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OSU Men's Basketball Recruiting/Projections/General Discussions

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Around 8:30 a.m. last Wednesday, the NCAA took the next step toward allowing college athletes to profit off of their name, image and likeness by announcing recommendations from the Board of Governors.

By the time the day ended, numerous Ohio State football staffers had taken to social media to showcase what both the university and the city of Columbus have to offer. Director of player personnel Mark Pantoni, wide receivers coach Brian Hartline, linebackers coach Al Washington, assistant director of player personnel Weston Zernechel, quality control coach Keenan Bailey and graduate assistant Billy Fessler were among those leading the charge.

“I saw that too and applaud those guys for doing that,” Ohio State basketball coach Chris Holtmann said on the latest edition of Real Pod Wednesdays.

Neither Holtmann nor anybody on his staff pushed a similar narrative on their social channels.

But off of social media, he says, they had already been at work. Since Ohio State president Michael Drake and athletic director Gene Smith have been heavily involved in the process of allowing college athletes to make money off of their name, image and likeness, Ohio State’s basketball coaches had an idea of what was coming. Acting proactively before the NCAA made its announcement, Holtmann said, they had already spoken to recruits and families about what the recommended reformation could look like.

“We have had conversations about the benefit of being in Columbus, the benefit of being at a place like Ohio State as it relates to name, image and likeness, with our recruits,” Holtmann said. “We've tried to be proactive about it because we know that this is going to happen, so we behind the scenes – and that's typically how we do a lot of things – behind the scenes we've begun to look at presentations that we're going to put together for recruits.”

Just sayin': Adjusting the recruiting strategy (for NIL) sure didn't take long.
 
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OSUBasketballJunkie said:
Final @247Sports 2020 Basketball Recruiting Rankings:

Eugene Brown III - no. 113
Zed Key - no. 150
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I think Zed is better than the #150 player currently, but can understand the ranking somewhat in regards to "potential". He is a tweener athletically and size wise.

I am honestly not sure what to think of Brown. Doesn't force things, plays smart and played for a team that ran their offense as a team. Probably a tweener 2/3 quickness wise, but has the size to play either and handles the ball well. REminds me some of Derrick Anderson. Not sure he will play a ton this year, but could probably give us some minutes at the 2G.
 
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FINAL 247SPORTS 2020 RANKINGS
In any normal year, both Eugene Brown III and Zed Key would be gearing up to enroll at Ohio State in a month. Instead, they’re stuck at home, unsure about when they’ll be allowed to get to Columbus.

While in their hometowns, 247Sports dropped their final rankings for the 2020 cycle. Here's where the pair of Buckeyes signees ended.

  • Brown: No. 116 overall per composite and No. 113 overall per 247Sports
  • Key: No. 136 overall per composite and No. 150 overall per 247Sports
Brown’s new ranking is 11 spots lower than where 247Sports had him prior to the update. Key’s ranking rose substantially due to a strong senior season with New York’s Long Island Lutheran. He was outside of the top-150 overall prospects beforehand and rose from being the 35th-ranked center to the No. 27 center.
 
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think the challenge with clayton is that he plays on a really bad team (1-21 last season) that faces not-so-great competition. while philo is d2, the opponents are on the lower end of d2 in terms of quality of play. so it's hard to gauge clayton's development when the "standards" aren't the greatest. coaches are probably looking through clayton's tape and wondering how much they can actually learn from it when it's like watching kramer dominate 10-year-olds in karate class. my guess is the staff was expecting to watch clayton play some aau ball this spring and summer before offering. in the meantime, i think the staff will just sit and let things develop because the only offers to come clayton's way so far are ohio u and cleveland state. there's no reason to rush, especially when the player is in your backyard.

now if some high-majors decide to jump in like they did with josiah harris, perhaps osu will be nudged to offer too. thing is, harris' high school tape is of him playing against some really good competition.
 
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