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Trey DePriest (former LB Alabama)

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amybuckeye;1739381; said:
Development or recruitment? Is there a question about how the CBs and LBs are being developed?
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I think the original poster was concerned with our linebackers and the future of our defense because we could not get the big time recruits like Hicks or DePriest. The other faction (me included) trusts the coaching staff to develop the not so big time recruits into big time college players. I am not worried about the future of our defense because we can not land a Hicks or DePriest.
 
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Oh8ch;1738975; said:
Don't confuse happenstance with a trend.

If you could point to some reason that LBs had cooled on OSU it might be reason for concern. It just happened that these two kids were not attached to the brand.
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I can point to this:

Since it is a rumor mill post I am paraphrasing from someone I think worth reading when talking about Trey: Alabama was all over him from the start and Ohio State was "ho hum"
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I would have thought the year after losing a 5 star #1 in-state linebacker, for whatever reasons, JT would have gone full-bore in his recruitment of the next year's 5 star #1 in-state linebacker.

So to me there is concern as to why JT didn't recruit him hard enough. Assign whatever reasons you want for losing a kid (i.e. telling a kid you dream about them playing for you, perhaps a hs coach looking for a future assignment), but I wish JT would be a little more aggressive when recruiting head to head against SEC schools.
 
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Buckeyefrankmp;1739395; said:
I think the original poster was concerned with our linebackers and the future of our defense because we could not get the big time recruits like Hicks or DePriest. The other faction (me included) trusts the coaching staff to develop the not so big time recruits into big time college players. I am not worried about the future of our defense because we can not land a Hicks or DePriest.
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Exactly, and I'd assume that's part of JWins point as well. For many years now we've had superb LB play that this staff has brought in and developed. Until we see something that betrays that, it's really hard to get worried about the ones that got away...because the ones that don't, seem to excel.
 
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OSU_D/;1739399; said:
I can point to this:



I would have thought the year after losing a 5 star #1 in-state linebacker, for whatever reasons, JT would have gone full-bore in his recruitment of the next year's 5 star #1 in-state linebacker.

So to me there is concern as to why JT didn't recruit him hard enough. Assign whatever reasons you want for losing a kid (i.e. telling a kid you dream about them playing for you, perhaps a hs coach looking for a future assignment), but I wish JT would be a little more aggressive when recruiting head to head against SEC schools.
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I would refer you to post #5336 in the same Rumor Mill thread you're referring to for a possible reason that it may appear that Tressel has been "outworked".

Lose out on a young man, and people start making it seem like Jim Tressel is sitting around with his thumb up his rear end. I don't claim to know what's really going on here, but let's not jump to conclusions.
 
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OSU_D/;1739399; said:
I would have thought the year after losing a 5 star #1 in-state linebacker, for whatever reasons, JT would have gone full-bore in his recruitment of the next year's 5 star #1 in-state linebacker.

So to me there is concern as to why JT didn't recruit him hard enough. Assign whatever reasons you want for losing a kid (i.e. telling a kid you dream about them playing for you, perhaps a hs coach looking for a future assignment), but I wish JT would be a little more aggressive when recruiting head to head against SEC schools.
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What makes you think that a "full-bore recruitment" would have worked in this case? Do you have any information to suggest that DePriest was ever seriously considering Ohio State?

EDIT: And Trey hasn't even selected Alabama yet, so let's save the doom and gloom until he does.
 
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LordJeffBuck;1739418; said:
What makes you think that a "full-bore recruitment" would have worked in this case? Do you have any information to suggest that DePriest was ever seriously considering Ohio State?

EDIT: And Trey hasn't even selected Alabama yet, so let's save the doom and gloom until he does.
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The OP could have been wrong, but when I read that "at issue" is OSU's recruitment was ho hum and Bama was all over him, it leads me to believe that there would have been more interest on the part of Trey had JT been as aggressive as Saban. Would it lead to a commitment to OSU? Any answer short of coming directly from Trey is supposition.

And I understand waiting, but you have had a number of widely-followed people here calling this one as "over" for a while. I wish Trey nothing but the best and hope his "day" tomorrow doing his announcement is fun for him.


jlb1705;1739409; said:
I would refer you to post #5336 in the same Rumor Mill thread you're referring to for a possible reason that it may appear that Tressel has been "outworked".

Lose out on a young man, and people start making it seem like Jim Tressel is sitting around with his thumb up his rear end. I don't claim to know what's really going on here, but let's not jump to conclusions.
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I agree that there are a lot of dynamics here. I am not saying I know it all either, but based on the original post I cited there is must have been some things JT could have done.
 
