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High School Marion Local Flyers

buchtelgrad04
pnuts34 said:
Because there’s an obvious massive talent gap between them and their opponents. And it happens all the time anyway, it wouldn’t be a big deal for them to travel to the Dayton area and play Wayne, Springfield, Centerfield or CJ. I believe CHCA did that in Cincinnati when they were getting so dominant over the Division 6 teams.
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It’s not a talent gap. It’s a system gap. It’s not like they have a boatload of college athletes they pump out.

And a D7 school playing a D1 school isn’t fair nor safe.
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2026 tOSU Recruiting Discussion

buckeyemania11
pnuts34 said:
And it’s being openly used as a recruiting tool after talking with a number of parents of kids heading to lower tier schools. I know at least a dozen parents whose kids are heading to G5(is that still the term) schools. And every coach has told them and their kid that going to a lower tier school could help them get to a bigger school. Put some actual game tape up at a school like Tiffin and you could get to Akron, play great at Akron and you could end up at the B1G. Heck if a kid can make a transfer from UT- Martin to BC or NC State, they would’ve earned a big bump in NIL
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Yep, it's all about moving up. School loyalty for the most part is non existent anymore, especially at the lower levels. You can't really blame these kids either, coaches have always been allowed to move up as they want if they were good enough and now it's the players time to do the same.
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2026 tOSU Recruiting Discussion

pnuts34
buckeyemania11 said:
I think a good % of guys who perform well enough at lower schools are definitely going to look to upgrade to greener pastures every year. It's already been happening and it isn't stopping.
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And it’s being openly used as a recruiting tool after talking with a number of parents of kids heading to lower tier schools. I know at least a dozen parents whose kids are heading to G5(is that still the term) schools. And every coach has told them and their kid that going to a lower tier school could help them get to a bigger school. Put some actual game tape up at a school like Tiffin and you could get to Akron, play great at Akron and you could end up at the B1G. Heck if a kid can make a transfer from UT- Martin to BC or NC State, they would’ve earned a big bump in NIL
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2026 TX DL KJ Ford (Florida Verbal)

Jaxbuck

buckeyemania11 said:
I could be wrong but I feel like the climate is brewing where there's going to be a avalanche of flips this fall, more than we've ever seen. Just seems like there's a lot of crazy NIL offers going out left and right at the moment that can't possibly all be sustainable. I think the vast majority if not all of the guys we currently have on board are all bought in to what Ohio State is selling, so it feels like there will be little to no flips when it comes to current commits for Ohio State.

The staff definitely deserves the benefit of the doubt at the moment, they seem to know what they are doing and are doing it rather well. I know It is frustrating to keep getting bag swooped on recruits (especially at DE) but in the end I suspect everything will work out fine.

We are still recruiting at a very high level, obviously DL and OL have had their lumps but everywhere else we've done very very well. When it comes to OL the portal has been good to us and we've executed well there. I think we will see the same with DL including this year with Atkinson to supplement for the losses on the HS recruiting trail when needed.
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a couple of points from 11W article that had some data in it (for whatever it's worth)

1- The total market of Rev share+ NIL is something like 2.75 Billion. I think that number should make us all pause and hopefully get rid of old ideas of what deals size make sense. There is something like 3 billion dollars at play here (and I will keep point to that number and reminding people that lawyers are going to be lining up to represent kids who are being told by the schools how much of that they are allowed to get).

2-YOY spend has increased 824%. That is an absurd percentage but it tells you something changed quite a bit in a year. Maybe it's more than just front loading contracts to get ready for this rev share rule book for as long as it may last. Point being what you did last year might not be the best strategy for right now, even if it's just a year old.

No one knows anything at this point but we are starting to see data points. Birm saying we are coming in at 25% of the offers some of the se kids are getting, market size, trends. It's going to take one league, a players union and a CBA. There is no way to do half assed professional sports unless you are ready to outspend everyone else.
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2026 tOSU Recruiting Discussion

buckeyemania11
BuckBackHome said:
It will be interesting if and how much the lower conferences become a minor league system feeding the power conferences.
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I think a good % of guys who perform well enough at lower schools are definitely going to look to upgrade to greener pastures every year. It's already been happening and it isn't stopping.
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2026 tOSU Recruiting Discussion

BuckBackHome
Jaxbuck said:
Half the posts you read in support of not paying the going rate for HS kids is that you can just wait a couple years and get them in the portal.

Talent is going to get paid somewhere.
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It will be interesting if and how much the lower conferences become a minor league system feeding the power conferences.
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2026 TX DL KJ Ford (Florida Verbal)

buckeyemania11
pnuts34 said:
I was just saying this in the recruiting thread. The money will tip the scales for a number of kids. OSU will get there’s, and maybe winning consistently will help land maybe 1-2 of the talent of guys they’re missing this year. But that’ll be about it unless they start increasing their offers.

@BuckTwenty and @buckeyemania11 have very valid points. Going forward the successful teams will be the ones who are great talent evaluators, great babysitters and Have a little more luck than others. Because once the contracts start at the end of month it will interesting seeing how the transfers will be much more restrictive due to the buyouts. But it is funny seeing the constant freak out from fans like OSU didn’t just win the NC 6mos ago. I’m still basking in that, and knowing that the OSU coaching staff is one of the best top to bottom
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I could be wrong but I feel like the climate is brewing where there's going to be a avalanche of flips this fall, more than we've ever seen. Just seems like there's a lot of crazy NIL offers going out left and right at the moment that can't possibly all be sustainable. I think the vast majority if not all of the guys we currently have on board are all bought in to what Ohio State is selling, so it feels like there will be little to no flips when it comes to current commits for Ohio State.

The staff definitely deserves the benefit of the doubt at the moment, they seem to know what they are doing and are doing it rather well. I know It is frustrating to keep getting bag swooped on recruits (especially at DE) but in the end I suspect everything will work out fine.

We are still recruiting at a very high level, obviously DL and OL have had their lumps but everywhere else we've done very very well. When it comes to OL the portal has been good to us and we've executed well there. I think we will see the same with DL including this year with Atkinson to supplement for the losses on the HS recruiting trail when needed.
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2026 tOSU Recruiting Discussion

Jaxbuck
pnuts34 said:
I think the number of transfers could dramatically decrease with the buyout rule. It’s one thing to flip a kid like Beau Atkinson and then sign him to an OSU NiL, it’s much different when you also must buyout his NIL contract from UNC. Now imagine trying to buyout a kid like Luke Wafle who’s getting a deal that could make a 7 figure buyout, and then you still need to offer your own NIL deal. Idk how many are going to test that, and idk how many programs and their NiL collectives want to pay that much constantly for what are going to be unknowns.
Also, if a kid wants to transfer after 1 year at a school and can’t even crack the starting lineup at his first school, do you want to take the next crack at kid? You’re putting him in a new system, dealing with even more issues off the field in a new environment (away from family, classes, city, dumb decisions with a lot of money, etc)
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Half the posts you read in support of not paying the going rate for HS kids is that you can just wait a couple years and get them in the portal.

Talent is going to get paid somewhere.
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