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The Good morning. Bucknotters welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on Wednesday, April 29th,

2026. I am Dave Biddle. I am joined by my man, Chuck Mulletti from Juck on Bucks, of course, and Buckeye Huddle.

My friend, welcome into the show again. Thank you for your time. Thank you so much, Dave. Always enjoy it. Appreciate you having me on, buddy. Yeah, we're going to talk. We got a great show for you guys. We're going to talk O-line recruiting for the Buckeyes. We're going to get Juck's thoughts on the O-Line itself for the Buckeyes heading into this season with all the experience coming back.

They got their butts kicked the last two games of the season.

We know. the Buckeyes. We're going to get Juck's thoughts on the O line itself for the Buckeyes heading into

this season with all the experience coming back. They got their butts kicked the last two games

of the season. We know that. You guys know I'm bullish on the O line. How's Juck feel about it? What's this Julian saying slander that we're hearing out here? All of a sudden he's not a first round pick all these guys are coming out and people i trust like dain brueger are like no not first

round material i'm like man if some guy didn't trust it would be one thing but i like bruegler

and we might get into some of the transfers as well. Like, did Ohio State do a great job in the transfer portal or what? All right, let's start with O-line recruiting. man, I'm old enough to remember the one year where when Bowman was here in the aughts and had a class of one offensive lineman, and it was Evan Blankenship. And Evan's a great guy. Works for 971, the fan here in Columbus and sales. Great guy. It wasn't Evans' fault. But they took one guy and it was a three star from Pennsylvania. Tyler Bowen is just, I love what he's doing. Five guys last year and five more already this year.

It's incredible. I know you just did a story on this.

Ten offensive linemen in two recruiting classes. That's what I'm talking about.

It's amazing. It's almost like if you go back to 2024, I feel like you could have said

that Tyler Bowen was reading the Bucknuts message board is exactly what was going on.

Okay, how do you recruit Ohio or Ohio State's offensive line the best?

Well, you start in Ohio.

You double your offers.

You work out from there regionally and you try to go pick off your best, you know,

five star guys that you can.

And that's how you do it. Why?

Because we've seen Notre Dame do it for the last 10 years and have stocked nothing but

excellent offensive line after excellent offensive line. You take five minimum. Every single

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