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What if Joe Burrow beat out Dwayne Haskins as Ohio State's QB in 2018? Buckeyefly Effect

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for another Buckeyefly Effect, where we change a decision in Ohio State football’s past, and imagine what the alternative reality would have looked like. This time, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means dive into the world where Joe Burrow beats out Dwayne Haskins to be Ohio State’s starting quarterback in 2018. How good would Burrow have been in 2018? Would the Buckeyes have won the national title in 2019? What would have happened to Haskins? Would Ohio State be recruiting quarterbacks and receivers at the same level now? The guys look at the short-term and long-term effects for Ohio State football, with input from text subscribers. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, where you been, but got to talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.

0:26.0

Welcome back to Buckeye Talk, Doug Lamarie, Stathan Beard, Steven Means, we're doing Buckeye fly effect again.

0:33.0

We've done it once before about what if somebody other than Ryan Day was hired to succeed Urban Meyer and we're doing it again about the

0:41.0

2018 quarterback battle when Duane Haskins beat out Joe Burrow and Joe Burrow transferred to LSU.

0:48.0

What if Urban Meyer and the Buckeyes had picked Joe Burrow?

0:53.0

What would have meant for Ohio State in 2018 and 2019?

0:58.0

What would have meant for the future of Ohio State quarterback recruiting?

1:02.0

Steven, is this a logical one for us to be pursuing as our second Buckeye fly effect?

1:08.0

I mean, yeah, honestly, it's just, it's going to get first of all, everyone's interested in this is the number one question around Ohio State

1:16.0

for the last three or four years is what would have happened if Joe Burrow would have won the starting job.

1:21.0

And there's just a lot of elements that kind of fall from that this like a butterfly flag.

1:26.0

There's a lot that comes off of that recruiting standpoint to everything else.

1:31.0

It's based on butterfly effect right that the butterfly flaps its wings and it changes everything.

1:37.0

Buckeye fly effect is hard to say.

1:41.0

For ease of pronunciation, we should have named it something else, but we're down the road.

1:45.0

I like the name and theory. So we're sorry if we stumble over it during the course of this.

1:50.0

At best, when we have texts and emails about this at best, I call it Buckeye fly effect because I'm hoping somebody trips up over.

1:58.0

I'm starting to plant that seed in the back of someone's head to get us an explicit rating on accident.

2:03.0

Yeah, no, that's not right.

2:05.0

I call it Buckeye fly. That is not what you called it. I think in the last email that you sent.

2:11.0

Nathan, this idea, right, this happened before you were on the beat, but the idea that like, hey, Ohio State had a quarterback battle and the winner went on to be a first round pick.

2:20.0

And the loser went on to win the highest in the national title and be the overall number one pick.

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