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Ohio State Spring Football: New Faces Reshaping Buckeyes' Offensive Line · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: heading into the home stretch of spring football. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: a couple days of interviews next week, and then of
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  Speaker 1: into all of that and into the thrust of today's
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  Speaker 1: show going to let you also know that the Bug
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  Speaker 1: Guy's picked up a commitment on Friday from linebacker Cjsana.
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  Speaker 1: He's a three star in state linebacker prospect. Tony Gerderman
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  Speaker 1: and Mark Givler broke down the impact of that commitment
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  Speaker 1: in the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed on Friday afternoon. You
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  Speaker 1: can find that on their YouTube channel as well at
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  Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle, so you can find
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  Speaker 1: that recruiting news there. Today we're gonna be talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State offensive line. Gonna let you hear from
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  Speaker 1: a couple of the new guys on the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: offensive line. One of them a transfer, Ethan Oneonwa who
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  Speaker 1: transferred from Rice, very very talented player, could have probably
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  Speaker 1: ended up in the NFL Draft this year. You'll get
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  Speaker 1: to hear from him about that and a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: other stuff. And then you're also going to get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to hear a little bit from Carter Low, very
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  Speaker 1: highly touted in state offensive line prospect from Toledo. He's
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  Speaker 1: coming in this year just sort of starting his Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State career. Going to get a chance to hear from
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  Speaker 1: him a little bit as well, but we will start
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  Speaker 1: with Ethan Oneanwa. As I mentioned, he came from Rice,
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  Speaker 1: was a multi year starter there, started a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years at right to tackle and then at left tackle.
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  Speaker 1: So he's got plenty of experience in college level. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, it is a little bit of a step
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  Speaker 1: up from Rice to Ohio State. So what has that
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  Speaker 1: adjustment been like for him so far?
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  Speaker 2: I just like the competitiveness for sure, you know, Like
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  Speaker 2: I also like one of the reasons why I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to come here too, because you could tell a boy
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  Speaker 2: like the strength program of the guys who like competitive,
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  Speaker 2: guys who want to be better, be the best. And
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  Speaker 2: that's been the biggest difference for sure by man loving it.
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  Speaker 3: Though.
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  Speaker 1: A note on Oneonwall this is the time of year
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  Speaker 1: when we get lots of updates on heights and weights
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  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. Oneonwa came in at
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five pounds. Ran Day had said
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the spring that he knew that was going
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  Speaker 1: to have to change, and that has changed quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit already. He's already down thirty pounds down to three
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  Speaker 1: thirty five. That's about where he thinks he's going to
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  Speaker 1: end up playing. I just wanted to let you share
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  Speaker 1: that little note there as well. So when oneon Woll
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  Speaker 1: went in the portal, what made him want to come
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  Speaker 1: to Ohio State?
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  Speaker 2: So kind of all saying earlier about the culture, really
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  Speaker 2: like you can just tell that the guys here are competitive.
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  Speaker 2: They want to be great. They wanted to be the
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  Speaker 2: best in the country, and they saw that last year,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, it just really stood out because I mean
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  Speaker 2: back in my old school, know, there was like a
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  Speaker 2: really good family connection, and I was kind of afraid
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  Speaker 2: of like whether I'll find out another school. But I
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  Speaker 2: mean here, like the guys are really close knit. They're
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  Speaker 2: all pushing each other and trying to be the best.
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  Speaker 1: As I mentioned, Oneonwa has played both right tackle and
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  Speaker 1: left tackle in college. He's playing exclusively at left tackle
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  Speaker 1: this spring. That's something that they're trying to do. It
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  Speaker 1: looks seems like with the new guys, just give them
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  Speaker 1: one spot to worry about, because you're trying to adjust
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  Speaker 1: to a new playbook, a new team, all that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. Some of the older guys, the veterans are
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  Speaker 1: kind of bouncing between a couple of different positions. It
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  Speaker 1: seems like the new guys kind of stayed in one
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  Speaker 1: spot for Oneonwa. That spot is left tackle. So he
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  Speaker 1: has played both bright and left tackle in college in
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  Speaker 1: the past. So how is that adjustment going to being
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  Speaker 1: just a full time left tackle?
