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Which recruits could Ohio State flip by Signing Day?
In this episode of Buck I Talk, hosts Stephen Means and Andrew Gillis dive into the current state of Ohio State's recruiting efforts as they approach Signing Day. They discuss potential recruits ...
Which recruits could Ohio State flip by Signing Day?
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Hey, hey, where you been? But got talk is about to begin. Hey, hey, hey, come on in.
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Welcome back to Buck I talk I'm Stephen means and that is Andrew Gillis and this is a Tuesday recruiting
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pod. It's been a while since we've done one of these in the season. It's a little difficult because it's
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so much going on and Ohio say the way they handle a lot of their recruiting. It's just not as I don't
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know, it's not the most important thing going on when they're trying to win a national championship.
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But recruiting does never stop. So when there's things that are happening we have to talk about those
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things and I guess off the top Andrew it's flip watch season right we've entered that portion of the
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year where kids took visits all June they made decisions in July and then two and a half months later they
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go I don't think I made the right decision for a lot of different reasons right it can be because maybe
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a better situation popped up sometimes you're negotiating and a better you know DO popped up
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somewhere else there's a million different reasons as to why literally both figuratively and literally
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and every other way it Italy that there is. It's flip watch season and Ohio says already lost one
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player over last couple of weeks here and that's Corbin Fordham who flipped to Florida state which I
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understand that his father played at Florida state so this is a kid who is essentially flipping
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to go home to some aspect. What's the impact of losing Corbin Fordham and Ohio says 2026 recruiting
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class and are there plans in place to potentially replace him? Yeah this isn't it this is an
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interesting one so like you mentioned Corbin Fordham he committed to Ohio state like a year ago.
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You know this was a pretty kind of cut and dry I think it was Thanksgiving this is the second year in a
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row that a commitment popped up randomly on Thanksgiving and a kid went you know what today's it the year
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before it was gave Van Cycle in 23 and 24 it was Corbin Fordham Corbin Fordham he took his OV to Ohio
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state on May 30th everything kind of felt locked in he leaves from the class now you have no tight ends
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and this is a very interesting conversation to talk about because like it depends on what you think of the
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room moving forward Wilkes Merrick is gone but Bennett Christian can return I don't think Max Claire is going to come back
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I know he has an extra year of eligibility but I don't think he's coming back for a 5th year of college football
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you know what like I understand you know hey this notion of you know what if we just paid Max Claire to return
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and what if we just found the money there and you know okay but if his goal is to boost his NFL
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draft stock what is fundamentally changing about his role I mean maybe he comes up in a blocker and maybe
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that's it but you have Christian you have Claire that can return Jolani will be back to
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Lennon that is Max the block he's on the roster still Brody Lennon will be going into a second year
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Nate Roberts is being used a lot you've got depth there and it kind of makes you wonder like do you need a
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tight end in 26 I would venture to guess that they would try there is a player by the name of Max Sutter
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he's one of the better tight ends in the class Ohio state has really been after him for a while
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he's the top 100 kid really really long he's committed to Alabama right now he took an OV to Ohio state
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on May 30th the same weekend as Fordham I think he was the only he was the only other tight end
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to take an OV this summer to Ohio state still we will have to see what happens with Sutter it seems
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as if Alabama is doing well there but against 65 to 30 like Ohio state likes his size the interesting
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concept to me about losing Fordham is what you do in 27 you go look at Ohio states 27 recruiting I mean
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they've got some options at tight end you know they they've got they've got some dudes out there
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where you look at and go you know what maybe that's a two tight end class especially with two
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and 25 maybe you're just okay with one you know one or none in 26 if you go back to two
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they love Brock Williams Brock Williams is the number one player on their tight end board you know Brady
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Edmunds has talked like I think he talked on this podcast about you know how much Brock Williams
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matters and and really trying to go get him and he mentioned he was over the summer when Brock
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Williams he was trying to get on campus with him when he camped they are really really trying
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to pull out all the stops to get Brock Williams he's a four star player out of out of Illinois
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and and they would really want him I think at least less I checked I mean he's kind of at that like
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quarter four five star in the composite rankings then there's the angel of white he attends
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Villanda St. Joseph up in Cleveland this is same school as both Jackson he's a top three hundred player
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number 285 in the rankings number 18 number 18 tight end he's a really really athletic player Ohio
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state really likes him I know he really likes Ohio state I mean I think no matter what I texted
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this out to our tech subscribers 614 through 5.0 through 315 I think white ends up in the class no
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matter what it's just you get somebody else to pair with him and that is where I think we have to you
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know we don't have to have this particular two hour conversation again about the math and how
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money changes things and you know paying guys to come and paying guys to stay and paying
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guys to blah blah blah blah just kind of going down the line how do you make the money work how
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do you make the math work either way I think white ends up in this class and it's just a matter
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of okay do you go get Brock Williams do you have another do you have both you have two Jordan
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carhoff he's a teammate of Ryan Day's son San Francisco Columbus go stallion says our
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native alum but Jordan carhoff is somebody that I think is an option as well like you could
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just kind of stick in state you know he's a really good player to four star player number 310
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overall they've got options in 27 but this is the unique one because of all the
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positions that are on this list that we're going to talk about this is the one where you go you
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know what maybe you don't need this guy or this position in 26 or at the very least it's
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not the end of the world if you don't land so Mark Sutter is not going to be a buck guy is that if I
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may if I said that into a microphone is somebody going to be able to clip it in a month and a half
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ago look at this dumb guy who doesn't know anything I mean people might do that anyway sure
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like wouldn't be not max Sutter is not going to be a buck guy max Sutter and if I'm wrong
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I'm wrong and everybody can be happy because he's a really really good player and he's a top
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hundred crew and blah blah just I don't see it happen okay and the reason why I think that would be
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interesting is what Keenan Bailey's doing with this tight in the room right now like there's a top
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100 recruit one to sign up be like yes yes yes 14 personnel sign me up but okay that's my
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first time Corbin for them the second player from a house a 2026 recruiting class who has flipped
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somewhere else it could weather spoon flip to North Carolina as a number one 48 player number 13 corner
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back and then for them the number 627 player number 33 tight in flips to Florida state I'm a so wow they lost
