Debuting the 'Bucknuts Big Board'
Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
How does Ohio State truly value recruiting targets in the Class of 2027?
In this newfangled NIL era, we know Ohio State (and college football) has shifted to an NFL salary cap-type model. That spurred an update in how recruiting targets are classified in each program.
Who does Ohio State value most? What does the Buckeyes' master list of prospects look like now that cost is assigned to each?
Enter the 'Bucknuts Big Board.' Our Garrick Hodge spent countless hours convening with Ohio State sources and gathering info to put together a modernized look at recruiting priorities.
Join Mark Porter and Dan Rubin as Garrick guides you through this new recurring Bucknuts feature providing access to how Ohio State sees the '27 class.
Spend 5ish with us this a.m., 'Nutters!
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Good morning Bucknutters. It is Thursday, March 26th, 20206. I am Dan Rubin. This. It's a Bucknuts Morning 5 in Change. Big show for you today. As you can see, we have Mark Porter and we have Garrick Hodge. We have been working on we. Let's not use we. Garrick has been burning the midnight oil over the last few months as we've been working on a project called the Bucknutt Big Board. |
| 0:59.1 | And those of you who are devotees of the show here |
| 1:02.8 | will have a leg up on the competition here |
| 1:06.3 | in terms of understanding what we're doing. |
| 1:09.0 | So I'm just going to give a brief intro, |
| 1:14.5 | and then this will really be the Garrick Hodge show. |
| 1:17.2 | We all know that recruiting has changed, and we know that Ohio State's approach to recruiting |
| 1:21.3 | has changed. |
| 1:22.1 | It's now really a professional approach. |
| 1:25.9 | We've seen that with the coaching staff. You've now got a walk around head coach. |
| 1:30.7 | You've got a former NFL coach, a defensive coordinator who's new and a former NFL coach, |
| 1:37.4 | excuse me, a former NFL head coach who's the offensive coordinator. And of course, |
| 1:42.8 | Matt Patricia is back to run the defense, |
| 1:45.5 | very NFL setup. Now that the NIL era has kicked in and everybody understands that |
| 1:52.6 | being someone's buddy is now not as important as being someone's banker. It comes down to the |
| 1:59.8 | dollars in a lot of cases with these guys, at least to get in the door. |
| 2:03.6 | And then it becomes, how much do you want to spend on each guy? How good is each guy? Where does |
| 2:08.2 | priority change? So it's built like an NFL big board. This was detailed in earnest by the great |
| 2:16.5 | Mark Pantone when he met with the, I think he's still great, |
| 2:20.7 | uh, Adrian Wojnerowski for a podcast in which Mark really went through in detail the levels, |
| 2:30.5 | the three levels at which they're going to be recruiting guys. |
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