The 2023 Ohio State Buckeyes as a super team -- Is it still possible?

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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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In July 2021, with five-star defensive end J.T. Tuimoloau and five-star quarterback Quinn Ewers among the major recruits just committed to the Ohio State Buckeyes, Buckeye Talk considered the idea of 2023 Ohio State as a national title team. As a super team. As potentially one of the best teams in college football history. Now, with the start of the 2023 season just over three months away, an Ohio State text subscriber wanted to know if Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means still thought that was possible. If not, what changed? If so, what kind of season could these Buckeyes? Over the last two years, the guys have referenced that 2023 super team pod a few times. On this Tuesday Buckeye Talk, they dug back into. The strength of that 2021 recruiting class, the players who are now preparing to be third-year Buckeyes, drove that conversation, and on this episode, Doug, Nathan and Stephen went back through all those recruits, how their careers have gone, and how the reality has compared to the initial perception. From quarterback to cornerback, from defensive end to running back, and of course at receiver, how on track are the Buckeyes from what they were projected to be? That’s the Tuesday Buckeye Talk. Thanks as always for listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been, but got talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:25.0	Welcome back to your Tuesday book. I talk from clueless.com, Doug Lamarie,
0:30.9	Statham Beard and Stephen Meenton. This is like the most book I talk thing ever. We weren't
0:34.9	sure if this was going to be a rapid fire podcast or a one topic podcast. So we held off
0:40.6	on the intro and then we went an hour and 20 minutes on what would have been the first
0:45.1	question. So it's not rapid fire. It's all about our podcast from 2021 saying we thought
0:51.5	the 2023 Ohio State book eyes had a chance to be a super team. A texture asked, where are
0:57.3	we on that now? And Nathan, Stephen and I dove in. Here we go. So into this texture question,
1:04.8	it's from the 614. A couple years ago, you Stephen and Nathan predicted the Ohio State 2023
1:10.6	team would win the national championship. And then it might be the greatest college football
1:13.9	team ever assembled. Do you still feel that way? If not, why not? What has happened to change
1:18.6	your mind? What makes you think those things could still come to pass? So we have brushed on
1:25.5	this idea since we first put it out there on the heels of the Quinn Uers commitment to Ohio State.
1:33.5	And at that time, we thought they were adding Quinn Uers to a what was a very, very good
1:44.1	2021 recruiting class. And most of the time when we do predictions like this, you're putting it
1:50.7	on the shoulders of the third year guys because the third year guys are the ones who have to be here.
1:55.9	You cannot rest expectations on fourth year guys in college football because the fourth year
2:01.6	guys for Ohio State this year are Paris Johnson, CJ Straub, Jackson Smith and Jigba, Luke Whippler,
2:08.0	and none of them are here. So you can't you you have to rest it on the third year guys.
2:13.9	So let's start with those third year guys. The way I think of it, Nathan, and I think we thought
2:18.1	of this when we talked about it. You're thinking about how good the third year players can be.
2:24.2	You're basing it off that recruiting class. So we're talking about the 2021 recruiting class.
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