January 21st, 2024 at 4:19 PM ^
Gotta think Air Noland gets out to UGA now
January 21st, 2024 at 4:36 PM ^
If competition is the motivation for transferring, I doubt Noland would choose a school like UGA that also took another top-10 QB recruit in Ryan Puglisi in the same class.
More likely that Devin Brown (RsSo.) transfers if he officially loses the QB battle in the spring to Will Howard.
In any case, I don’t think anyone was expecting either Noland or Sayin to start next season as true freshmen.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:03 PM ^
Yeah, gotta believe Devin Brown is gone. You're correct, neither Noland or Sayin are expecting to start in their true freshman year
January 21st, 2024 at 5:11 PM ^
I see this as a 2025 QB battle between Ryan Day’s guy (Air Noland) and Bill O’Brien’s guy (Julian Sayin). BoB was Sayin’s primary recruiter at Alabama for 2 years, so he probably advocated hard to get Sayin in the class as well.
Next season is going to be telling on how much Day allows BoB to change the offense. Will it be BoB’s base offense + Day’s influence or… Day’s base offense + BoB’s influence?
I imagine it’ll be similar to the Ryan Day/Kevin Wilson relationship where the offense was Day’s vision, but Kevin Wilson was allowed to tweak it as much as he wanted.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:26 PM ^
I really hope Sayin becomes your starter, it would make me very happy.
He's one of the most overrated "5 Star" QB's I've ever seen.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:32 PM ^
Kevin Wilson was an offensive whiz. Remember when Indiana was the 2nd scariest offense on the schedule? Bill O'Brien is NOT that.
January 21st, 2024 at 10:05 PM ^
In hindsight Kevin Wilson seems like he was Day's Joe Moorhead but with a longer tenure.
Day hasnt done shit without him just like Frames hasnt done shit without Moorhead.
January 21st, 2024 at 11:25 PM ^
Ohio State defense will be good this year.
Ohio State offense will not.
Jim Knowles will be OSU coach in 2025 after another loss to Michigan get Day fired. Day teams are soft. That performance vs Missouri was the beginning of the end, sorry.
January 22nd, 2024 at 1:35 PM ^
Very surprised they did not kick the tires more with Mike Vrabel this offseason.
January 21st, 2024 at 10:08 PM ^
Death. Taxes. And Wolve1972 talking about OSU.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:01 PM ^
Read he was at the OSU-Iowa WBB game and said he wasn't going anywhere and to bring it on
January 21st, 2024 at 5:12 PM ^
That sounds good but even if he doesn't transfer this year, he or Sayin will transfer eventually.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:50 PM ^
Agree, both aren't sticking around long term.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:14 PM ^
The same OSU-Iowa game where a Bucknut ran over Caitlin Clark...
January 21st, 2024 at 10:03 PM ^
Didn’t they just have this same situation with Ewers and McCord and it blew up in their face?
Why do you want two 5 star QBs from the same class on your roster? You know you can’t keep them both and you will lose the other QBs on your roster
January 21st, 2024 at 10:06 PM ^
Championships are built on the number of 5 star QBs/Wrs on your roster.
January 21st, 2024 at 10:22 PM ^
Ewers never intended on staying at OSU. He went there to collect on NIL as there's a Texas law that was preventing him from it. His dream was to play for Texas. In reality, Day got played like a fiddle
January 21st, 2024 at 10:36 PM ^
tell me more about the last three The Games
January 21st, 2024 at 11:41 PM ^
Tell me more about the 17 out of 19 times before that.
January 21st, 2024 at 10:26 PM ^
Justin fields and Joe Burrows also kind of blew up in their face
January 21st, 2024 at 4:20 PM ^
Somebody is spending serious money in Columbus. Where’s the NCAA and Big 10 when you need them? /sarc. We need someone to hire a PI…
January 21st, 2024 at 4:38 PM ^
Imagine inheriting what 3rd base did from Meyer, being unable to develop that talent and win anything of significance with the one of the most absurdly talented rosters in CFB, and then needing to pay $25mm+ just 4 years later to portal in talent developed elsewhere.
It's one thing to buy a roster of HS recruits and develop them- as has been the Bama, OSU, SEC. USC, Texas, etc, etc model for decades now. But to now have to bring in free agents developed elsewhere...lol, Cry'n Day down real bad.
They've recruited like Bama over the past decade and have nothing to show for it since 2014. And once UM got their shit in order, can't even win the conference. Amazing.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:22 PM ^
I totally believe that bama, osu, ga, SEC, USC, Texas, etc. have been buying players for decades. It'd be naive to think that Michigan isn't paying players as well except for the fact that 95% of the time we lose recruits when going head to head with these guys.
