How much will Buckeyes' defense improve in 2nd year under Knowles (and with Laurinaitis around)?

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🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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How much will Ohio State's defense improve in Jim Knowles' second season as coordinator, and with James Laurinaitis now on board to help with the linebackers? Jonah Booker joins Dave Biddle to discuss that, the latest on the NIL collective front for Ohio State, another bad loss for the Buckeyes' men's basketball team and more.

All of that and more is coming your way on the Friday 5ish.

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0:00.0	Good morning, Bucknotters. Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on
0:29.9	Friday, February 10th, 2023. I am David Biddle, I'm very happy to be joined by
0:33.7	Jonah Booker for his usual Friday visit. A lot to get into. Jay Buck I do want to
0:38.3	start off by just saying rest in peace to a great-buck guy Demetrius Stanley who
0:42.4	passed away yesterday, battled cancer for a while, and got to know Dee a little
0:48.0	bit when I first started doing radio. Some people might know I do some radio here
0:52.2	in Columbus for 971. My first in-studio work there is with Demetrius Stanley and
0:56.2	Anthony Rothman. Got to know him. Like I said, a great-buck guy filled with life,
0:59.8	filled with energy, and the human spirit, and he's going to be missed. So rest
1:04.5	in peace to Demetrius. Great-buck guy gone too soon. All right, feels a little
1:08.7	tried to talk football off of that, but we're going to talk some football. Now,
1:11.7	the Buck I defense improves statistically, like a lot. From 59th in the
1:15.5	country, Jay Book to 14th nationally in total defense, but you know, they
1:20.8	didn't really play any good offenses and then they got torched the last two
1:24.2	games. So the question that we're going to get into is how much can they improve
1:27.9	in the second year of the Noles era, especially with James Laurenidas coming
1:31.9	on? Just how much do you think this defense will improve? Can it be a legit top 10
1:35.9	defense? What do you expect from this defense? Yeah, they are. I do think it's
1:39.6	going to be a top 10 defense. Make no mistake about it. When you look at this
1:43.8	year as a whole this past year, I do believe the defense got a little fat
1:47.7	against some offenses that weren't very good once they did face some
1:52.0	offenses with a pulse. They had their issues. To me, Dave, I'm looking at the
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