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Ohio State Football Behind The Scenes: What It's Like To Cover A Buckeye Game · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Friday, September fifth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom Moore. The Grambling game in one day,
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  Speaker 1: Today's show going to be very different from the way
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  Speaker 1: we typically do these. This is a behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: story that I did at Saturday's game. When people find
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  Speaker 1: out what you do when you cover the football team,
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  Speaker 1: the first question is always hey, can I come with you?
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  Speaker 1: The answer generally that is no. The second question is okay, So, like,
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  Speaker 1: what is it like to cover an Ohio State football game?
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  Speaker 1: This is a look at what it is like to
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  Speaker 1: cover an Ohio State football game. I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 1: you right up front, I think this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a better experience on YouTube than it is on
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  Speaker 1: a podcast. But that being said, I think there is
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  Speaker 1: plenty in here. Just as you're listening, as you kind
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  Speaker 1: of go through the whole day, get a sense for
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  Speaker 1: what I'm doing and when I'm doing it, so I
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  Speaker 1: think you are going to enjoy it. But I think
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  Speaker 1: you will enjoy it probably more being able to see
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  Speaker 1: the video, see the photos that I'm taking, all that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You can find that on our YouTube
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  Speaker 1: channel YouTube dot com slash black Eye Huddle. But for now,
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  Speaker 1: here is a look at what it's like to cover
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  Speaker 1: an Ohio State football game. Covering a football game in
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State, particularly a big one like the season opener
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  Speaker 1: against Texas, it starts early, with so much to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Arrival time was just about six am, roughly six hours
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  Speaker 1: before kickoff. This is early enough that the area around
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  Speaker 1: the stadium is pretty quiet and basically empty, but it
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  Speaker 1: won't stay that way for long. After going through security,
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  Speaker 1: you can get a quick look around the stadium before
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  Speaker 1: getting down to work. One of the first things to
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  Speaker 1: do actually has to do with something that happens after
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  Speaker 1: the game. You can climb the stairs inside the southwest
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  Speaker 1: tower of the stadium and get a tripod and audio
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  Speaker 1: cables all set up to save yourself a good spot
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  Speaker 1: for the visiting coach's postgame interview, and maybe more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: not have to carry all that gear around the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the day, then head downstairs to get a quick
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  Speaker 1: look at the field, and then head into the photo
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  Speaker 1: bunker underneath south stands. This is where all of the
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  Speaker 1: photographers work during the game. It's not exactly the four seasons,
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  Speaker 1: but everyone gets a few feet of table space, access
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  Speaker 1: to power to charge computers, phones and camera batteries, and
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  Speaker 1: a reliable internet connection to upload their work. Once you
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  Speaker 1: drop most of the rest of your year there, you
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  Speaker 1: can head out to start producing content. Photos from field
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  Speaker 1: level are always popular, but it's also a chance to
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  Speaker 1: explore other areas and angles for photos. This is the
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  Speaker 1: camera deck just under the press box, and you can
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  Speaker 1: definitely hit your step goal early by heading all the
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  Speaker 1: way to the top of sea deck to get a
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  Speaker 1: look across the street at the college game day set,
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  Speaker 1: as well as of sunrise inside the stadium. Then it's
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  Speaker 1: time to walk across the street to the game day set.
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  Speaker 1: On a normal college game day visit, you can get
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  Speaker 1: photos during the show, but with this being Lee Corso's
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  Speaker 1: final broadcast, the access times are much earlier. The crowd
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  Speaker 1: is already filling in despite the fact that the show
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  Speaker 1: won't start for another ninety minutes. After that it's time
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  Speaker 1: to hustle back across Woody Hayes, drive to the Horseshoe
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  Speaker 1: and head up to the press box for live pregame show.
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  Speaker 1: Tony and I spent a little over seventy five minutes
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  Speaker 1: previewing the game and answering questions from the audience.
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  Speaker 2: It's been interesting to listen to people talk about this
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  Speaker 2: on national scope where there's this there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: lack of respect for Matt Patricia and what people are
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  Speaker 2: expecting and they view Some people view this as a
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  Speaker 2: mismatch between Steve Sarkisan and Matt Patricia.
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  Speaker 1: The media meal in the press box starts at ten am,
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  Speaker 1: and you're gonna want to be one of the first
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  Speaker 1: in line to grab a quick bit before heading back
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  Speaker 1: down to field level. Over the years, you learn that
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  Speaker 1: you should never pass up an opportunity to eat, hydrate,
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  Speaker 1: or charge your camera and phone batteries on game day
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  Speaker 1: because you never know when the next opportunity will present itself.
