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The Good morning Bucknutters. Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on Friday, April 17th,

2026. I am Dave Biddle, very happy, joined by Jonah Booker. Jay Book and I are actually like

pre-recording this on Thursday evening.

Why?

Because Ohio State has an open practice today at the horseshoe tomorrow as we're recording

this.

Friday morning they have a practice at the horseshoe, so we're doing it now.

So we're going to go good, bad, and to be determined about Ohio State so far during spring ball.

We're going to go offense, defense, special teams, coaching staff, get J-Book's thoughts on the good, the bad, and to be determined as far as what we've learned from spring ball.

Great to see you as always, my friend.

First thing, I love that we're going to see some real football during the spring game.

I love that most of the game, maybe not the quarterbacks, probably not number

10, definitely not number 10. We're going to see some real football, tackling to the ground. I love

that. Yes, it's exciting. It's one of those times to where it's a preview into what we're going to see,

but I will caution a lot of people. Don't overreact. I know Ryan Day said it's going to be a

game-like atmosphere that they want to create. However, keep in mind, there are a lot of offense alignment that are

banged up. And I believe Coach Laughlin said or Coach Day said they're probably going to be out there

top four running backs. So you're going to have a limited edition at the running back position.

Jeremiah Smith probably doesn't need

to suit up, give him one, two plays just to make the fans happy and they get him out of there.

So I would say be cautious. Don't overreact because if you remember the last spring, Dave,

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