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What running back(s) do we land in this class?

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What running backs do we land in this class?

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Bestbuck36 said:
Makes perfect sense to me. Take the best available backs left that fit those credentials ie. potential to gain pounds, and fast enough to hit the holes made by those big linemen. I am assuming we aren't going to stop recruiting Wells. My comments were for the remaining backs we go after.

Going after a RB just because he's big enough is stupid. He has to be good enough or we don't need him. Period.
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They have that right now with Haw, why take someone like that will develop in 3 years and be behind Pittman, Haw, and Wells and that makes you lose out of Wells next year. The coaches now what they are doing trust me.

Also they want a big bruiser for next year who can get them the tough yards. Like they did this year when they put Joe and Johnson in the backfield.
 
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Taosman said:
Our fullback recruiting is a mystery to me. I haven't a clue to what the coaches are thinking as far as recruiting goes. Johnson looks promising, Shnitker, hasn't shown much, yet. Don't we need at least one more fullback type recruit? Are we just going to a more spread type offense? Maybe our I-formation days are done. I wonder if JT has a plan at this point?
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I don't think so. You don't need 3 fullbacks on the roster when one is only a sophomore. They'll get one next year to replace Schnittker.

Our most widely-used formation last year didn't even involve a fullback. We're no longer a power-I team at the moment.
 
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Dionte Johnson will be the next Jamar Martin.

Stan White is a good fullback.

Please, people. The staff knows what they are doing. The poster who said that the I formation days are behind us may not be far off.

Things are probably going to be more spread out over the next few years to take advantage of Troy Smith's quicks and the stable of receivers that OSU has put together.
 
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Hey guys first post, but I have been reading these board for what seems like forever... and you guys are doing a great job keeping me up to date with the separate threads of each recruit.

Anyways... with the depletion of our Power-I offense, could this lead to a backfield of Maurice Wells and Chris Wells at the same time in future years where both guys get a good amount of carries? I cannot wait for the opportunity to get Chris Wells in here and make it happen, he seems like a bonafide stud. If you ask me, I would rather take him as our big back next year seeing how there isn't really one available right now that offers what he does. Plus, the less RBs we have the greater probability it is that we can reel him in.
 
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I would agree, I think the concept of spreading defenses out and emphasizing speed players out in space is here to stay at all levels of football. All these smaller schools that came out with a true spread in order to negate other teams talent advantage have shown the way and now teams are using the spread with the type of talent an OSU/OU etc can recruit.

The question of why JT recruits so many DB's goes hand in hand with this. Its definitly the trend for the immediate future in major college football imo.
 
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Since Ringer, Stewart and Gwaltney are off the table, bringing in only 1 Rb in our already-small corps of runners is cause of concern. At least for me. Next year we will have 1 soph rb with experience, 1 rs freshman with no experience and (God-willing) Wells with no experience. Not a warm and fuzzy feeling for me. But I'm just cautious.
 
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JCOSU86 said:
Since Ringer, Stewart and Gwaltney are off the table, bringing in only 1 Rb in our already-small corps of runners is cause of concern. At least for me. Next year we will have 1 soph rb with experience, 1 rs freshman with no experience and (God-willing) Wells with no experience. Not a warm and fuzzy feeling for me. But I'm just cautious.
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Did I miss something, I didn't know that Gwaltney had verbaled yet.
 
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JCOSU86 said:
Since Ringer, Stewart and Gwaltney are off the table, bringing in only 1 Rb in our already-small corps of runners is cause of concern. At least for me. Next year we will have 1 soph rb with experience, 1 rs freshman with no experience and (God-willing) Wells with no experience. Not a warm and fuzzy feeling for me. But I'm just cautious.
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Weren't they also looking at Anderson for possible RB duty? That would make 2 in this class and 2 in hand. Excepting Pittman itt's still light on college experience, long on promise.
 
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JCOSU86 said:
Since Ringer, Stewart and Gwaltney are off the table, bringing in only 1 Rb in our already-small corps of runners is cause of concern. At least for me. Next year we will have 1 soph rb with experience, 1 rs freshman with no experience and (God-willing) Wells with no experience. Not a warm and fuzzy feeling for me. But I'm just cautious.
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Ringer is the only one to have verballed.
 
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JCOSU86 said:
This is true. However, I don't think OSU's chances with Stewart or Gwaltney are very high. Or even existent.
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No chance with Stewart but saying it's over with Gwaltney might be a little premature, especially after recent updates.

Wells or Gwaltney is a must. With only 2 returning scholarship backs, and one of them will be a redshirt freshman, we need bodies pretty bad. Wells and Gwaltney could play here almost immediately. Hopefully both see the opportunity and pull the trigger. Not landing either one would be a major blow(No, I'm not the sky is falling type) to this class.
 
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I honestly think Gwaltney is 50-50 at this point. It's a 2 team race right now (Ohio State and USC). Both Tressel and Pete Caroll still have their in-home visit left with this guy (Caroll gets it after Tressel). It will come down to a battle of the living room. Who will win that battle between Tressel and Caroll? It could go either way in my opinion. This could be a big time rubber recruit. The Tressel vs. Caroll tally looks like this...

Caroll: Fred Davis, Dwayne Jarrett, Jeff Byers, Mark Sanchez
Tressel: Donte Whitner, Ted Ginn Jr., Jamario O'neal, and mostly likely Maurice Wells and Walker Ashley (hopefully both of those guys).

Those are guys that both schools offered and wanted. Jason Gwaltney could be the rubber recruit between Tressel and Caroll. I'm talking about the rubber recruit in overall "quality", not "quantity".
 
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Yeah, Gwaltney said after thinking about all of this that at Usc he might have to sit a year and he couldnt take that and that at Osu he could play early and in BIG games and at WVU he could play early but not in very many big games.
 
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