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  Speaker 1: In that spirit, and we'll grab a few extra bottles
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  Speaker 1: of water out of the cooler and then head back
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  Speaker 1: down to the field. The rest of the photo bunker
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  Speaker 1: is now basically full. This is why you stake out
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  Speaker 1: your spot early. There's a little time now to look
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  Speaker 1: around and shoot some short pieces of content for social media,
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  Speaker 1: like this walk down Ohio State's tunnel to the field
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  Speaker 1: a little over an hour before game time. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to post up at the bottom of that tunnel to
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  Speaker 1: get photos of current pockeye players and coaches, as well
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  Speaker 1: as recruits on visits to campus. These photos will get
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  Speaker 1: used with stories that are recruiting writers post in the
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  Speaker 1: coming months and years. Players and coaches are constantly going
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  Speaker 1: back and forth from the locker room to the field
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  Speaker 1: during warm ups. Short clips like this are always popular
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  Speaker 1: on social media and our message board. Then it's time
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  Speaker 1: for the game. You need to stake out a spot
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  Speaker 1: near the tunnel early to get a good location as
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  Speaker 1: the team runs out. This is always great video and
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  Speaker 1: good for photos as well. During the game, photographers are
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  Speaker 1: either kneeling or standing right behind the back of the
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  Speaker 1: end zone to shoot photos. It took a while for
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  Speaker 1: things to get going, but CJ. Donaldson's touchdown run made
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  Speaker 1: it's seven nothing Buckeyes in the second quarter. Right after
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  Speaker 1: a big play like that, you'll see a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: photographers hustling back into the photo bunker to quickly upload
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  Speaker 1: a couple of shots for their coworkers to use. Late
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  Speaker 1: in the game, Texas cut the Buckeyes lead to fourteen
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  Speaker 1: to seven with this touchdown pass. Sometimes plays like this
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  Speaker 1: can get a little too close for comfort, as players
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  Speaker 1: come flying past the back of the end zone a
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  Speaker 1: high speed. This one stayed comfortably in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: Town The.
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes hold on for a fourteen to seven win, and
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  Speaker 1: then it's a mad rush out onto the field to
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  Speaker 1: get photos of the players celebrate. It's always pretty chaotic
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  Speaker 1: with players going in every direction, network TV crews pushing
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  Speaker 1: the clear space and more. You're really just searching for
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  Speaker 1: notable players like in this case arch Manning, and things
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  Speaker 1: are usually pretty cordial between the players. A few minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: the team sings Carmen Ohio and then heads up to
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  Speaker 1: the locker rooms. That's when we'll head back up to
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  Speaker 1: the Texas postgame room on the other side of the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: You may remember when we set things up here about
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  Speaker 1: nine hours earlier. This is why you're usually hustling to
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  Speaker 1: get off the field and up into position, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: coaches get up there fast. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian held
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  Speaker 1: his press conference and the handful of Longhorn players spoke.
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  Speaker 1: Then it sounded to hustle back across the stadium to
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State's postgame interviews. Usually those are still going on
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  Speaker 1: when you get back over here, but Texas' press conference
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  Speaker 1: round long, so the postgame show was already starting, Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Noon and Tony Gerdaman discussing the game and the interview.
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  Speaker 2: If you were to just watch these two quarterbacks, I
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  Speaker 2: can tell you which one I thought was the more experienced,
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  Speaker 2: the less nervous quarterback of the two, because I was
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  Speaker 2: impressed all game long by Julian Say, and I think
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  Speaker 2: he had one moment.
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  Speaker 1: Where the postgame show itself can also run long, especially
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  Speaker 1: after a big game like this. Then it sound to
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  Speaker 1: record an abbreviated version of the weekat for the Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow morning podcast thing.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State came within a couple minutes of pitching the shutout.
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  Speaker 2: Was unable to do it, but you know, it just
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  Speaker 2: was an incredible performance.
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  Speaker 1: By the time that's all done, it's past six point
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  Speaker 1: thirty and finally time to head home. It's been about
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  Speaker 1: a twelve hour day at the stadium, and there are
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  Speaker 1: still hundreds of photos to edit. The day ends much
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  Speaker 1: like it began, with a walk through a mostly empty horseshoe.
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