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2026 tOSU Special Teams Discussion

My brother just pointed this out to me from last year's Penn St game

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This should start at 4:46 in the video. Penn State is punting with 4:48 left in the 1st quarter.

Ummm.....what the fuck kind of return is this? Not a single blocker even attempts to block. Even if it's a safe call to cover a fake punt......the ball was kicked. Not a single blocker can even pretend to give a fuck about blocking. What are we doing?
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California’s “jock taxes” force pro athletes who don’t live in the state to fork over percentages of their yearly income based on the number of days they work in California.

Sam Darnold received $178k for winning the Super Bowl.
He owes California $249k for just the Super Bowl (they factor is his per game salary based on his annual contract)

He also owes a whole bunch more because he played 49ers and Rams in CA as well
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2027 NC DL John Archer (South Carolina Verbal)

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KYBuck4858 15 hours ago
DT John Archer is planning 5 spring visits: Ohio State, NC State, UNC, FSU, and TX. No dates finalized yet.

He's near the top of the board for our big beefy NT target. Also, he grew up an OSU fan.
Big fan, glad it appears we have a legit shot. Reminds me a bit of McDonald at the same stage (a tad lighter maybe).
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2027 TX DB John Meredith (Texas Verbal)

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RealDaytonBuck 6 Feb 2026, 5:37 am

OSU is “turning up the heat” on OL Ismael Camara and is right there with Bama and A&M for top ranked CB John Meredith
This is a battle I really hope we win. We tend to minimize the "losses" in our heads, but imagine if we didn't land Okudah and Bell in that class that was the basis of a title team. Not saying the world is over if we lose this one, but we've gotta start winning some of them again.
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2027 PA OL Maxwell Hiller (Florida Verbal)

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KYBuck4858 7 Feb 2026, 1:54 pm
Potential Big News. 5* OT Max Hiller is down to 4 schools and will take an OV to each. Bama on 5/29, TN on 6/12, and FL on 6/19. He says he will take one to Ohio State, but the date not finalized yet. With the dead period moving up in the calendar this year to after the 6/19 OV weekend now, I'd assume the OV to us would be on the open 6/5 date.
This is our best shot at an Elite OT this cycle. It's notable that he cancelled his OV to South Carolina, as they'd been near his top school for a long time now, and setting an OV to us and not them, nor PSU or ND (who'd both been pushing). He visited PSU the day before he went to visit us last weekend. If he actually makes the OV to us, we have a great shot here.

MrBuck24 7 Feb 2026, 2:09 pm
I saw where Fong had an update about an hour ago about 2 schools tied at the top for Hiller, but Idk which 2.

KYBuck4858 7 Feb 2026, 2:23 pm
Bama and Florida.
He’s had a long relationship with Bama, but they just fired their OL coach. And Florida’s new OL coach came from PSU, so he’s known him for years. But Florida is in a rebuild. I think we have a shot if we are willing to pay up for a top tier OT.

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