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2018 tOSU Recruiting Discussion

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ShowMeBuck said:
I'm kinda thinking Smith to PSU and Oweh to the Good Guys. Parsons.....cloudy. Seems to have cooled mightily but it's sort of ironic the staff seems to still be pursuing Carman with a longer drama and no apology post OUgate. Guess the Parsons background makes it more telling but seems weird to me.

My wish list in importance is:

OT- NPF (I'm a bad speller)
CB - Cook, got to have shut down corners at all times. The expected drop off this year sucks.
WR- Babb, still feels like we need legit WRs not speedy converts. With a major bounty of QBs and the OL looking to improve, just need some good route runners to make the offense click.
OT- Carman, yeah of course I want him but if NPF was in the fold he would fall to 4 on my list. But I'd love 3 OT types in the class.
DE- Oweh, major upside and seems like solid head on his shoulders.
DE - Parsons, yeah I'd take him in a heart beat and I think Smith with head to PSU.
DT - Togiai, win in the trenches and you are always in contention. Getting Vincent and Jackson is huge already but this team will REALLY his Dre'mont next year. Sprinkle and Hill will be missed too (Hill is still a Buckeye right?) but losing Dre'mont will be a major hit.
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I know you said it was a wishlist, but NPF is a wish and nothing more at this point...if he leaves the south, it will be to ND barring a miracle. Carman is MUCH more likely and more game-ready imo. Agree with most of the rest but hoping we at least get one of Smith or Parsons, losing both to PSU would sting.
 
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Tanner said:
Really was a disastrous game on multiple levels. Only good that came out of it was showing to the coaches definitively that the passing offense was broken.
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Pass defense wasn't much better... If I'm Cook, Woodbey, Proctor, Banks or any other 2018 recruit at DB that OSU is pursuing, I would think I could be in the 2 deep as a true by mid season. Okudah has to be close to seeing time with Sheffield and Arnette playing so poor
 
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To show just how badly Ohio State is dominating recruiting this year (so far), per 247's composite rankings Ohio State is #1 with a score of 298.55. The #2 position is held by Texas who is nearly 20 points behind with 279.16 points, despite having the same amount of commits as Ohio State (18). The Pedsters are at #3, but have five more commits (23) and are over 26 points behind (272.11). Ohio State's average recruiting score is a full two points better than Texas (95.08 to 93.02), and about four and a half points better than the Pedsters (90.65). Michigan is at #14 with 214.11 points (14 commits) and a recruit average of 89.81.

EDIT: We also have 12 players in the top 100 (3, 13, 19, 22, 25, 33, 36, 37, 62, 85, 86, 98), including 3 who are #1 in the country at their position, 3 who are #2 at their position, 2 who are #3 at their position, and 3 who are #4 at their position.
 
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Texas hot on our heals. Really came out of no where. Last year was a blast getting so much talent out of Texas, this year I feel we need Cook. Next year, that's gonna be tough. Herman can recruit, they got the snake oil salesman, and when in the hell did Stan Drayton come back to college?
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
Texas hot on our heals. Really came out of no where. Last year was a blast getting so much talent out of Texas, this year I feel we need Cook. Next year, that's gonna be tough. Herman can recruit, they got the snake oil salesman, and when in the hell did Stan Drayton come back to college?
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That's fine, it seems like every year the staff changes up their state to target in accordance with the main school's coach being on the hot seat. A few years ago it was GA(we whiffed big time on a bunch of those kids) as well as South FL(we had better results), last year it was TX, next year and this year seems to be TN. Losing out on TX won't be as big of a loss, considering OSU still can hit the Mid Atlantic (VA, MD, DC), NJ, as well as continuing to being able to pluck kids from FL(it will be interesting if that trend continues with Miami winning), GA and TSUN. And it helps that the staff will even go to never before recruited states as well
 
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Bill Lucas said:
VA, MD, DC and NJ are much tougher to recruit when PSU is good. They have a deeper history in those areas than Ohio State.
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They have a deeper history because LJsr... Let's not get it twisted and think that JoePa himself went after those regions hard. LJsr is a legend in VA, MD and DC, and if you notice what MANY of the top recruits in that region say, they remember their older siblings, coaches or even parents being recruited by LJsr, or have heard stories about his coaching past in the DMV. If it wasn't for LJsr, Ped St, wouldn't have such a foothold in the DMV, now OSU is in that fight. It only helps that OSU now has their foot in the door with Good Counsel, DeMatha and The Bullis School, and has been able to go toe to toe with Ped St and MD and win a 5star kid like Isiah Prince
 
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