Laurinaitis, Guerrieri make impressive impressions | The problem with the CFP's '5+7' format
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🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Ohio State's newest defensive position coaches -- James Laurinaitis and Matt Guerrieri -- met with the media yesterday and they were nothing short of extremely impressive. What were our main takeaways from both Q&A sessions? Laurinaitis basically said Cody Simon is locked in as a starting linebacker. Who will start alongside of him? As for the safeties, Guerrieri is inheriting a proverbial gold mine with the talent in his room with the likes of Caleb Downs and Lathan Ransom. As for Sonny Styles, will he be in Guerrieri's room this year? Or Laurinaitis'? Time will tell on that one, but both coaches had interesting things to say about the talented junior.
Also, the CFP made its "5+7" format official on Tuesday. We see one major problem with it. We discuss in detail on the show, but the gist of it is we do not think the ACC and Big 12 should be on equal footing with the Big Ten and SEC when it comes to automatic berths and first-round byes. We explain further.
Matt Baxendell and Dave Biddle discuss all of that and more on the Wednesday 5ish.
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| 0:00.0 | The And the Good morning bucknoters. Welcome to the bucknots. Morning five here on |
| 0:30.2 | Wednesday, February 21st, 2024. |
| 0:33.0 | I am Dave Biddle, very happy to join by Matt Baxendale. |
| 0:36.0 | A lot to get into, got a chance to speak with James Laurenitis yesterday. |
| 0:41.0 | Got a chance to, in my case, meet Matt Guerrai yesterday, the new safety coach, he was here a couple years ago as an analyst. |
| 0:48.0 | It was Indiana's defensive coordinator last year. |
| 0:50.0 | Now back at Ohio State, very impressive. We already knew James Lower |
| 0:54.3 | Nine is was very impressive. This was his first time meeting with us as the |
| 0:58.4 | linebacker's coach. He was pretty much linebacker's coach last year but |
| 1:01.5 | it was technically a GA but Guerrero only 34 |
| 1:05.0 | years old from Ohio checks a lot of boxes great experience at such a young age and |
| 1:10.4 | very impressive so we're gonna Bax and I are gonna get into his main |
| 1:14.9 | takeaways from when we heard from Lornitis and Gerei and then we're gonna get |
| 1:18.8 | into I have a problem with the five plus seven format for the CFP. It's nothing major. |
| 1:23.3 | I don't think it's really gonna affect Ohio State, |
| 1:24.8 | but there is something that I think |
| 1:26.9 | is going to be a big topic of conversation |
| 1:28.9 | with this 5 plus 7 format for the CFP. |
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