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tOSU Transfer Portal Recruiting Discussion

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We’re like that guy in the fantasy league that just drafts players from his favorite team and can’t understand why he doesn’t win the league. We love sitting back and hoping the in house guys we have pan out.

Worked soooooo great last year on the OL. Hopefully this year we can do better than a guy who needed the entire year just to reach “decent” and a G-tier backup center.

I understand that we had some young guys who can get better going into 2024 but that line was so bad all year that there’s absolutely zero justification for not trying to go after upgrades in the portal.

Our starters were average at their best last year and the staff outright admitted none of the backups were close to competing for time. What the hell are we doing here.
 
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I think OSU continues to play the long-game when it comes to traditional recruiting (HS players) and take a more deliberate approach to transfer portal.

Ideally, you get the elite talent, develop it, and they're on their way to NFL after year 3 or an established player in year 4 and likely mid round pick. I think people's perception has changed a bit and are over-emphasizing the transfer portal. I like the Georgia and Alabama approach, which is to look to fill a void in roster with 3-4 incoming transfers instead of trying to overhaul the roster year-in, year-out like Michigan, FSU, and Colorado's of the world. I'm a broken record, but with the Covid year expiring, that extra year of eligibility is gone, and taking flyers on 1 year players just isn't always worth what you'd think.....very little time in system, a huge disrupter in locker-room, easy negative recruiting material for competitors, and no guarantee they'll live up to the hype they bring in with them.

To summarize.....I think the portal started at same time as a century event (the covid pandemic) and the result is this chaos of mass transfers. As things settle down, we'll see the traditional power-houses continue to crush college football with elite HS recruiting and development.
 
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billmac91 said:
I think OSU continues to play the long-game when it comes to traditional recruiting (HS players) and take a more deliberate approach to transfer portal.

Ideally, you get the elite talent, develop it, and they're on their way to NFL after year 3 or an established player in year 4 and likely mid round pick. I think people's perception has changed a bit and are over-emphasizing the transfer portal. I like the Georgia and Alabama approach, which is to look to fill a void in roster with 3-4 incoming transfers instead of trying to overhaul the roster year-in, year-out like Michigan, FSU, and Colorado's of the world. I'm a broken record, but with the Covid year expiring, that extra year of eligibility is gone, and taking flyers on 1 year players just isn't always worth what you'd think.....very little time in system, a huge disrupter in locker-room, easy negative recruiting material for competitors, and no guarantee they'll live up to the hype they bring in with them.

To summarize.....I think the portal started at same time as a century event (the covid pandemic) and the result is this chaos of mass transfers. As things settle down, we'll see the traditional power-houses continue to crush college football with elite HS recruiting and development.
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I agree with a lot of what you said and I don’t think building entirely through the portal is a sustainable way to run a program.

That said, I think you do have to be honest in certain situations about the quality of some units on your team. The fact of the matter is Studrawa sucked at recruiting and left our cupboards near bare. If there’s a time and a circumstance where you try to use the portal to upgrade the majority of a unit, it’s right now in this circumstance.

Day is doing the team a disservice by acting like these guys (hinzman aside) are magically going to take a huge leap forward going into 2024. It’s a pipe dream.
 
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billmac91 said:
I think OSU continues to play the long-game when it comes to traditional recruiting (HS players) and take a more deliberate approach to transfer portal.

Ideally, you get the elite talent, develop it, and they're on their way to NFL after year 3 or an established player in year 4 and likely mid round pick. I think people's perception has changed a bit and are over-emphasizing the transfer portal. I like the Georgia and Alabama approach, which is to look to fill a void in roster with 3-4 incoming transfers instead of trying to overhaul the roster year-in, year-out like Michigan, FSU, and Colorado's of the world. I'm a broken record, but with the Covid year expiring, that extra year of eligibility is gone, and taking flyers on 1 year players just isn't always worth what you'd think.....very little time in system, a huge disrupter in locker-room, easy negative recruiting material for competitors, and no guarantee they'll live up to the hype they bring in with them.

To summarize.....I think the portal started at same time as a century event (the covid pandemic) and the result is this chaos of mass transfers. As things settle down, we'll see the traditional power-houses continue to crush college football with elite HS recruiting and development.
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Agree except OSU hasn’t been recruiting HS OL at an elite level for a while now.

If you are going to fix a big problem area on the roster then the portal is the only way to do it.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Agree except OSU hasn’t been recruiting HS OL at an elite level for a while now.

If you are going to fix a big problem area on the roster then the portal is the only way to do it.
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Not sure what the strategy is here. Recruiting hasn’t been elite, development has been underwhelming, and portal activity appears to be minimal.

The team is built on a high octane offense, so you would think elite line play would be key for offensive efficiency. Not putting all the dysfunction on the Oline but it was a chunk of it.
 
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Elijah Pritchett from Alabama hit the portal, was a 5* recruit in 2022 but stuck behind Proctor and I assume Miles McVay is ahead of him at RT.

I assume most of these kids stay south, but outside of Cayden Green who seems destined for Oregon he's likely to be the top OT imo.

He went to Carver HS in Columbus, GA which also just so happens to be Tim Walton's alma mater.
 
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bigdog3300 said:
Elijah Pritchett from Alabama hit the portal, was a 5* recruit in 2022 but stuck behind Proctor and I assume Miles McVay is ahead of him at RT.

I assume most of these kids stay south, but outside of Cayden Green who seems destined for Oregon he's likely to be the top OT imo.

He went to Carver HS in Columbus, GA which also just so happens to be Tim Walton's alma mater.
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buckeyemania11 said:
Gonna have to hit the portal extra hard for DL with how this class is looking like it might end.
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don't worry we're gonna convince 4 good/decent players that they should come back... so they can play 90% of the snaps.... because its worked really well for us the last couple of years...
 
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