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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Evaluating the quality of Ohio State football’s recruiting classes in the Ryan Day era

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State has signed five recruiting classes since Ryan Day took over the program each having things to be excited about. But what should we think of them years later now that players have gotten on the field? On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird break down Day's recruiting classes trying to figure out if the way we viewed them on Signing Day held up years later. Which classes lived up to the hype? Did any overachieve? And what it says about Day's program. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey. Hey, hey, hey, where you been?

0:17.0

Buck I talk is about to begin.

0:21.0

Hey, hey, come on in.

0:27.0

Welcome, Welcome about the Buckeye Talk. I'm Stephen Means and that's Nathan Barrett and we're

0:35.0

going to do a very interesting exercise for this Monday pot at least I think it's

0:39.4

pretty interesting Ryan Day has now had five recruiting cycles as Ohio State's official head coach

0:44.3

2020 21, 2022, 2023, and 2024. That's five classes he signed. So we're not

0:50.6

including the 2025 class and this was currently ran second in the country

0:54.4

with a couple of five stars and a few top one recruits because that was still being built.

0:57.6

And we're also not including the 2019 class in this conversation because that's more of a transitional class.

1:03.7

It's like I mean you got hired as a coach three weeks before it had to sign so we're never

1:08.6

going to give you too much of the blame or credit for a class like that but I do

1:12.1

have numbers on that one as well.

1:13.7

It finished with 17 players, 14th in the country.

1:16.1

In fact, it's the only class in the past 12 years that hasn't finished in the top five,

1:21.1

but as I said transitional year urban

1:23.3

Meyer had just retired so that's understandable maybe had the urban

1:26.4

mine not retired guys like Jordan battle stick around and

1:29.2

duck nester three five-star recruits in it, four top 100 recruits, the highest rated guy was 12th and the lowest rated guy was 1,127th.

1:39.0

Those three five-star recruits, I'm just, I'm only bringing this down because I think it's

1:43.2

gonna play a part in a conversation we have going forward Nathan but three five star

1:46.6

recruits that Karison Garrett Wilson and Harry Miller all three of those guys in

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