tOSU Recruiting Discussion

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[pnuts34]

https://x.com/Ohio7v7

With 7v7 being a thing finally in OH this seems to be an official 7v7 OH team that we all can follow. It’s pretty cool with Paris Johnson’s step father being the VP of football Operations, Jon Kitna and Artrell Hawkins both being former Bengals and current HS coaches gives even more credibility to the program

 

[pnuts34]

Seeing from several analysts that coaches are inviting OH recruits in the 2026 and 2027 class to the trophy ceremony on Sunday 1/26/25, and they're hoping for a junior day event the weekend of Feb 1. If they can't do that, there's a month long dead period. Once it ends, Day and Pantoni could have several recruiting weekends if they can't work out their Junior day event
Recruiting never sleeps

 

[JCOSU86]

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Tibor04 19 minutes ago
Interesting. in Talking Stuff the other night, Birm doubted that OSU would remain in the chase for the national recruiting title partly becuase franchises like Georgia are still accumulating top-end high school players while OSU is focused almost entirely on retention of existing commitments, with only a sprinkling of lower-ranked developmental prospects like this MSU commit. Birm stated that OSU is unlikely to match higher offers to players like PA DE Mathis and GA DL Merritt, and instead is working on retention (read: trying to match higher NIL offers to) to players OSU prioritizes like TJ Alford.
This tells me that OSU indeed has a finite pool of NIL $ allocated to high school players, and sometimes they will lose commitments as they allocate the scarce resources. I also interpret this, perhaps unjustifiably, as OSU places an increasing value on the immediate impact of free agency acquisitions via the transfer portal. In short, high school talent acquisition and development will still be the foundation, but getting veteran pieces along the OL and elsewhere will be the key to future runs at championships. As Birm asked, why spend big $ now on a player who may not be ready for 3 years, when you can get a player with that same amount via the transfer portal who can make an immediate impact.
It's gonna be hard for OSU fans to watch OSU take a small step back in the national recruiting cycle, and it' gonna be hard for OSU to outspend Oregon and other deep-pocketed teams for the top transfers that OSU covets. But I suspect we'll see a more aggressive OSU in the transfer portal every year, where they get 3-5 (my guess) new starters each year.

 

[osuvictory1]

https://x.com/Ohio7v7

With 7v7 being a thing finally in OH this seems to be an official 7v7 OH team that we all can follow. It’s pretty cool with Paris Johnson’s step father being the VP of football Operations, Jon Kitna and Artrell Hawkins both being former Bengals and current HS coaches gives even more credibility to the program

It will be helpful for OSU to recognize sleeper players like Fannin and Klare who were overlooked in the past.

 

[osuvictory1]

The approach actually makes sense to me. I have a hard time believing anything is finite, but having unlimited resources creates more problems in my opinion. To some degree the finiteness may be self imposed. It forces people to be accountable and responsible with a definite budget.

Until it becomes apparent that OSU's system is not working, there is no reason to doubt it.

 

[BuckBackHome]

Seeing from several analysts that coaches are inviting OH recruits in the 2026 and 2027 class to the trophy ceremony on Sunday 1/26/25, and they're hoping for a junior day event the weekend of Feb 1. If they can't do that, there's a month long dead period. Once it ends, Day and Pantoni could have several recruiting weekends if they can't work out their Junior day event
Recruiting never sleeps

Coaches never sleep;-)