NFL Draft with Roy Hall Jr in Studio

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, Roy Hall and Studio with me and part of
our best Buckeye coverage. And you have an event coming
up on May twenty second. It is the fourth annual
Roy Hall Junior Leadership Conference. And yeah, I said fourth annual.
So you got some great guests lined up, people can
get tickets.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
And all that. So tell us about that.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
The fourth Annual Leadership Conference. It's awesome.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
It's the theme is survival, all about sacrificing for your
team members, making and helping and using your life to
make a difference and help other people reach their goals.
Survival s er V, so the ability to serve, the
ability to sacrifice, to be able to put yourself second
so that others can rise to the top as the

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best leaders do that constantly and consistently.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
We got CJ. Stroud coming in. It's gonna be awesome.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Two time Heisman winning Trophy or Trophy winner Archie Griffin
is gonna be in the building, both sharing their thoughts
on teamwork and how to be better leaders, not only
just personally for leading yourself in the right direction, but
also leading the team members and the people that you're around,
being better leaders in your families. You know a lot
of people don't even consider themselves leaders. But when you

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hear from some of the greatest of all time come
and give insight on life and professionalism and business, it
can be very, very lucrative. And so part of the
proceeds go towards the Driven Foundation and all of our
outreach efforts around the community. And so every ticket you
purchase is going to help. That's what our initiatives with
the Driven Foundation, the feed families and work with young

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people in leadership development and character development.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
So it's absolutely awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
But you can go to Royhal Junior Leadership dot com
look into it Royhal Junior Leadership dot com. It's one
of the best leadership events in the city for for
your running. Coach Meyer's been there, Coach Ryan Day's been there,
Lieutenant Governor Tressel's was there last year. We had some
awesome Buck guys in the building. We got a VIP
package that allows you to take a picture with some

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of the Buck guys and Archie grit his trophy will
be in the building.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
So that'll be an awesome time. Man.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
I'm looking forward to it. Just using my platform to
make a difference.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Man.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Obviously I speak and do that for a living, but
giving other people the opportunity to shine on stage is
what I'm all about. It's just what the whole conference
is about, coming together to make a difference.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
And so it's gonna be a great, great time.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
So this year, will the Buckeyes repeat?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
You know, it's hard to do. Here's the deal. I
don't want to see.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
If I say yes, that means I'm jumping over fourteen
or fifteen more games.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
It's just such a long season.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
The goal would be to attack the season the same
way those guys did at the end of the year. Hey,
we lose the Michigan all right, let's beat Tennessee. Come
out with a ninetitude blow to their doors off. Then
we go to just one game, like you can't when
the old school saying one game at a time. Blaze
is like a real thing, like you cannot say, Oh,
let's repeat.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
We open up with Texas.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
We open up with and everybody saying Archie Manning is
going to be the number one pick of the draft
next year. And so we open up with the team
that we arguably the best play in Ohio state history
is ever made against in Texas, and they get to
come to the shoe, so they're gonna be fired up. Man,
we're not opening up with Marshall or grambling.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Out the gate.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Out the gate is Texas and uh our ad, he's
trying to get it to be a night game.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
So if it's a night.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Game versus Texas in the shoe, we got it before
we even think about repeating. Let's just get through that
that one first and then get on a row.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well that's and that's it right there. And I don't
think the guys know better than to start that.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I mean, hopefully there's a you.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Want a little bit of element, a swagger and all
of that, but there's a difference between cocky and swagger
and all that.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
I was thinking about this whole thing too, man, how
long do we celebrate this national championship? Because it's everywhere
and it continues to be everywhere. Just came back from
the White House. It's just everywhere and so were No.
I wasn't when I say we took my part.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Of it right?

