On J.T. watch | 'He's the next Okudah' | Justice served?
Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast
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🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
To say we are on commitment watch would be an understatement. At this point, sleeping without one eye open would be just fine.
But we can't do that. Sleep does not matter as much as being ready for what would be the biggest commitment since ... well, it's a long time.
Duane Long is here to talk about - among many things - the wait for J.T. Tuimoloau's announcement on where he'll attend college.
We will also put an incredible recruiting weekend - month? - into perspective as we discuss who Ohio State charmed most.
As an incredible June for recruiting nears completion, we get you set for the rest of the summer.
Spend 5ish with us this a.m., 'Nutters!
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning bucknoters, it is Tuesday, July 29th, |
| 0:29.9 | 2021. I am Dan Rubin. This is the bucknotes morning five and change. Back on schedule, |
| 0:36.1 | Dave Bittel-Handler, Jr., yesterday beautifully. Today we will try and do the same, |
| 0:40.8 | joined as always on Tuesday by Dwayne Long-Dwayne. I pray your air conditioning is working. |
| 0:47.4 | Oh, yes. And cranked up right now. I hear it's going to get ugly. |
| 0:54.1 | I had the morning coffee outside by about eight o'clock. It was a sweat time. So we will focus our |
| 1:01.0 | efforts on sweating, recruiting, which is what we do well here. And it has been like we have said |
| 1:06.5 | ad nauseam, just an incredible month coming to an end. June has been epic for visits. We're going |
| 1:12.8 | to break it all down now. And we could not start talking about recruiting without addressing |
| 1:18.8 | JT to Amala. We are on commitment watch like never before. We have sleep shifts set up. We |
| 1:25.6 | are sleeping with one eye open. Word is he is now down to Ohio State and possibly Oregon and |
| 1:31.6 | Washington. We don't expect his commitment to come until Wednesday at the earliest. That comes |
| 1:38.3 | from Bill Curlyk. But you never know Dwayne, how are you feeling about JT to Amala? |
| 1:45.0 | I got I'm very optimistic. I think it would be a real surprise if Oregon beats us for him. |
| 1:52.7 | It's just he's coming out of nowhere with Oregon. I mean, no, he's not. He lives. What would that be? |
| 2:02.7 | Just a overnight trip down to Oregon from where he's at? I think he would have been more |
| 2:08.8 | impressed early on. Oregon is snuck in there late. Ohio State has got a much better tradition in |
| 2:14.5 | Oregon, as far as defensive linemen are concerned. And he's going to compete for national |
| 2:19.6 | championships every year. People are talking about the Pacific Islanders that we're starting to get |
| 2:24.7 | in here. There's a bunch of kids here and it's kind of a little community of them. There's just so |
| 2:29.6 | much that he's going to get out of here that he's not going to get it Oregon. |
| 2:33.6 | Primarily Larry Johnson, who I think in the long run will be the guy who tipped the scales towards |
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