tOSU Recruiting Discussion

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Urban Meyer and the Jacksonville Jaguars will have their hands full Sunday when the Indianapolis Colts, led by the NFL’s second-leading rusher Jonathan Taylor, play host to Jacksonville. Meyer is certainly no stranger to Taylor, whose college career at Wisconsin crossed paths with the Jaguars coach while he was leading Ohio State.

Meyer, during this week’s press conference, was asked about his past encounters with Taylor while still in college. The first-year NFL coach admitted frustration with his Ohio State assistants for not making an effort to sign him out of high school.

“I used to get so upset with our coaches at Ohio State, like ‘Why don’t we have him?’ We didn’t even know about him,” Meyer said. “They had like five (good running backs) in a row. I mean, every year I would scream at our coaches, back when I screamed a lot. I’d scream at our staff, ‘How did we miss on him?’”
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In fairness, Ohio State was not the only major program to miss out on Taylor, who was a three-star recruit out of Salem, N.J. The 247Sports Composite rated Taylor as the nation’s No. 24-ranked running back and the No. 371 prospect overall in the 2017 recruiting class. Taylor’s only other reported FBS offers came from Rutgers, Virginia Tech, Boston College, Temple and Army.
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Just sayin': Ohio State didn't come up dry with running backs in the 2017 class, they got some kid from Texas named JK Dobbins. That's how a B1G 2nd tier team like Cheese can be competitive; identify, recruit, and get those "diamonds in the ruff" (i.e. those under rated recruits, a 3 star recruits that develops into 4 and 5 star players).

That's a cute story, but I'm pretty sure Urban could care less about Taylor coming out of HS after OSU got Dobbins. And I doubt a number of those Wisky RBs would fit well in our system. Good for them for finding for those projects and developing them behind monster OLs. But I laugh at this Urban quote. It's all to praise a RB that will bend his defense over on Sunday

 

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Urban Meyer and the Jacksonville Jaguars will have their hands full Sunday when the Indianapolis Colts, led by the NFL’s second-leading rusher Jonathan Taylor, play host to Jacksonville. Meyer is certainly no stranger to Taylor, whose college career at Wisconsin crossed paths with the Jaguars coach while he was leading Ohio State.

Meyer, during this week’s press conference, was asked about his past encounters with Taylor while still in college. The first-year NFL coach admitted frustration with his Ohio State assistants for not making an effort to sign him out of high school.

“I used to get so upset with our coaches at Ohio State, like ‘Why don’t we have him?’ We didn’t even know about him,” Meyer said. “They had like five (good running backs) in a row. I mean, every year I would scream at our coaches, back when I screamed a lot. I’d scream at our staff, ‘How did we miss on him?’”
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In fairness, Ohio State was not the only major program to miss out on Taylor, who was a three-star recruit out of Salem, N.J. The 247Sports Composite rated Taylor as the nation’s No. 24-ranked running back and the No. 371 prospect overall in the 2017 recruiting class. Taylor’s only other reported FBS offers came from Rutgers, Virginia Tech, Boston College, Temple and Army.
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Just sayin': Ohio State didn't come up dry with running backs in the 2017 class, they got some kid from Texas named JK Dobbins. That's how a B1G 2nd tier team like Cheese can be competitive; identify, recruit, and get those "diamonds in the ruff" (i.e. those under rated recruits, a 3 star recruits that develops into 4 and 5 star players).

If I were him, I'd be more worried about the assistants who couldn't coach their position groups to save their lives and only had their jobs because of personal relationships with Urban, but that's just me.

While Meyer and Ohio State got the best of Wisconsin in the majority of their head-to-head meetings

The majority? Did I miss a loss to Wisconsin sometime during the last decade?