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Can Ohio State Land 3 More Top Recruiting Targets Before Early Signing Day? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, December sixteenth. I'm your host,
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  Tom Moore. The Cotton Bowl game against Missouri is in thirteen days,
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  the game against Michigan in three hundred and fifty days. Early Signing Day is
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  four days away at this point, that is Wednesday, December twentieth, and
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  the Buckeyes are most of the way done with their class. But could they
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  add some folks between now and early signing Day, but they lose some folks
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  between now and early signing Day. We're going to be talking about that today
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  with Mark Givler of Buckey Huddle dot Com. He just dropped a really,
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  really interesting and in depth insider report for all our Buckey Huddle dot com members
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  on the Huddleboard, presented by Jeff Ruby Steakhouse, talking about some of the
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  stuff we're talking about today. Also plenty of stuff on the transfer portal,
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  a lot of interesting info there, and then some stuff on Buck guys who
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  maybe coming back, may not be coming back where things doan with some of
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  those guys as well, So lots of really interesting information there. But Mark,
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  today we're just gonna be talking about high school recu even though there's a
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  lot of other stuff going on. Let's start with four star defensive tackle Carlin
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  Jones. He's someone who the Buckeyes are hoping to add to their class,
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  but he still has another visit to make this weekend. So where do things
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  stand with him and his recruitment as they head into the home stretch before next
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  Wednesday's early starting. Yeah, he'll be sneaking in this visit to USC.
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  That'll wrap up before the end of the weekend, and that's pretty much the
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  battle right now as Ohio State versus USC for the former Nebraska commit. He
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  told me going into this week, he said it's really just those two at
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  this point. So High Street hosted him last week. Everyone seems to think
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  that went really well. They've got some stuff they can sell them in terms
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  of early playing time, especially now with Justin Scott flipping to Miami here later
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  in the process, so there's not a ton of defensive tackles ahead of him,
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  so they're really working that angle. NFL development has been very key for
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  him, and we'll see what goes here. I think the only thing Ohio
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  State needs to be concerned about right now is visiting Ohio in December and then
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  going out to the LA in December. I hope the weather, the difference
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  in weather doesn't play a role there for the kid from Texas. But you
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  know, Larry Johnson's been handling that one for the Buckeyes and I like where
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  they stand. And now it's a matter of, you know, we see
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  Alice us Eve as it goes and what the thought process is coming out of
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  that. And defensive line feels like one spot where they really would like to
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  add at least one more body, and Carlon Jones is one of the people
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  they're looking at. They're also potentially in the running for a current Florida commit,
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  Amarus Williams. He is also a four star defensive lineman And you had
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  a very funny note in there. He's currently committed to Florida. Mark who
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  are the top three teams in his recruitment right now for this current Florida recruit.
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  Yes, it's Georgia, Auburn and Ohio State are are the three schools
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  that have the best chance of landing him on when of signing him on Wednesday.
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  Yeah, it's he's been committed to Florida for a while. I don't
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  think Florida has led in several months. I think Ohio State has been kind
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  of in the driver's seat the last couple of months. Georgia really started getting
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  involved here the last few weeks. Same with Auburn. So he's he's got
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  an official coming up or this weekend it will be his Georgia official. He
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  had his Auburn one last week. He previously made an official to Ohio State
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  and on a return on officials. So this is what they felt great about
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  a few weeks ago. Do they still feel great? I think that's kind
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  of the question. Now, the Auburn visit, now the Georgia visit.
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  You would have liked those two maybe not happen and just kind of be an
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  Ohio State Florida thing. So I think this is kind of muddying the waters
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  a little bit. But you know, I still would would give the edge
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  to Ohio State, but it's not something that maybe has moved that well in
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  their direction the last couple of weeks. Just now that you're not just trying
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  to flip them from Florida, you're trying to keep them from Er, You're
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  trying to keep him from Aubourne as well, So that one's probably tightened up
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  a little bit here the last few weeks, and he is listed just as
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  a defensive lineman. Carlin Jones is listed as a defensive tackle and Williams listed
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  at two hundred and seventy pounds, you would think, well, certainly they
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  will just bulk him up a little bit and put him inside. But you
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  know Edwick Houston is i think listed about two hundred and seventy pounds as well,
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  and they've got him planning to play the edge. So do you have
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  any sense for if Amarus Williams ends up in the class, if he starts
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  at edge, or if they maybe start him at three tech or what what
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  the plan is for him. Yeah, they're recruiting to play defensive end.
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  Now when you look at him, it's kind of interesting. He looks like
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  an end when you look at him. So he's carrying that weight very well.
