January 21st, 2024 at 4:40 PM ^
They are really trying to become the Evil Empire of the North. I have to give them credit. They are winning the offseason at this point.
January 21st, 2024 at 6:24 PM ^
They already are the Evil Empire of the North
January 21st, 2024 at 6:48 PM ^
And we defeated them once then two more times in the sequels.
January 21st, 2024 at 4:41 PM ^
They still can only play one QB at a time. Doesn't make much sense to me. If this fails to bring in a championship, I have to think recruits are going to hesitate to sign for OSU in future because they will know the roster that they sign on to be a part of will likely be much different by the time they arrive. I know i'd be pissed if I had a cach selling me early playing time and before I even got to campus he brought in three transfers at my position.
January 21st, 2024 at 4:57 PM ^
Hasn't happened yet for them. I feel like they are similar to prostitution and casinos: recession-proof.
January 21st, 2024 at 9:28 PM ^
no, they can’t play 2 qb’s at once. but in this specific instance, they’re gonna get two of the best qb recruits and get to keep the best one of the two. that’s pretty beneficial.
crazy thing is the loser of the competition gets another payday when he hits the portal in a year.
January 21st, 2024 at 4:44 PM ^
They are so desperate they are paying a lot for guys to ride the bench
January 21st, 2024 at 4:47 PM ^
Hilarious UM can't recruit a single QB of this level even if 3 classes apart due to scared of competition and osu can put 2 in a class and they arent scared
January 21st, 2024 at 4:59 PM ^
IMO, competition has nothing to do with it. They wanna get paid now. I bet 2 or 3 QBs transfer out by end of spring practice.
January 21st, 2024 at 6:36 PM ^
Definitely not competition based. Playing in a conservative, low-QB-reliance offense combined with no guaranteed money is not as attractive as guaranteed money even if you suck/don't play at all with the opportunity to throw 50 times a game to endless 5 star receivers. Michigan will never be an attractive option to QBs and WRs with this current approach, but they SHOULD be for olinemen and RBs. They clearly are happy to grab some OL they like from other schools, but haven't felt the need to recruit transfer RBs. Can't complain about the approach yet: 15-0, better than every team in the country, even teams 10x more talented than us
January 21st, 2024 at 10:42 PM ^
No random top 5 DE, DT, LB, or secondary players. How are top 20 players at each position group not even randomly signing with us? Its strange.
Winning this year was a perfect combination of age, development, and culture/leadership.
Going forward winning will be like if you were the Lions and Green Bay, Buffalo, and the 49ers split the first round by themselves and you got to draft rounds 2+ only. Its going to be a tough decade recruiting like this. Ill enjoy this championship and hope Moore helps us compete with Santa's help.
January 21st, 2024 at 11:36 PM ^
It's purely because our offense doesn't showcase WRs and QBs. The biggest knock on JJ is that he barely threw the ball and didn't take a bunch of deep shots. Although we somehow can't get multiple high ranking OL either when we clearly showcase that so who knows.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:08 AM ^
We either have below average recruiters or GARBAGE tier NIL…or both.
You can’t have the on-field success we’ve had the past three years, award winning o-lines and record setting dominant running backs and yet STILL utterly fail to capitalize even slightly on all of that success in recruiting without one or both of those being true. Our head coach trying to dip out every off-season doesn’t help either.
January 22nd, 2024 at 4:02 PM ^
Agreed Bama recruited on promises, then wins, then everyone said "they dont need to cheat now because they win".
Fuck we cant even be Bama lite? Coaches may develop THEIR third rated recruit on their board by why arent they getting their 1 or 2 almost ever? Johnson's last game will be a year from now. That is a helluva gap while youve been the second best overall team hands down for 36+ months.
January 22nd, 2024 at 6:20 PM ^
Exactly. Something’s not adding up somewhere
January 21st, 2024 at 4:47 PM ^
I dont..but I could feel bad for OSU...hear me out, let's say they do win a national championship next year..it would never come close to ours..they are buying a team of kids who don't give a fuck about that university or the tradition..they barely know the OH chant...we watched our team grow from kids to men and overcome the heartache..our kids loved the university and chose it over any other...they will never feel that.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:42 PM ^
Let's not act like we didn't have a lot of transfers who helped win it all. The only difference is that OSU's transfers are higher-profile.
January 21st, 2024 at 10:14 PM ^
I'll take our transfers of graduates and other teams Captains over mercs any day of the week.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:28 PM ^
Couldn’t agree more. And even with all of that, Michigan and Ohio State have the exact same number of national championships in the past 50 years.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:54 PM ^
Fuck that. I don't want them to have a sniff at a National Championship. I want them to be a Texas A&M laughingstock in college football.
