Welcome back to an emergency Buckeye talk from Chicago, Doug Lamerie's Tim Billett, Bill

Landis, in a lobby of a Marriott on Michigan Avenue, and we said we were doing an emergency

Buckeye talk and immediately someone tweeted us and said like what kind of

pizza you're gonna eat in Chicago and it was like that's not why we're doing it

we're doing it because of what The emergency is where should we eat tonight?

We're doing it obviously because Ohio State fired Zach Smith today.

If you're listening to this, you probably know that.

Bill Landis, what will the effect be?

We're going to get into all the other stuff.

There are stories up on Cleveland.com. There are news stories. I just wrote a column.

Tim wrote about Garrett Wilson saying he's not decommitting. Bill has the new story and

Bill wrote about Zach Smith earlier in the day and all this stuff. There's stuff to go read. What's the effect

of Ohio State losing its receivers coach a couple weeks before preseason camp starts?

You know, I honestly don't think there's going to be that much of an effect on sort of the on-field

product. I think our assumption is that Brian Hartline will be the receivers coach at least on a temporary basis if

not given the job outright sometime soon and if that's the case Brian Hartline's a

guy who's worked with this particular group of receivers for over a year and there's a relationship

there and I think if he were to just step in and start coaching the position group, they'd

be fine.

From a recruiting standpoint, I also don't think it has a drastic effect. Now

Zach Smith was a good recruiter for Ohio State, was I think held the title of

recruiting coordinator, and had a lot of really good gets for Ohio State particularly out of Florida

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