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to guys the ACC look at that just before we move on with some other offensive guys is there any
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chance Jacob weather Spoon ends up signing back with Ohio State by signing day or is that ship long past
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and is Ohio State on to finding other ways to replace him yeah I reached out to somebody to try
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and figure this out because like we're recording this podcast on Monday did you see what happened
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Stephen the report that came out Monday morning and the report and what happened on social media
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with North Carolina on Monday did you see this is this is a non recruity sort of did you see the
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craziness that's going on there right now mm-hmm so basically there was a report from 247's
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NC or UNC site that said that Bill Bellacic had directed North Carolina not to tweet anything
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about the Patriots or not you know there was that report about like not having the Patriots in the building
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and that was why you know think about think about this think about how much Ohio State's hyphen
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up their wider severs the NFL mm-hmm North Carolina was not hyphen up Drake May who's actually had a
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really good start to this season so Drake May is not a North Carolina alum as long as
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no Bellacic is it no it's not that it's as long as he plays for the New England Patriots
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so that that is I say that to bring up there are I was listening to a podcast today from
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it's on do I mentioned that podcast a lot it's a national college football podcast yeah I mean I'm not
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promoting other podcasts on the pod well they were they were going through the various kinds of
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interim coaches and I think there's various kinds of flip candidates and we're going to go
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through a lot of them and Weather Spoon being the guy at a school whose program is kind of
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in a dicey place whose coach might not be around who it just kind of feels like
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everything's going on in a like that's not unreasonable to me but we'll see I would venture to
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guess no but again you never know let's go well something to watch I mean all this is something
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to watch for right like the transfer portal is it who knows what's going to happen in the
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recent future okay so there are a lot of kids here over the weekend because Ohio State finally
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got to play a big 10 game at night and all of these kids it feels like hey is Ohio State going
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to flip these kids so here's what the this pod is going to turn into we just got done talking
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about players who flipped away from Ohio State now we're going to be talking about players Ohio State
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might be trying to flip over the next two months before we get the signing day let's start with
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the offensive side of the ball Andrew in terms of who was here this weekend what we think
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of where their recruitment stands with Ohio State over the next two months as Ohio State
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tried to fill out a 26 class let's start with the offensive line because there were two kids
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here there were two kids that weren't here that I think we need to talk about the first
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kid that was here that we had an idea was going to be here what kind of figured was going
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to be here was Landry breed he is a kid out of a matter I went and saw him whatever Ohio
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State's by week was I went up and watched him play they beat the snot out of whoever
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they played and he only played a half but one of those people in attendance was Tyler Bowen
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and Tyler Bowen also got to see Landry breed beat the snot out of some kids and play a
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half and catch a tackle throwback pass it was kind of great job the Kade and I cannot
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can before you continue yes go ahead yes I think the top two players in the
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Heisman Chowvy discussion right now should be Jeremiah Smith and Kaden Proctor
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who will lay from the quarterback play best player in the country in Alabama it's not just a
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wrinkle anymore two weeks in a row where they put the ball and Kaden Brockters hands and he's
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done something special let that kid go to New York if he keeps this up continue sorry I think
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well I think we just figured out the way that Orlando Pace would have won the Heisman
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so we can blame Joe and the river not giving him the ball yeah they should have put him in the
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backfield they should have put him in the backfield yeah Landry breed he is somebody who when
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I went and visited with him that was the weekend of the 20th he is committed
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to NC State number 1,106 player in the class I think this is a player that Ohio State
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sees as an interior guy in fact I know they seem as an interior guy he's a swing player
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I think he could play guard I think he could play either guard I think he could probably play
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center I don't think he's gonna play tackle at the next level and this is this is
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something that I would probably venture to guess is gonna end up in Ohio State's
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favor I would venture to guess that this goes Ohio State's way Landry breed like
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this is kind of one of those conversations where we talked about all right mentioned
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just a few minutes ago there's different types of flips Landry breed is the flip
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of bigger school comes calling better opportunity comes calling you want to go play for
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your in state team like that like that is the idea there so with with breed I mean
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it comes down to NC State views him as a tackle first but they'll play him wherever
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they need to Ohio State views him as an interior player he was the top rank and is
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the top rank offensive lineman NC State's class he would be the fifth offensive lineman
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in Ohio State's class and I think he I just think this is probably gonna go Ohio State's
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way I mean when an in state kid gets an offer like that in season typically it
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means pretty good things so yeah Landry breed was here I think he's gonna be in Ohio
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State's class even if you would ask me you know if we were to do one of those class
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predictions that we've done a few times he would be in it so Landry breed was here the
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other one that visited before we get into the kids who weren't here which makes this
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an interesting conversation was Mike Smith and this is one that kids not going to
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UCLA I'm just gonna tell you that right yeah so this came out of nowhere there was
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did it though I mean they fired up your head
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the visit came out of nowhere but the Ohio State's relationship to them okay okay
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yes there were rumblings murmurs whatever you want to call it whispers that Ohio State
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was gonna have some kind of unexpected visitors on campus Mike Smith was one of
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them he's the number 200 overall player number 12 interior offensive lineman
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prospect I think he can play tackle if you need him to Austin sir
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right now I think anybody can play left that listen if Austin sirvel can do it
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if Tyler Bowen can turn Austin sirvel to a left tackle if you tell me anybody
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65 305 pounds can play tackle I'm just going to believe you as long
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as Tyler Bowen is here deal yeah cool yeah I mean like look we went through
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a national championship winning season for Ohio State where they're
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guard was their left tackle yeah anything is possible love how that title
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run just basically well actually not even that one the 2014
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yep title like that turned us into like Kevin Kevin
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Garnett or we're just like you know what like could you win it when your
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left tackle gets hurt and then your backup left tackle stinks and then gets
