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Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast
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🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It's all Mark Porter all the time on today's BM5. The Dean of Ohio Recruiting Bill Kurelic had business to attend to. Porter had to carry the show.
Mission accomplished.
Mark went into detail on why the newly-installed Jim Knowles defense was so effective before offering up detailed reports on a number of prospects.
We get the latest on Elias Rudolph, Ben Roebuck and more.
Plus, Mark goes into detail on the legend of T.C. Caffey.
Spend 5ish with us this a.m., 'Nutters!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Buck Knutters. |
| 0:29.0 | It is Thursday, September 22nd. I am Dan Rubin. This is the Buck Knutters |
| 0:39.4 | morning 5 in change. I tend to go slow here at the beginning to make sure |
| 0:44.0 | everybody with eyeballs gets on here. We are live on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. |
| 0:51.4 | Usually on Thursday, when you sign in here, you see three panels. Today, just |
| 0:58.0 | two, the Dean of Ohio Recruiting Bill Curlic has some family business to attend to. |
| 1:05.5 | So that means it's all Porter all the time. Mark Porter is here. Mark, how goes it? |
| 1:11.5 | Good. I don't mind using it into this either. I'm sure it's early and people don't want to start off with rapid fire. |
| 1:17.0 | So we have a ton of stuff to get into. Obviously Ohio State will be hosting Wisconsin this weekend. |
| 1:27.0 | Another night game, those of you burning the midnight oil and joining us for what we learned live afterwards. |
| 1:33.0 | We appreciate that. There will be another Dave Biddle after dark performance this weekend. |
| 1:39.0 | But we're going to start out talking about something that I can tell you from our page views and everything else. |
| 1:46.0 | There's a tremendous interest in. And that is Jim Knowles and the Ohio State defense. |
| 1:52.0 | Mark did an excellent breakdown as he does every week, breaking down the key plays of the game in our buck. |
| 1:59.0 | I and the sky college feature. We also do one the next day on the high school gridiron action of the week that you need to check out. |
| 2:07.0 | But Mark in layman's terms, we've all seen how much better the defense is in one year without a major change over in personnel. |
| 2:16.0 | How has Jim Knowles done it? |
| 2:19.0 | Okay, so let's start off going back to last year. We've been doing this eye in the sky for a couple years. |
| 2:24.0 | And I believe it was the Oregon game last year when we broke down the defense. |
| 2:28.0 | The word vanilla was screaming, you know, Ohio State was lining up with their linebackers four or five yards off the ball. |
| 2:34.0 | Sometimes deeper, basically in your standard alignment. |
| 2:37.0 | Like you see him on a chalkboard. And I think Ohio State when they are playing lesser opponents could be cavemen and just outmanhandle their guys. |
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