Brian Hartline's departure and Ohio State's big picture approach to recruiting

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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4.2 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Buckeye Tak, Stephen Means, Andrew Gillis, and Stefan Krajisnik discuss the significant changes in Ohio State football, particularly focusing on Brian Hartline's departure as offensive coordinator and its implications for recruiting. Then they explore the evolving landscape of college football, including the impact of NIL and the transfer portal on recruiting strategies. The conversation highlights the challenges and opportunities facing Ohio State as it navigates this new era in college football. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you've been?
0:17.7	Bucket talk is about to begin.
0:21.1	Hey, hey, hey, come on then.
0:31.9	Welcome back to Buck Guy Talk.
0:33.2	I'm Stephen Means.
0:33.9	That's the Funk Christink.
0:34.7	And that is Andrew Gillis.
0:35.9	And we are coming to you after
0:37.9	what is now officially going to be forever known as negotiation day. That's what I'm choosing
0:44.7	to call it from here on now, because everything is in negotiation, and nobody signs anything
0:50.0	anymore, and nobody honors commitments anymore, and nobody does anything that makes any sense here are all
0:55.8	the things that are happening on wednesday so the big 10 network is busy putting together a production
1:01.3	show to announce all of the defensive award winners and defensive all big 10 teams for the 2025 season
1:08.8	and they'll do that again today as you're listening to the spot for the offensive
1:12.0	side of the ball.
1:13.1	Their signing day going on.
1:15.4	So a bunch of teenagers are signing what is called in the Big Ten, a Big Ten agreement.
1:20.0	I'm assuming the SEC and the Big 12 and the ACC have a similar thing where it's just
1:24.4	insert conference name agreement because the letter of intent actually doesn't exist anymore. So we're supposed to be talking about Ohio states, what we
1:31.6	woke up Wednesday morning thinking was a 28 man class, the biggest of the Ryan Day era.
1:37.1	And we were going to talk with Ryan Day and GM Mark Pantone about that class. And then, I want to say about 90 minutes, is that fair?
1:49.2	90 minutes before we are supposed to have said conversations. Brian Hartline reports were coming
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