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Zippercat
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Isn’t this preferred walk on guy ranked/better on paper than all but the top few recruits for any other B1G team?
https://247sports.com/player/kaden-saunders-46081196/
Edit: NEVER MIND! Wrong guy, different spelling of first name. Left post here so some other knucklehead doesn’t repeat my mistake. Go make some other errors!
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
QUIET PERIOD COMING?
We are coming up on a whole calendar year since recruits were able to make official or unofficial visits to schools. (Not including the self-guided tours, or however you'd like to phrase it, that players such as Raesjon Davis, Zen Michalski and other recruits have made to see Ohio State.)
As Thamel notes, during a quiet period on-campus visits – and face-to-face interactions with college coaches while on campus – are allowed.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...eriod-could-be-coming-ohio-state-picks-up-pwo
We are coming up on a whole calendar year since recruits were able to make official or unofficial visits to schools. (Not including the self-guided tours, or however you'd like to phrase it, that players such as Raesjon Davis, Zen Michalski and other recruits have made to see Ohio State.)
As Thamel notes, during a quiet period on-campus visits – and face-to-face interactions with college coaches while on campus – are allowed.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...eriod-could-be-coming-ohio-state-picks-up-pwo
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ScriptOhio
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“YOU HAVE TO BE AS HONEST AS YOU EVER HAVE BEEN IN RECRUITING”
When Ohio State’s coaching staff, mainly Kevin Wilson and Ryan Day, were in the middle of recruiting eventual tight end commit Sam Hart, there wasn’t any fluff. There was no “fairy dust” as Hart described it.
Schools like Notre Dame and USC (the other two schools Hart was considering the most) or Penn State, Tennessee, Iowa and others would show Hart film only highlights of receiving plays by their tight ends. That wasn’t the Buckeyes’ approach.
“They were a lot more different, and I could feel their honesty,” Hart told Eleven Warriors in December before he officially signed with Ohio State. “I could tell they were being 100 percent real with me. … They told me I’d have a good opportunity of playing early but that I’d still have to work for that and earn my spot.
“Ohio State was up front and honest: ‘You’re gonna get the ball every once in a while, but you’re mainly gonna be blocking here.’ (Other schools) would just sugarcoat it and only show me film of their tight ends catching the ball. They just tried to make it seem like it’s too good to be true.”
That got a bit exhausting after a while, Hart admitted. So when Ohio State came at him with the honest approach – that he wouldn’t be catching a ton of balls every season – it hit differently.
“It was really nice to see a school be completely honest with me,” Hart said.
When Jantzen Dunn took his second visit to Ohio State to watch a spring practice in March 2020, the eventual safety commit was hit with a similar approach from Matt Barnes, who was officially announced as the Buckeyes’ new secondary coach on Wednesday.
“There was no bullshit from Coach Barnes,” Jantzen’s father, Mitchell Dunn, told Eleven Warriors this summer. “There was no filling up the kid’s head with fluff or lies. He let J know just how hard this is gonna be.”
Both Hart and Dunn joined the program last month as part of 15 early enrollees for the Buckeyes’ 2021 class.
Jantzen Dunn is one of the many recruits who appreciated Ohio State's honest approach during the recruiting process.
Those are just two anecdotes among dozens from recruits during Day’s tenure in which either a player or a parent has gained respect for the way Ohio State’s staff handles its recruiting pitches.
On Wednesday’s 247Sports National Signing Day Show, Day reiterated one of his messages during December’s early signing period in which he said (to paraphrase) that honesty is the best policy.
“I think one of the most important things right now in recruiting, the way things are going with COVID (and) the one-time transfer rule coming down the tubes, you have to be as honest as you have ever been in recruiting,” Day said. “You have to be as transparent as possible because they have to come here knowing that this is where they want to be and that they wanted to pick this.
“You can’t talk them into coming to your school anymore. I don’t believe that at all. It’s about being transparent, telling them exactly what this place is and then showing them what this place is and then building it from there. That’s been our recipe, and hopefully we can just keep building on it from here.”
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Ohio State's 2021 signing class ranks atop the Big Ten and No. 2 nationally, per the 247Sports Composite Team Recruiting Rankings. Earlier on Wednesday, Day said he believes it's the "closest" recruiting class he’s ever had.
