Evaluating the quality of Ohio State football’s recruiting classes in the Ryan Day era
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🗓️ 13 May 2024
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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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