Dylan Raiola commits to OSU
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And you didn’t even mention top 10 2023 draft prospect Smith-Njigba who caught 95 balls for 1606 yards and 9 TD’s, of which 60 for 958 and 6 of those TD’s came in his last 5 games.
And the kid has only visited the state of Nebraska a few times. He has zero allegiance to Nebraska. He can't remember Nebraska being good. You do remember what an OSU booster offered the Ewers kid who just transferred from OSU to Texas right? ONE MILLION$ was his reported NIL deal if he signed with OSU and started for them. I don't doubt that Raiola got a similar offer.
we haven't signed a 5* player in 12 years and now it's a HUGE miss to not land an early verbal from the #1 recruit in the country?
love it!!
Stop being so gullible
Dylan was dangled out there so uncle Don could get a job and a big fat paycheck and we didn’t hesitate to take the bait
Dylan was dangled out there so uncle Don could get a job and a big fat paycheck and we didn’t hesitate to take the bait
I think you have it backwards. WE hired Don so that MAYBE we had a shot with his nephew. I have NO doubt that his nephew was one of the reasons he was hired followed closely by the fact that he was soon to be unemployed when the Bears fired their head coach. Personally I think he'll turn out to be a good hire and I'm not all that worried about a QB who probably won't start a game for 3 years if ever.
I know this is me reaching to feel better about this but watching film of William Watson I think he’s every bit the QB of Raiola. You take that same kid and put him on a team in AZ his stats are just as good as DR. The more I watch Watsons film the more of a steal I think we are getting.
And he has allegiance to tOSU? How many times did he visit them? Doesn't sound as many times he was in Lincoln.
Totally wrong. The $1.3 million was with a New Jersey marketing firm and had nothing to do with an OSU booster. In the $1.3 million deal, it was reported that he needed to start in 8 games by the end of his sophomore year (not sure how true that was) which wasn't going to happen since he was 4th on the 2021 depth chart behind Stroud, McCord and Jack Miller who has since transferred out. Ewers transferred to Texas where he has a shot at starting in 2022 with their QB room nowhere near as deep as OSU's
Call me crazy, but I suspect most high level recruits would just as soon win more games than they lose, not be a member of one of the worst teams in the conference and just maybe have a chance at playing in a bowl game
he was never coming here - they were mercy visits
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True, there are 11-12 metro areas with football talent within 2-3 hr drive of OSU.
And what Alabama QBs are super successful in the NFL in the last 10-20 years? Fields went to a bad situation and it is too early to tell whether he will be successful or not.
I didn't mention him because it's pretty much a given that he's the top returning WR in the country in 2022. Their WR room is jaw dropping. And they've recently become the favorite for top national 2023 WR Innis.
What QB wouldn't want that type of WR talent to throw to ? I also read that OSU, Michigan and PSU are not pushing the NIL deals by their boosters to recruits. The same goes for Alabama, Georgia and a few others. OSU's logic to recruits is that the NIL money will be there once they prove themselves on the field. I read the same thing with Saban and Alabama. If you look at some of the insane NIL deals to HS recruits, it's by schools that haven't had much success lately and are basically desperate
I am not sure that dominating college football for 14 straight years is "fleeting", but I do understand what you are saying.
I wasn’t confident he would commit or sign given the last 4 years. No matter how many times he visited, I thought he was only considering Nebraska out of respect for his father and uncle.
Alabama is right there but keep in mind that they took Jameson Williams as a transfer from OSU and he turned into their star receiver. He was 3rd on the OSU depth chart behind Olave and Wilson who were the top 2 receivers taken in the NFL draft. OSU will have the top receiver in the country returning this year in that Jaxon Smith whatever and if they get a commitment from the top 2023 receiver Innis, they'll have 3 national top receivers in their class next year in Fleming, Egbuka, and Innis. No way Alabama stacks up against that right now. 3 or 4 years ago - maybe
Heard of Burrow? Fields? Stroud? The number one overall QB in the draft next year. Your turn…..
OSU has had better WR room than some NFL teams. Unreal. Any qb would have good numbers with the talent in Columbus these days
Agree. Too many people here are trying to use Meyer and Tressel QBs - which were read-option college QBs - as the standard for OSU QBs. Ryan Day utilizes pro style QBs and was a QB coach in the NFL. Some just refuse to see the difference.
Crow eating time for the dumb ***** that tried to smack talk me when I said he was never going to Nebraska.
I think we need to move on and win football games, establish a winning culture in a state that is 100% behind Husker football and the top recruits will come here again.
Shocking - he chose the crown jewel of the conference versus the bottom feeder. Nothing in life makes sense…
Tua should be, too, with all his new weapons.
Mac Jones had, what, the best rookie season ever for a quarterback last year?
ohiost fan is delusional. Bama is 10x the program they are in every way.
Hurts, Tua, and Mac are all the same person...very low ceilings that will never be elite, toss Fields in that group as well. Don't be surprised if 3 of those 4 are on different teams in 2 years. Neither Ohio State nor Alabama have had much success with their QB's at the next level, though there is certainly something to be said for how many of them are drawing an NFL paycheck at the moment.
The point was that it wasn't some "giant miss" by NU to not land him because he day played at NU 25 years ago and we hired his uncle. Look at the recent success of OSU and their QBs AND what Ewers was offered in NIL money when he signed originally with OSU. This wasn't a miss by NU.
So how was my post "TOTALLY WRONG"? It wasn't. A million dollars from a New Jersey marketing firm...I'm sure they're Rutgers boosters.... AND he needed to start some games in order to collect. I would say I was virtually TOTALLY RIGHT.
Burrow wasn't exactly an OSU "product" if we're being serious here. The others haven't done Jack in the NFL yet or aren't even there yet
Mac Jones landed in a very favorable spot in New England. OSU QBs will have success in the NFL going forward, and recruits are noticing OSU QBs getting drafted in the 1st round. CJ Stroud will mark the 3rd QB taken in the first round since 2018.
Bust U!
How about CBS Sports having Levis as the way too early #1 overall pick in 2023??
makes sense - everyone gets better once they leave the lame boring slow never-win B1G
No, the point is you stated things as facts that were not. Now you want to change the narrative. It's OK to have an opinion, just say so.
Did NU offer him? Did they host him and his family? Did they really want him? If it is yes to these then, yes, it's a miss. If you are saying it wasn't a miss because we weren't going to get him anyway, that is a defeated attitude.
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