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hurt yeah probably who are we to say no I said this before like last year's
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title run was very bad for us in a very specific way and it was good for us in a lot of
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ways because people obviously engaged and people loved hearing us and we got to
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talk about a national championship winning team but it's very bad for us because
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like of a heart state loses like four corners this year we're going to go into the
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playoffs I'm going to be here I'm going to very good getting a paycheck
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what serious I'm waiting until their odds drop and I'm placing a wager and I'm
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retiring yeah because apparently that doesn't matter to this team anyway
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Mike Smith I talked to him for a story he's a great kid by the way he is a really
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really good kid he's from Viral Beach Florida he had a really good relationship
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with Justin Fry but that relationship did continue I think that's notable when
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relationships carry over from one coach to another that definitely kind of shows
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you that there is a genuine interest he came up to Columbus let's see you know I wrote
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a story about him actually last year last April and he was talking about coming
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up to Columbus and how important it was and how much he liked the city and how he
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was you know really excited to see everything and then it just kind of felt like
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one of those situations where he saw a better opportunity in a couple of different
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ways at UCLA hilariously the UCLA commit wasn't like visiting for the Penn State
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game when they won that game but again UCLA is a mess and I don't want that
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win to kind of cloud that I just they're there and not a good way but Mike
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Smith his recruitment is definitely I would say open at this point I mean
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when you take a visit to Ohio State like that it definitely kind of let you
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know that there is something there so I mean look if you can add this type of
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player to your class you've already got Sam Greer who's playing like a five star
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talent you know he's a top whatever recruit I don't really even care what his
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ranking is that dude is like a top 50 player in the country you have Maxwell
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Riley who's done their like top 150 player in the class you add Mike as Smith
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into this group all of a sudden you're kind of cooking with some gas here so
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Mike as Smith showed up and and that was somebody that I mean like look for how
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much he really truly genuinely cares about Ohio State for how much he really does
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you know envision like what Ohio State can give him I feel pretty good about him
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joining this class too I think that that Mike as Smith is one of those players
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to where it's maybe less of a slam dunk than what Landry breed is and I don't
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want to call Landry breed a slam dunk but I do think breed will end up in the
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class Mike as Smith I think that's more of like a mid-range jumper I would
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probably bet that if UCLA's not it it's gonna be Ohio State.
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Do they have room because they do have was it for your eyes right now already on the
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offensive line if you're saying Landry breed is more than likely at some point
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over the next two months going to flip to Ohio State and it may be Ohio State
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flips Landry breed you have to six they haven't had a six man offensive line
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class since 2020 and good questions Steven so good question do they have room so
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there were two guys that weren't here that we need to talk about okay number
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one is Adam Guthrie he's an in-state kid who was currently committed to
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Clemson he gave an interview I was waiting for a haircut on Monday morning and he
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gave an interview with a Clemson specific it wasn't like 247 arrivals I
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think it was like a Clemson recruiting site it was a specific Clemson
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recruiting site or just team site and he said I'm fully committed I'm locked in to
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Clemson he quoted it with go Tigers you know he said in the story that Ohio
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State is the big one that's really kind of pushing for him right now again this is
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a local kid this is a kid who does attend school pretty close to I don't
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want to say it and be wrong he attends Miami Trace I don't know how far Miami
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Trace is and Washington courthouses from Columbus but this is a tackle he's a top
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250 player than number 242 overall prospect it doesn't seem like it's gonna go
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Ohio State's way Tyler Bowen has pushed he visited Adam Guthrie before he went
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up to go see Lendry breed play that night that I was talking about where breed
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was there Guthrie's committed to Clemson I would expect it to stay that way but
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somebody else that I'm keeping an eye on and keeping tabs on is Aaron Thomas the
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three-star offensive tackle who is from Mountain Point High School in Arizona
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he's one of two Arizona's Arizonaians Arizonaites I don't know he's one of two
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players that are committed to Ohio State's offensive line from that state
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number 506 prospect number 46 offensive tackle he's a big boy 67 300 pounds I
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like the way he moves a lot his upside I think is really high but tell me if
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this sounds familiar to what we just talked about he took a visit to Florida
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state this weekend when they played Miami his dad played at Florida State in
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the Northeast and Florida State is pushing for his recruit this one is very much
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up in the air I think it would not shock me if he ends up in Florida State's
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class like this this to me feels like in Ohio State Florida State battle so
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yes I think Ohio State has room I know from talking to people in that building
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that they would take six if the money's right if the numbers are right if they
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feel that the players are comfortable with it and they're comfortable with it
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that they would take six in the 26th class if they like the six that they're
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gonna take I just don't think you're gonna get there because you're at four
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right now you have breed who's currently committed NC State you have
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Micah Smith who's currently committed to UCLA you have those two that you're
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looking at and even if they do commit to Ohio State Aaron Thomas is you know
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getting flirted with by Florida State like I don't think Guthrie's gonna happen I
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would probably say that Ohio State's class ends at five on the offensive line and
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you're getting two of the three with Thomas breed and Smith a big cloud I mean
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they need a big class they've been doing three men offensive line classes for
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the last three years which is ridiculous but there's also element here it's a
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new offensive line coach probably has a philosophy I know he has philosophy it's
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a much of big-ass dudes literally that's what that's what it is big-ass dude
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Duke and Mo that is their philosophy that seems to be his philosophy both on
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the transfer portal and on the recruiting trail and you're trying to get as many
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of those guys in here as possible because you've got a new offensive line
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coach who values maybe different things than the last offensive line coach
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did right but also what's the offensive game plan going forward right what
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you want what are you trying to mold what are you trying to bring into the
