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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Where Ohio State football is, and isn't, hitting recruiting home runs

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On this Wednesday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird look at recruiting home runs. By their definition, those are roughly top-100 national recruits that aren't from Ohio and don't have pre-existing ties to Ohio State. These are national recruiting battles where the Buckeyes go and win, beating the best teams in the country for the best players in the country. How many home runs are the Buckeyes hitting under Ryan Day compared to Urban Meyer? How many of the recent home runs are at quarterback or receiver compared to other positions? How many are on defense, and how might the Buckeyes hit more home runs on that side of the ball? Doug, Stephen and Nathan dig into all of that, plus the flip of 2023 tight end Ty Lockwood from Ohio State to Alabama. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. 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 Wednesday. Fuck, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk,

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1:26.0

I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, I talk, but then I have to take a little cooking class, and, once you guys do

1:45.1

ranked tire, right? The Tyler Lockwood. Are we really thinking they're going to wind up with two

1:50.5

top 150 tight ends at a place that doesn't throw the tight ends? I mean, they've been trying to

1:54.5

do it for Cycle's here and he was actively recruited Jolani Thurmond. And honestly, he's only been

2:00.0

Jolani Thurmond's only been rated higher than him as in the recent update of the 247 sports

2:04.9

composite rankings. Tyler Lockwood's borderline top 100 recruit has been for most of the time he's

2:10.1

been committed to Ohio State as well. So I don't, I wouldn't put that at the top of the list of why

2:15.9

he's no longer in this class. Would you Nathan? I haven't talked to Tyler Lockwood. So I don't know,

2:21.9

but I have the same assumption as you that it had to probably played some role. I also think, again,

2:29.1

it's, it's important that we try to get people some perspective on with these things. And yes,

2:34.4

I know that he first tweeted about this offer last week. Yes, I know that he just went to this barbecue

2:39.8

recently. I think that my assumption is there's a relationship here that goes back longer than

2:46.4

that too. Like these guys don't stop getting recruited usually at any point of the process unless

2:52.2

they make it adamantly clear that they don't want to be. And I don't think that was the case here

2:56.4

with Tyler Lockwood. We've talked about, I mean, they need more talent in the tight end room, right? We've

3:00.9

thought that we've talked about how the last couple of classes maybe they weren't bringing in

3:05.9

since rocker, right? Maybe they weren't bringing in super highly rated guys at tight end. But I

3:11.6

don't know that when I think about Ohio State's recruiting class that two tight ends who were among

3:17.6

the top 150 players in the entire class, I don't know that that's what I think Ohio, that actually

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