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What Kyle McCord entering the transfer portal means for Ohio State’s quarterback room

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Kyle McCord spent one season as Ohio State's starting quarterback and now he's decided to enter the transfer portal. The former five-star quarterback was once the first offensive player to commit to the Buckeyes with Ryan Day as their head coach spending his first two years in the program as C.J. Stroud's backup. Then he took over the starting role in 2023 leading them to an 11-1 record with the one loss being to Michigan. Overall he's 12-1 as a starting also stepping in for an injured Stroud in 2021 against Akron. McCord is only the latest transfer for OSU, but he's also its most prominent as his departure leaves even more questions for Day to answer about a program that is sitting outside of the College Football Playoff. Is the guy who will replace McCord already on the roster, an incoming freshman or will there be a need to bring in a transfer as Ohio State goes through yet another quarterback battle this offseason? On this emergency episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Nathan Baird and Andrew Gillis discuss all of that and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey. Hey, hey, hey, where you been?

0:17.0

Buck I talk is about to begin.

0:21.0

Hey, hey, come on in.

0:27.0

Welcome back to Buck, I talk, Stephen Means, Nathan Baird, Andrew Gillis, and we recorded a

0:35.5

pod for Monday morning and so much of it does not matter anymore. So much of it, just like so much of

0:40.9

it, because the biggest thing happening right now is

0:43.9

Kyle McCord is in the transfer portal. Former five-star quarterback third-year

0:47.5

player first year starting quarterback little house they tune 11 and one record and

0:51.1

now he has decided to go into the transfer portal and just Nathan it almost

0:57.7

Makes Ryan days comments yesterday for what lack of their comments when it comes to whether or not

1:03.1

Kamakura will not only be the starter for sure in 2024

1:06.8

but even if he would be so in the cotton bowl excuse me on December 29th

1:10.9

this makes so much more sense now that we have this news.

1:14.9

Right. So like the question that hasn't been answered as of you know 10 a.m. today 10.30 is

1:22.0

the chicken before the egg with those comments, right?

1:25.0

And I did Ryan Day, and we've seen this happen in a number of contexts over the years,

1:32.0

where we're asking questions about something and Ryan Day knows the answer

1:37.9

That he can't say yet or doesn't want to say yet. It's not really his place to get up there and tell us last night. If he knows Comicord is going in the transfer

1:45.0

portal already, not really his place to say it. I think he would let him do that. And at the same time, did the comments prompt Comacord to make a decision about his future?

2:00.0

And I'm not going to speculate either way. It's any it's probably somewhere in the middle right and

2:09.9

we'll find that I think as as time goes. We want to get you guys, get our listeners, just

2:15.8

our quick kind of raw reaction here this morning. But it was just, it does give some context to what was what we were hearing Sunday night and if you

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