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Nordame is hosting Central Michigan this weekend.

With the intention of moving to 4 and 0 before moving on to Ohio State,

we'll talk about not moving on to Ohio State prematurely after we talk a little bit about

Marcus Freeman's comments from his press conference with the media.

By the way, I'm Tim Priestler, with Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrated, joined by Pete

Samson of the Athletic.

I guess the most important news, guys, out of our 15 minutes with Marcus Freeman,

was the fact that J.D. Bertrand will not be playing this weekend. Yes, and Marcus Freeman was

asked if his technical backup, Drake Bowen would be in the proceedings. And Freeman, of course,

said yes. But what will really happen, I believe, is that Jack Kaiser will run the show.

Gives a little more playing time to Jalen Sneed, but obviously Thomas Harper is the starter

over there at nickel slash rover anyway.

It'd be great to see Drake Bowen get some chances.

Maybe the one thing I took, and I'm not sure if you guys heard it the same way, he was

asked about Bowen.

He said yes yes and he immediately

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