
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  Speaker 1: Govin obviously was a role player for them this year.
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  Speaker 1: I look at that and I don't know how confident
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  Speaker 1: you can be with the Genua because you didn't see
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  Speaker 1: him at all last year, So how can he Can
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  Speaker 1: you just put him in sharpie and say this is
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  Speaker 1: the guy? Or do they need to find another rim
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  Speaker 1: protector because I look at a former Buck guy like
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  Speaker 1: Felix Zakpara who obviously he transferred to Tennessee and he
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  Speaker 1: is out of eligibility. But you know, do you need
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  Speaker 1: a Felix Apara type on this team and do you
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  Speaker 1: have the resources you go do that and also add
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  Speaker 1: a point guard and also retain everyone else.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess whatever they know about Ojin Winna now
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  Speaker 2: and what they've learned about them over this past year
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  Speaker 2: will inform them on what they do for going forward.
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  Speaker 2: So if you see them bringing in centers for visits,
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  Speaker 2: then you'll have your answer on that. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: do have some size, as you mentioned with those two guys,
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  Speaker 2: but I still think it's you want more in terms
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  Speaker 2: of scoring and just another option there. If you want
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  Speaker 2: a nice video game lineup, you could probably go Anthony Thompson,
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  Speaker 2: Devin Royal and Amari buying them in your front court
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  Speaker 2: some way or some form with those three. But then
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  Speaker 2: there's a question of defense and rebounding and all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of things, which is why you do I think they
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  Speaker 2: need to go in and get another center. And again,
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  Speaker 2: there are guys out there and sometimes they work out,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes they don't. And you know, Ohigh State was didn't
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  Speaker 2: quite get all that they could have out of the
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  Speaker 2: portal this year. I think they did a better portal
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  Speaker 2: job this year than in previous years where the guys
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  Speaker 2: that were in from the portal and had to play
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  Speaker 2: a lot of minutes just shouldn't have been And so
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  Speaker 2: I think they're in a better position now to I
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  Speaker 2: guess overcome some mistakes. But you got to go out
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  Speaker 2: there and you got to find another guy, another big
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  Speaker 2: guy in my opinion, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So there you go, and very early, probably way
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  Speaker 1: too early, look at what Ohio State needs to probably
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  Speaker 1: take a look at in the transfer portal and in
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  Speaker 1: terms of roster construction and what next year's team might
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  Speaker 1: look like. For Jake Diebler, there will be plenty to
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  Speaker 1: talk about on this front, because here's the thing. While
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  Speaker 1: you might expect to lose about half of your guys
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  Speaker 1: off your roster to the portal every year, good news,
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  Speaker 1: that's true for pretty much everyone else as well. So
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  Speaker 1: there will be a lot of plenty of fish in
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  Speaker 1: the sea for Jake Diebler and the Ohio State Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: in the transfer portal this offseason and the chance for
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  Speaker 1: an entirely new and entirely different looking Ohio State Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: team next fall. So we'll be talking about that with you.
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  Speaker 1: We have had some very lively basketball conversations over the
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  Speaker 1: last few weeks at on the huddleboard presented by Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Ruby's Columbus at bucke huddle dot com. You can join
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  Speaker 1: us there to talk about that, and also, yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: talk a little football there as well. Buck guys will
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  Speaker 1: be back on the practice field on Tuesday, continuing practice
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  Speaker 1: number three of spring football of that coming up this
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  Speaker 1: week as well. That'll do it for today. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: guys all for joining us, have a great day. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to you tomorrow.