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  Speaker 2: I mean in high school played right and then by
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  Speaker 2: my junior the movie to by senior year like the
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  Speaker 2: movie to Left, And yeah, I mean it was a
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  Speaker 2: pretty seamless process. I mean, the coaches of Rice because Davis,
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  Speaker 2: he was really great in helping me transition, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's I haven't really felt the significant difference or challenge.
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  Speaker 1: When Oneonma was in the portal. There were a lot
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  Speaker 1: of folks who called him the best offensive linement available
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  Speaker 1: in the winter portal window, certainly the best tackle available
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  Speaker 1: in the winter portal window. And he's projected by some
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  Speaker 1: if he had turned pro, to be as potentially as
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  Speaker 1: high as a second round pick. So that's potentially a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of money and good chance to start your
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  Speaker 1: pro career. So what made him decide to come back
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  Speaker 1: to college and then to spend that extra year at
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was on my mind, But at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, I also realized that I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: continue to develop and Katiti bere great, which is why
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to find a good school where I can
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  Speaker 2: have a good online coach. She's going to help him
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  Speaker 2: mensor meet and I mean, coach bone is it like
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  Speaker 2: I've I've always known myself getting better and improving at
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  Speaker 2: things that were big discover the sies in my game.
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  Speaker 1: Oneonwa is not the only new face in that offensive
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  Speaker 1: line room. There are plenty of other players as well,
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  Speaker 1: but there's also some new coaches, led by new Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State offensive line coach and co offensive coordinator Tyler Bowen.
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  Speaker 1: So what does oneon would think of Tyler Bowen so far?
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  Speaker 2: He's a really good communicator, Like we meet a lot,
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  Speaker 2: and he's really good at just kind of like pointing
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  Speaker 2: out to find details and how do you improve your
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  Speaker 2: game and then when it comes to different skills and everything,
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  Speaker 2: just how to like fine tune it during practice and everything.
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  Speaker 1: And finally gonna let you hear a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: it with the Ethan oneon Wa. Straight from Ethan Oneonwa,
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  Speaker 1: how would he describe himself as a player.
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  Speaker 2: I try to live by being the hardest working person
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  Speaker 2: on the field, So I mean that's what I want
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  Speaker 2: to do like I want to spend the most time
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  Speaker 2: watching film, spend the most time after practice doing getting
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  Speaker 2: extra work because I men want to have that edge.
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  Speaker 2: That's like, That's how I would describe.
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  Speaker 1: So that'll do it for Ethan Oneonwap probably probably the
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  Speaker 1: front runner for the starting left tackle position as of
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  Speaker 1: right now, but we'll see. There's plenty of time to
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  Speaker 1: get that whole thing sorted out as they figure out
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  Speaker 1: who the best five offensive linemen are and where they
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  Speaker 1: would all fit in together. So now we're going to
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  Speaker 1: move on from the new face who's a veteran, to
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  Speaker 1: a new face who's a freshman, and that is Carter
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  Speaker 1: low He's not really a new face around the Woody
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  Speaker 1: Hayes Athletic Center. He's a Toledo native and we saw
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  Speaker 1: him at a whole lot of Ohio State football games
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  Speaker 1: and practices and camps the last few years. He's been
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  Speaker 1: a regular in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center and that's
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  Speaker 1: now where he's spending most of his days. So now,
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  Speaker 1: Carter Lowe, he has a little bit he's used to
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State. He's not used to some of the coaches
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  Speaker 1: he's working with because he committed to Justin Frye. He
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  Speaker 1: was all those visits. He was visiting Justin Frye and
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  Speaker 1: then Justin Frye. After the National Championship game, he headed
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  Speaker 1: off to go by the offensive line coach for the
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  Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. So now he's now Carter Lowe playing for
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Bowen. So how has that been going so far?
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  Speaker 1: This is gonna be two answers butted together back to back.
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  Speaker 3: It's been really good so far. You know, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know what to expect that first. You know, I wasn't
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  Speaker 3: familiar with him before he came here. I got a
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  Speaker 3: meeting with him when he first came here, got to
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  Speaker 3: know him pretty well. We're building a really good relationship.
