What is better about the Buckeyes than expected? Recruiting heating up

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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What is better about Ohio State's 2019 team than we expected? The People's Champ, Matt Baxendell, joins Dave Biddle to discuss that on today's show, plus: * What are thoughts on the Buckeyes' upcoming home night game against Michigan State? * It is a huge recruiting weekend for OSU and we talk about three 2020 recruits in particular that will be on campus: Running back Kevontre Bradford, defensive end Tyler Baron and quarterback C.J. Stroud. * How long will co-defensive coordinator/DB coach Jeff Hafley stay at Ohio State? Could he be one-and-done? We hope not. All of that and much more is coming at you on the Wednesday extravaganza. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Thank you. Good morning bucknoters.
0:28.0	Good morning Bucknots.
0:29.6	The Bucknuts morning five year on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019. I am Dave Biddle. Very happy to be joined by the People's Champ Matt Baxendale
0:36.2	Bax. Bax, what is better about this 2019 Ohio State team than you expected?
0:41.8	Uh... 19, Ohio State 18 than you expected? Uh, everything, though, I have to admit when you say what is better, it made me immediately
0:48.3	flashback to Conan the Barbarian with Arnold Schwarzenegger, where he was like,
0:52.3	to hear the cries of your enemies and the
0:54.4	lamentations of the women. So maybe the best part about the season is the
0:58.2	Michigan fans lamentation so far, but I'm getting off topic. I think the I think the best thing about this that this season so far in terms of just
1:09.2	how much better they are than we expected this early.
1:14.0	Like, everybody who knew anything about college football
1:17.5	should have known fool well that Ohio State
1:19.1	was likely to win at least 10 games this year, right?
1:21.8	Just because Urban Meyer's not the coach doesn't
1:23.8	mean that the talent isn't here, right? I don't think everybody expected how well
1:29.2	prepared this team was right out of the gates.
1:33.0	Like, if this is the new standard of the way these guys are going to be ready to go
1:38.1	at the start of the year, at the start of games,
1:41.0	then that's a change from what we've seen in the past.
1:43.7	And that's particularly notable in the case of Justin Fields.
1:47.4	I think all of us thought he was going to be excellent.
1:49.8	By November or the end of the year, and next year he was going to start the year like a
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