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tOSU Recruiting Discussion

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ShowMeBuck said:
We have talented guys on roster who are not playing and may or may not transfer. We have guys who are never talked who you would expect to transfer. We have had the 2 career ending injuries of Griffin and Thomas. With all of this I think the class gets to 24.

No disrespect to E Smith but I'd love these 6 to finish: Prince, Kwon, Lattimore, Holley, Jamal Adams and Gesecki. More realistic would be to swap Prince and Adams for Mavety and Smith - 2 incredible plan B guys. I think the staff wants Gesicki pretty bad. Everything I have read is that he is a freak athlete and unique in his skill set compared to others in the class so I'd really like to see him on board. Others have mentioned the possibility of Hubbard at TE but who knows? If Gesicki lands elsewhere then personally I would love to land Solomon Thomas - I just can't see Luatua landing here.

It's amazing to be sitting on 18 very talented guys with so many more as real possibilities to finish out the class. If we land one of Prince/Mavety to go along with Kwon, Lattimore and Holley then you almost have to feel like any other spots would just be gravy.
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Why are making smith a plan b guy? He is very
talented, and its been pretty much stated that he has a spot. Adams is an extreme longshot. Mavety and/or Prince would be stellar. Idk if we get lattimore without smith, imo. But I could be very wrong.
ITis a great position to be in though
 
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pnuts34 said:
Why are making smith a plan b guy? He is very
talented, and its been pretty much stated that he has a spot. Adams is an extreme longshot. Mavety and/or Prince would be stellar. Idk if we get lattimore without smith, imo. But I could be very wrong.
ITis a great position to be in though
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Smith isn't a "plan b" guy. A guy offered before signing day of his junior year isn't a "plan b" recruit.
 
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pnuts34 said:
Showme stated thst he saw smith as a "plan b". I agree with you that smith is not that. I think he'd follow in the line of recent hard hitting safeties from glenville coming to osu.
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I said it was no disrespect to Smith...I just prefer Adams if given the choice and although he may be a long shot he does have an OV set. I also said I preferred Prince over Mavety if we only take one more on the OL. But that is certainly not saying Mavety is bad at all! To me Prince and Adams would be a little ahead of Mavety/Smith. I used to think we needed Mavety more than Prince because of his experience but I have a TON of confidence in our OL staff and their ability to develop depth and Prince is elite. On Adams....there is just something about his game that I like. He hits like a ton of bricks. Can we land Lattimore w/out Smith? No clue but I am generally not a fan of package deals. The Glenville pipeline is important so I can't see us saying no to Smith, I am sure he and Lattimore are both locks.
 
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ShowMeBuck said:
I said it was no disrespect to Smith...I just prefer Adams if given the choice and although he may be a long shot he does have an OV set. I also said I preferred Prince over Mavety if we only take one more on the OL. But that is certainly not saying Mavety is bad at all! To me Prince and Adams would be a little ahead of Mavety/Smith. I used to think we needed Mavety more than Prince because of his experience but I have a TON of confidence in our OL staff and their ability to develop depth and Prince is elite. On Adams....there is just something about his game that I like. He hits like a ton of bricks. Can we land Lattimore w/out Smith? No clue but I am generally not a fan of package deals. The Glenville pipeline is important so I can't see us saying no to Smith, I am sure he and Lattimore are both locks.
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I know you meant no disrespect to any of the recruits. I hear what you're saying, and I'd agree to a certain extent. IMO, I like smith a little more than Adams, but not by a huge margin. My dream would be to get Juju smith, but that's even a bigger longshot. We cant go wrong with any combination of guys named, and we're honestly just splitting hairs. I have no problem with package deals, when it comes to glenville kids. This will be a very interesting class, and for all we know we could strike out on Mavety and prince and end up with say, bookser or a kid we don't even know about now
 
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I feel like with all of the recruits (2014 and 2015) at the game last night, we blew it on fast-paced exciting play calling. Yes it was a win, and I can't even imagine how electric it was, but going to prevent offense and defense in the 3rd quarter limited the flash. I'd score it a 2 out of 3.
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
I feel like with all of the recruits (2014 and 2015) at the game last night, we blew it on fast-paced exciting play calling. Yes it was a win, and I can't even imagine how electric it was, but going to prevent offense and defense in the 3rd quarter limited the flash. I'd score it a 2 out of 3.
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All about how you sell it in my mind.

