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Plus easy in-store or curbside pickup, shop anytime, anywhere, and find our widest selection of colors, styles, and sizes. Good morning buff nutters. It is Tuesday, December 17th, 2019. I am Dan Rubin. This is the Bucknuts

Morning Five and Change. Coming to you from a snow cover, Drum City, happy to be joined by Duane Long, Duane, how goes it on this Tuesday?

Well, you know, if I could see the sun, it would help. So you people who live outside of the Columbus Dayton area, if you could send a memo and remind

some that, you know, stop back by, We really appreciate it.

If you need to go out to Arizona to find the sun and the

the Fiesta Bowl, you can go with Bucknuts. Go to the site right now. We've got an ad

for that. We'd love for you to come along with us.

We'd also love for you to be along with us tomorrow's early signing day.

As always, there's some interesting storylines that jump up right before the day.

For Ohio State, they usually concern an assistant coach going elsewhere to be a head coach

and what happens to the guys he recruited.

That is the case with Ohio State, This is the Jeff Halfways off the Boston College. The secondary

guru has left Clark Phillips in the lurch, generally regarded as the West Coast best defensive back committed to Ohio State out of

La Harbor, California, he is now wavering, visited Utah.

Where it is, Ohio State coaches have been in touch with them and they do not know what's going to happen.

Clark Phillips is the highest rated defensive player in Ohio State's class.

Your thought on his commitment to Ohio State kind of hanging in the balance here.

Well, I mean, you hope you get a guy like that.

His film is outstanding.

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