January 21st, 2024 at 8:53 PM ^
They’ve only brought in six transfers. One is a true freshman, who won’t even play and another was a freshman last year and most of his time in college will be at Ohio State. The majority of the money they spent was keeping their own players. It’s not like they are buying an entirely new roster. We brought in more transfers last year - nine.
January 21st, 2024 at 9:24 PM ^
They spent $$$ on those highly-desired six transfers.
January 21st, 2024 at 4:49 PM ^
LOL! And still gonna have a mid OL and underperforming DL.
January 21st, 2024 at 4:51 PM ^
This is their all in season. Unfortunately living in the bowels of OSU territory I get to hear too much about this stuff. My in-laws (brother and his father) have been constantly sending this stuff saying, “The run is over, OSU will be back on top” I sent back, “what happens when this doesn’t work because talent isn’t developed”. Both their responses are along the lines of, Day gets fired, staff is let go and they start over.
Honest as I can be this is wild to me. Our start over happened internally in ‘20 during the offseason the current players at that time all bought in, recruits that were committed bought in, heck even Harbaugh to an extent bought himself back in with the contract re-work and staff changes. This just feels like OSU is responding by firing the money cannon until nothing is left. I guess we will find out over the course of the next 10 months if there is any real commitment from them. Especially since all these big time signings are skill guys… I don’t think that is where they are lacking in my opinion.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:26 PM ^
They're in full panic mode. It is beautiful to witness.
This is best case scenario wrt Ohio State. They're emptying the coffers for Ryan Day. Yes, that Ryan Day. Third base Ryan Day.
You do you Ohio. Double down in stubborn defiance,
January 21st, 2024 at 4:51 PM ^
Their qb is Howard. Sayin is no help to them until 2025.
January 21st, 2024 at 10:16 PM ^
He could be gone before that, too. If I were him I'd take that money every year.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:01 PM ^
Of course none of this has to do with inducements. All of these recruits just think Ohio State is the shit now after losing to Michigan again one year after they chose different schools.
SEC culture to be sure..
January 21st, 2024 at 5:05 PM ^
Best team money can buy.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:13 PM ^
OSU is going to have a lot of talent next year.
Oh, wait……..
January 21st, 2024 at 5:14 PM ^
Spending all this money on transfers that will be in the portal this time next year because their team is looking for a new coach.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:15 PM ^
Like with Downs, we'd be going crazy if he transfered to Michigan. Good pick up for them. Might as well call it like it is.
January 21st, 2024 at 10:49 PM ^
Downs is the only one they should be really excited about. All of the others are not going to help them, or be meaningful contributors next season.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:17 PM ^
Best team money can buy. (Edit, Heptarch beat me to it).
I don’t think it’ll work, and I love that this will define them.
January 21st, 2024 at 6:23 PM ^
But.. in ColuXbus - is it.. “The best teaX that Xoney can buy?”
January 21st, 2024 at 7:45 PM ^
Yes, with the emphasis on THE.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:26 PM ^
It isn’t as if Alabama replaced Saban with Tucker or some total loser, but its players sure are bailing on the new regime. And a lot are heading to Columbus. Would really like to know what is behind that movement, cash or something else.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:34 PM ^
$13M per Lane Kiffin in NIL money
January 21st, 2024 at 5:37 PM ^
They were losing relevance in the only thing that matters to them, so they likely decided to throw as much money as humanly possible at the problem and hope that fixes it
January 21st, 2024 at 5:27 PM ^
Damn, it’s going to be hard to root for him.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:33 PM ^
Neat. He’s no stroud so I’m whatever
January 21st, 2024 at 5:33 PM ^
Don't care.
Their 3rd base coach is our equalizer.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:35 PM ^
Bill O’Brien will help to sabotage the next season
January 21st, 2024 at 5:34 PM ^
Mercenary U!
January 21st, 2024 at 5:51 PM ^
Going to need to introduce a salary cap soon.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:54 PM ^
Texas A&M 2.0
January 21st, 2024 at 7:08 PM ^
Well they do have Texas A&M's AD.
January 21st, 2024 at 5:59 PM ^
He’ll transfer again when Day is fired in November.
January 21st, 2024 at 6:07 PM ^
This is a little baffling. They aren't all gonna play
January 21st, 2024 at 6:26 PM ^
They already did this with Ewers, Jameson Williams, etc. From OSU's perspective, they're putting in more bullets in the chamber with hopes somebody will pan out. From the player's perspective, you're getting massive amounts of money with the reassurance you can go play somewhere else if you don't win the job. Is it the most economical strategy for OSU? No. Is is the most effective strategy for OSU? No. Is it the most Ryan Day thing ever? Yes.