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  Now the question to that is, well, what does that mean once
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  he gets into a college strength conditioning program? Is he going to balloon to
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  like three point fifteen right away? Because he's carrying the two seventy so well,
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  So we'll kind of see how that goes for him. But they are
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  telling him defensive end. They're telling Jones, defensive tackle. They would love
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  to land. This is not an either or where you know, they'll take
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  one and that'll be it. They they would love to land both of these
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  guys, all right. And someone else they would love to land is four
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  star stafety Koy Perridge. He is currently committed to Minnesota and the buck Eyes
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  have brought him in and have made their pitch to him. And where do
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  things stand with him right now? Or are they going to be able to
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  flip the flip him away from PJ. Fleck. I think they are.
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  I'm pretty confident they're gonna land Koy Parrich. We'll see this. This could
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  be coming down here pretty soon, probably the next forty eight hours. I
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  don't think he's gonna wait until Wednesday. I think he's gonna make a decision
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  on Sunday or Monday. He was supposed to visit Florida State this weekend.
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  That's not happening. So it's it's Ohio State or Minnesota. The coaches are
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  supposed both staff are supposed to have in homes, you know, over the
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  next course of the next couple of days or you know, day and a
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  half, whatever it may be. And then he'll sit down and make a
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  decision before signing day. So I like where Ohio State is right now.
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  I really like that he canceled to Florida State visit. He's spoken to me
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  glowingly about Ohio State, the winning tradition and just you know, the NFL
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  path and everything else about the program. He's he they really impressed him on
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  his official visit recently, and so I think they're going to get this done,
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  especially you start to look at you know, Minnesota has got a new
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  defensive coordinator. They've got to make a defensive coordinator higher. They just lost
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  their defensive coordinator. They've lost some other commits in that class along the defensive
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  side of the ball, and it just it feels like it's lining up for
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  an Ohio State flip. But this is a kid who I think people are
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  are going to be, you know, maybe not as excited about as they
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  should be. You know, he has jumped the recruiting rankings. There's some
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  services think he's a top one hundred player. Now, he didn't have much
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  going on in the summer. He was just kind of a top player in
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  Minnesota, committed to Minnesota and Florida State. USC Ohio State get involved again.
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  He cancels the Florida State visit, which is great news for Ohio State.
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  So these are some big schools that started to chase him in Ohio State
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  was not in a position where they had to take another safety. They just
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  want to get this kid. So this is a guy I think people should
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  be maybe more excited about than they currently are. Yeah. I just looked
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  in two four to seven has a busy number eighty five overall player in the
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  class, which you know, for a name that you hadn't really heard a
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  whole heck of a lot about even a month or two back. Boy,
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  that's a higher rating that you might expect. Do you have any sense for
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  which of these safety positions they're looking at him at or is this a get
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  him on campus and just sort of see where he fits best situation. I
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  think it's that because it is kind of I was talking to Kevin Noon about
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  this. We were recording something else for a potential signing day show if in
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  fact Coy is in the class, and we talked about there's some parallels here
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  with like Lincoln Keyholes obviously completely different positions, but he just looks like a
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  man among boys playing there in Minnesota against the competition he's going against. He's
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  just such a superior at Fleet that I think you'd like to get him on
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  campus and kind of see, Okay, is he as fast as he looks
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  or is he you know, is out of kind of a product of competition
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  and things like that, and get to look at him. But you know,
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  I think he's probably a free safety. He's a sub eleven hundred meter
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  guy, so he's he's running the like the ten eight range, and the
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  hundred meters runs four or five forty, great size, so I would think
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  he could probably play back there. But yeah, I think they're gonna want
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  to get a look at him and kind of let him run around with some
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  of the type of athletes they have. Kind of figure that out. And
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  he is from Esco, Minnesota, which based on some quick googling, is
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  somewhere maybe an exurb of Duluth maybe some is a good way to describe it.
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  A small town, two thousand people. And you know, you mentioned
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  the weather might be a little bit of a factor. I don't think the
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  winter weather in Columbus is going to scare anyone from northern Minnesota. So Buck
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  guys may have that going for them as well of you know everyone, I'm
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  sure as would be very happy if the Buckeyes and ended up flipping you know,
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  one, two, three of those guys. But Mark boy lips can
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  go two ways this time of year. And there has been plenty of smoke
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  around four star running back Jordan Lyle, who's been committed to the Buckeyes for
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  a while. Those Miami Hurricanes, Mark, are they going to do it
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  again? Are they going to flip another Ohio State running back late in the
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  cycle, another South Florida guy, and flip flip him to the Miami Hurricanes.