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OSU_D/;1739440; said:
The OP could have been wrong, but when I read that "at issue" is OSU's recruitment was ho hum and Bama was all over him, it leads me to believe that there would have been more interest on the part of Trey had JT been as aggressive as Saban. ...
I agree that there are a lot of dynamics here. I am not saying I know it all either, but based on the original post I cited there is must have been some things JT could have done.
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But this is also getting at recruiting styles, and it may be that Tressel simply does not get as "aggressive" as a guy like Saban. It's pretty well documented that Tressel favors a more low-pressure recruitment strategy, encouraging prospects to consider all their options and preferring guys who "want to be Buckeyes". Whether Tressel going about his business differently would have impacted Trey's recruitment differently is a matter of pure speculation, but I'm not going to fault OSU's recruiting staff for not being Saban-like, that's for sure.


Trust the coaches.
 
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OSU_D/;1739440; said:
The OP could have been wrong, but when I read that "at issue" is OSU's recruitment was ho hum and Bama was all over him, it leads me to believe that there would have been more interest on the part of Trey had JT been as aggressive as Saban. Would it lead to a commitment to OSU? Any answer short of coming directly from Trey is supposition.

And I understand waiting, but you have had a number of widely-followed people here calling this one as "over" for a while. I wish Trey nothing but the best and hope his "day" tomorrow doing his announcement is fun for him.




I agree that there are a lot of dynamics here. I am not saying I know it all either, but based on the original post I cited there is must have been some things JT could have done.
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If there's one thing I'm quite certain of, it's that JT and staff do everything they think they need to in order to get quality young men to come to tOSU. Are mistakes sometimes made? No doubt as they are far from perfect, but we have no idea what the staff did and it's quite possible that JT and staff did everything they were willing to do. Heck, they even invited him to come here yet again this week. A lot of this probably goes back to JTs comments that we want people here who want to be Buckeyes. It's not a soft-sell approach, but it's also not an overbearing approach either. Perhaps there was a mistake made here, but you're assuming a lot if you assume that's the case.
 
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So distant 2nd

Best to Trey - he seems thrilled with Bama and every recruit should feel that way.

I don't know Trey or his coach or anything about the situation. I agree that OSU did their best. I would love for him to be a Buckeye but I have never thought he would.

I agree that Trey has never been a Buckeye. In my sparse reading of his recruitment I cannot remember one bonafide verifiable positive coming from his camp about OSU (Bucknuts misreads not allowed) and I can't remember a situation where being 2nd seemed as close as the moon and not relevent.

I recently said that it will be best for all when the announcement comes so our energy and time can be spent on more likely future Bucks.
 
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southcampus;1739391; said:
Bama has recruited the nation very well, especially considering their plethora of talent instate alone. Trey's going to an elite program, no doubt about it. I wish him the best and as I do with all recruits OSU has missed out on, I'll continue to watch him develop and grow.

On a second note, I'm not sure I'm down with the whole family packing up to move thing either. Obviously, they can do whatever they want but for crying out loud, the kid's going to college. Let him go to college, football season is only like 20 percent of the year. I can't imagine my parents moving to see me play a college sport, although I'm sure they'd love to attend a few games. You wanna see your kid play? Well you had plenty of time to do it in highschool, now lets grow up a little bit. This is a sport, but college itself is where kids turn into adults. Are they going to move to California if he accepts a job there and plays intramural softball? Come on....
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20% of the year? That may be true for football season, but he has to go to school, well maybe not in the SEC. So he just has the summer basically to be home...except for the fact that it's Division I college football...it's a full time job.
 
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Best of luck to Trey and his family wherever he ends up. From what I've read he is a quality young man.

I'd like to know how football is 20% of the year. It starts in August and almost always ends in January. Then there's spring practices and the spring game which takes several weeks. Add in winter workouts and summer workouts and I'd say that football takes up most of the year.
 
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Bill Lucas;1739510; said:
Best of luck to Trey and his family wherever he ends up. From what I've read he is a quality young man.

I'd like to know how football is 20% of the year. It starts in August and almost always ends in January. Then there's spring practices and the spring game which takes several weeks. Add in winter workouts and summer workouts and I'd say that football takes up most of the year.
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I believe the 20% reference came up when addressing why the family would pick up and move to AL when games are only played approximately 20% of the year.
 
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