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tOSU Recruiting Discussion

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pnuts34 said:
FIFY. We've been whiffing big time on a number of elite DTs in several classes. I too am looking forward to the defense being the best or at least one of the best in the nation again. But we need to shore up the middle of the line with the same quality of talent as we are everywhere else
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I don't think it's as big of an issue as it seems on paper. DT is a position that 99% of the country is leaning on recruits that appear to be journeymen. Given the growth required for it, it's a spot players grow into more than come straight out of HS being badasses.
You can also do very well with 2 space-sucking journeymen there. It just seems like a spot that gets developed more than freshmen exploding into it. That Glasgow kid walked onto scUM as a 2* in 2012...
There just aren't enough "elite" DT recruits out of HS to go around... and everyone seems to have this issue whether they get the recruits on paper or not. I assume Saban has landed some 4 or 5* recruits at the position, and yet he was still desperate enough to jump at that convict kicked off Georgia for 2 incidents of domestic violence.
 
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Ohio State isn't getting Rashan Gary. We're not even in the ballgame. We're the kid on the end of the bench begging coach to put us in the game. He's all Michigan. His mother always has glowing things to say about Michigan and he's got all the New Jersey kids (and coaches) in his ear to go there. We can't even secure an official visit. It sucks because he's, far and away, the best player in the country IMO.

Lawrence is a much tougher read. Plenty of intelligent recruiting people think he's a lock to LSU and it's hard to argue with that; but I guess you never know.
 
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Sure feels like we are in a holding pattern to me, waiting to see how many spots we actually have open. Clearly there are guys we take right now regardless but it wouldn't surprise me if there were some remarkably high level guys that might be interested and we are having to slow play a bit based on the coming wave of defections. I know the staff has a good pulse on who is leaving early but I think some current players are very much on the fence whether to leave early. Class size might be a little harder to pin down right now than years past.
 
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pnuts34 said:
Nail meet head. Ole Miss, LSU and Auburn are prime examples of a lot of Highly ranked HS players who haven't accounted to many wins in college...
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I wouldn't put LSU in that boat with the others - they are a notch ahead, and at the very least they have consistently brought in that 5* talent and pushed out a bevy of highly drafted kids. Now all the others....you can add Texas A&M to that list.
 
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OH10 said:
Say the Michigan States of the world. But when the rubber meets the road like tonight's Cotton Bowl, talent wins out.
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Which was kind of my point. We saw what happens when the high level rated talent plays to its potential against a coached up lesser rated talent wise team. But unfortunately we saw the opposite of that in the Shoe in November.
 
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