Crystal Ball madness | Downs not out | Tate, Inniss combo?
Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast
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🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Elite prospects are committing. Crystal Balls are rolling. It must be Ohio State on the recruiting trail.
Our Bill Kurelic and Mark Porter make their usual Thursday appearance and hit on a litany of subjects before fielding terrific questions - LIVE - from Bucknutters watching on YouTube, Facebook or Twitter.
Here are just a few prospects we discussed: Malik Hartford (of course), Caleb Downs, Darron Reed, Mark Fletcher, Richard Young, Carnell Tate, Brandon Inniss and more.
Questions about Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson's NFL Draft stock, which new Buckeyes will thrive early and how many safeties were also handled.
Spend 5ish with us this a.m., 'Nutters!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning Buckner, it is Thursday, April 7th, 2022. |
| 0:29.9 | I am Dan Rubin, this is the Buck Nuts Morning 5, and change those of you watching on YouTube, |
| 0:36.4 | Twitter and Facebook. Smash those like buttons, hit the subscribe button, and check out the lovely |
| 0:43.6 | and talented Mark Porter and the Dean of Ohio State Recruiting Bill Curlick. Mark is losing this stuff |
| 0:50.4 | over there. But we're going to talk about a lot of recruiting today because a lot has gone on. |
| 0:55.8 | Starting with this, Malik Hartford, Lakota West standout has verbally and committed to Ohio State |
| 1:05.4 | bill you were there yesterday. Give us the latest on what you think of Malik Hartford and what |
| 1:11.6 | went down there. I have to say I wasn't shocked. We all kind of felt he was in the mix, but does look |
| 1:17.6 | like Ohio State is doing better in Cincinnati than in recent years. Yeah, they got a missile in |
| 1:25.5 | Malik Hartford. I mean that in a very, very positive way. I mean, the guy is just like a missile, |
| 1:32.0 | you know, he is so fast to the ball. He did what he did last season, basically on a badly |
| 1:41.4 | inter shoulder all season. He injured it early. He then had surgery right after the season, |
| 1:49.6 | but he is a great prospect. And what a nice young man too. A 4.0 plus GPA I might add, |
| 1:57.9 | I think they got a really, really good one in Malik Hartford. The crystal ball was 100% Ohio |
| 2:04.0 | States. I think most people figured that was all going to happen and it certainly did yesterday. |
| 2:10.2 | Mark, you've done an extensive scatting report on him. What are your thoughts? Some people thought |
| 2:16.7 | he might be a corner, but he's definitely pegged as a safety. |
| 2:20.8 | You know, and that's why they like him so much is the corner skills at safety. And you can do a |
| 2:26.3 | lot of safety when you have those corner scores. They can roll you up and you can play the slot. |
| 2:30.4 | They don't have to bring in a slot in third down so you can kind of do it naturally, |
| 2:34.2 | plays over the top and he can play man to man. Some safeties, they're just in the box guys |
| 2:39.1 | are over the top guys. He does all three. He's very good in the box. What was so impressive when you |
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