What is biggest question facing Buckeyes as camp kicks off? | What's up with defensive recruiting?
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🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Ohio State begins camp on Thursday. On today's show, Patrick Murphy and Dave Biddle give their thoughts on what is the biggest question facing the Buckeyes this month. We also address the elephant in the room: What in the world is going on with defensive recruiting? And how concerned are we about it? Also, will Ohio State have a top-10 defense this season?
All of that and much more is coming your way on a robust version of the Monday 5ish.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Bucknotters. Welcome to the Bucknotts morning. |
| 0:29.8 | I am Dave Vittel. I'm very happy to join by Patrick Murphy. |
| 0:35.8 | What a week it is. Practice will kick off for the buck guys on Thursday. |
| 0:40.8 | There will be college football later this month. Buck guys not till early September, |
| 0:44.8 | obviously September 30th. It's Notre Dame. That'll be here before we know what my friends. |
| 0:49.8 | The crux of the show is going to be talking about the 2022 buck guys, what we expect. |
| 0:53.8 | We'll look back on big 10 media days a little bit. |
| 0:56.8 | Let's start with the elephant in the room, which is defensive recruiting, not going well so far for the buck guys, or at least not lately. |
| 1:03.8 | They do have a lot of good defensive recruits in the class. I want to point that out. |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah, it's top heavy with offensive recruits, but I don't want to disperse the defensive recruits they have in the class. |
| 1:12.8 | I think they've got some really good recruits, but there's no getting around the fact that they've had some big misses lately. |
| 1:17.8 | Caleb Downs going to Bama, John Walker, staying home going to UCF. |
| 1:22.8 | Mama wanted him to stay home, Patrick. It's hard to beat Mama, even if you're Larry Johnson and Ryan Day. |
| 1:27.8 | You can't beat Mama. So he's staying home. That's a tough one. |
| 1:30.8 | You know, and then Dijon Johnson decommitting. I mean, it's just been a bad string of luck. |
| 1:34.8 | Maybe not even luck. It's a bad string for the buck guys on the defensive side of the ball and recruiting. |
| 1:40.8 | That being said, they still the number two class in the country. Let me ask you just your thoughts on these recent misses. |
| 1:46.8 | And how concerned are you if at all? |
| 1:50.8 | I think there's some reason to be a little concerned. And I certainly understand Ohio State fans, you know, being concerned. |
| 1:59.8 | I think that there has been probably too much panic, especially on social media about what's going on with Ohio State's past. |
| 2:07.8 | I think the people, like you said at the beginning, Dave, that really pay attention to this, understand the situation as we'll kind of explain it. |
| 2:14.8 | First of all, you mentioned there's a number of guys in this class that are very good defensive players. |
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