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building I mean right now what do you have Tucker Smith six foot five two
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hundred and eighty pounds you got Aaron Thomas who's six seven three hundred
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pounds X-Rail Royes Riley excuse me X-Rail Riley is six five two hundred eighty
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pounds Sam Greer who is the Sam Greer is the golden goose of the the entire lot
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right six years the gem of the class yeah he is there's two people in Ohio
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States recruiting class right now where I'm not really sure why they're not
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consensus composite five star recruits and it's him and Cory Wilder and I am
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wondering if both of those guys see significant jumping in like the rankings
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by the time the season is over and people start getting high school film because I
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saw Cory Wilder at the game Saturday that guy looks like he's going to give you
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seven snaps a game as a true freshman next year and then as a sophomore
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completely take off and be awesome yeah what would not shock me at all yeah so
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and so yeah bigger class for the offensive line one it's a necessity because you've
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had a small class but also it kind of makes sense when you've got a new guy
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running in a room and he's trying to give as many as his guys in there as
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possible especially when the old like Luke Montgomery Austin cerebells got old
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really quickly in that room Carson Hinsman they got old Tegra Shibola they all
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got old real quickly in that room and so you're gonna very quickly need to
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replace those guys you're okay anybody else offensively of no or was that
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was Saturday just the Tyler Bowen show both in the game and on the sidelines it
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was not just the Tyler Bowen show but just real quick on the offensive
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line point because it's me you you need a big class because you need to start
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bringing in big classes quantity wise you know like think about what's
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happened with Ethan and Jan what I mean we like if I had told you in March that
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Ethan and Jan what was not good enough to be this team's starting tackle or
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even you know is he eligibility he's out at this is his fifth year okay never
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month but the reason I bring him up is just the importance of it because you
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had great success you landed Seth McLaughlin hit you landed Josh Simmons massive
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hit like both those two things were great you miss you take three and you're
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like oh we'll just hit the transfer portal for a tackle Philip Daniels looks
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like a hit you miss in the wrong time at the wrong position and you're in a
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hole so that's not what with that being said the surprise
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but like Ethan and y'all might be a miss but they also run in justin Terry in the
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spring and he's their backup tackle right now and he is not eligible eligibility
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after this year so I do wonder if that plays a role as well right if you only
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end up with five okay so six one the dudes you brought in in the spring and who
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went through his first summer at Ohio State and isn't going to go to it through
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his first spring until next year and right now he's your backup tackle at
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right tackle behind Philip Daniels that can help with the numbers too and I think
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that's that probably played a role in why they went and got Justin Terry as a
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transfer as well so you brought in three tackle transfers one is an immediate hit
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one you took with the understanding that this was not about this year it was
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about the future and the other ones probably amiss I think two for three is not
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bad especially if you all said it with five guys in your offensive line
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number crudening glass yeah so we'll see what happens along the offensive
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line but the offensive line is a position where I think you do probably need
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five you know I mean we we skewer Justin Fry for only having three in a class
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and while I do think Tyler Bowens for this year or better quality we'll have to
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see one of the other surprise visitors I should say the other surprise visitor
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was Amari Ladimer at Running Back he really came out of nowhere at least Mike
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Smith to me had really kind of been on the radar you know I mentioned I had
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written a story about him he loved Ohio State and and had really kind of
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talked about how cool it was and he'd been on the radar for a while Amari Ladimer
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he kind of came out of nowhere you know this to me was a this to me was a
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surprise I think if you would have told me that there were two surprise visitors
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you could eventually work your way to offensive lineman I don't think I
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would have gotten a running back for a while this kid number 378 overall
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prospect number 24 running back in the composite he's a four star player
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ten Sandy Creek in Georgia the reason why I find this one interesting is because
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I know for a fact that all this summer I'd come on this podcast and talked
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about how people in the program were like hey we have favor a key committed in
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26 we're good we're fine that that had been the idea for a little bit they
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had you know it's now act away not taken ever you want to call it some other
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top running backs in the class Savion Heiter he ends up at Michigan they're at
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Cooper he ends up at Texas there was Carson Baker he ends up at Florida he had
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an OV scheduled and many back off I think it became clear that favor a key who
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again I think is a pretty solid running back he just hasn't really played a lot
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of in a high ankle sprain in like his first carry in a season anything his
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four star ranking number two oh one overall in the class number 15 running back
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favor a key was always the guy and it just kind of felt like for Ohio State
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that they were going to be cool with one you took three in last class with as
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it Rogers or excuse me yeah turbo rod Anthony Rogers turbo Rogers Isaiah West and
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Bo Jackson and Bo Jackson looks like a capital D and he's the reason they're
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looking for another running back in this class I'll explain I don't think yeah
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I don't think that's crazy and I'm gonna let you I'm gonna give you some run
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way there David Gabriel George is the top running back on their board in 27
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they very very very much like him there are some other really good backs in 27
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but that to me was kind of the interesting idea that this summer it was we're
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good with favor a key CJ Donaldson's gonna go we have James Peoples Bo Jackson
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turbo Rogers Isaiah West Sam Williams Dixon favor a key we have six and even with
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a transfer in that group and and remember Sam Dixon he did enter the portal
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last year and then came back even with a transfer in that group you would have
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had at that point some experience you would at that point have had some guys
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that have played at a high level you would have presumed you would have had some
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depth now that's up in the air so they go after the current Wisconsin commit
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this is I mentioned Micah Smith as one of those guys who could maybe leave a
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disaster of a situation at UCLA weather spoon it would kind of be in that same
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category you asked about him three would just be an in-state kid with a better
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opportunity you know Aaron Thomas would be going home there's you know Guthrie
