2009 Rivals/Scout/etc. National & Regional Rankings

[crazybuckfan40]

Fragel hasn't been to camps and the whole bit to really get noticed...I think he will be a 3 star guy all year, unless Trieu gets him some pull in the scout rankings...

[OSUBuckeye4Life]

Originally Posted by crazybuckfan40

Fragel hasn't been to camps and the whole bit to really get noticed...I think he will be a 3 star guy all year, unless Trieu gets him some pull in the scout rankings...

Exactly what I was going to type. Not to mention the "bias" towards pass catching TE's anyway.

[OregonBuckeye]

Fragel is now a 3* and the 14th ranked TE in the country. That's sounds fair.

[B-town Buckeye]

Rivals did a pretty big update to their positional rankings (adding a lot of kids compared to what they previously listed).

Here's a breakdown of OSU commits as well as some other targets and other Ohio kids.


OSU Commits
Chris Fields - No. 13 WR ****
James Jackson - No. 28 WR ****
Reid Fragel - No. 14 TE ***
Corey Linsley - No. 8 OG ****
Jack Mewhort - No. 3 OC ****
Melvin Fellows - No. 3 SDE ****
John Simon - No. 10 DT ****
Adam Bellamy - No. 37 DT ***
Jordan Whiting - No. 4 ILB ****
Adam Homan - No. 38 ILB ***
Dorian Bell - No. 2 OLB *****
CJ Barnett - No. 5 CB ****
Dominic Clarke - No. 24 CB ****
Jamie Wood - No. 2 S ****
Storm Klein - No. 14 ATH ****
Jordan Hall - No. 31 ATH ****
Zach Boren - No. 64 ATH ***


Others
Patrick Nicely - No. 18 pro-style QB ***
Jaamal Berry - No. 4 RB ****
Bud Golden - No. 15 RB ****
Fitz Toussaint - No. 11 All-purpose RB **** (Michigan)
Carlos Hyde - No. 2 FB ****
Marlon Brown - No. 2 WR *****
J. Boyd - No. 7 WR ****
Kraig Appleton - No. 10 WR ****
Terence Davis - No. 31 WR ****
Patrick White - No. 53 WR *** (Sparty)
Bryan Underwood - No. 56 WR ***
Duron Carter - No. 73 WR ***
Dion Sims - No. 7 TE ****
Rasheded Hageman - No. 11 TE ***
Marcus Hall - No. 4 OT ****
Sam Longo - No. 20 OT ***
Hugh Thornton - No. 27 OT ***
John Prior - No. 38 OT ***
Chris Freeman - No. 42 OT ***
Chris Watt - No. 2 OG ****
Ryan Spiker - No. 31 OG ***
Nate Klatt - No. 4 OC ****
Ricky Harris - NR OC ***
Tank Carradine - No. 14 WDE ***
Jonathan Newsome - No. 18 WDE ***
Pat Muldoon - No. 26 WDE ***
DeOnte Arnett - No. 11 SDE ****
Davon Custis - No. 26 SDE ***
Corey Adams - No. 8 DT ****
Tyron Ezell - No. 35 DT ***
Quan Fletcher - No. 45 ILB ***
Frankie Telfort - No. 6 OLB ****
Dan Fox - No. 13 OLB **** (Domers)
Denicos Allen - No. 32 OLB ***
Chris Snook - No. 41 OLB *** (WVU)
Justin Green - No. 6 CB ****
Brandon McGee - No. 9 CB ****
DJ Hunter - No. 14 CB ****
Chris Williams - No. 18 CB ****
Darrell Givens - No. 20 CB **** (Penn State)
Mike Edwards - No. 50 CB ***
Roderick Sweeting - No. 59 CB ***
Justin Turner - No. 3 S **** (Michigan)
Bradley McDougald - No. 10 S ****
Vlad Emilien - No. 15 S ****
Isaiah Bell - No. 32 S *** (Michigan)
Corey Brown - No. 5 ATH ****
Victor Marc - No. 36 ATH ***
EJ Banks - No. 42 ATH ***
Darrell Mason - No. 56 ATH ***

[akgoel77]

Originally Posted by B-town Buckeye

Rivals did a pretty big update to their positional rankings (adding a lot of kids compared to what they previously listed).

Here's a breakdown of OSU commits as well as some other targets and other Ohio kids.


OSU Commits

Zach Boren - No. 64 ATH ***

Rivals has Zack Boren listed under ATH position? He's athletic for his position I suppose, but I wouldn't classify him as an Athlete per se.

[tsteele316]

Originally Posted by akgoel77

Rivals has Zack Boren listed under ATH position? He's athletic for his position I suppose, but I wouldn't classify him as an Athlete per se.

every kid with a D1 college football scholarship offer is an athlete.

athlete is a category used for kids that can play more than one position, usually on either side of the ball.

for example, boren is considered a lb/fb, so he's listed as an athlete.
kids like corey brown that are considered a wr/cb fall into this category as well.

generally rivals puts kids in the athlete category when they have offers from schools for each of those positions.

[akgoel77]

Originally Posted by tsteele316

every kid with a D1 college football scholarship offer is an athlete.

athlete is a category used for kids that can play more than one position, usually on either side of the ball.

for example, boren is considered a lb/fb, so he's listed as an athlete.
kids like corey brown that are considered a wr/cb fall into this category as well.

generally rivals puts kids in the athlete category when they have offers from schools for each of those positions.

I see...thanks...that's good info. I assumed the Athlete position was reserved for guys like Teddy, Harvin, and Debose for this year. But I see what you are saying...I guess that makes sense.

[t_BuckeyeScott]

Didn't ask this but here

Pappy: Las Vegas, NV: Tom, in your most recent recruiting class rankings you placed Ohio State at #4, and you went on to justify the ranking by saying quote "Yes, the Buckeyes have 16 commitments and this class is very strong, but we cannot put Ohio State ahead of LSU and Georgia until these prospects prove their worth on the field." Please, please, please, explain what you mean by that. Isn't kind of hard to prove your worth until ANY of these kids see the field? Why are the Ohio St. recruits any different from the SEC school recruits at this stage in the game?

Tom Luginbill: We would be glad to address what we meant when we said "prove it on the field". Looking back, the statement could have been worded better, but no answer we give now will make any OSU fans happy and we understand that.

Tom Luginbill: What we meant simply is this- In our opinion despite OSU having 16 verbal commitments, we do not feel that a few of those are OSU ca