The And the Good morning bucknunters.

bucknenders, welcome to you the bucknuts morning five here on Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 here in very chilly Ohio.

I am David Biddle.

Very happy to be joined by the People's Champ himself, Matt Baxendale.

Bax, just, there's been so much talk about

the coming and goings of players and coaches

and Ryan Day taking over.

There's been a lot of talk about expectations for the 2019 Buckeyes.

I mean, not the expectations really ever changed at Ohio State, but what are your

expectations for the 2019 Buckeyes? What are, what can fans expect from this team this fall?

Well you hit it on the head Dave the expectations don't change the standard is the

standard Ohio State is expected to win every freaking football game and

especially every game against that school up north.

That doesn't change because you have a new head coach, period.

So my expectations honestly are extraordinarily high, same as they are every year.

But I have a lot of hope for optimism. I think we have to go on the

assumption that Justin Fields is actually going to be eligible to play this year.

I don't think Tate Martel transfers out and I don't think I have this think the

NCAA is going to want to sit there and defend a kid not being eligible because of a documented racial

incident in his old school. Good luck defending that in 2019 is a negative against the kids.

So I expect Justin Fields to play this fall.

This team coming back on defense,

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