Good morning, Bucknotters. Welcome to the Buck Nuts Morning 5 here on Wednesday.

April 12, 2023. I am Dave Biddle, very happy to join by the people's champ Matt Bax and Del.

Lots to get into. We're obviously going to start with Peyton Pierce committing to the Buck guys last night.

High four star linebacker and other Buck guys have two of the top 15 linebackers in the country in the 2024 class.

Along with Garrett Stover now with Peyton Pierce. I absolutely love this. The James Lower Nidus.

James Lower Nidus effect in effect. Your thoughts on Peyton Pierce becoming a Buck guy backs.

Well, I've been saying for a while that, yay, I'm thrilled that we're landing all these five star receivers and elite quarterbacks and blah, blah, blah.

I want to see defensive players. I've been that guy and tell you right now we only have two defensive players out of our 10 commitments.

But like you said, both of them are two of the top 15 linebackers in the country. This is another top 25 Texas player,

105 top 150 in the country. This has been a clear target for Ohio State for a while right now.

So this is a great pick up for the Buck guys. This is that we need to start seeing elite defensive players come into Columbus every single year.

The way we see elite offensive players come to Columbus. So Lauren, I just effect whatever you want to call it. This is good.

We are still at an eight to two ratio. So let's start getting some corners and some alignment in here.

But I certainly cannot complain one bit. This is a great pick up for Ohio State.

We're looking at the rankings now. Number two class in the country.

Jumping over Michigan and number two class in the country, as you mentioned, like 10 recruits in the class, two defensive recruits, both linebackers.

But listen, I mean, I like, I love Ohio State's chances of getting Bryce West and Aaron Scott.

I mean, the two players from Ohio, I mean, Bryce West from Glenville, Aaron Scott right on the road here, Springfield.

I mean, right down the road. I mean, about a half hour down the road from Hilliard, but number four corner in the country is Bryce West.

Number nine corner in the country is Aaron Scott and, you know, the Dean and the Fong that put Crystal Balls in for the Buck guys telling both of them.

So it's just going to get better from here as far as defensive recruiting.

And that's the thing we've been talking about for a while is just that if you look back a couple of years ago, we got a lot of elite corners from Ohio.

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