In this episode of the Buckeye Weekly podcast, Tony Gerdeman and Tom Orr discuss a recent Twitter poll asking Ohio State fans if they would accept a loss to Michigan this year if it meant the college football season would begin on time and unencumbered. They then discuss Friday’s conference call with Ohio State football’s director of recruiting Mark Pantoni.
His official title is Assistant Athletic Director, Player Personnel, but Mark Pantoni is better known as the recruiting director for the Ohio State football program. On Friday, Pantoni took part in a conference call with the assembled Ohio State football beat to answer questions on how operations have changed under quarantine and how the Buckeyes…
Along with ranking recruits, the fine folks over at 247Sports also rank the assistant coaches doing the recruiting. They are awarded points for the commitments they receive as the primary or secondary recruiter for a given prospect. As the assistant coaches land commitments, they move up and down the rankings. And since recruiting is the only sport going…
Ryan Day and his coaching staff have signed two classes at Ohio State and are a little more than halfway through putting their third class together. Day’s first class (2019) ranked 14th nationally, but that’s because it was a small class with just 17 signees. The average ranking per player, however, was third-highest in the nation, behind only Alabama and Georgia.
Dunn attends South Warren High School in Bowling Green, Kentucky. A 6-foot-2, 180-pound prospect, Dunn is the No. 22 Athlete in the 2021 class and the No. 318 player in the 247Sports Composite. The Buckeyes are interested in Dunn as a safety. Last May, Dunn was clocked at 4.54 in the 40-yard dash and posted a shuttle of 4.15 seconds and a vertical of 40.8 inches.
Hudson Wolfe, a 4-star tight end from Tennessee, just listed the Buckeyes as one of his five top schools. Joining Ohio State in that group are four programs from the SEC: Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss, and Tennessee.
Henderson (5-11 195) attends Hopewell High School in Hopewell, Virginia and is the No. 2 running back in the nation per the 247Sports Composite. He is ranked the No. 17 player in the nation overall and the No. 3 player in the state of Virginia. In 247Sports’ own rankings, Henderson is the top running back and the No. 11 player overall.
Every year around this time, people start looking at the best-case scenario for Ohio State’s recruiting class, and every year there is potential for a truly incredible class. Of course, never once has the best-case scenario actually occurred. Even the 2017 class, which featured five players in…
We began our Social Distancing series examining the recruiting of Michigan and Ohio State on Thursday with a broad look overall at the two rosters and the respective rankings of their scholarship players as recruits. Now we move forward with a more compartmental look, concentrating our focus on distinct areas of the field and how they compare. Today, we’ll take…
If your hypothesis is that Ohio State football has distanced itself from Michigan football, all you’d really need to prove it is the scoreboard since 2001. Even more recently, the Buckeyes have won eight in a row over the Wolverines, with the last two getting very out of hand. The concerning thing for the Michigan football program, however, is that if you look at the compositions…
With the addition of four-star CB Andre Turrentine on Tuesday, Ohio State has now added four players to its class of 2021 in the past three days.
