Crunching the numbers on official visits, and what it means for Ohio State's top recruiting targets

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This Wednesday Buckeye Talk gets into the numbers of recruiting, as Doug Lesmerises is joined by Bud Davis, who has his PhD in Geology, but who also happens to find the data of college football recruiting rather interesting. Doug saw some of Bud's work on official recruiting visits on Twitter and invited him on the pod to get deeper into the topic. How important is it for a school to be the last official visit for a recruit? What percent of recruits commit to schools that aren't their last official visit? Is there something in the numbers that should inform schools on how they schedule visits, or should inform fans about how to read a prospect's visit schedule? Also, Bud goes into the numbers on recruiting and building a championship roster, and the numbers on the transfer portal and what players are moving the most. Then Doug looks at some of the prospects making official visits to Columbus in June and tries to apply Bud's data to get a read on what might happen with those players. It's a different look at recruiting, and thanks for giving it a listen on Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been? But got talk is about to begin. Hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:26.7	I'm actually a wedding state bug. I talk from Cleveland.com. It's Douglas Marie. So we're going to talk
0:30.6	a little bit about recruiting on this podcast and we'll probably do recruiting again on Thursday.
0:35.2	Steven will be back on the Thursday pod. He and I are planning to be out there as I record this Wednesday
0:40.4	morning at Ohio State's first recruiting camp of the summer. They have a bunch scheduled in June.
0:47.6	This one on Wednesday, June 1st is the first one and then they got a bunch of official visits,
0:52.6	right lined up in the month of June. And so on this podcast, we're going to, I have a guest,
0:58.2	his name is Bud Davis. And I just came across him on Twitter. And he dove into the data on some
1:07.7	recruiting things that I thought were interesting. Sort of the numbers behind when guys take official
1:13.0	visits, what percent convert into commitments based on when they come. I think everybody and
1:20.8	Bud talks about this. There's this sort of anecdotal perception that you want the last official
1:26.5	visit for a player, right? That when guys are making their schedules or whatever, you kind of want
1:30.6	to be at the end. So he has data on that. And then when we get done talking with him, we'll come back
1:36.2	and talk about some of the guys who have official visits scheduled with Ohio State and other schools,
1:41.9	how we might want to apply the data that Bud's talking about to a couple specific circumstances
1:48.6	with some of Ohio State's major targets that they have lined up here in June. They have a bunch
1:53.5	of guys coming in on the June 10th weekend, a bunch coming in on the June 17th weekend, and a
1:59.2	whole bunch coming in on the June 24th weekend. So we'll talk a little bit about them. And then again,
2:03.7	Steven and I will be out at this recruiting camp on Wednesday and the plan is we'll come back on
2:06.8	the Thursday pod. And Steven and I will talk about some of the guys that were out there, some of the
2:10.7	things we saw, some of the things we learned. And then at the end of the week, we have to get to the
2:14.4	Wisconsin preview because we're doing one a week here going through Ohio State schedule. We've
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