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  Speaker 3: He's been really good to all the freshmen. He's been
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  Speaker 3: pushing us, for sure. But the transition has been really
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  Speaker 3: good so far. It's been really good. You know. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: we had all the freshman had a really good relationship
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  Speaker 3: with coach fry you know, and then seeing him leave
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  Speaker 3: was actually a little hard. But we all kept our
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  Speaker 3: minds open with coach Bowen and we're locking him a lot.
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  Speaker 3: We've been developing relationships with him, and he's been really
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  Speaker 3: good to us so far.
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  Speaker 1: Just like ethan Onion WA, Carter Low is playing just
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  Speaker 1: one position the spring, that not moving him around one
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  Speaker 1: of those new guys mentioned earlier, and that position he's playing, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's just like ethanonion what he's playing, left tackle. I
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  Speaker 1: would certainly not expect Carter Low as a true freshman
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  Speaker 1: to be in the mix for a starting job at
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  Speaker 1: left tackle this year. But what are some reasonable expectations
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  Speaker 1: from Carter Low for year one?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, you know, just to try my heart at
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  Speaker 3: his spring obviously, move in the fall camp, you know,
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  Speaker 3: do my job and wherever. You know, they're gonna put
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  Speaker 3: the best five on the field at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day. So whatever coach Bowen thinks, that's going to
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  Speaker 3: be his decision.
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  Speaker 1: We've mentioned Tyler Bowen's name a couple times the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line coach now, but he's not the only offensive line coach.
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  Speaker 1: They lost a couple guys out of that offensive line room.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just Justin Fry who left. Mike Sileni, who
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  Speaker 1: is sort of the assistant offensive line coach. He's now
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  Speaker 1: running the offensive line room at UNLV. So with some
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  Speaker 1: new faces there, they had to fill those spots. And
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  Speaker 1: they really now have four different guys working with the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line. They really loaded up there. So that's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of new coaches all trying to work together. How
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  Speaker 1: has that gone so far? And this once again is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a couple of answers from Carter Low
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  Speaker 1: bud it together back to back.
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  Speaker 3: It definitely helps a lot. You know, whenever you have
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  Speaker 3: a question, it's so easy to get feedback. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to ask this coach bowing you guys,
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  Speaker 3: Dickie if you want to whoever you want to ask
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  Speaker 3: is it's so many resources so compared to you know,
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  Speaker 3: last year we just had we had three three guys.
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  Speaker 3: It was just in Fry and then coaching Lean and
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  Speaker 3: and one other guy. But it's been a lot different.
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  Speaker 3: I've been lacking it a lot more. I definitely say
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  Speaker 3: that we know, we hold a lot of meetings, so
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  Speaker 3: you know, talking to specific coaches about different things. You know,
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  Speaker 3: all of them explain stuff a little different. Just to
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  Speaker 3: be able to find one that you know it speaks
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  Speaker 3: to you in the way you like it too, it's
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  Speaker 3: a hell out helpful.
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  Speaker 1: Carter Low was one of the true freshmen who got
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to get a little bit of an early
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  Speaker 1: start and get a little bit of a sneak peek
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  Speaker 1: into what really goes into a college football playoff run.
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  Speaker 1: He was invited, along with most of the other freshmen
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  Speaker 1: coming in to join the team, go through practices, travel
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  Speaker 1: to the bowl sites, and really get a first hand
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  Speaker 1: look at what a run to a national championship really
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  Speaker 1: means and what it really takes to get there. So
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  Speaker 1: how hopeful was it that for that for Carter Low
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  Speaker 1: to be there for that playoff run with the team.
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  Speaker 3: So coach they asked all the seniors before we came in.
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  Speaker 3: He did ask them if they were okay for us
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  Speaker 3: to come with the playoffs with them, and they all
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  Speaker 3: just give it a green light. They wanted us to
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  Speaker 3: experience that for the next time we're in the playoffs
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  Speaker 3: so we could see. Yeah, I think that's helped tremendously.
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  Speaker 3: I think I made us mature just being around those
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  Speaker 3: guys and knowing what to do when we do get
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  Speaker 3: to that place.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier that Carter Low is a Toledo, Ohio native,
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  Speaker 1: and he is not the only Northwest Ohio in wo
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure Tony Gerderman would want me to say not
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  Speaker 1: the only Northwest Ohio guy in that offensive line room.
