Recruiting update

[cavincali]

I WANT PRYOR.

Sounds like we are losing a recruit, 4 or 5 star, because of a rape case. Now we might go after a running back from Texas that verbal'd UCLA.

 

[Style]

Sounds like we are losing a recruit, 4 or 5 star, because of a rape case. Now we might go after a running back from Texas that verbal'd UCLA.

I was never that sold on Torrence, so I'm not too upset. He seemed like a second tier kind of back, and at OSU we should never take 2nd tier RBs. We're basically RB University.

As far as needing to replace Torrence in this class goes, we have 4 scholarship RBs on the roster currently, 5 if Hines has indeed switched positions as rumored, and they're all back next year. In other words, we don't need to start chasing guys who've committed to other schools who are extreme long shots. There are plenty of top tier kids still available who have real interest in being Buckeyes. The coaches will just go harder after those kids.

 

[Style]

FWIW:

Steve Helwagen (Dec 14, 2007 1:26:15 PM)
Lots of questions on DeVoe. On the record, his coach Tom Stacy told Bill Kurelic he thinks Ohio State will sign him. He did not say, however, the last time OSU had even been to the school or when, pray tell, DeVoe might make an official visit (to my knowledge that has not happened yet). ...

Steve Helwagen (Dec 14, 2007 1:27:28 PM)
You have to hope for the best for the kid and hope he is not involved in a lot of the things that have been reported, even on Cleveland TV, about what allegedly went down at Massillon.

http://www.bucknuts.com/news/story.php?article=2476

 

[Style]

Shawntel Rowell is in the fold.

Scout profile: http://ohiostate.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p=8&c=1&nid=2938893
ESPN proofile: http://www.bucknuts.com/football/recruiting/recruit-detail.php?recruit_id=42

He's a decent prospect (3 stars, offers from Illinois, BC, WVU, Oklahoma State), but not a great prospect. With the limited number of schollies we have left, I want only great prospects to close the class. Now, if he gray shirts, as is speculated with a few of the Glenville kids, I'm all for it. Next year we have a bazillion scholarships.

 

[MarkPrice25]

Style,

With RR being the new coach at UM, does the fact that he's going to run the spread mean that Pryor will go there?

I'd love to have him, but if we don't get him, I don't want him to end up in Michigan. Any news on where he's leaning?

 

[Style]

Pryor now has UM back in the running, but is suppose to still have OSU as his solid #1. We're just going to have to wait this one out.

 

[Style]

John Simon is now the third member of the class of 2009.

ESPN Profile: http://www.bucknuts.com/football/recruiting/recruit-detail.php?recruit_id=89
Scout Profile: http://ohiostate.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p=8&c=1&nid=3202295

He's a 5 star DT with offers from ND, Stanford, Iowa, BC, Nebraska, Illinois, and Pitt. He can bench 225 31x as a high school junior, and has good enough grades/test scores to get an offer from Stanford.

Good get by JT.

In other recruiting news, the #1 guard in the country, Jenkins, has now renounced his commitment to WVU and is openly proclaiming OSU as his leader. 2008 is shaping up to have the greatest OL class OSU has ever had.

 

[Hurl Bruce]

With or without Pryor, this is one helluva class for OSU. Pryor is going to be a head scratcher until LOI day.

If he picks OSU, he is awesome and a stud.

If he doesn't, then he is a prima donna and we never really wanted him anyway.

 

[cavincali]

John Simon is now the third member of the class of 2009.

ESPN Profile: http://www.bucknuts.com/football/recruiting/recruit-detail.php?recruit_id=89
Scout Profile: http://ohiostate.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p=8&c=1&nid=3202295

He's a 5 star DT with offers from ND, Stanford, Iowa, BC, Nebraska, Illinois, and Pitt. He can bench 225 31x as a high school junior, and has good enough grades/test scores to get an offer from Stanford.

Good get by JT.

In other recruiting news, the #1 guard in the country, Jenkins, has now renounced his commitment to WVU and is openly proclaiming OSU as his leader. 2008 is shaping up to have the greatest OL class OSU has ever had.

that school in ytown is producing a lot of D-1 players

 

[Style]

that school in ytown is producing a lot of D-1 players

Yep. And they're saying Simon could be the best yet. Those weight room numbers are eye popping, that's for sure. Consider those would be good for a NFL DL, and he's just a 250 lb high school junior.

With or without Pryor, this is one helluva class for OSU. Pryor is going to be a head scratcher until LOI day.

If he picks OSU, he is awesome and a stud.

If he doesn't, then he is a prima donna and we never really wanted him anyway.

lol. Yeah.

The class of 2009 is now 2 members heavier:

OL Jack Mewhort - http://ohiostate.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p=8&c=1&nid=3446524
FB Adam Homan - http://ohiostate.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p=8&c=1&nid=3498535

There isn't much available in the scouting reports on these kids yet. I'm sure we'll find out more soon.

With the class of 2008 done early, as JT is basically just waiting on Pryor and Jenkins, they're getting a nice head start on 2009. Which is great timing, since they have so many scholarships next year.

 

[cavincali]

Style, how does Tressel compare to Cooper when it comes to recruiting? Cooper seemed to get a lot of studs but they got in a lot of trouble, where Tressel seems to get a lot of average 3-4 stars and make them studs.

 

[Style]

Tressel gets plenty of studs. It'd be an interesting study to see what the average star rating was on Cooper's recruits vs JT's. I bet they're about the same. Now, Cooper tended to have higher ranked classes on the whole, but that was more b/c of quantity than quality (relative to JT's, that is). JT doesn't have half the attrition that Cooper had, b/c he gets good students who stay out of trouble. B/c of that, he ends up not being able to take as many kids as Cooper did, since those scholarships aren't opening up when the kid stays in school. So what you have is JT's classes usually number between 18 and 22, Cooper's between 22 and 25. Quantity does matter when they're ranking the classes, so JT doesn't get in the top 5 nearly as much as Cooper. JT is usually in the top 5 for average star ranking, however.

Make sense?

 

[cavincali]

Tressel gets plenty of studs. It'd be an interesting study to see what the average star rating was on Cooper's recruits vs JT's. I bet they're about the same. Now, Cooper tended to have higher ranked classes on the whole, but that was more b/c of quantity than quality (relative to JT's, that is). JT doesn't have half the attrition that Cooper had, b/c he gets good students who stay out of trouble. B/c of that, he ends up not being able to take as many kids as Cooper did, since those scholarships aren't opening up when the kid stays in school. So what you have is JT's classes usually number between 18 and 22, Cooper's between 22 and 25. Quantity does matter when they're ranking the classes, so JT doesn't get in the top 5 nearly as much as Cooper. JT is usually in the top 5 for average star ranking, however.

Make sense?

Yes Sir.

 

[Style]

Future Buckeyes Brewster, Posey, and Buchanan each won the Maxwell Award for being the top OL, WR, and P in the country. Pryor won the QB version:

http://www.bucknuts.com/news/story.php?article=2638