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

Welcome back to book. I talk. I'm Nathan Barrett from Cleveland.com along with Stephen

Means we're coming at you on a Tuesday during the by week. Hey, call it the by week. I mean, I know

Erbeck calls it the by week, but they're not on. It's not a buy. You're not getting a you're not getting a pass or

You're it's just your idol. You don't play this week. I'm a stickler for for for technical terms, but I'm gonna call it that's the hill. You're gonna

Yeah, that's the thing is it's it's a it's not a very high hill. It's a short. It's the only hill I can walk up anymore.

43 now. It's the only one I can climb. So that's the one I'm gonna I'm literally gonna die on it. It's like it's as far as I can climb and then I'm just dead.

But a Tuesday podcast we're not doing one on Saturdays. We're getting to you five days, the normal five days this week.

And today we're talking recruiting we haven't talked recruiting here on book. I talk in a while. So Stephen, then I

Are back you might remember in the offseason. This was like a weekly thing and today we're gonna do a catch up. We're gonna talk about

Some of the dynamics that are kind of playing out right now with the team in recruiting and we're gonna talk about a lot of

Specific guys and the way we're gonna do that up front is we're gonna count down Ohio States. 10 most important recruits.

But by Stephen's estimation the regardless of class. So these are the 10 guides that are that are out there as targets.

Regardless of class that are gonna the ones that are the most essential for a house to try to to land and bring into the

Fold here for the coming class before we do that because this is a off week.

Recruiting is typically a big part of this. We haven't talked to Ryan Day yet as far as like what their schedule is this week.

But I would imagine that you're gonna see reports of coaches

Making the rounds later this week, right Stephen?

Yeah, it'll be the second time they've gotten the chance to make these type of rounds. They did it in week zero where you saw Ryan Day kind of

Spend in a quarter at different games in Ohio

Ryan Hartline went to go see Carnot Tate. I'll watch them. They went to go CCJ Hicks

You know all the assists and go throughout somewhere. They kind of stayed in state that time around

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