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Welcome back to Buckeye Talk, David Baird from Cleveland.com here, along with Doug

Lemorees, a Thursday version of Monday Madness. You come up with your own Thursday

alliteration word. We're not going to that trouble. We're putting all the trouble

into the actual content of the episode, all the work, all the focus, not the actual

naming of the episode. A lot of always few things to talk about today. The OSU

roster situation is a try to get down to 85 and we'll eventually get down to 85

but kind of tracking how that process is developing here in the spring and what

it means. We're think stand how state wise as far as the coaching staff salary,

what it means that they now have a the biggest assistant coaching salary pool

in their history and then we'll close things out with what you're watching and

what you're eating, Doug will tell you Doug and I will tell you a little bit

about what's going on in our lives in that regard. But let's start off with the

roster watch. Everyone knows how I say it has to get down to 85 by the start of

the season. Every team does. They were at about 92, not that long ago. And then

within the past month, there's been enough attrition through various things,

whether that was Harry Miller stepping away from the program, whether that was a

transfers that happened here just in the last week or Darien Henry Young

transferring a month ago. They're now down to 88. It's not an uncomfortable

number. It's obviously something that they have to address. But I don't I don't

think it's a number that probably causes them a lot of headaches at this stage.

And I don't think it's a number that would preclude them from bringing someone

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