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The Dude Morning Bucknutters is Thursday, April 9th, 2026.

I am Dan Rubin.

This is the Bucknuts Morning 5 in Change. I'm joined by Garrick Hodge, as always.

This is our last Mark Porterless event of the week. He'll be back on Tuesday, likely sunburned and filled with stories of managing teenagers and spring break.

And if we don't see anything on him,

nothing goes viral on the internet about him between now and then.

That'll be good.

But we are going to stick to what we're good at here.

And that is Cruton.

We're going to talk a lot about recruiting today.

Another big, big, big visit weekend coming up with guys you are going to want to know.

And guys, you kind of know already because Garrick and Mark have introduced you to them both verbally and on video.

Garrick, we're going to start with some news.

I wouldn't necessarily it's negative news.

But as all of you know, we came out, Garrett put together the big board for March where we are trying to let everybody know how Ohio State is practically approaching the recruiting class in this new NFL style. So you've got your first round picks, your second day picks, and your free agents.

Those of you following the sunny styles of the world should be very comfortable with this

tiered system. And one of the guys we had at the very top for Ohio State, Maxwell Hillard,

offensive linemen of serious ilk.

I believe Coatesville, PA, which is the home of Richard Hamilton, but no one cares about that.

It's always felt like kind of a long shot to me.

Usually with an Ohio State guy of national vibes, you'll kind of get a feeling early on that they're kind of really in the mix.

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