Bucknuts Morning 5: February 21, 2019

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The idea Ohio State recruiting fell off last season is a bit of myth. The Buckeyes finished the 2019 cycle with the nation's No. 14 class. But there's a hook.

Recruiting classes gain favor for quantity. Ohio State only took 17 prospects in the class - the fewest among the top 27-ranked programs. But the the Buckeyes' average ranking per recruit was good for No. 3 nationally behind Alabama and Georgia. Still, there was angst about 'No. 14.'

That angst is basically gone with the ushering in of the Class of 2020 cycle. This from 247Sports Director of Recruiting Steve Wiltfong on the effort:

'In 2020, the Buckeyes should be back where everyone is used to seeing them in the 247Sports Composite Rankings, competing for the nation’s No. 1 class. OSU is currently No. 5, led by two of the country’s best offensive linemen in top-ranked offensive tackle Paris Johnson Jr. and top-ranked center Luke Wypler. Quarterback commit Jack Miller was one of the more coveted signal-callers in this class and he has two talented wide outs to go to work with in Top247 recruit Gee Scott Jr. and one of the Lone Star State’s best in Jaxon Smith-Njigba who had 1,819 yards receiving and 20 touchdowns including 267 and three in a state playoff game against national powerhouse Allen.'

So who better to join us today for extended recruiting chatter? Yep, Steve is here with wisdom.

Spend 5ish with us today, 'Nutters!

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0:00.0	Good morning, Bucknutters. It is Thursday, February 21st, 2019. I am Dan Rubin.
0:19.6	This is the Bucknuts Morning Five and Change. You've missed the dulcid tones of Steve Wolfong.
0:24.8	He was on vacation for a week.
0:27.4	24-7 sports director of recruiting back in Indianapolis.
0:31.4	Steve, how are you?
0:33.0	Good morning Daniel, doing well, excited to be back on with you, brother.
0:38.0	Where was vacation?
0:40.0	Stay vacation.
0:41.0	The Wilfong's moved four miles down the road, so that's how I spent my vacation
0:47.8	emptying boxes.
0:49.8	That's always fun, especially with small children around, but the Wilfong Empire is expanding, so too is that of Ohio State.
0:58.0	I want to talk recruiting a little bit today, and maybe clear up a little bit of a misconception that we have talked about here ad nauseum and that is
1:07.6	The finish to the class of 2019
1:10.8	No one in Columbus was super impressed with the overall ranking, but when you dig into the numbers, I believe that ranking was 14, sir.
1:18.0	When you dig into the numbers, Ohio State actually had a fine class and had the number three average per recruit.
1:25.0	Still, class of 2020 will be Ryan Day's first full class and there is a major push to put together something sweet. They're off to a really good start.
1:37.0	Steve returned from vacation and got his really good start by opening with a story about gay surge in 2020. We'll get into the details but kind of give us the idea for why you put that together.
1:49.0	Well look I know Ohio State it was trendy for national media that didn't do any kind of dive.
1:57.0	And I said a slightly deep dive because it wasn't hard to discover that Ohio State signed a really good class in 18 but I mean they went top five
2:06.0	three years in a row including number two in 2017 and 2018 and you almost kind of
2:10.4	forget that they went number two in 2017 and 2018. We hadn't talked
2:14.0	about that in a long time. In Ohio State had had the most talented football
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