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  Speaker 1: Luke Montgomery who earned a starting role during that playoff run.
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  Speaker 1: He's from Finley, carter Low from Toledo, and so those
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  Speaker 1: guys have crossed pass quite a bit over the years.
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  Speaker 1: So house Carter Low seeing fellow Northwest Ohio native Luke
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery grow over the years. This once again is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a couple of answers back to back.
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  Speaker 3: I think I've been watching him for a while, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I haven't known him like you said, but I'm just
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  Speaker 3: seeing him grow as a leader has been really cool.
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  Speaker 3: Just seeing him a while back, you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: I was a sophomore, he was a senior. We always
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  Speaker 3: playing in each other, but seeing him move into that
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  Speaker 3: that leader role has been really cool to see. Just
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  Speaker 3: always talking to the younger guy, encouraging us, you know,
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  Speaker 3: tell us what we need to do, and not only
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  Speaker 3: the younger guys, but the other guys just encourage us
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  Speaker 3: as a whole.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hope you guys enjoyed that. We'll probably have some
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  Speaker 1: more sound bites from those offensive linemen. There were some
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  Speaker 1: more interesting interviews there, and we had a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: we have a bunch of stuff we just haven't gotten
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  Speaker 1: a chance to go through yet because boy, there is
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on right now. But we'll try and
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  Speaker 1: get to all of it in the coming days and
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  Speaker 1: coming weeks, kind of get you caught up on all
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  Speaker 1: this stuff and let you hear and see some of
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  Speaker 1: these new guys, just you sort of get to know
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  Speaker 1: some of the new faces on this year's Ohio State team,
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  Speaker 1: because with all those guys headed off the NFL, there
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  Speaker 1: are going to be a lot of new faces on
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  Speaker 1: this year's Ohio State team. So we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to see all of those new faces coming
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  Speaker 1: up on Saturday during the spring appeciate appreciation practice. Did
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  Speaker 1: an appreciation practice, Gonna be lots of photos and videos
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  Speaker 1: and instant analysis from inside what he has Athletic Center
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  Speaker 1: for you at bucke huddle dot com. That all starts
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  Speaker 1: at eleven thirty Saturday morning. We are planning probably to
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  Speaker 1: have an instant reaction show for you by early afternoon
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  Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel. We'll see if we can do
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  Speaker 1: that live. Well. There's all sorts of issues and restrictions
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  Speaker 1: with all the students in there, so we'll see what
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  Speaker 1: we can do. But you'll get an instant reaction show
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  Speaker 1: one way at the other Saturday afternoon at YouTube dot
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  Speaker 1: com slash Bucket Huddle. Then we're gonna have two more
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  Speaker 1: interview sessions next week. First one with Ryan Day and
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  Speaker 1: Quinning the coordinators. That'll be Monday around eleven am. And
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  Speaker 1: then Tuesday we're gonna get the wide receivers. That'll be
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  Speaker 1: coming up Tuesday or again around eleven am thereabouts. And
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  Speaker 1: then the Spring Game coming up next Saturday. Hard to
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  Speaker 1: believe Spring football already over had kind of a compress
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  Speaker 1: schedule this year. They crunched all those practices into one
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  Speaker 1: less week than they normally do, so a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a different schedule this week or this season. But
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  Speaker 1: springball will wrap up as usual with the Spring Game
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  Speaker 1: next Saturday. We will be there if you want to
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes dot com. But there's gonna be plenty to talk
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  Speaker 1: about all this week. Then, of course the White House
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  Speaker 1: trip to celebrate the national championship. That'll be next Monday,
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  Speaker 1: that'll be the fourteenth. We'll be there for that as well.
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  Speaker 1: And I mentioned there's a lot going on. There's also
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on with the Ohio State basketball program.
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  Speaker 1: We'll try and get you a show on that. So
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  Speaker 1: to get you caught up on all the guys who
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  Speaker 1: are headed out, all the guys who are coming back,
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  Speaker 1: all the guys who are coming in through the transfer portal.
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  Speaker 1: There has been a ton of news there as well.
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