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The Good morning Bucknutters, welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on Tuesday, March 17th, 2026, otherwise known as St. Patrick's Day.

I am Dave Biddle.

I am joined by my guys, Garrett Hodge, and Mark Porter. For those I missed the show yesterday, Dan Rubin is off this week. So you guys are stuck with me all week. Apologies in advance for that. We'll start with Garrick. Before we get to recruiting, and you can throw some recruiting nuggets in here too, but your takeaways from the first week of spring ball.

You were out there both days, as was I and Patrick and Steve.

First hour of practice was open each day.

Your main takeaways from the first week of spring ball, Garrick.

Well, top of the morning to you, Dave, and top of the morning to you, Mark, in celebration of St. Patty's Day.

I couldn't find green, so that's unfortunate.

But takeaways, yeah, I said last week on the show with Dan that I was just impressed

by how big both freshman offensive and defensive linemen were.

I mean, I knew they were big, obviously.

That's why they're at Ohio State.

But just seeing those guys up close and personal and what they've really accomplished in their first few weeks on campus is just unreal to believe.

I mean, Sam Greer's going to be a monster.

We all know that.

Maxwell Riley looks the part.

Damari Simeon, Emmanuel Ruffin.

Carrie Wilder looks like a three-year vet out there, Dave.

I'm sure you agree.

But that was last week's showtake, so I thought about it a little bit more. And I was also really surprised and just

maybe not surprised, but it kind of really hit home for me last week, how good a place Ohio State's

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