OSU and Miami have been openly bidding on and tampering with prospects. I don't have proof other than what you read online with Jeremiah Smith, Justin Scott, Jordan Lyle, Cam Ward, etc.
If it is "legal" to pay players Michigan either needs to step up or the NCAA needs to enforce the rules so that everyone is doing it the same way.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:51 PM ^
when people say that mich pays players just like everyone else; bama, ga, osu, etc. it's like saying everybody speeds. but going 5 over on the highway is different than going 30 over in a school zone.
January 21st, 2024 at 9:19 PM ^
Going 5 over the speed limit is like buying two cheeseburgers. Oh wait, that’s a violation.
January 21st, 2024 at 6:11 PM ^
There’s no way they spent $25 million in the portal. Most of that money was spent on returning players. They seem to be following our blueprint to some extent. Pay to keep your talent for another season and fill holes through the portal.
We signed nine guys from the portal last year and so far they’ve signed six. Sayin has only been at Alabama for a week so he probably hasn’t developed too much there.
January 21st, 2024 at 6:39 PM ^
IDK this was before the 2 recent Bama transfers.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:02 PM ^
But they swear up and down they don't do "pay for play"...... eye roll
January 21st, 2024 at 7:06 PM ^
Most of it was to retain their current players. They only have six incoming transfers, including the two recent Alabama transfers.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:17 PM ^
I guarantee you that hose six guys did not come cheap. They spent huge $$$ on them.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:24 PM ^
Well Lane, they're stomping on your turf.
You need to hire a PI to take a serious look at what they are up to. And a guy like you knows where to look . . .
January 21st, 2024 at 10:11 PM ^
It was before the two recent Bama 5 stars. Ohio is spending $20M+ this year. On our end we're haggling an arbitration panel against a coach with pristine integrity and character and have shown zero capacity to cash in on the last 3 years in terms of improving talent acquisition. I'll stay on Cloud 9 until August then hopefully this will be a different take by then.
January 21st, 2024 at 6:24 PM ^
I don't have to imagine it.. i watched it live for several years
January 21st, 2024 at 4:39 PM ^
Les Wexner cutting checks
January 21st, 2024 at 7:04 PM ^
Lex Luther, too.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:12 PM ^
Les Nessman still calling plays.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:03 PM ^
Looks like I'm gonna need a raise.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:20 PM ^
Honest question: as an OSU fan, did you donate to the OSU NIL? How much?
I donated $100 to the Michigan NIL. But neither Michigan nor Ohio State is getting to $13 million just on schmos like me donating at that level. Where are the big $$$ coming from?
January 21st, 2024 at 7:36 PM ^
This is turning into a much larger status war than it used to be and people will do stupid shit to feel superior to others. Ohio State has always had big money fanatics willing to pay for that status, now add watching Michigan win it all has them SUPER motivated to not ever have that feeling again.
January 21st, 2024 at 9:45 PM ^
I have not donated any money, nor do I intend to.
January 21st, 2024 at 9:41 PM ^
You'll need a second job at this rate.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:03 PM ^
I’m sure their NIL has been able to raise a ton of money off three straight losses and us winning the national title.
You see it in political fundraising all the time. People are emotional givers and it’s easier to get them to donate when you are up in arms about what the other side is doing (which in this case is Michigan beating Ohio State and winning the national title).
January 21st, 2024 at 5:26 PM ^
Getting practice footage from Catapult didnt work
Signgate didnt work
So I guess theyre back to just trying to buy the best roster
its a bit funny watching people act like these moves are transformative for poor lowly Ohio State like they havent been in the top 5 talent composite pretty much every year for years
January 21st, 2024 at 5:30 PM ^
Have no fear. To borrow from the Quran: “…They will spend it, then it will become a source of regret for them, and then they will be defeated…” (8:36) 😎
January 21st, 2024 at 7:16 PM ^
Username checks out.
January 21st, 2024 at 6:58 PM ^
I haven't seen this sort of desperation since Steinbrenner bought off Drew Henson
January 21st, 2024 at 7:14 PM ^
Dan Gilbert buying Beilein
January 21st, 2024 at 8:11 PM ^
Does the NCAA keep track of the NIL spend and the donors? I'm very curious to what OSU is spending. Going on that $13 million quote by Day over a year ago, I'd guess it's closer to $20 million now. Just spit ballin' of course.
January 21st, 2024 at 10:23 PM ^
The IRS is going to keep track. Beware.
January 21st, 2024 at 8:49 PM ^
How much do you imagine they've spent on these transfers this season? I'd have to imagine more than $50m, just based on seeing other teams dropping 10-15 on other individual prospects.