How Ohio State's recruiting could benefit from two schools that fired their head coach

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Andrew Gillis discuss the current state of Ohio State's recruiting class, the impact of recent coaching changes at Penn State and LSU, and the strategies that Ohio State might employ to capitalize on these shifts. They analyze key players in the 2026 recruiting class, the importance of building relationships with recruits, and the financial considerations that come into play in the modern recruiting landscape. The conversation also touches on the challenges of recruiting from Louisiana and the historical context of Ohio State's recruiting efforts in that state. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you've been,
0:17.1	Buckeye talk is about to begin.
0:20.5	Hey, hey, hey, come on in. Ben, Buckeye Talk is about to begin.
0:24.9	Hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:33.4	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
0:34.4	I am Stephen Means.
0:35.7	That is Andrew Gillis.
0:39.9	And the coach we cover still has a job. Ohio State has the number nine recruiting class in the country headlined by five star recruits. Chris Henry Jr.
0:45.6	and Blaine Bradford who is officially, he's not actually official at Buckeye, but it does seem like
0:50.7	Ohio State won the war though, Gillis, because again, the coach we cover still has a job.
0:56.5	And the coach of the team who's been trying to steal him for the last six months no longer has a job.
1:01.5	We can get into maybe the winning and losing and who won and who lost because it's not just as complicated as, well, that team, their coach lost his job.
1:10.5	They must be in disarray. Their recruiting class is dead. For some cases, it is and for some it isn't. And to be fair, he's still from Louisiana. And Louisiana kids have never chosen LSU because of coach. They've always chose LSU because they choose LSU for the same reason that Ohio kids choose Ohio State, because it's freaking Ohio State. It's freaking LSU.
1:28.2	But obviously, we have not done a recruiting pot since James Franklin was fired by Penn State
1:32.5	after losing a third straight game this year. And obviously, news broke that Brian Kelly
1:38.5	after it's lost to Texas A&M over the weekend where Parker Fleming, he's a follow on Twitter
1:43.9	that people should follow. I think he's a follow on Twitter that people
1:44.2	should follow. I think he's one of my favorite follows because every Monday he puts out this
1:48.1	stat that shows the whole point of the stat is like, did you really get beat that badly?
1:52.4	Did you really get beat as bad as maybe people thought? And it's always fun to see the more
1:58.5	to the right you are on this, essentially like the more like,
2:02.8	yeah, you actually did get beat that badly. And the Texas A&M and the LSU game is I think one,
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