MililaniBuckeye;1405744; said:
Not sure if having at least 10 secondary kids in 2010 is being "thin". Inexperienced maybe, but not thin. Still, I think you take a top-notch corner or safety anythie you can.
OSU has 1 proven corner returning and 3 safeties with experience (all three in their final season of eligibility).
The depth chart at CB consists of a promising RS Frosh (Howard from Krop), an injured upperclassmen (Amos - who might not heal), an athlete who switched to CB and might play pro baseball (Torrence), 3 true freshman, and a special teamer thus far (Evege).
4 of those 10+ you listed are safeties (Wood, Domicone, Johnson, Pentello) and not ideal candidates for CB. There are a lot of question marks at the db position, especially corner... and there are a lot of DB positions to fill against the spread offenses around the b10 (UM, NW, ILL, Minn, PSU, etc)
I'm confident Tressel will fill the holes at DB, he always does, but LJ would be the perfect headliner to accomplish this.
While we do have a "slew of talented OL" and all but Cordle will be around in 2010, only Brewster is a proven commodity (Browning has been inconsistent). I'll relax about the OL when all five of the starters perform solidly on a consistent basis.
Browning was a low-ranked project coming out of HS. Boren & Brewster are both 5-stars with a proven track record (and 2 & 3 years left respectively), and Adams, Shugarts, Hall, Mewhort & Norwell bring some serious talent to the table. It seems pretty safe to assume OSU can find a few standouts in that group.
It doesn't matter if Henderson is our #1 target and Joyner is #2 or vice versa, we need to get them both.
Norwell's commitment makes the need for Henderson much less, not to mention the chances of him coming here anyway. I don't see another LJ on the board and especially not in Ohio this year.