Speaker 2 (03:57):
No, No, that's cool.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
No, I could have been. No, I mean I could
have just rolled up. I should have just rolled up
and see what they would have did. You should have Yeah,
But it's just how long, Like in the summertime, all
the camps with all the guys coming in and all
the youth coming in, and national championships is everywhere everywhere.
At some point in time, man, like you got to
like almost forget that you want it.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
It's harder now than it was even five years ago
to repeat because of nil, because of the portal.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Because of how many games are in the sea. If
we didn't the man shoot this place, would you take
another national title if we had to lose the Michigan again?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yes, there it is, Yes, absolutely another time.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
I'm not one of those people that we repeat, repeat,
we repeat, but we lose the Michigan again, Yes, give
it to me.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yes, that is more important to me.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Man.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Just the one thing I've been thinking about, has that
has that stunned the rivalry?

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Like is it as valuable? It's still the rivalry, but
it's like, all right, we know it's not, but it's.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Not as value.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Can not?

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Well, just to me, it's not simply because of the look,
it's the whole college football landscape. If I mean, forget
about going back to when you played, just in the
last five years, how much has it changed? And so
it's it is about the super Bowl of college football.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
The national champman. That's what it is, and the granddaddy
of them.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
All right, that's okay, I don't feel so that's how
I feel.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Now.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Some people go like the and you know, well, you're
probably surrounded by them. You probably will get emails now
because like people go.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
You can't lose the Michigan.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
But there are some LSU fans who would be like, no,
I don't care about then.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
We've got to be still. It's still we still want
to obviously beat Michigan this year.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
But if you had to trade losing the Michigan but
winning a national time.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
You gotta take the Natty. You gotta take the Natty.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
I'm with you on that.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
You cannot be like a and six Ohio St.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Eighteen and beat Michigan and everybody's the exact same have
the exact same enthusiasm.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
They will they will fire to coach to beat Michigan
and going six and six, there's no.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Way take me through obviously, the uh the draft starts
in Green Bay on Thursday, and you just went through whatever.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I don't know, it's about a half an hour ago
or so.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
You start talking about when you were you went in
the draft. Take me through like the pins and needles
if the like Amcica's is and I was just looking
at something on ESPN today they have them around twenty one,
sure a mecca. Then they had Trevion around twenty five.
They have Josh Simmons around thirty eight, Donovan Jackson at

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forty one, quin Shawn Judkins at forty three, Tyler Williams
at forty six, JT. Tom Olow at forty nine. I mean,
you start, so those guys are they? I mean, it's
really and you know all of them, I'm sure, or
at least no, I mean, you know, you know, yeah,
so these guys are are they? I mean, it's such

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a great time, but at the same time, it's nerve
wracking and you just go, man, please, I've done.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
I've done.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
I work so hard to get to where I am.
Everyone a lot of people trying to play on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
That's just how it goes.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Let me let me give you the mindset of the
majority of those guys, and probably all those guys.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
They are not walking around in anxiety and worry right now,
okay or not? When they won that national title.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
I believe it did something in them from a faith
standpoint to where they don't rely on what they want
to happen fully and they know that God is with them.
They know that their faith is going to carry them
no matter what city they land in, what number their
name is picked, what round they.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Go in, it does not matter.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
They know that when they get to a team, they're
going to impact that team in a positive way. They
get a chance to allow their faith and their football
and their athleticism and development here at how State to
carry into the next level to be productive. They're not
worried about where they go. They are excited for wherever
they go. However it happens because it adds to the story,

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and they just really believe that. So coming off of
that huge high winning the national title and kind of
seeing the impossible happen and what nobody really thought was
going to happen when it was happening, except that those
people in that locker room and they came together after
losing to Michigan. Now getting ready for the draft, this
is just a cherry on top. They've done everything that
they possibly could do up until this point.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Nothing else can be done.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Now you can drop the ball and say something crazy
on social media.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
But outside of that, if you just keep.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Your mouth shut and just let things play out, they
don't care whether they go forty two, twenty two to
twenty one, number five overall or in my case, one
hundred and sixty nine overall. When you get your name called, man,
it's it's just no feeling like it, man, So they
don't care.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
What are your thoughts on I hear fifth round, fourth
round for Will, I mean, and just your thoughts on it,
because clearly we don't have a crystal ball.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
Sure, so I think all of those guys that you named,
I mean, I've heard Treyvon Henderson going in the second round.
You've heard twenty five, I've heard twenty five. I mean,
no one really knows. All it takes is one team
to fall in love with you, I mean, you know,
and what they need to right on top of everything
there it is. I mean, I would imagine Will, if
you got your group of friends and they looked at
your wife, they were like, how in the world did

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you get hurt?

