Expectations for James Smith, rest of Ohio State's defensive transfers

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🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We are only four practices into spring ball, but defensive tackle James Smith is already turning heads at Ohio State. What can we expect from the Alabama transfer this year? What about the other transfers on the defensive side of the ball, such as Terry Moore, Earl Little Jr., Christian Alliegro, John Walker, plus Smith's best friend and fellow Bama transfer, Qua Russaw?

Jonah Booker and Dave Biddle delve into that and much more on the Friday 5ish.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Good morning Bucknard's welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on Friday, March 27th,
0:32.1	20206.
0:32.9	I am Dave Biddle, very happy, joined by Mr. Jonah Booker. BTA Fridays.
0:38.1	Great to see you as always.
0:39.4	How is your bracket holding up?
0:41.0	Mine's terrible.
0:43.5	I'm doing all right.
0:45.1	I'm right now in the bracket that I'm in.
0:48.5	I'm top 10 or something, top five.
0:51.5	So I still have all of my elite eight teams.
0:55.2	I mean, there's games that have to be played today.
0:57.1	I did not have Iowa in the elite eight.
1:00.1	I actually picked Illinois to beat Houston.
1:02.8	I thought Illinois was playing some good,
1:05.4	some really good basketball heading out of the,
1:07.8	heading into the tournament.
1:09.0	So I'm holding strong.
1:13.2	I'm kicking myself, man thought i liked illinois and then i just i didn't i backed off of it i don't know i let some
1:20.4	of these analysts like talked me out of illinois saying brad underwood not a good coach and i'm like
1:24.3	i don't know kicks ohio state's ass every time he plays. All right. Here's the one that I need. If St. John's can upset Duke tonight, that's going to be a really big one for me. And I think that's going to be a really good game. All the games tonight look really good. All them look good. I think because Duke, Duke looked great their last time out, but they struggled against Sienna, you know, having like, you know, one of their starters out. And I know that the big guy, their top backup, came back. I only had four points. But we'll see. They're banged up. And St. John's is really good. That's going to be a good game. Before we go on to football,
2:01.8	Yeah.
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