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2021 ttun recruiting

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osuvictory1 said:
Tressell would most likely not be as effective in todays game as he wasn't known for recruiting speed.
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Fun Fact: Tressel had as many WR drafted in the 1st round as OL and DL combined. Pretty amazing, especially considering that a typical starting line-up has 3 wide receivers and 9 linemen.

WR: Michael Jenkins; Santonio Holmes; Ted Ginn; Anthony Gonzalez

Line: Will Smith; Nick Mangold; Vernon Gholston; Cameron Heyward
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
Okay, A.J Hawk, James Laurinaitis, Malcolm Jenkins, Bradley Roby....

But let's not forget Sian Cotton, Tommy Brown, Antonio Underwood, Brandon Maupion, Sirjo Welch, Marcel Frost, Alex Barrow, Adam Homan, Nick Patterson, Shawntel Rowell, Rocco Pentello, Sam Longo, Nic DiLillo, Zach Domicone, Aram Olson and a couple dozen other 3-star guys who never did anything.

No coach can consistently "do wonders" with 3-star players. That's why Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Oklahoma, etc. don't recruit a whole lot of them.
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I think Jim Bollman’s lazy comfort zone recruiting with 3-star NE Ohio linemen is a highly apt comparison here. Both in terms of the effort being put forth by the coaches and the likely results.

Only, hilariously, Harbaugh has managed to put together a staff with a 3-star comfort zone in New England.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
Fun Fact: Tressel had as many WR drafted in the 1st round as OL and DL combined. Pretty amazing, especially considering that a typical starting line-up has 3 wide receivers and 9 linemen.

WR: Michael Jenkins; Santonio Holmes; Ted Ginn; Anthony Gonzalez

Line: Will Smith; Nick Mangold; Vernon Gholston; Cameron Heyward
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Wasn’t he a Cooper recruit ?
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
Fun Fact: Tressel had as many WR drafted in the 1st round as OL and DL combined. Pretty amazing, especially considering that a typical starting line-up has 3 wide receivers and 9 linemen.

WR: Michael Jenkins; Santonio Holmes; Ted Ginn; Anthony Gonzalez

Line: Will Smith; Nick Mangold; Vernon Gholston; Cameron Heyward
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Second best Buckeye porn name, topped only by the immortal Richard McNutt.
 
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I'm from Ytown. Tressel is God. Don't get me wrong. The current success of the Buckeyes would not be possible if not for Tressel.

I am going to say something ultra controversial here. The game may have by-passed Urban.

The age of Ryan Day and Lincoln Riley is here. And we are extremely lucky to have Ryan Day.
 
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I'm going to go out on a limb here for some criticism. Prior to Tress, there was John Cooper (Coop; good ol' 2-10-1). Coop is the one that expanded recruiting to a national plateau. Sure, Woody and Earl plucked out some good ones, but Coop expanded recruiting beyond the Midwest borders. After him, Tress came in, and did Coop one or two better. Tress continued to lock down Ahia, as well as actively recruiting beyond Ahia's state lines. Fickell came in, and hung on (he did as well as he could be expected). Then came Urban. With his two national championships from U Fla, he recruited Florida kids hard, and successfully. As a rock star coach, he pretty much tagged the national kids he wanted, and became the 'king' of commitment flippers. In my humble opinion, tOSU recruiting became national in every respect, to the detriment of Ahia kids, who became 'fallback' recruits. Under Day, who was a first time coach, unproven, etc, he collapsed recruiting to Ahia, with several national kids that he convinced to stay with their original UFM commitments. Then he proved his first three coaching game were not flukey, and took tOSU to the football 'Final Four'. Now, tOSU is still basking in the aura from Urban, but Day has expanded his reach nationally. Will he become better recruiter than Urban? Unclear at this time, but tOSU arc is still ascending, so there's a lot of kids that want to join up. This is a marvelous time to be a Buckeye faithful, so let's all enjoy. Agree with much of the above, there is a new era a-dawning, and Ryan Day is at the forefront. Keep it up, Coach, and raise the Buckeye banner high. Go Bucks!
 
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osuvictory1 said:
I'm from Ytown. Tressel is God. Don't get me wrong. The current success of the Buckeyes would not be possible if not for Tressel.

I am going to say something ultra controversial here. The game may have by-passed Urban.

The age of Ryan Day and Lincoln Riley is here. And we are extremely lucky to have Ryan Day.
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While I agree with you that the game may have passed by Urban, I don’t think that it’s entirely controversial to suggest as much here. There is no doubt that he was a Rock Star head coach, but there’s plenty of folks here who have noted some real Urban-head scratchers over his time here.

That said, while some things in the game may have passed him by... and have clearly passed by Tres and all the great things that happened while he was here... the culmination of the two setting the table for Day has put the program in a very good place going forward. In many ways Day is where Urban was when he took over UoF... but Day has a running start in his race. That’s a damn fine place to be.
 
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jakenick06 said:


Not sure where this should go, but I couldn’t have hand picked a better top 6 to be on this list.
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there used to be a list that tracked underperforming teams based on the difference between pre season polls and final rankings.

this was all the way back to the late 90’s.

tsun and Texas led there too iirc.
 
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