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  How big a concern is that right now? Oh, it's it's it's
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  red alert. I mean, it's the highest possible concern right now. He's
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  he's scheduled to be back in Miami this weekend. And they've been hanging on
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  for dear life here for a couple months. And I thought it's been it's
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  been a hard guy to hang on to for them, And I thought it
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  got much harder when they were unable to flip Chance Robinson from Miami. Chance
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  as a four star receiver Brian Hartline was pursuing and trying to flip from Miami
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  Saint Thomas aquinas teammate of Jordan Lyle's their buddies. And when Chance said Nope,
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  I'm sticking with Miami, he obviously has since refocused his attention on flipping
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  his buddy to Miami. And I would be a little surprised if they're able
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  to hang on to him. And that's going to bring up all sorts of
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  questions now, because if that happens, that's two years in a row they
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  lose Mark Fletcher late out of South Florida to Miami. And here we are
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  again in twenty five, looking ahead talking about a Miami Ohio state battle for
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  American heritage stud running back Byron Lewis. And I've already been told they are
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  not going to let the Jordan Lyle situation deter them from recruiting Byron Lewis in
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  twenty five, And so you know, we're we're getting close to fool me
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  twice with Jordan Lyle. So I don't think we want to get to a
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  fool Me thrice with with Byron Lewis. But we could be three years in
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  a row having these same conversations about Miami trying to flip one of their running
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  backs late well, and there are some pretty goodrunning backs in the class of
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  twenty and before we get to twenty five, let's let's just really quickly remind
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  people they do have two other running backs currently committed for twenty twenty four.
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  So this is not a you know, last year they lost Mark Fletcher late
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  and did not end up taking a running back in the class. This year,
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  that is not a concern they had. They still have Sam Williams Dixon
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  from Pickerington, They still have James Peoples out of Texas. So this is
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  not a you know, all or nothing situation with Lyle regardless of how it
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  goes. But looking forward to next year, you know, we've talked about
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  a whole bunch of guys. We talked about running backs out of California and
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  Florida and all over the country. But there's some really good running backs in
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  the state of Ohio too. And you wonder if they look at a multi
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  back class, do you bring you know, do you look at someone like
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  Bo Jackson plus someone else like Byron Lewis or whoever else. Yeah, I
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  think it's certainly going to be a multi back class in twenty five. So
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  the question is are you going to play things right with the in state guys,
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  because really like Byron Lewis, and obviously they're in on Jordan Davison as
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  well from Modern Day Out in California. You know, do you take two
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  Ohio guys and tell the two Ohio guys, look, we're going to recruit
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  a third back if it's one of these two guys, or do you pick
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  your favorite Ohio guy and then chase your out of state guys. I mean,
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  they've got some serious decisions to make. But one thing I was told
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  this week is that they are definitely not going to stop for hurting Byron Lewis.
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  Even though it looks like, you know, Mark Fletcher and Jordan Lyle
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  may go the same direction here on them, that's not going to deter Tony
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  Alford from Byron Lewis, who the Buck guys are probably leading for right now
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  with Miami being the main competition. So it's going to feel like Groundhog's Day
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  again next year as we talk about this battles, this running backs from South
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  Florida battle that they'll be engaging again, I would imagine, and there I
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  mentioned Bo Jackson's name. They also have another really solid running back, Marquise
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  Davis out of Cleveland Heights. He's, you know, sort of a top
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  one hundred ish back, top one fifty ish back, depending on which service
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  you want to look at. But yeah, there are definitely some names to
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  know for next year already. And you already dropped your what top thirty in
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  Ohio? Was it top thirty, top twenty in Ohio for twenty twenty five?
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  It was twenty five for twenty five. Oh, very clever, very
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  clever. I should have figured that one out. Yeah, yeah, so,
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  yes it was. And then it was fifteen for twenty six. Yes,
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  so yep, got some early rankings up all right. So if you
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  want to get a little bit of a local insight on the topart prospects of
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  the state of Ohio, there's a pretty good offensive lineman who Ohio state's looking
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  pretty good four for a class at twenty twenty four or twenty twenty five,
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  And then some of the early names to know for twenty twenty six. You
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  can find that all on the huddle board at bucke huddle dot com. Mark
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  has been very busy on the recruiting, recruiting into things just sort of skimming
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  the surface and the recruiting into things on today's show. We'll try and have
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  him on in the coming days, because boy, there's a lot to talk
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  about in the transfer portal. There's a lot of interesting stuff to talk about
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  in terms of how many Buckeye might be coming back. A lot of the
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  guys who are maybe sort of in between the all the guys who were sort
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  of fifty to fifty when we talk to guys on Tuesday, where those guys
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  might be leaning, maybe you're getting a few more guys back than you might
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  expect. Mark took a look at all that stuff this week on the huddleboard
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  atucke huddle dot com. His skull Session column one of the great insider only
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  features you can get there at bucke huddle dot com if you are a member.
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  It is all on the huddleboard, presented by Jeff Ruby steakhouse. Great
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  great community, great spot to get some insight and analysis that you can't find.
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  Uh, you know, you can't just find this just anywhere. Mark
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  has been doing this for quite a while, has some pretty good connections,
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  has some pretty good info. You can find that all at bucke huddle dot
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  com. That will do it for today. I thank you guys all for
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  joining us, have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.