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How Ohio State fans feel about the transfer portal

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and the Subtext subscribers rant about how Ohio State fans feel about the transfer portal. Stephen takes thoughts from the fanbase on how they feel about player departures and the implications of NIL on recruiting strategies. The evolving landscape of college football is examined, highlighting the challenges and opportunities that come with increased parity. Expectations for Ohio State remain high, and the importance of having a solid plan for recruiting and player development is emphasized.  Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0

Welcome back to Buck. I talk. I am your host, Stephen Means, and I'm joined by our texters. Get the text, 614-3500-3-5, two-week free trial, 399 after that.

1:12.7

A lot's happened over the last 10 days or so since the transfer portal opened on January 2nd.

1:18.5

It is now January 14th, as you're hearing this podcast.

1:21.9

And Ohio State has lost 29 players to the transfer portal, and they've added 11 players to the transfer portal.

1:29.6

And it's been an eventful week and a half and there's probably a lot that fans want to get

1:35.0

off their chest. And so that's what we're giving you the opportunity to do is react to some of

1:38.6

those things. If last week was, oh my God, we're losing so many people, what the heck is going on? This week has maybe turned into more, oh my God, we're starting to not so many people. I love where this is headed. And so we have rants from all over the place. As you know, if you've listened before and if you're new here, welcome aboard. I try to put things into different categories as things come in because often when I do call out for rants, I don't know how often it's just like

2:02.7

40 million different things that people want to rant about.

2:05.5

It's probably falling into just one or two or three or four or five different buckets.

2:10.1

So I try to do that this time around.

2:12.4

What we have is this time.

2:13.8

We have the sky is falling.

2:16.4

That'll be fun.

2:17.4

We have this sucks. And some of'll be fun we have this sucks and some of people even

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