"If we had a guy like you we could do x. We ned you young man, come help us take this offense to the next level" etc etc etc.

Throw in a dream, conversation with god, whatever it takes. :wink:
 
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Watching the replay on BTN right now b/c I wasn't able to watch the game last night. Surprised by all the negativity that was in the game thread and even the recruiting thread(s). From what I can tell, last night was likely great for the Buckeyes from a recruiting perspective: 1) Electric atmosphere (huge crowd, night game, etc.); 2) lots of big plays - exciting game; 3) good win for the Buckeyes in a big matchup; 3) undefeated team w/ national championship talk; 4) nationally televised game in primetime; 5) chance to mix and mingle with one of the biggest (if not the biggest) celebrities in sports - Lebron James, who just happens to be a huge Buckeye fan.
 
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matt_thatsme said:
Watching the replay on BTN right now b/c I wasn't able to watch the game last night. Surprised by all the negativity that was in the game thread and even the recruiting thread(s). From what I can tell, last night was likely great for the Buckeyes from a recruiting perspective: 1) Electric atmosphere (huge crowd, night game, etc.); 2) lots of big plays - exciting game; 3) good win for the Buckeyes in a big matchup; 3) undefeated team w/ national championship talk; 4) nationally televised game in primetime; 5) chance to mix and mingle with one of the biggest (if not the biggest) celebrities in sports - Lebron James, who just happens to be a huge Buckeye fan.
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Yeah, as much as I would have loved to see them give Wisky an early knockout punch and make it something more like 41 - 10 or 38 - 17, the atmosphere would have died down much earlier in that scenario.
 
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matt_thatsme said:
Watching the replay on BTN right now b/c I wasn't able to watch the game last night. Surprised by all the negativity that was in the game thread and even the recruiting thread(s). From what I can tell, last night was likely great for the Buckeyes from a recruiting perspective: 1) Electric atmosphere (huge crowd, night game, etc.); 2) lots of big plays - exciting game; 3) good win for the Buckeyes in a big matchup; 3) undefeated team w/ national championship talk; 4) nationally televised game in primetime; 5) chance to mix and mingle with one of the biggest (if not the biggest) celebrities in sports - Lebron James, who just happens to be a huge Buckeye fan.
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Having LeBron at the game, I think, was pretty huge. He's probably the best all around athlete currently playing across all sports. I hope he spent some time around the recruits. Also, a close game was really helpful in keeping the atmosphere great. Anything within 14 pts keeps it exciting through to the end. 7-10 pt victory was probably best for that. It's just the tresselball which I think killed us. I think getting the ball outside to guys like Wilson, Zeke and Hall would have been nice, although Wilson/Zeke with their youth is a potential risk for a fumble. Anything but a QB run or Hyde up the middle would have been nice. If they could one or two first downs, it wouldn't have been bad, but there were a ton of 3 and outs in the last 1.5 quarters. Makes the offense look incompetent, even if they were firing on all cylinders for the first 2.5 quarters.
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
Having LeBron at the game, I think, was pretty huge. He's probably the best all around athlete currently playing across all sports. I hope he spent some time around the recruits.
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I think among recruits who are too young to really have followed much about LeBron exiting Ohio, LeBron is HUGE.

And by the way, playing in close games didn't hurt his standing amongst kids ... it was just regarded as good competition.

Ditto for Bucks over Wisky.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
"The Decision" wasn't all that long ago...kids in the '14 recruiting class were about 13 or 14 years old. There probably aren't too many kids that age who don't know all about what he did...
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I don't think kids that age give a crap either way. Not too many 13-14 year old diehard Cavs fans. Hell, most kids that age probably like the Heat.

I loathe the bastard, but to 14-18 year old kids, he's a rockstar. Only good can come from him being associated with tOSU.
 
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NFBuck said:
I don't think kids that age give a crap either way. Not too many 13-14 year old diehard Cavs fans. Hell, most kids that age probably like the Heat.

I loathe the bastard, but to 14-18 year old kids, he's a rockstar. Only good can come from him being associated with tOSU.
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Absolutely. I doubt there are many kids that don't think he's cool. Comes with the territory when you are the best player on the planet.
 
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