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would be the going home like there's there's all different types this to me kind
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of is a little bit of both I think you're looking at what Ohio State has done
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it running back in the last two years like with Travion they just had a top 40
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running back they brought in a top 40 running back in Quinchon who was great
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player for a year now Bo Jackson shining Wisconsin stinks out loud we'll see
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what that team is gonna look like we're gonna get to see it first hand in a
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few weeks Vladimir on campus Ohio State keeping their options open obviously for
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a second running back in 26 and I'll let you talk about the future of this
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room because there is a potential future future superstar as a freshman
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would we have been calling Bolgett it's in the best running back in the room
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before the spring in fact at any moment last year when we were doing these
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recruiting pods where we say that Bo Jackson is potentially going to be the
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starting running back in 2025 by the time you get to the Minnesota game I don't
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think so I mean could you have convinced me that Bo Jackson was working into
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that mix and was maybe like this teams like James peoples from a year ago
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change of pace back yeah but I think we all thought it was gonna be peoples I
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think you thought you were good at running back with just favor a key when
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you thought that the line was moving as normal but anytime somebody jumps the
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line in this day and age it potentially increases the number of people you
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lose after the season you know what I'm saying does that make sense it is it
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is the numbers game and many recruiting is a numbers game in like three
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different ways right but do you understand what I'm saying by not saying what
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I'm saying I guess I don't know if I'm being weird about that 6143503355
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let me know Bo Jackson has jumped the line
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serverally so he's been their best running back but he has jumped the line and
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that was this is not 2021 when the room was with all to respect mine Williams
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who was the consolation back after you missed out on B John but John sorry
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but John and master Teeke who was always a good number two but probably never a
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number one running back and Marcus Crowley who was who dealt with injuries and
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so never really got off the ground steel chambers as a linebacker now and then
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you've got Evan prior who's now at since Cincinnati tear it up and he had a
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really good game over the weekend and now you have and then you drop in the
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number one running back in the country a five star recruit on top of that and
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we're all going oh that guy's gonna come in here and start next year it was not
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until Bo Jackson went to went through when it workouts and spring had started
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when it's like oh we should be buying Bo Jackson stock and that is hindsight and
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it's come to fruition obviously and I thought he had a really good game on
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Saturday I thought it was a really good first big 10 start it wasn't great and
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it wasn't bad it had ups and downs and it'll continue to progress along the way
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I'm really interested to see what he does get to Illinois this weekend because
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they got a really good linebacker by name of Gabe Jack which caused pretty awesome
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but talking about recruiting he's jumped the line just like Jalen McLean as a
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second year safety has jumped the line just like Jackson Smith the Jigba in 2021
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jumped the line so what does that do or about the guy who was in front of you
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that we thought was going to be the guy it doesn't 100% mean they're going to
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transfer but James and Williams transferred
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Malik Hartford Dredcerning this year I'm not saying anybody is or isn't going to
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transfer but I am saying that Ohio State deciding to get into the battle for
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a Mari Latimer in October sure the real why is a Mari looking around because
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wins constant to dumps her fire and who knows it I mean that buyouts expensive
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but like I'm always got to do what's best for him and find a situation that
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might be stable so I understand why he's shopping around why is Ohio State
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shopping around for another running back in this class because maybe they
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don't think that there is a potential chance that they don't just lose run one
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running back after the cycle the season is over because the transfer portal is a
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thing and when you have a guy that you thought was going to be your guy get
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jumped by another guy you have to be on alert for those type of things Ohio
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State's done a good job of retaining its roster but that doesn't mean it's a
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mune to somebody saying I thought I was here and the hierarchy turns out I'm
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here and the guy who jumped me is younger than me and what I want to be
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clear about though is like I don't think it has to be James peoples I never said
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a name I know I and I understand but like I think you know people are gonna
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look at this and say like oh well the dudes you know a second year player and
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he's not the starting running back and then dude his first year player is okay
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so the dude is the older guys gonna go well I think we just saw Ohio State can
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have a pretty good two-back system if two running backs are good enough to play
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they they can have two running backs go I mean then you start to look into the
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fact of okay well there are two people that Ohio State brought into the class
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or the same age as Bo Jackson Bo Jackson's the starting running back right
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now and I don't think we have any indication that in 2526 or 27 that Bo Jackson
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is gonna really seed those rains you know pouring an injury or anything like
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that so like yeah I think you're right I think it is a very unique concept of
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you know what today's day and age and recruiting is like because I mean let's
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call it what it is let's call it like like let's just be blown about it it's a
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money conversation too because like Ohio State players are wanted everywhere
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and is it worth it to pay backup running back X or a third-term running back X
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like I don't know so it's a money conversation you got to figure out or you
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bring it in what's the what's the comment yeah what's the bottomer like there's a lot
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sometimes like I we I think we've gotten so deeper to the N.I. I don't think
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that everything this is just because it's the money thing it's no sometimes
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it's just sometimes it's the traditional thing I want to play football and I
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just got jumped by somebody who's the same age as me or younger than me and now
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I have to explore my and that's again I don't that's not I don't know what's
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going to have to happen after the season but the Ohio State's gonna lose players
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as a transfer portal and they're gonna bring in players from the transfer portal
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they're gonna get commits and sign commits they're gonna get commit to end up
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in somewhere else they're gonna flip players from that's just the world of
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college football now so if you're my it has nothing to do with the money part of
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it they'll figure that out they always figure that out it does nothing to do
