Ryan Day, Marvin Harrison Jr., Cade Stover and JT Tuimoloau will be in Indianapolis participating in Big Ten Media Days one week from today.
We’ll be in Indianapolis too to catch up with those Buckeyes and cover the first official media availability of the preseason for Eleven Warriors. With that in mind, we look ahead to next week’s event on this week’s Real Pod Wednesdays with a discussion on why those Buckeyes were chosen to represent the program and what we expect to be the biggest storylines of this year’s media days.
Later in the show, we predict who Ohio State’s 2023 captains will be, identify a few candidates to wear the “Block 0” jersey this season, recap the last three installments of Four Kings and share our thoughts on the gray uniforms that sure seem to be coming for Ohio State’s Nov. 11 game against Michigan State.
The full rundown for this week’s show:
- 0:17: Griffin celebrates his victory in last week’s draft
- 3:34: Harrison will draw the attention, but Stover may be the most entertaining Buckeye at media days
- 8:44: Ryan Day will have his first media availability in three months after a quiet summer
- 11:11: We’re optimistic Tony Petitti won’t filibuster as much as Kevin Warren did
- 15:16: The Big Ten has four new coaches, and Northwestern will get far more attention than usual
- 17:14: We already know Ohio State’s national media storyline: Can the Buckeyes beat Michigan?
- 19:29: Olu Fashanu, Luke Lachey, Taulia Tagovailoa among interesting Big Ten players making the trip
- 23:33: Cade Stover, Tommy Eichenberg, Marvin Harrison Jr. are OSU’s most sure-fire captains
- 26:39: JT Tuimoloau, Xavier Johnson and Donovan Jackson are top candidates to join them
- 30:30: Emeka Egbuka, Kyle McCord among others who could earn captain consideration
- 33:44: Johnson, Stover, Avery Henry among candidates to wear “Block 0” jersey this year
- 36:26: Marvin Harrison Jr. belongs on Four Kings, but how did Jaxon Smith-Njigba miss the top 10?
- 43:47: Nick Bosa is an elite defensive end now, but did he do enough at OSU to be on Four Kings?
- 49:01: There was a clear top four on the interior offensive line, but others warranted consideration
- 53:24: Dan Wilkinson, Jim Stillwagon and Bill Willis are OSU’s three best DTs, who should join them?
- 56:49: Gray uniforms should be a sleek look
- 59:27: Ohio State’s new freshmen do not look (or act) like freshmen
- 1:03:39: Jim Tressel had lots of interesting things to say on Chris Holtmann’s podcast last week
(Programming note: Next week’s episode of Real Pod Wednesdays will be published Thursday morning – let’s call it a Real Pod Thursday – as it will be recorded after the Buckeyes participate in Big Ten Media Days on Wednesday.)
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