CBF40'S Look at '09 recruiting

[OregonBuckeye]

Originally Posted by Tresselbeliever

Corner is thin but safety is not, at least not on numbers.

I don't think either spot is particularly thin but I'd be more concerned about safety than corner and I think the coaches are too. Barnett and McGee are the only true corners we're after. Brown, Banks, and Clarke are tweeners. McDougald, Emilien, and Wood are safeties. Coleman and Russell are known commodities but they are juniors this year. After them, there are a lot of unknowns. Clifford has all the potential in the world but he keeps screwing up. O'Neal and Patterson are gone after this year for sure. That leaves Oliver, Pentello, Johnson, and Domicone(unless I'm forgetting someone), all of which are unknowns.

[Oh8ch]

I have a theory that the staff maybe slowplaying all the DB prospects to find out whether Washington, Russell, Coleman are leaving first

The number of offers seems inconsistent with that theory. I don't see any evidence that it is JT who is asking these kids not to pull the trigger. The Clarke offer following the Givens decommit would indicate just the opposite.

[MUBuck]

Originally Posted by OregonBuckeye

I don't think either spot is particularly thin but I'd be more concerned about safety than corner and I think the coaches are too. Barnett and McGee are the only true corners we're after. Brown, Banks, and Clarke are tweeners. McDougald, Emilien, and Wood are safeties. Coleman and Russell are known commodities but they are juniors this year. After them, there are a lot of unknowns. Clifford has all the potential in the world but he keeps screwing up. O'Neal and Patterson are gone after this year for sure. That leaves Oliver, Pentello, Johnson, and Domicone(unless I'm forgetting someone), all of which are unknowns.

Not that it affects your point, but Gant will also be back.

[OregonBuckeye]

Originally Posted by MUBuck

Not that it affects your point, but Gant will also be back.

I knew I forgot someone! Thanks.

[Tresselbeliever]

Originally Posted by OregonBuckeye

I don't think either spot is particularly thin but I'd be more concerned about safety than corner and I think the coaches are too. Barnett and McGee are the only true corners we're after. Brown, Banks, and Clarke are tweeners. McDougald, Emilien, and Wood are safeties. Coleman and Russell are known commodities but they are juniors this year. After them, there are a lot of unknowns. Clifford has all the potential in the world but he keeps screwing up. O'Neal and Patterson are gone after this year for sure. That leaves Oliver, Pentello, Johnson, and Domicone(unless I'm forgetting someone), all of which are unknowns.

Likewise, the corner position also has a few relative unknowns. Chekwa has shown promise but can he step into a lockdown corner role? Can Amos stay healthy and pick up where he left off? Given the past off the field problems, will Washington stay another year after this year?

Corners are more valuable. Barnett is a good start. Hunter would be another good addition but obviously something is not working out there. Banks would be huge. Brown and Green are a couple of other good looking prospects. I think the urgency here is corner, and I think they'd wait on a corner, but not on a safety.

[Tresselbeliever]

Originally Posted by Oh8ch

The number of offers seems inconsistent with that theory. I don't see any evidence that it is JT who is asking these kids not to pull the trigger. The Clarke offer following the Givens decommit would indicate just the opposite.

Thats true. However, McDougald and Green are saying that they want to take visits...like everyone else, I have no clue what the strategy is.

[emu]

Considering all the recruits with offers who are "slow playing" it, I'm inclined to think that the staff isn't throwing out this supposed "first come first serve" strategy that's being implied here and elsewhere. There are a number of players who know they want to be Buckeyes but are making 100% sure by looking around. If the staff were taking the first ones to commit you would have thought they would have been letting the recruits know constantly. I just believe that the staff is more inclined to wait on kids than what is being projected on message boards.

For example, McDougle, Brown, Muldoon would absolutely not be looking around if the staff was telling them they're going to take the first ones to commit. They'd all be Buckeyes by now.

[MONTbigBuck]

I just believe that the staff is more inclined to wait on kids than what is being projected on message boards.

For example, McDougle, Brown, Muldoon would absolutely not be looking around if the staff was telling them they're going to take the first ones to commit. They'd all be Buckeyes by now.[/quote]

Normally, I would agree Emu, but not this year. There are just too many offers out there to conclude that the staff is not trying to get the foundation of this class in place asap. If Muldoon is some sort of silent verbal, then why the later offers to guys like Ezell, Lolata, and the DE from MD who's name escapes me. These offers would have to be in some way Conditional in that scenario, otherwise why make them at all. Same with all the db's. If things continue to break in the Bucks favor, it isn't inconcievable that we could have 22-23 committed players by this time in July. If we are going to oversign, I would think it would be out of the pool of high-profile national recruits that we are in on. Would that pool include guys like Muldoon, Banks, Green, or the TE's? Don't Know.