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with anything more than why is Ohio State all of a sudden when it felt like
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they were done at running back in the cycle looking for a running back or at
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least exploring their options it doesn't mean they're gonna they might do all
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this and go yeah we're good with favorite key but why are they at least making
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sure every stone is unturned when you thought they'd already done that it's
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because they have a true freshman who's starting at running back right now and
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if you think that might throw your numbers off then you have to go get your
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numbers and make them right they want five or six running backs in the room
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right we might need to have they do that again and during the by-way could
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right run down what's the ideal number scholarship players at every single spot
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and if the running back room is five or six okay you know you're losing one and
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CJ Donaldson just the starting a true freshman who's going to be a starting
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running back for you for the next three to four years mean you lose another guy
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you gotta explore those options right and that's all that's all it is the money
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thinks you're but don't figure that out Mark Mantoni Ryan Day and the rest of
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the staff are very good at this they're not gonna that's not gonna be an issue
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figuring out the money but there's sometimes it's a traditional football reason
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for why they might lose a player because it's not a football player is out there
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man they all want to play nobody wants to sit right that that's all this is okay
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that's offense we went 40 minutes there let's take a break and then we're
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gonna go over to the defensive side do the same thing here on book I talk and
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we're back here on book I talk Stephen means an Andrew Gillis flip season is
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upon us which means it's the right time to do another recruiting pod this
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Tuesday as you're listening to this we're talking with Ryan Day as they prepare
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to play Illinois and their second big 10 game of the season it's Luke Altmeyer
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against Julian San it's Brett Biela Mugans Ryan Day it should be fun I had a text
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or 614 350315 say this is the week where everything that I love about Brett
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Biela Mugans all of a sudden now I have to hate it because now it's impacting my
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team I thought that was a perfect way to talk about what Illinois is because they
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do some annoying things that are fun to watch when you don't have an
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invested interest in the game and you defensively who are the flip targets for
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Ohio State and but also is Ohio State it feels like the blame Bradford thing has
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kind of cooled off here so maybe that's not a thing anymore but is Ohio State
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trying to flip anybody else defensively so this one you said we want 40
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minutes with the offense defense to me is so much cleaner it's so much
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simpler thank you because I don't have 40 minutes left in me well fair but it
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is just so much cleaner so much simpler let's start in the trenches I think it's
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pretty clear you know kind of the big target of the weekend obviously you got
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Carri Wilder back on campus like you mentioned it's kind of a delayed flip if
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you will Drake Quinn a four star player out of Buford Georgia number 395 overall
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prospect number 35 edd rusher he decommitted from Clemson a few weeks ago
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September 25th to be exact he decommitted from Clemson he was on campus for
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Ohio State the reason why that's a big deal Ohio State has one edd rusher
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committed in its 26 class and that is obviously like we mentioned so defensively
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on the interior you're pretty good Demari Simian is there you like him Cameron
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Brickle you like him Jameer Perez definitely like more of a long-term project
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but he's like a big body that you think you know okay this guy we plan him in
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the middle after two three years and maybe we can get something plus he's a
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Glendville kid and you know those kids you know typically they're okay sticking
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around so you feel okay about that okay so your interior is fine and you have
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wilder but you need an edd rusher you need another edd rusher and
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we talk about like what this team is gonna be kid and curry you know he's not
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gonna be around next year oh Adkinson we'll see can you out of Jackson we'll
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see like both those guys are eligible to return but like this this is really not
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even like a 26 conversation so like curry Hicks Georgia atkinson Jackson those
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guys are gonna be gone so what else you got not true Hicks will not be gone in
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27 I'm talking about these guys is 25 oh yeah you're right yeah yeah so yeah
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so like that's what I'm saying like this is not like a next year conversation
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those two years on the line so Zion Grady will be a third year player dominant
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curks will be a fourth year player Abby Sitton I will be a third year player
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Mickens will be a let's see he's in his third year now so technically I guess he
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could be a fifth year but that's it that's what you got an edge you need another
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edge you have car wilder you need drink win so that's a big target for them at
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edge and we'll have to kind of see how this recruitment goes I know Texas is
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gonna be a big player there so Drake Quinn keeping on that one Ohio State
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would certainly love to get him into the class just for what he is as a player
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and what you need in the class that's simple that that was it on the defensive
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line that that really like when you look at the defensive line it's kind of
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like add some commits and wilder Perez was here since here Johnson was here like
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the Glenville kids but like the defensive line they've got a couple interior
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guys really the only edge in 26 that they're kind of after that I believe was on
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campuses weekend was Drake Quinn they've got some other talented players that you
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know you could point to and say like okay jace brewer and 27 they really like him
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but that's a 27 conversation this is more 26 focus so
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oh Drake Quinn must be good defensive coaching staff member right now so okay
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let's do this let's do in 10 minutes doing this because there were a lot of kids
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here since your Johnson was here car while there was again break him higher for
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Ohio State's commits who were in town I'm kind of shocked that Blant Bradford
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wouldn't here but it's hard yeah I mean I know it's it's less of like a there's
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something wrong it's more just Ohio State doesn't have a lot of night games
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where they can just open up its doors to the kid and they don't the kids don't
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have to worry about trying to like kill themselves to get to Columbus after
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they played high school football games the night before and I don't know what baton
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Rouge Catholic schedule is so maybe that's part of this but it just would have
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been cool of like finally Ohio State got a night game for a big 10 game they
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can have as many of their commits here as possible because like quit but also like
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Chris Henry Jr. and Kane Disney Wyatt were here right yeah and it's like okay
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they'll be okay everybody will be okay and Luke Fahey has not been here yet like