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Like would you do? And He's like, man, she fell
in love with me.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Just all it takes is one nice little dating I
had it together for one night. You probably had one
good night and it was your perfect night. You got
your wife ever And so it's the same with these teams. Man,
all they got to do is fall in love with
you one time, and they're not going to say nothing.
It's like, oh, this person's going they're gonna take this.
They're gonna take a quarterback, they're gonna take a running back.
And next thing you know, Will Howard sitting there at
the end of the second round and somebody's like, I

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into every I've been to every Ohio State game. Or
think about Joe Burrow, he gets hurt every year. What
if Cincinnati's like, they're right up the street. We've been
to every game. We just want a good backup quarterback
to develop over the next three years.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
You just never know.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Man, well you with Will, with Will and his like
his ability. We saw him manage you know, so the
lowest of lows and then come back right. You see
a guy manage that and then come back the way
that he did. And I know, one team, one man's
not a teammate. I understand all of that, but it

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still takes that's such a cerebral position and.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's not easy.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
But for a lot of us who look at that
scenario and that position. Man, it's like he's the face
of a win and he's the face of a loss
Unforcenate unfortunately.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
But here's the thing with Will, the thing that people
don't he's transferred in. Yeah, he's only with us four years,
but still everyone started a new and a new position
and it's just awkward and weird and you're trying to
find your way. And he found his way to a
national title, you know. And so the leadership we talk
about my leadership coup. The leadership that comes with being
able to command the locker room of one hundred and

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thirty strangers when you first walk in to by the
time the seasons, and that you are out in front
and the lead of the whole pack, it says something.
I don't know what the dollar amount value is that
on that compared to thrown for maybe fifty touchdowns in
the season, but there has to be something that said
about an individual that can go in and change a
locker room and get a national title in his first
year at the university.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, very special and what he was able to do
in such a short amount of time. I got a
feeling he's going to go earlier than that. I think
so because there are a lot of teams who are
going to see just that quality about it.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
I mean, it's only about seven or so quarterbacks that
people are talking about. You got the first two, cam
Ward Shador Sanders, you got a kid from Louisville that's
like thirty I think, and then you got Quinn Yours,
Kyle McCord who used.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
To be a buck eye. You got those guys.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
And then you got like Will was in the mix
with with those with those characters and so he I
mean you're talking about seven let's just say ten quarterbacks.
Can ten quarterbacks be picked in the first three rounds? Absolutely? Absolutely?
So I could see him going in the third for sure. Yeah,
I would love that for him.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
That is cool. Uh, Roy, I can't thank you enough?

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Is it open?

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:21):
I got Congressman Jim Jordan's going to be joining me
here in a little bit, just up to the top
of the hour and so on, and uh in the
five o'clock and all of that. But uh, I know
you're so busy and you have so much going on,
and during our breaks you're probably taking care of but
now fires and everything else but I can't thank you enough, man, seriously,

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for coming in. This has been You're amazing man, you're doing.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
I appreciate you, man.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
It's been a blessing to be on with you man
and giving me some time to hang out with you.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
That's what friends do. Many look out for you guys.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
I appreciate it so much. I can't thank you enough.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, the Great Roy Hall and of course part of
our Buckeye coverage. And I'm not trying to wish away
the summer, but it will be here soon. Sooner than
we'll be like, what a time for Buckeye football.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Wait, I know four months away, bit I know?

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Absolutely. Thank you very much, thank you, very very very much.