2025 FL WR Jaime Ffrench Jr (Alabama Decommit)

[RB07OSU]

Meh so glad I don't follow recruiting as religiously as I used to.....














Says the guy posting in BP recruiting thread

I still enjoy following it, but just adjusted expectations of the process that has changed recently. Any Florida WR (or really most positions for that matter) are typically going to take you on a roller-coaster ride until the ink dries, so I just don't get as emotionally invested as before. That or I'm getting older and wiser?

With Ffrench, he would be an incredible pickup and honestly is my favorite WR in the class. But Hartline has proven he will manage just fine at the position (regardless of how exciting it would be to land this kid).

 

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[pnuts34]

Per Tom Loy about the Chad Simmons article:

I still think Ohio State is a VERY big player in the recruitment of Jaime Ffrench.

I'm told Ffrench has continued to make that very clear to the OSU staff, even after this all came out.

 

[pnuts34]

 

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[calibuck]

One knows that tOSU is recruiting at a very high level, when sitting at #2 in nation (with a miserly 12 recruits), and Hartline hasn't even reeled his usual contingent of 4-5*s. Not entirely certain why that is, other than losing 3 out of 4 sophomores to the portal, and competition from other schools with a comparable QB stable, and NIL budgets. Continue to have faith here, but looking for the Maalox on the shelf....completely new dynamics, and really not attuned to it all. But always, Go Bucks!

 

[pnuts34]

One knows that tOSU is recruiting at a very high level, when sitting at #2 in nation (with a miserly 12 recruits), and Hartline hasn't even reeled his usual contingent of 4-5*s. Not entirely certain why that is, other than losing 3 out of 4 sophomores to the portal, and competition from other schools with a comparable QB stable, and NIL budgets. Continue to have faith here, but looking for the Maalox on the shelf....completely new dynamics, and really not attuned to it all. But always, Go Bucks!

I wouldn't expect any 4 or 5star especially at WR to commit until close to their season starting. Too many visits to be had, and money to be made on those visits. If your son was promised $5-10k PER visit to multiple schools im the country, you would want him to commit in April or May and lose out on all of that?! I sure as hell wouldn't.

 

[calibuck]

pnut, a paid vacation to Tuscaloosa isn't exactly my idea of a good time, however, yeah, let the kid take all the trips these colleges are ready to shell out for. Got a chuckle, as one poster said that tOSU is holding up the entire WR contingent, as appears that waiting for tOSU to get their share of top talent means that the second tier cannot commit until some of the upper tier commit to the Buckeyes (liberal interpretation is mine). Agree with what you said, but it merely emphasizes what I said in #96, as Hartline hasn't reeled in his WRs as of today. Reading this and other sites, it also appears that there's going to be some extreme competition from home state schools for these WR talents, but most are readily acknowledging Hartline's outstanding training, use of, and applications thereof WR output in his recruitment. Go Bucks!