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was he at the Texas game I don't believe so okay yeah they again but again it
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like the Texas game was at noon and he lives in California right but there's
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something but it's like I'm not pointing out these guys weren't here because
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there's a problem it's more just like oh man that sucks how many more times
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Ohio State gonna get a night big 10 game this year where they can do that type
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of stuff right send me a call well I saw him in person I'm gonna back off with
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like sunny style sting a little bit I think he just might be man and that's cool
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like oh no you're not gonna do what a freak did yeah what sunny did is not
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normal here's my question for you if you were a member of Ohio State's
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recruiting class in your defensive player and you just watched Ohio State's
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defense in action and I'm sure like when you have conversations with the
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coaching staff I used to ask this to recruit when they talk to you about the
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defense who are they telling you to watch because that's going to be you in the
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future which one of these commits should be the most excited about what they've
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seen from my Patricia's defense so far through five games like because I
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I talked to Rinaldo Perez I went out and went to go see his game on Friday
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night he's a Columbus Academy the 27 kid you know he was at Purdue this weekend
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as a top 300 defensive linemen but he's one of those kids who's like he's
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65 to 45 Larry Johnson said or Rinaldo told me that Larry Johnson said that
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he likes his violence off the line and Ohio State really likes his
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versatility like he specifically mentioned Caden Curry and he was like hey
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yeah like I forget if the question was about Caden Curry or not but he was like
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Caden Curry yeah they're moving him all over and one of the things it really
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stands out to me is they've got different packages for their different personnel
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groupings and like I don't know if you're getting that with Simian or Perez you
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know or Brickle like since you're Johnson would probably be the other guy that I
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would look at and say like maybe him like he cuz like I mean he's a linebacker
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that wears number eight that it's a Glenville high school who's very very close
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to our Belrees like the comparisons are literally you'd have to be blind and
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deaf not to see them now granted I don't know if they're exactly one for one but I
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think Carter Wilder like having that you know hey you can be an edd
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drusher but we are gonna move you around to an interior player on third
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long and like just the way that Ohio State's used their defensive line has been
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very very to me the sugar and I think that's why Carter Wilder might be in
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maybe the best position long term here for Ohio State never listen we can talk
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about Carter Wilder for another 45 minutes that will get me to do it I think if
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you're sincere Johnson you're watching the guy who used to wear your number at
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Glenville and what he's doing and you're going yeah yeah I'm gonna be rich one day
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I'm gonna make a lot of money one day
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when sincere gets sincere Johnson number 63 player number nine linebacker
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country when he gets here James or not I should just go do what our Velvild
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dude and you'll be fine yeah unfortunately they should just they should just
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tell our Velvilder retire and pay him as a GA and just be sincere Johnson's coach
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unfortunately our Velvild's not going to be here to mentor him through this it's
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over it's over I think it's going too well because it's not even a
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good good if you're seeing nothing where it's just like I think I have girl
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bossed a little too close to the sun yes it's like a tick tock sound yeah I
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think our Velvild has NFL drafted a little too close to the sun I think we
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have been a little too he's awesome to the sun I think he's going to win the
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butt kiss award if he keeps this up yeah dude I so maybe if you want to lead
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this anywhere because I was just gonna go straight to linebacker after this if
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you want to lead that into it again yeah yeah yeah but like I just think that I
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was gonna point out Stefan retweeted this as we're doing the podcast
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brooder yeah Dean Brugler who covers the NFL draft for the athletic said if I
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did a mock draft today our Velvild Reeves would be somewhere in the top 12
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picks good chance he's the highest drafted Buckeye defender since Chase
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Young in 2020 yeah they have Caleb Downs on their defense position no value I
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think this is the that's why I was saying that Caleb down I remember like I
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mentioned you guys like a couple of months ago I was like Caleb Downs is not
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a locked in top 10 pick because like go look at safeties it's not that way but
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no no Reese as a past russure people people are gonna look at our
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recent say we might have found Michael Parsons that's what's gonna that's what
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people are gonna say yeah but that doesn't mean Caleb is in the top 10
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draft pick I mean he's the top 10 talent but he might be like he's because
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he might be because the thing is they're not just using him as like a typical
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free safety or strong safety he's playing Caleb Downs he's like lined up near
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the linebackers a lot of the time and he's playing every position you can think
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of as well the the the the the the the the RVL going ahead of Caleb thing is like
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how Chase Young went ahead of Jeff O'Cuda it's like oh Chase Young's the highest
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drafted Ohio State defensive player okay Jeff O'Cuda went number three it's not
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like Chase Young went to and like the next highest was 27 or something like
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that right so it's more like that so okay let's just do the back seven all
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together because I would love to keep this under 65 minutes if we can so let
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flip talk who else is Ohio State at least in the hunt for right now and
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thinking about potentially flip me well so it's a it's this is a unique
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conversation because I think it's one or the other there is somebody who just
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received an offer a few weeks ago from Ohio State Jacob Curry he's a linebacker
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target he attends Nice High School in Florida number 411 prospect he's listed
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as a safety Ohio State season linebacker he took his official visit this
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past weekend he's on commitment so he's not a flip candidate per like at all
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he's he's not in that mix Oklahoma is in the mix Florida State for some
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reason Florida State Ohio State are having some recruiting battles the
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cycle he's got a visit schedule most of it would be good and they keep trying to
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get kids from Florida that's why Florida State has a visit schedule for him next
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weekend to me this is pretty cut and dry you have Jacob Curry you need a third
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linebacker in this class with the way that Arville Reese is playing Arville
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Reese is probably not gonna be on this team in four months I think he's a NFL
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draft to Clary because like you could say well what if you just threw a bunch of
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money at him okay well if Arville Reese is gonna be like a tenth overall pick
