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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Ep. 139: Will Ohio State's 2020 recruiting class be the Buckeyes' best yet?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2018

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State's 2017 recruiting class set the bar for Urban Meyer and the Buckeyes. That group was ranked No. 2 in the nation and included five five-star recruits. And then the 2018 class was also ranked No. 2 in the country. The 2019 class is headed toward a top-10 finish, maybe top-five. But might the 2020 recruiting class rise to a new level in Columbus? On this Buckeye Talk episode, Bill Landis checks in from Dallas, where he covered The Opening recruiting event over the weekend, to talk with Tim Bielik and Doug Lesmerises about Ohio State commits and targets at the major showcase. They also broke down the recent commitments of quarterback Jack Miller and offensive tackle Paris Johnson Jr., the two players that have us talking about the 2020 class this way. Then Bill get back to work, and Tim and Doug dove into their rankings of the top-50 Ohio State players for 2018. They broke down the first 30 players on the list, figuring out where freshmen like Josh Proctor, Jeremy Ruckert and Nicholas Petit-Frere should fit in with older players like Brady Taylor, Damon Arnette and Pete Werner. As always, they then took your questions, which ranged from whether 2018 is Ohio State's best chance at a national title for the next few years to the nuances of french toast. And Doug then told the story of his best encounter with a football player while in college. It's another edition of Buckeye Talk. You know the deal. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. Two of us are here, one of us is far away.

0:08.0

Doug Leamore East and Tim Beelick, we're in my basement, and Bill Landis is on the phone sweating his body parts off in Dallas.

0:17.0

Landis, how are you holding up?

0:20.0

I'm okay now. I'm in Jerry Jones beautiful air condition way too large of a practice facility in

0:28.7

Frisco so it's nice in here it's just unbearably hot once you get outside.

0:33.0

All right, so the reason you're there is for the opening.

0:36.0

You'll be gone from there by the time people to listen to this again.

0:40.0

We're doing Buckeye Talk early.

0:41.0

It's vacation season.

0:42.0

It's people working in different

0:43.8

places season, but we don't want to stop Buckeye Talk, so we're doing what we have to do.

0:47.8

We're recording this on Sunday, and we're going to get into our top 50 Ohio State players

0:54.3

countdown that has been ongoing.

0:55.8

We're going to deal with like the first 30 guys, basically.

0:58.5

But first, that's what Tim and I are going to do later

1:00.9

and get to all your questions.

1:03.4

First, we're going to do two things.

1:04.5

We're going to talk about Landis and the opening and all these Ohio State commits and

1:08.7

targets that are there.

1:10.1

But first, we're digging in on Jack Miller, who again by the time you listen to this will have been a Buckeye commit for several days.

1:17.0

As we're talking, he committed about an hour ago.

1:21.0

Landis, Jack Miller, quarterback from Arizona, he's their 20-20 quarterback. Why is this a big deal for Ohio State?

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