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2025 tOSU Recruiting Discussion

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A complete expected visitors list can be found below. Commits are bolded.

Class of 2025​

  • Five-star quarterback Tavien St. Clair
  • Four-star wide receiver Phillip Bell
  • Four-star tight end Brody Lennon
  • Three-star linebacker Eli Lee
  • Three-star offensive lineman Jake Cook
  • Three-star wide receiver Bodpegn Miller
  • Three-star cornerback Jordyn Woods
  • Three-star cornerback Aydan West

Class of 2026​

  • Five-star safety Blaine Bradford
  • Five-star linebacker Tyler Atkinson
  • Five-star cornerback Elbert Hill
  • Four-star defensive end Zavion Griffin-Haynes
  • Four-star wide receiver Devin Carter
  • Four-star linebacker Cincere Johnson
  • Four-star offensive tackle Micah Smith
  • Four-star quarterback Nathan Bernhard
  • Four-star quarterback Gavin Sidwar
  • Four-star quarterback Peyton Falzone
  • Four-star cornerback Jakob Weatherspoon
  • Four-star safety Joey O’Brien
  • Three-star safety Zaiden McDonald
  • Three-star tight end Lincoln Watkins
  • Three-star tight end Jude Cascone
  • Three-star wide receiver Tayshon Bardo
  • Three-star safety Amar'e Miller
  • Wide receiver Shawn Fishwick

Class of 2027​

  • Four-star linebacker Anthony Cartwright
  • Defensive lineman Jeremiah Nash
 
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When people talk about CBs playing as true frosh, look at the size difference between a true frosh Aaron Scott and a Sophomore Jermaine Matthews. There is quite the size difference. Scott is 1in shorter than Devin Sanchez, but same weight. Same height as Offord but slightly heavier. Matthews is the same size as Scott by numbers, but you can tell that he has considerably more muscle. And that is a big aid when defending larger and/or more physical WRs. HS DBs haven’t built up the muscle to be able to jam WRs at the collegiate level and usually need at least a year to get up to speed but also to build up the strength to fight Wars at the LOS and also in coverage when WRs can use their bodies to box out CBs
 
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Oh8ch said:
Schools have an option of spending their money on unproven recruits or investing in proven assets from the portal.

Perhaps we are trending towards the latter.
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Agreed. I think in this day and age it's a three-pronged approach.

#1 - roster retention of key players
#2 - spending money in the transfer portal
#3 - recruiting

The order may change year to year depending on needs.
 
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Bill Lucas said:
Agreed. I think in this day and age it's a three-pronged approach.

#1 - roster retention of key players
#2 - spending money in the transfer portal
#3 - recruiting

The order may change year to year depending on needs.
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#1 and #2 might flip but I think recruiting should always be the 3rd on the list. As long as we finish in or at least close to the top 5 in recruiting (which we still will) we can easily supplement the rest in the portal. People are going to have a meltdown because the #1 class is going to be much less attainable now but recruiting while obviously still important means less than ever.
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
#1 and #2 might flip but I think recruiting should always be the 3rd on the list. As long as we finish in or at least close to the top 5 in recruiting (which we still will) we can easily supplement the rest in the portal. People are going to have a meltdown because the #1 class is going to be much less attainable now but recruiting while obviously still important means less than ever.
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This has been my entire outlook on modern day recruiting. The #1 class for HS no longer matters, because that school has to spend a bulk of their NIL on HSers, and has little for the Portal guys. A successful team needs to find a balance. Both methods are a crapshoot, but with one you’re literally working with a teenager that is a mound of clay, guys in the Portal have been molded a little more(and depending on their classification have been molded even more).
 
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pnuts34 said:
This has been my entire outlook on modern day recruiting. The #1 class for HS no longer matters, because that school has to spend a bulk of their NIL on HSers, and has little for the Portal guys. A successful team needs to find a balance. Both methods are a crapshoot, but with one you’re literally working with a teenager that is a mound of clay, guys in the Portal have been molded a little more(and depending on their classification have been molded even more).
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True that.

Not only do you compete and spend to attract unknown quantities, you have to recreit the successful ones all over again the next season while the losers try to hold you to the original agreement.

Look at the top rated kids OSU has brought in as transfers both before and after the portal and they have been almost universally successful and keys to our success.

Add to that the mindset of an 18 year old whose priority (or family's priority) is money above all else and try to keep them out of the car dealerships and in the weight room. I go back to the monster recruiting year Texas A&M had with a truckload of star DL and the total failure they had on the field.
 
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RuGettinIt said:
To me any DL recruit who watched the DL totally dominate an undefeated IU and said, nah I don’t want to be a part of that, well good luck too you sir….
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I'm pretty sure these DL we are losing are jumping ship because we wouldn't offer a higher bag when schools like Colorado came calling. At that point it has nothing to do with the product shown on the field.
 
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