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15th even like he was like a 20th overall pick okay you can you can pay that
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much money for a linebacker no disrespect to what he's done it's just an
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interesting conversation that is it is kind of difficult so where does that
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leave you you got Peyton Pierce TJ offered Eli Lee Riley Petagion Garrett
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Stover there's five you have since here Johnson you have CJ Santa there's seven you
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probably want to bring in another guy or two maybe they go to the portal a
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linebacker we'll see Curry to me is clearly the top linebacker on on their
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board I think they are looking at it going okay we have less time with Arville
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though we needed a third line why this ties into a flip candidate is because
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there is somebody by the name of Jaden Williams he attends Washington in
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Washington high school mid-masculine Washington, he's three star player number 659
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overall prospects three star he's currently committed to Indiana he received
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an Ohio State offer like two three weeks ago I think this is very cut and dry
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I think Ohio State's gonna try for Curry if they don't get Curry they're gonna
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try to flip Williams they need a third linebacker in this class they might go
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to the portal and get one anyway like even if they have three because Peyton
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Pierce is gonna be a starter next year like I feel very confident in saying that
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you could if you want say Riley Petagion is gonna be a starter and hip hip hooray
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or you could just say you know what let's go get another guy because we like
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somebody in the portal so that would not stun me but you need numbers and I
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think Williams is that second option so to me linebacker pretty much just comes
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down to Curry if not Curry who is uncommitted we're gonna try to flip Williams
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from Indiana I think they should start Riley Petagion next year you can still go
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get yourself a portal yeah totally reasonable there's nothing wrong with
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giving you a portal guy but I think you should start Riley Petagion at linebacker
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next year yes that gambling game was and I'm first obviously it's it's a lower
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point but still that that was a spiritual experience watching him but this is
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the way he moves out there linebacker also you're saying Ohio State might
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flip a linebacker from a playoff team that's pretty big deal that was the joke
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the joke that I had to Steven that he really liked was when I was talking about
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Penn State playing Indiana and he was like don't he was like getting ready to
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yell at me for saying like don't give me that that like Penn State can win I was
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like I don't give me that that like you know Penn State's gonna win a big game
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whatever I was like hey man you never know that's a trap game for Indiana
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going on the road great great to a team that's not very good so you never know
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you never know in college football Indiana when they go to happy valley they
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gotta be aware of you know the under the home dog you know no no don't get
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upset but so corner corner there are a few options okay they didn't really have
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anybody worth flipping or notable flips I don't believe on campus this past
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Saturday so that is like a conversation that we can have you know maybe down the
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line at corner you do need at least another one we saw last year they
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went and got Jordan Woods in November you know Davis Nick Benoson's gonna be
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gone we'll see what happens with your main Matthews but you know you're
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probably in good hands with like if you're starting trio of Aaron Scott
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Devon Sanchez and like Bryce West like if that's your starting trio next year
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yeah exactly you're in great hands there but then what do you have behind
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those three like if if Matthews does go then it's Sanchez Scott West and then
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it's like okay is Jordan Woods as a second year player who you kind of took
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at the project is he ready to go is Miles Lockhart ready to prove to go was
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that you know third year player you need you have Jordan Thomas but is he gonna
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be ready as a freshman that I don't know you need you need some options corners
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a different conversation uh safety is the last one they had Kamari Bing on
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campus he was here for an OV Alabama Ohio State of the two schools that are
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really kind of pushing for this kid he attends St. Francis Academy in Baltimore
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they are one of the best high school powerhouses in the country which I
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don't know like I knew this because I lived there at the time in Maryland
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do you know who used to coach St. Francis Academy and who like really got St.
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Francis Academy off the ground in terms of like their football program Biff
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Poggy who's Michigan's Ed Cote for two games this year so very interesting but
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yeah St. Francis Academy the hell of a football program the Guzzani Lee and
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other Maryland commit Jaira Edwards a safety I want to stop with those kids
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those dudes to keep ball Kamari Bing or Kamari Bing number nine 14 overall
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players listed as a quarter Ohio State season as a safety and we'll see what the
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numbers look like at this position but I think you need three in this class
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you've got you know Lane Bradford who it has calmed down you never want to say
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never in today's recruiting landscape LSU is gonna keep pushing his brothers
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there he's from Baton Rouge you just you don't want things to get
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squirrely at the finish line like you you want this to kind of play simply and
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smoothly if you're a Ohio State so yeah it doesn't seem like there's been a lot
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of noise but that does not mean LSU is gonna stop trying so you have him
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Simi and Caldwell again everybody's kind of talking about this linebacker move
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I think I know from people in the building that they love his speed and that they
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think he's a safety he's just probably more of a box safety than anything but
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then you need a third guy because if Simi and Caldwell does become that lineback
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er then we'll have to see you need a third safety they do really like
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Camari Bing again really really good football player who's currently committed
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to Maryland but Alabama and Ohio State are pushing he's gonna take an OV
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believe it's an OV to Alabama on November 8th so this recruitment's not gonna
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wrap up for another couple of weeks but Ohio State is trying to add a third
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safety and he is it would appear there next target in that group yeah I know
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I don't want things to get squirrely but that's too bad it's 2025 everything
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gets squirrely near December that's just kind of how it goes here get the
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techs that come for 3 5.0 3 3.0 3.0 1.5 Club season has arrived we'll be
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weeks and then you got to pay 3.99 4 614 3.50 3.355 that'll wrap up our
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recruiting but we'll do this again in the next couple of weeks but we're just
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so locked in with what's happening in the football season that sometimes they
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recruiting recruiting slows down during the season it doesn't stop but it does
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slow down a little bit during the season but it was it was good to check in
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because some things have been happening over the last couple of weeks here
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