“I don’t think there’s any question. I think this is the closest group I’ve ever seen,” Day said on the 247Sports Signing Day Show. “I saw a couple guys having lunch together, laughing and cracking on each other and making fun of each other. They just met each other four or five days ago when they got on campus. But because of Zoom, because of this year, they felt like they’ve known each other for a year."
Just sayin': Great "team chemistry" already, it looks like "the brotherhood" will continue......
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ScriptOhio
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2 - 2021
Average rating: 0.9452; Class rank: No. 2
If there was any doubt about what Day and his staff could do as recruiters after just one cycle, that should be put to rest after the Buckeyes landed another elite class in 2021. Despite dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which meant many of these prospects never even visited Ohio State and got to know the coaches and their future teammates on Zoom calls, the Scarlet and Gray landed another group of top players.
The five five-stars -- defensive end Jack Sawyer, wide receiver Emeka Egbuka, offensive lineman Donovan Jackson, running back TreVeyon Henderson and quarterback Kyle McCord -- are the second-most in the country behind Alabama's seven. Ohio State got help in the secondary in four-stars cornerbacks Jakailin Johnson and Jordan Hancock and safeties Andre Turrentine and Jantzen Dunn. Along with Sawyer, Egbuka and Henderson, the Buckeyes added defensive linemen Mike Hall and Tyleik Williams, receivers Marvin Harrison Jr. and Jayden Ballard and running back Evan Pryor, all top 15 at their position.
And don't forget, the Buckeyes could still land Tuimoloau.
Without looking what year do you think was #1?
1 - 2017
Average rating: 0.9459; Class rank: No. 2
It doesn't take more than a quick look at Ohio State's 2017 class to realize why it's the best in the last 15 years. Names like offensive lineman Thayer Munford and linebacker Pete Werner, multi-year starters for the Buckeyes, near the bottom of the list show how talented and how much depth this class had.
But the top is not bad either. Defensive end Chase Young, the seventh-best player in the country, was the Buckeyes' No. 1 commit in 2017. He was followed closely by two five-star cornerbacks in Jeff Okudah and Shaun Wade, as well as the nation's top linebacker in Baron Browning. Offensive linemen Wyatt Davis and Josh Myers and running back J.K. Dobbins are also in the top 10 in this class.
The depth pieces proved to be good as well. Four-star defensive tackle Haskell Garrett showed how good he is in 2020. Cornerback Kendall Sheffield had a solid Scarlet and Gray career and Marcus Williamson became a starter this past season for Ohio State.
Average rating: 0.9459; Class rank: No. 2
It doesn't take more than a quick look at Ohio State's 2017 class to realize why it's the best in the last 15 years. Names like offensive lineman Thayer Munford and linebacker Pete Werner, multi-year starters for the Buckeyes, near the bottom of the list show how talented and how much depth this class had.
But the top is not bad either. Defensive end Chase Young, the seventh-best player in the country, was the Buckeyes' No. 1 commit in 2017. He was followed closely by two five-star cornerbacks in Jeff Okudah and Shaun Wade, as well as the nation's top linebacker in Baron Browning. Offensive linemen Wyatt Davis and Josh Myers and running back J.K. Dobbins are also in the top 10 in this class.
The depth pieces proved to be good as well. Four-star defensive tackle Haskell Garrett showed how good he is in 2020. Cornerback Kendall Sheffield had a solid Scarlet and Gray career and Marcus Williamson became a starter this past season for Ohio State.
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Diego-Bucks
Lost in Canada
Whoa, while I think the 2008 class underwhelmed, I was surprised to see '08 ranked 13 of the last 15 classes. Pryor, Brewster, Shugarts, Adams, Sabino, Posey, and Soneburner added up to a lot of starts and high-end production for the class (and I think finding a multi-year starting QB is worth quite a lot to a class) but I suppose the rest of the class did very little.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Just sayin': Rating recruits is not an exact science. It's just some guy's (or several guy's collective) opinion of how he thinks the player performed against others and how he will do in college, etc. There's no way they can have actually seen everyone they rate play, different schools/players will have different levels of completion, and they never factor in the player's intangibles, etc. Needless to say, many lower rated recruits out perform higher rated ones at the college level.
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