Ohio State recruiting risks -- What's worth it, what's not?
It's a deep dive into Ohio State recruiting strategy on this Wednesday Buckeye Talk as Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means drop a two-hour episode for the first time in a while.\nThere's a lot here, talking about the recruitments for players like Dylan Raiola, Quinn Ewers, Terrelle Pryor, Micah Parsons, Bronny James, Tate Martell and times where the Buckeyes did or didn't accept a certain amount of risk in a recruitment.\nFirst (0:30) is a discussion comparing how much risk the Buckeyes should take in football recruiting compared to basketball recruiting.\nThen it's on to five areas of potential risk in football recruiting and what Ohio State should do:\n\nPlayers with a degree of celebrity (23:31)\n\nPlayers who are focused on NIL (41:41)\n\nPlayers who are national five-stars with no OSU connections who might easily change their minds (1:02:20)\n\nPlayers with potential off-field issues (1;23:39)\n\nPlayers who might create NCAA issues (1:38:29)\n\n\nAnd last, a wrap up of fan thoughts and if the guys think Ohio State is handling risk correctly right now (1:46:55).\nOhio State text subscribers were surveyed to judge how they feel about each area of risk, and Doug, Nathan and Stephen dug into each one.\nThanks for listening to Buckeye Talk.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices