Dutch's Random Ohio State Droppings
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A few more OSU droppings...
1. Like I said before, it appears almost every Buckeye who could leave early for the NFL is returning to Columbus, and this now includes CB Denzel Burke. He was projected as a fringe first rounder/2nd rounder, but decided to return for his senior year.
2. Ryan Day fired special teams coach Parker Fleming today, and here's to him promoting James Laurinaitis into the position. It's time he was made a full-time coach, and Laurinaitis could become a recruiter for the defense like Brian Hartline is for the offense.
3. Larry Johnson has been a godsend for Ohio State since bolting Happy Valley almost a decade ago, but the DLine coach is not getting younger. (He's older than the subject of the next dropping, actually) Here's a rumor of a potential replacement: Akron Zips alum, Miami Dolphins HOF DE Jason Taylor. Talk about a potential recruiting monster.
4 With Nick Saban's abrupt retirement, the transfer portal opens up for Alabama immediately for 30 days. Stud safety Caleb Downs instantly started following 10 Ohio State players. It's going to be a feeding frenzy down in Tuscaloosa for the month, and if Alabama poaches a HC from another program, like Oregon's Dan Lanning or Clemson't Dabo Swinney, for example, well that school would also have their transfer portal open.
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A few more OSU droppings...
1. Like I said before, it appears almost every Buckeye who could leave early for the NFL is returning to Columbus, and this now includes CB Denzel Burke. He was projected as a fringe first rounder/2nd rounder, but decided to return for his senior year.
2. Ryan Day fired special teams coach Parker Fleming today, and here's to him promoting James Laurinaitis into the position. It's time he was made a full-time coach, and Laurinaitis could become a recruiter for the defense like Brian Hartline is for the offense.
3. Larry Johnson has been a godsend for Ohio State since bolting Happy Valley almost a decade ago, but the DLine coach is not getting younger. (He's older than the subject of the next dropping, actually) Here's a rumor of a potential replacement: Akron Zips alum, Miami Dolphins HOF DE Jason Taylor. Talk about a potential recruiting monster.
4 With Nick Saban's abrupt retirement, the transfer portal opens up for Alabama immediately for 30 days. Stud safety Caleb Downs instantly started following 10 Ohio State players. It's going to be a feeding frenzy down in Tuscaloosa for the month, and if Alabama poaches a HC from another program, like Oregon's Dan Lanning or Clemson't Dabo Swinney, for example, well that school would also have their transfer portal open.
A few more OSU droppings...
4 With Nick Saban's abrupt retirement, the transfer portal opens up for Alabama immediately for 30 days. Stud safety Caleb Downs instantly started following 10 Ohio State players. It's going to be a feeding frenzy down in Tuscaloosa for the month, and if Alabama poaches a HC from another program, like Oregon's Dan Lanning or Clemson't Dabo Swinney, for example, well that school would also have their transfer portal open.
#4. I saw that one coming for the past few years. The crown is now open to be passed on to ( someone ). What school or head will get it ???
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A few more OSU droppings...
4 With Nick Saban's abrupt retirement, the transfer portal opens up for Alabama immediately for 30 days. Stud safety Caleb Downs instantly started following 10 Ohio State players. It's going to be a feeding frenzy down in Tuscaloosa for the month, and if Alabama poaches a HC from another program, like Oregon's Dan Lanning or Clemson't Dabo Swinney, for example, well that school would also have their transfer portal open.
#4. I saw that one coming for the past few years. The crown is now open to be passed on to ( someone ). What school or head will get it ???
#4. I saw that one coming for the past few years. The crown is now open to be passed on to ( someone ). What school or head will get it ???
I believe it was all ready Georgia, If we were at a 12 team playoff this year they could have won three staright
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J.T. Tuimoloau will be coming back to Ohio State this season for his senior season.
I believe underclassmen have until Monday to declare for the NFL Draft, and OSU is still waiting on RB Treveyon Henderson's decision. With the exception of DT Mike Hall and WR Marvin Harrison Jr, all other underclassmen eligible to leave early for the draft have decided to remain in Columbus.
Edit: It has just been announced that RB Treveyon Henderson will be returning to Ohio State in 2024.
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You are about to get the biggest Aggie joke who single handedly wrecked the 2023 A&M team by firing Jimbo prematurely. That opened up the team to massive portal declarations which then opened it up further to NFL declarations, which also wrecked the recruitment that was at the time in the top 5 in the nation. We got raided by other college programs and by the NFL to the point we had only 55 scholarship players in our bowl game with two walkons and a true freshman in our D backfield and half the DL's missing plus our best offensive and defensive players headed for the draft. And committed recruits dropped for 20 to 14 almost overnight with those 6 coming right off the top of the list almost exclusively to SEC teams/rivals. (Are you listening Michigan?)
At the very least he should have waited until after the season was over. Or realized for two strait seasons Jimbo was relying on 3rd string or worse QBs (bad injury bug) barely into SEC play.
Good luck.
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You are about to get the biggest Aggie joke who single handedly wrecked the 2023 A&M team by firing Jimbo prematurely. That opened up the team to massive portal declarations which then opened it up further to NFL declarations, which also wrecked the recruitment that was at the time in the top 5 in the nation. We got raided by other college programs and by the NFL to the point we had only 55 scholarship players in our bowl game with two walkons and a true freshman in our D backfield and half the DL's missing plus our best offensive and defensive players headed for the draft. And committed recruits dropped for 20 to 14 almost overnight with those 6 coming right off the top of the list almost exclusively to SEC teams/rivals. (Are you listening Michigan?)
At the very least he should have waited until after the season was over. Or realized for two strait seasons Jimbo was relying on 3rd string or worse QBs (bad injury bug) barely into SEC play.
Good luck.
You are about to get the biggest Aggie joke who single handedly wrecked the 2023 A&M team by firing Jimbo prematurely. That opened up the team to massive portal declarations which then opened it up further to NFL declarations, which also wrecked the recruitment that was at the time in the top 5 in the nation. We got raided by other college programs and by the NFL to the point we had only 55 scholarship players in our bowl game with two walkons and a true freshman in our D backfield and half the DL's missing plus our best offensive and defensive players headed for the draft. And committed recruits dropped for 20 to 14 almost overnight with those 6 coming right off the top of the list almost exclusively to SEC teams/rivals. (Are you listening Michigan?)
At the very least he should have waited until after the season was over. Or realized for two strait seasons Jimbo was relying on 3rd string or worse QBs (bad injury bug) barely into SEC play.
Good luck.
Because your program just paid players. The stuff you technically can't do with NIL but plenty of schools do anyway. Those players had no commitment to the school, coach, etc... just the cash.
Is it really any surprise they all left immediately for greener pastures?
A&M dug their own grave here
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You are about to get the biggest Aggie joke who single handedly wrecked the 2023 A&M team by firing Jimbo prematurely. That opened up the team to massive portal declarations which then opened it up further to NFL declarations, which also wrecked the recruitment that was at the time in the top 5 in the nation. We got raided by other college programs and by the NFL to the point we had only 55 scholarship players in our bowl game with two walkons and a true freshman in our D backfield and half the DL's missing plus our best offensive and defensive players headed for the draft. And committed recruits dropped for 20 to 14 almost overnight with those 6 coming right off the top of the list almost exclusively to SEC teams/rivals. (Are you listening Michigan?)
At the very least he should have waited until after the season was over. Or realized for two strait seasons Jimbo was relying on 3rd string or worse QBs (bad injury bug) barely into SEC play.
Good luck.
You are about to get the biggest Aggie joke who single handedly wrecked the 2023 A&M team by firing Jimbo prematurely. That opened up the team to massive portal declarations which then opened it up further to NFL declarations, which also wrecked the recruitment that was at the time in the top 5 in the nation. We got raided by other college programs and by the NFL to the point we had only 55 scholarship players in our bowl game with two walkons and a true freshman in our D backfield and half the DL's missing plus our best offensive and defensive players headed for the draft. And committed recruits dropped for 20 to 14 almost overnight with those 6 coming right off the top of the list almost exclusively to SEC teams/rivals. (Are you listening Michigan?)
At the very least he should have waited until after the season was over. Or realized for two strait seasons Jimbo was relying on 3rd string or worse QBs (bad injury bug) barely into SEC play.
Good luck.
Honestly, I'm not really informed on the new OSU AD hire...
But - and don't take this the wrong way - Texas A&M has always struck me as a program that is all style, no substance. There's always talk about how much money they have and how they are getting this great player and that great player but generally at the end of every season they just are kind of 'meh'.
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You are about to get the biggest Aggie joke who single handedly wrecked the 2023 A&M team by firing Jimbo prematurely. That opened up the team to massive portal declarations which then opened it up further to NFL declarations, which also wrecked the recruitment that was at the time in the top 5 in the nation. We got raided by other college programs and by the NFL to the point we had only 55 scholarship players in our bowl game with two walkons and a true freshman in our D backfield and half the DL's missing plus our best offensive and defensive players headed for the draft. And committed recruits dropped for 20 to 14 almost overnight with those 6 coming right off the top of the list almost exclusively to SEC teams/rivals. (Are you listening Michigan?)
At the very least he should have waited until after the season was over. Or realized for two strait seasons Jimbo was relying on 3rd string or worse QBs (bad injury bug) barely into SEC play.
Good luck.
Because your program just paid players. The stuff you technically can't do with NIL but plenty of schools do anyway. Those players had no commitment to the school, coach, etc... just the cash.
Is it really any surprise they all left immediately for greener pastures?
A&M dug their own grave here
Because your program just paid players. The stuff you technically can't do with NIL but plenty of schools do anyway. Those players had no commitment to the school, coach, etc... just the cash.
Is it really any surprise they all left immediately for greener pastures?
A&M dug their own grave here
And exactly who do you think was in charge of all that? Now OSU has him. Good luck with that to them.
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You are about to get the biggest Aggie joke who single handedly wrecked the 2023 A&M team by firing Jimbo prematurely. That opened up the team to massive portal declarations which then opened it up further to NFL declarations, which also wrecked the recruitment that was at the time in the top 5 in the nation. We got raided by other college programs and by the NFL to the point we had only 55 scholarship players in our bowl game with two walkons and a true freshman in our D backfield and half the DL's missing plus our best offensive and defensive players headed for the draft. And committed recruits dropped for 20 to 14 almost overnight with those 6 coming right off the top of the list almost exclusively to SEC teams/rivals. (Are you listening Michigan?)
At the very least he should have waited until after the season was over. Or realized for two strait seasons Jimbo was relying on 3rd string or worse QBs (bad injury bug) barely into SEC play.
Good luck.
Honestly, I'm not really informed on the new OSU AD hire...
But - and don't take this the wrong way - Texas A&M has always struck me as a program that is all style, no substance. There's always talk about how much money they have and how they are getting this great player and that great player but generally at the end of every season they just are kind of 'meh'.
Honestly, I'm not really informed on the new OSU AD hire...
But - and don't take this the wrong way - Texas A&M has always struck me as a program that is all style, no substance. There's always talk about how much money they have and how they are getting this great player and that great player but generally at the end of every season they just are kind of 'meh'.
No argument there on those who left through the portal. The ones who stayed will be the core of the rebuild in a way the fans deserve. Kind of like the Browns fans don't you think? And they have added 22 from the portal who want a chance to prove themselves to the NFL. They didn't come for the money either. Just a chance.
EDIT: Make that 23 now with the latest 5 star from Bama. https://247sports.com/college/texas-am/Article/dezz-ricks-commits-to-texas-am-football-transfer-portal-alabama--225571109/?utm_source=247Sports%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=240116_221215_TexasA%26MAggies&utm_content=Link&eid=c780a40b821957c690b8d305176df6c4ec80c0a431e9641419612d4c0fe6b57c
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Because your program just paid players. The stuff you technically can't do with NIL but plenty of schools do anyway. Those players had no commitment to the school, coach, etc... just the cash.
Is it really any surprise they all left immediately for greener pastures?
A&M dug their own grave here
And exactly who do you think was in charge of all that? Now OSU has him. Good luck with that to them.
And exactly who do you think was in charge of all that? Now OSU has him. Good luck with that to them.
No, I agree. I imagine this AD has a knack for NIL and other thing$. Definitely an OSU problem now.
I expect OSU to have a higher level of program loyalty among players than A&M though, even if that's just mainly because A&M is so low...
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And exactly who do you think was in charge of all that? Now OSU has him. Good luck with that to them.
No, I agree. I imagine this AD has a knack for NIL and other thing$. Definitely an OSU problem now.
I expect OSU to have a higher level of program loyalty among players than A&M though, even if that's just mainly because A&M is so low...
No, I agree. I imagine this AD has a knack for NIL and other thing$. Definitely an OSU problem now.
I expect OSU to have a higher level of program loyalty among players than A&M though, even if that's just mainly because A&M is so low...
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I believe it was all ready Georgia, If we were at a 12 team playoff this year they could have won three staright
GEO, OSU ( and who else is in there ? ) can compete for the top 4 or maybe 6 teams in the new TOP 5 in college football now
And will they go where every other division from D-AA down to high school and even down to pee-wee football does. Yes have a 16 team playoff they are perfectly set up now just use the early bowl games for the first founds of the top 16 games. Those early bowls would love to have SOLD OUT games versus half EMPTY and run it out from there using this format.
A winner at every level.
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I believe it was all ready Georgia, If we were at a 12 team playoff this year they could have won three staright
GEO, OSU ( and who else is in there ? ) can compete for the top 4 or maybe 6 teams in the new TOP 5 in college football now
And will they go where every other division from D-AA down to high school and even down to pee-wee football does. Yes have a 16 team playoff they are perfectly set up now just use the early bowl games for the first founds of the top 16 games. Those early bowls would love to have SOLD OUT games versus half EMPTY and run it out from there using this format.
A winner at every level.
GEO, OSU ( and who else is in there ? ) can compete for the top 4 or maybe 6 teams in the new TOP 5 in college football now
And will they go where every other division from D-AA down to high school and even down to pee-wee football does. Yes have a 16 team playoff they are perfectly set up now just use the early bowl games for the first founds of the top 16 games. Those early bowls would love to have SOLD OUT games versus half EMPTY and run it out from there using this format.
A winner at every level.
Some programs have shown the ability to be very creative in an attempt to be relevant recently.
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Bill O’Brien is being reported to be the new Buckeye’s Offensive Coordinator.
Two things that will define you: Your determination when you have nothing. Your attitude when you have everything. - Mike McCartney -
https://theathletic.com/5210270/2024/01/19/caleb-downs-commit-ohio-state/
After Nick Saban announced his retirement, Alabama players starting running to the transfer portal.
Ohio State just picked up the best one, true freshman safety Caleb Downs. After finishing second to Alabama in the recruitment of Downs, they edged out Georgia to get him to Columbus for the next two seasons, at least.
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Bill O’Brien is being reported to be the new Buckeye’s Offensive Coordinator.
Bill O’Brien is being reported to be the new Buckeye’s Offensive Coordinator.
While it's very probable that he's going to be a relatively short-term hire, having another experienced coach with Day is a good thing, and let's Day concentrate on the whole team during the game while O'Brien calls plays.
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A local kid from Painesville that I mentioned earlier, 4 star DE Dominick Kirks, just officially committed to Ohio State. This was a big flip, giving the 2024 class a needed third DLineman.
It also appears that 5 star QB Julian Sayin, who Ohio State recruited heavily after Dominic Raiola de-committed but went to Alabama instead, now could be signing with Ohio State as soon as this evening. He was yet another Alabama player (he was a member of the 2024 recruiting class) who entered the transfer portal when Saban retired.
Ohio State's very highly ranked 2024 class keeps getting better.
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A local kid from Painesville that I mentioned earlier, 4 star DE Dominick Kirks, just officially committed to Ohio State. This was a big flip, giving the 2024 class a needed third DLineman.
It also appears that 5 star QB Julian Sayin, who Ohio State recruited heavily after Dominic Raiola de-committed but went to Alabama instead, now could be signing with Ohio State as soon as this evening. He was yet another Alabama player (he was a member of the 2024 recruiting class) who entered the transfer portal when Saban retired.
Ohio State's very highly ranked 2024 class keeps getting better.
A local kid from Painesville that I mentioned earlier, 4 star DE Dominick Kirks, just officially committed to Ohio State. This was a big flip, giving the 2024 class a needed third DLineman.
It also appears that 5 star QB Julian Sayin, who Ohio State recruited heavily after Dominic Raiola de-committed but went to Alabama instead, now could be signing with Ohio State as soon as this evening. He was yet another Alabama player (he was a member of the 2024 recruiting class) who entered the transfer portal when Saban retired.
Ohio State's very highly ranked 2024 class keeps getting better.
I saw one way to early Top 25 in 2024 with OSU at #5 and quite a bunch of new names on the list. Refreshing in a way plus Satan R. Saban departing and many other names in the mix, it will shake things up a bit.
Other new names mentioned on the potential transfer lists.
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5 star QB Julian Sayin, a 2024 Alabama recruit who entered the transfer portal when Saban retired, is officially an Ohio State Buckeye.
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Ohio State gets a commit from 4 star OT Carter Lowe of Toledo Whitmer for their 2025 Recruiting class, which has started off very well.
Ohio's 2026 OLine recruits is considered one of the best crops of OLinemen from Ohio in almost 20 years, with Ohio State in great shape to land two top notch tackles in Sam Greer (Akron Hoban) and Maxwell Riley (Avon Lake) and a great interior prospect in Will Conroy (St. Ignatius). I believe all three have received offers from Ohio State.
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