WR Ray Small (official thread)

[crazybuckfan40]

Great news. Ray will make a good buckeye next year.

[Moose]

Great on the offer from OSU! Showing the love early has got to carry some weight...

Moose

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

RIVALS


Small is interested in tOSU, USC and Miami. He has offers from Ohio State, Michigan State, Iowa, and Akron. tOSU is the favorite and he is not close to a decision.

[Cornerback6]

Close to a decision already? I LOVE IT! Bring those Glenville kids in....we'll put'em to work.

With the recent tOSU offer, his near decision has to be for the Bucks.

[wadc45]

Where does it say he is close to a decision? As a matter of fact, he clearly says he isn't close to a decision...

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

tOSU is the favorite and he is not close to a decision.

calm down fellas...corrected the mistake...

[wadc45]

Originally Posted by bucknuts44820

calm down fellas...corrected the mistake...

before the stampede starts...

[MiniBusBuck]

He is a Glenville kid he isn't going to make a decision until atleast January. Coach Ginn doesn't allow his player to committ untill after the season. So for those of you hoping to hear something soon regarding Small, Rose, Browning, or Daven Jones do not count on it you will be waiting a while. (Jamario committed when he was at Mansfield not Glenville).

[OilerBuck]

Originally Posted by bucknuts44820

...he is not close to a decision.

GOOD! If we can get a couple more like this, we can finally shut the people up that complain about Tressel's "closing" ability.

[wadc45]

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2/10/05

From the USC site...Ray says USC is his "dream school" and he feels like his speed would fit in good there. Ray is also interested in the USC track program. The one player Ray tries to emulate on the football field is TG, and he feels very comfortable with all the Glenville players at OSU. He is going to the Nike Campe at Virginia Tech. The school sending him the most mail is Virginia. He has offers from OSU, Indiana, Akron, and Michigan State.

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Ray says USC is his "dream school" and he feels like his speed would fit in good there.

This looks like it will be a battle between tOSU and USC. I think this one is going to be interesting.

[wadc45]

This is going to be a battle. Ray has all the makings of the 2006 Recruit Most Likely To Shut Down the Bucknuts Server. Past finalists of this award include:

2002: 1st Mike D'Andrea 2nd Richard Washington 3rd Buster Davis
2003: 1st Louis Irizarry 2nd Shawn Crable/Prescott Burgess 3rd Stanley McClover
2004: 1st Fred Davis 2nd Dwayne Jarrett 3rd Xavier Lee
2005: 1st Jason Gwaltney 2nd Rico McCoy 3rd Mark Sanchez/Kevin Bemoll

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Ray has all the makings of the 2006 Recruit Most Likely To Shut Down the Bucknuts Server.

[wadc45]

Originally Posted by bucknuts44820

The real funny thing is that despite that update on Rivals, Gary thinks Rose and Small are eventually 100% OSU bound.

[jwinslow]

Originally Posted by wadc45

This is going to be a battle. Ray has all the makings of the 2006 Recruit Most Likely To Shut Down the Bucknuts Server.

I agree that this kid is probably gonna be a stud and a very exciting recruit matchup with USC once again.

However I don't see him tying up the server. We will have Ted Ginn Jr, Jamario O'Neal, Donte Whitner, Welch? (might prove he can cover like he can tackle this year), Lenix (safety perhaps), etc. Who knows, we might even have Rolle on board by the time Small is one of the main remaining targets on the recruiting hunt. I just don't see him being quite as sensational of a recruit as Gwaltney or Dwayne Jarrett. Those two provided us with something we didn't have, the potential for a blockbuster big frame at those two positions, in two areas we desperately needed them (Jarrett just cuz MJ was departing).

Honestly I think there is an outside chance of that award going to the Hornsby-Tebow combined traffic. Hornsby may very well end up at tOSU, and with all of the players we're landing (including maybe two more of his teammates this year at WR), plus the potential to immediately establish ourselves as #2 behind USC in September (Texas, Iowa) gives us a shot at landing Tebow as well. Fortunately QB is not as big of a need, and Hakes might prove to be the mobile QB we want anyway (since we know he'll probably verbal within minutes of receiving an offer).