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WR Torrance Gibson (Green Bay Blizzard)

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Bill Lucas said:
Ohio State is bigger than one person. That's one of the messages I got from this season. This train will roll with or without him.

I am not a fan of recruits who play the process this late after committing.
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You can't be seriously surprised by this, can you? He played the recruiting game with us! I do agree that our team is bigger than one man. Though I'd really like him on our team, I see his point in wanting to be able to play for day 1, though he's honestly not ready, LSU and Auburn offer that. Hell be sitting for at least 2 years at OSU, and then still have to fight off Burrow, and our 2016 commit.
 
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With all due respect to Coach Malzahn, he developed Nick Marshall into a safety prospect despite playing QB his entire time for him. The only real NFL prospect that he groomed was Cam, who turned out to be a great one, but also was at least partially developed by Urban during his time at Florida. Urban's NFL track record with respect to recognizing potential at the HS level and grooming/developing QBs at his last 3 coaching gigs speaks for itself, and having developed three of the top 6 QBs in the country for next year (!) only reinforces that. Heck, Cardale's only started THREE games and talking heads had him a 1st or 2nd day draft prospect!

Auburn's kidding themselves if they think he's going to ride the pine at Ohio State for 2-3 years. He's too talented to keep off the field in some capacity as an offensive weapon, and our 3 QBs will be moving on sooner rather than later. Torrance would be kidding himself thinking he would get the same limelight at Auburn as he would at Ohio State. He's gotten more national pub over the last 2 weeks as being the next big thing to enter our QB system that he ever would have if he would have been committed to Auburn. No one gets more eyes on their games than Ohio State.

If he moves on, it's his choice. If he goes to Auburn or LSU (which has been a QB graveyard under Les Miles), he would be exchanging long-term success being developed in our system and a chance at continuing the reign of successful national championship winning QBs at Ohio State for short-term success early on at an SEC school.
 
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BuckTwenty said:
With all due respect to Coach Malzahn, he developed Nick Marshall into a safety prospect despite playing QB his entire time for him. The only real NFL prospect that he groomed was Cam, who turned out to be a great one, but also was at least partially developed by Urban during his time at Florida. Urban's NFL track record with respect to recognizing potential at the HS level and grooming/developing QBs at his last 3 coaching gigs speaks for itself, and having developed three of the top 6 QBs in the country for next year (!) only reinforces that. Heck, Cardale's only started THREE games and talking heads had him a 1st or 2nd day draft prospect!

Auburn's kidding themselves if they think he's going to ride the pine at Ohio State for 2-3 years. He's too talented to keep off the field in some capacity as an offensive weapon, and our 3 QBs will be moving on sooner rather than later. Torrance would be kidding himself thinking he would get the same limelight at Auburn as he would at Ohio State. He's gotten more national pub over the last 2 weeks as being the next big thing to enter our QB system that he ever would have if he would have been committed to Auburn. No one gets more eyes on their games than Ohio State.

If he moves on, it's his choice. If he goes to Auburn or LSU (which has been a QB graveyard under Les Miles), he would be exchanging long-term success being developed in our system and a chance at continuing the reign of successful national championship winning QBs at Ohio State for short-term success early on at an SEC school.
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Though I agree with most you say. I dont see Torrance playing that much at QB for OSU for a few years. Which is actually a blessing in disguise. He can work on his mechanics and footwork. But as a 17yo I'm sure all he sees is early PT, not realizing that may hinder him in the long run. Our staff has shown they can develop QBs, its to be seen whether that was all Herman or Urban and Beck can do the same. Competition brings out the best, and I hope Torrance can come in and compete for a starting job after possibly redshirting. And if he doesn't redshirt thats even better, shows his talent level
 
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MD Buckeye said:
Rivals $ - Visit 'changed things a lot'

From Auburn site.....Visit went well & talks about how Coach Malzahn developed Cam Newton & Nick Marshall. Says he doesn't have a problem redshirting, but doesn't want to sit for two or three years (see what Auburn is selling; OSU QB Depth). Has Official scheduled to LSU next weekend and then in-home visits with the Auburn & Ohio State staffs.
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Cam was at Auburn for 1 year, and he was an athletic phenom and a hell of a quarterback the moment he stepped onto their campus. Malzahn didn't develop him at all. Who knows what he learned during his year with Urban or his year in juco. Marshall, another JUCO guy that was quite talented before he got to Auburn and started in his first year. Malzahn did do some work to develop him, might be NFL QB, probably not, but Malzahn turned him into quite the college QB. There are probably 30-40 teams that did a better job of QB development this past year. Gibson does fit really well into the Auburn system. Good luck to him either way. We're in pretty good shape with QBs, and I personally am a bigger fan of Burrow's style of play, though he doesn't seem to have Gibson's arm.
 
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pnuts34 said:
Though I agree with most you say. I dont see Torrance playing that much at QB for OSU for a few years. Which is actually a blessing in disguise. He can work on his mechanics and footwork. But as a 17yo I'm sure all he sees is early PT, not realizing that may hinder him in the long run. Our staff has shown they can develop QBs, its to be seen whether that was all Herman or Urban and Beck can do the same. Competition brings out the best, and I hope Torrance can come in and compete for a starting job after possibly redshirting. And if he doesn't redshirt thats even better, shows his talent level
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Agreed, I think brax getting thrown into early PT when he wasn't ready has hindered his growth. He learned tendencies that helped us win games, and as of last year was still working to break some of them.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I say good for the young man.

Check around, do what's best for you. You only get one time to make this decision.

If that's OSU then welcome to the family, if it's somewhere else then I sincerely wish him well.

Some of you need to grow up or stay out of the recruiting forum.
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Same shit different year
 
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I can't fault the kid no matter what decision he makes - one is closer to home, a recent national champ, and the depth chart is less daunting. The other has a legendary head coach, defending national champs and has a list of QB's to learn and groom under while pushing him.

But while Auburn may use the 'you won't play for a long time' card, I think by seeing JT leap ahead of Cardale despite seniority can say that the best man will play.

To the bashers - you'll never know how hard a decision like this is until you go through it, and that would be at any age...17, 18, 22, 30...it doesn't get any easier despite what you may think. The fact that this kid has looked so thoroughly at schools outside the state tells you how seriously he is taking this. Props to TG no matter where he winds up, I'll be a fan.
 
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