Scouting Ohio deep dive | Porter's 'Different Humans'
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🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
We could not be more thrilled to have added Mark Porter to the Bucknuts staff. The Scouting Ohio guru is the premier voice on Ohio recruiting and is showing us why.
Today, we do a deep dive on how Porter gathers his info for college programs across the country as we discuss:
* Luke Montgomery - Offered yesterday and Crystal Balls followed soon thereafter.
* Who uses Scouting Ohio?
* How does Mark identify an Ohio State-caliber prospect?
* Who are the 'DIFFERENT HUMANS' he has seen (see list and scouting reports below).
Spend 5ish with us this a.m.!
**PORTER'S DIFFERENT HUMANS**
* Defensive lineman J.T. Tuimolaou
* Defensive tackle Walter Nolen
Spend 5ish with us this a.m, 'Nutters!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Bucknotters. It is Friday, February 19th, 2021. I am Dan Rubin. This is the |
| 0:23.8 | Bucknotts Morning 5 and change. My final day in Dave Bittles' stead. Let's hope he is |
| 0:29.7 | fully vacationed and fully relaxed by the time he comes back. Got a little |
| 0:34.1 | different show for you today. I'm going to be joined in just a minute by Mark |
| 0:37.8 | Porter, our most recent addition to the staff, the guru of scouting Ohio and |
| 0:42.6 | the premier voice on Ohio prospects. We're going to get you up to speed on |
| 0:46.5 | everything Mark has done for us, but first let's welcome him in. Mark Porter, how |
| 0:52.2 | goes it on a Friday? Going great. Thanks for having me, Dan. Can we get this thing going? |
| 0:56.1 | Give the people a little update on your secondary hobby, which is running from |
| 1:02.0 | the cops on a snowmobile. Yeah, this time of the year you get the |
| 1:06.5 | blow off some steam. If you're me, after you've driven like 12,000 miles and went to |
| 1:10.5 | about 100 different teams, then you watch 3000 guys on video. But if you don't |
| 1:14.7 | get out of your desk and go have some fun, you're not doing it right. So yeah, |
| 1:18.7 | that's my process right now. Just finished up a big year of scouting. The reports |
| 1:23.2 | are done. The rankings are done. And now it's time to, you know, get the buck |
| 1:26.8 | notters involved. At some point in time, we will release possibly when the |
| 1:31.2 | statute of limitations runs out, we will release Mark snowmobile video in |
| 1:35.1 | Youngstown late at night with nobody else around. And it will freak your ass |
| 1:39.7 | out. Anyway, let's get to Mark's real specialty, which is football players. |
| 1:43.7 | Yesterday, Luke Montgomery, class of 2023 and finial Ohio received an offer |
| 1:49.8 | today, Bill Kerlick, the dean of Ohio State recruiting has put in a crystal ball |
| 1:54.5 | pick from Montgomery to land in Ohio State. That pretty much means Luke Montgomery |
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