OT - 4* RB Todd Sibley flips from Ohio State to Pitt
Composite 4* RB Todd Sibley (247, Rivals, Scout) decommits from Ohio State and flips to Pitt.
The Next Chapter....#H2P pic.twitter.com/7awwVIHAco
— TSib2️⃣3️⃣ (@ToddSib23) June 15, 2016
watch out for Pitt in a couple years
nice grab by Narduzzi
Did he jump or was he pushed?
Pushed. Expect Danny Clark to exit as well.
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Asked to greyshirt
Ohio State is projected to have a relatively small class next year: 6 departing seniors, and 32 draft-eligible underclassmen. Realistically the 2017 class will only be about 18-20 players at most.
Along with Todd Sibley, OSU also has a committment from 4* RB J.K. Dobbins and are heavily recruiting both 5* RB Najee Harris and Cam Akers. As a result, Sibley was asked to grayshirt back in March and wait to enroll in January 2018 instead of June 2017. Looks like Sibley weighed his options and decided it was better to flip to Pitt/Narduzzi vs. postponing his college career.
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I guess I don't think Sibley was completely pushed out because he was still being offered a spot on the team. Yes, the spot wasn't going to open up until after the 2017 season in January 2018, but how much would that have mattered in the long run?
The current frontrunners to take over for Ezekiel Elliott are RsSr. Bri'onte Dunn, and RsFr. Mike Weber with true Fr. Antonio Williams patiently waiting behind them. The chances of Sibley starting or playing significant minutes in the 2017 season as a true freshman with RsSo. Weber and So./RsFr. Williams in front of him are going to be slim. IMO, there was a high likelihood that Sibley would have redshirted his 1st season anyways.
tOSU apologism is pretty funny. Kid likely would have redshirted but he got pushed.
It's funny to watch tOSU fans rationalize this while piling on Harbaugh last January/February.
To be fair, OSU fans always rationalized this type of recruting under Meyer. They piled on Harbaugh/Michigan last year because for years Michigan fans looked down on OSU for this recruting style, and then all had to wipe egg off their faces when their own coach decided to big boy recruit too.
You criticized us because we criticized you?
Well we criticized you because you criticized us.
So there.
Yea, but your team!
Many that would know went out and said that the staff made things perfectly clear to Swenson long before the media firestorm that came with it.
I don't think "pushed" is the right term either, but I'm glad OSU did this early so it gave him a chance to look around instead of last second like the d-bag Saban.
That's a bold move by Meyer considering that he doesn't have a commitment from one of those two five stars he's recruiting. one is committed else where and the other is from Mississippi.
thanks for the info.
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Sibley was asked to gray shirt. OSU has an extremely, extremely highly rated class, and quite a few top 100 guys who want to buy in. One of their problems is they don't have a big class, and they're struggling to fit everyone in who wants to be there. So Sibley was asked to postpone his scholarship a bit. At least Meyer gave him lots of notice . . . it was easy for Sibley to land somewhere else.
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But I thought Harbaugh brought these recruiting tactics to the big ten? Someone wake up Teddy Greenstein and tell him that Urban is pushing someone out.
Todd Sibley was asked to greyshirt back in March/April 2016, and has visited multiple schools since then, which why I think Sibley is leaving on such good terms. Ohio State's coaching staff has helped Sibley in re-opening his recruitment, and assured him that he could still enroll at Ohio State in January 2018 if Sibley didn't find another interested school.
I think he was just making a joke.
Despite the fairy tale that the writer wrote about that one kid that Michigan "pulled the rug from under" - the kid was told long before that he needed to meet certain criteria and the kid refused to comply with them.
This won't be a big deal, because it isn't one. Neither was the other one unless you believe a one-sided narrative.
From Sloppy Seconds to Throw-away Thirds.
#WARONRUTGERS
There is nothing more I can say at this point.
Edit: Other than Ohio State can kiss my sweet ass.
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Wow. Urban can push a local 4* recruit out of the class and be praised for handling it with class.
Sibley probably grew up a Buckeye fan and had dreams of playing there. To have it come to fruition and then have it taken away had to be devastating. The way everything was handled says more about the recruit than it does the OSU staff.
I think they all handled it well. I would be fine if Harbaugh largely did the same thing.
I like to bash Ohio State as much as the next guy, but they handled it correctly.
You're being semi-unreasonable. It's okay to acknowledge when even OSU allowes their commits (and believe me, i HATE Ohio state) to do what is right for themselves. Seems like both Todd and OSU did what was right here, based on his Twitter post.
can be handled with class, maturity and is enacted with an appropriate time frame by all parties involved. Sibley's twitter testimonial says it all.
Guess that's what happens when you can boast a track record of Carlos Hyde and Ezekiel Elliott.
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They are recruiting at Alabama-levels. We need to too just to keep up with them.
Fortunately . . . we can.