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Positive Recruiting Impact from Bowl Win?

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Cornerback6

Cornerback6

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Thoughts?

I personally think that the bowl win was huge for our recruiting in the long run...and perhaps short run too. Kids want to play for a winner, and a longstanding trend of big game losses isn't attractive. We'll always land great classes, but winning the big game on the big stage helps out a lot.

Feel free to elaborate, agree, or agree to disagree.
 
Cornerback6;1632612; said:
Thoughts?

I personally think that the bowl win was huge for our recruiting in the long run...and perhaps short run too. Kids want to play for a winner, and a longstanding trend of big game losses isn't attractive. We'll always land great classes, but winning the big game on the big stage helps out a lot.

Feel free to elaborate, agree, or agree to disagree.
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Kids will want to play with TP... end of story.
 
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Winning usually helps more down the road, but nowhere near as much as fans think it will. After the two ugly losses in the NC game, we landed unbelievable classes. After our NC win 5 years earlier, we landed a horrendous class.


Success can help an upstart or rebuilding program, but an established one doesn't benefit as much.


Pryor's heisman candidacy and general hype will have much more benefit than a rose bowl win.
 
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I could easily see Seantrel Henderson sitting at home with his parents watching the Rose Bowl, and legitimately see himself playing in the National Championship his sophomore year with a LARGE role on the offensive line... That never hurts, whether or not it helps, I can only wish!!!!!!!!!
 
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Cornerback6;1632612; said:
Thoughts?

I personally think that the bowl win was huge for our recruiting in the long run...and perhaps short run too. Kids want to play for a winner, and a longstanding trend of big game losses isn't attractive. We'll always land great classes, but winning the big game on the big stage helps out a lot.

Feel free to elaborate, agree, or agree to disagree.
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Kids who grew up loving the Buckeyes will love them even more. As for the rest, the win will have negligible impact.

The Buckeyes already have a huge brand name, and a win over a pretender really won't improve their status in the CFB pecking order. The only way for the Buckeyes to get even higher on the recruiting ladder (which would be damned near impossible anyway) would be to (a) use high-pressure, hard sell tactics on certain "national" recruits, or (b) relocate the campus to a warm, sunny climate near the beach.

Ohio State has been getting serious talent since 2005, and especially since 2008. Now they just need to put it all together for a title run in 2010 and/or 2011.
 
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Bill Lucas;1632660; said:
Hasn't this myth been debunked already by the recruiting success of Ohio State after the last few bowl losses?
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Yes.... and maybe no. This win will remove any doubt that Ohio State belongs in the upper echelon of college football. Hard to negative recruit the Bucks that our offense plays with the breaks on after that Rose Bowl showing. It can be nothing but a positive that our staff goes into the final month of recruiting on a high, exuding inner confidence of the Buckeye way. This will be in contrast to having to find a positive vibe from deep down after the 2 NC appearances in Jan. 07-08.
There has been alot of speculation and negativity these last few weeks about how OSU usually finishs with the Big national profile recruits. This year we won't be working against any wall of negativity. If that allows us to finish strong with Henderson, Floyd, and Hankins then I think that will allow room to at least argue that finishing the season with a strong showing and win on a big stage can pay recruiting dividends.
 
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I remember thinking this after the win over ND in the Fiesta Bowl. Particularly, I thought it would sway Ben Martin to come to tOSU.

What the fans see and what the recruits see are two different things. Case in point is FSU the past few weeks.
 
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The press. It [fill in the space].

Tressel is no longer a three bowl game loser. He's two games away from three national championships in six years. He's no longer the guy who chokes in big games, he's the big game guy.

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