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Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

Recruiting Q&A with Wiltfong

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

247Sports

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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You had questions. He had answers. Yes, it's a Q&A BM5 with 247Sports Director of Recruiting Steve Wiltfong. He tackled your queries on: * Zen Michalski * TreyVeyon Henderson * Underrated commitments * Kyle McCord vs. J.J. McCarthy * Tristan Leigh And there's more! Spend 5ish with us this a.m., 'Nutters! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh, Good morning Bucknutters. It is Thursday, October 1st, 2020. I am Dan Rubin, this is the Bucknuts

0:28.1

Morning Five and Change. It's Thursday that can mean only one thing. Steve Walt Fong, director of recruiting for 24-7 sports, has joined us. Steve, it is a glorious day in the Midwest.

0:39.0

Yeah, good morning, Daniel. Only a few more weeks that we can comfortably play golf before we have to put our sticks away for the year.

0:46.2

My sticks are in constant hibernation because I have children.

0:50.6

We needed some help for the show today, so we went to the boards and you people have come

0:55.0

through as always. A host of questions for Steve Wiltfong on the recruiting side. Many of them focus on an individual from your state, Zen Mikulski, offensive linemen.

1:08.0

He was a Louisville commitment. He has since decommitted and the crystal balls are rolling heavily towards Columbus.

1:15.6

Your thoughts on Zen in terms of his college choice and what you think of him as a prospect.

1:21.6

Well, Zen Mikulski is a guy that's really transformed his body. I mean, when he jumped on our, I got to give credit to my colleague Alan True for kind of digging him out and finding

1:36.3

him, but he's a guy that, you know, has had an incredible transformation from being a tight end into developing into what's kind of been a ferocious

1:49.2

offensive linemen on film particularly as a senior.

1:54.3

If you go to his Twitter, you can see, you know,

1:59.2

May 1st, 2019 to May 22nd, 2020, he went from 6 foot 5.5, 238 to 6 foot 6, 281 pounds,

2:09.9

with his chest being bigger than his belly,

2:12.4

which is how I told my wife, I'm going to live the. his There's not a block he can't make he has terrific feet he's athletic he can bend he can move you see him smoothly getting out to the second level and paving the way

2:29.6

For his his running backs plays the game with the mean streak.

2:33.7

And they've played against Cincinnati Elder

2:36.8

and team this year where Ohio State's been able

2:39.9

to get a good read on him on film.

2:42.4

Now, he lives in Indiana but he lives you know much

2:45.0

closer to Louisville than he does Indianapolis but the Ohio State offers

2:51.8

certainly moved the needle.

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