Average OSU starter recruit ratings
Cleveland.com published an article (link below) a few days ago comparing OSU and Wisconsin starters by recruiting rankings in an effort to show how their talent matches up.
Here are OSU's average ratings per starting player on offense and defense.
Offense: 0.9361 with 9 starters being a 4-star or higher.
Defense: 0.9305 with 8 starters being 4-star or higher.
Curious how Michigan stacks up.
Regardless of who the coach is it's going to be tough to compete with a team that is recruiting at a top-5 clip if UM isn't. Recruiting rankings aren't everything, but they do matter, and it is becoming increasingly apparent you need that talent if you want to compete at a championship level in college football.
October 26th, 2019 at 3:58 PM ^
Why do so many of you love to suck OSU’s dick?
October 26th, 2019 at 4:04 PM ^
When it’s been in our mouths for so long, maybe the taste has been acquired.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:48 PM ^
Um, that thing has been no where near my mouth. It is literally covered in diseases. I am simply responsible for cupping and massaging the balls while you and your mouth are at work...
October 26th, 2019 at 5:20 PM ^
What is the matter with you people?
October 26th, 2019 at 4:06 PM ^
My bad. I guess I was unaware that an evaluation of the talent of UM's primary rival by which success is tangentially judged against constitutes "sucking OSU's dick."
Hope you are having a wonderful day!
October 26th, 2019 at 4:48 PM ^
Idiotic comment. Childish too.
October 26th, 2019 at 5:05 PM ^
Can’t spell cocksucker without OSU
October 26th, 2019 at 5:39 PM ^
Can somebody get a dick
October 26th, 2019 at 4:01 PM ^
If you're going to pose the question and make the post, why not put the effort in to find out how Michigan stacks up and post that info in the OP?
Would make for a better post, although now I am curious to know how Michigan stacks up.
Just a thought.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:39 PM ^
Agreed on that first thought!
Here are a couple links that don't show average rating among starters, but of the overall roster judged by the past five recruiting cycles that put things in perspective a little more.
October 26th, 2019 at 5:59 PM ^
I think those ratings are kind of misleading mainly because OSU's ranking of 14 last year drops them quite a bit in the overall long term rankings. They were only able to take 17 players in their 2019 class but still had the 3rd highest average/recruit. Here's one that looks at the ROSTER composite over the last 5 recruiting classes that looks at overall roster quality based on recruiting rankings and is pretty telling. Alabama, OSU, and Georgia have separated themselves from everyone else.
https://247sports.com/Season/2019-Football/CollegeTeamTalentComposite/
October 26th, 2019 at 6:22 PM ^
The published ratings were based on the individual starters not the class rankings.
October 26th, 2019 at 6:30 PM ^
247 does a team talent ranking. It adds up the recruiting ranking of all the players currently on the team. AFAIK, it doesn’t adjust for age (a Junior 5* should be better than a Freshman 5* for example).
October 26th, 2019 at 4:03 PM ^
They're gonna cakewalk to a national title. Nobody will stop them.
October 26th, 2019 at 5:09 PM ^
I think it’s LSU, OSU and then everyone else.
October 26th, 2019 at 6:39 PM ^
I think Bama waxes LSU in two weeks
October 26th, 2019 at 5:21 PM ^
Probably their best team ever and the best team the Big Ten has ever seen.
October 26th, 2019 at 5:39 PM ^
Probably the best football team of all time at any level if we are being honest.
October 26th, 2019 at 5:51 PM ^
I think they could be the best collection of individuals to ever congregate with a common purpose, in any facet of existence.
October 26th, 2019 at 5:56 PM ^
While few would doubt that 2019 OSU football is the greatest human endeavor of all time, I caution others to be restrained in assuming that the universe does not contain intelligent life that has itself achieved colossal feats of engineering, medicine, arts, and social progress.
Just trying to tap the brakes ever so slightly by taking a more cosmic and less Earth-chauvinistic view.
October 26th, 2019 at 6:11 PM ^
This is funny. I chuckled. Hyperbolic and sarcastic
October 26th, 2019 at 6:58 PM ^
Unfortunately there’s nothing hyperbolic about what I said.
October 26th, 2019 at 7:19 PM ^
There are almost certainly other universes, as well. Most theoretical physicists believe that there are multiple dimensions. Just focusing on the possible achievements of extraterrestrial beings in our own universe seriously limits the scope of inquiry.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:04 PM ^
This year's game is going to be a bigger beat down than last year.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:49 PM ^
No, no, no, no, you don't seem to understand that Don Brown is a fucking GENIUS!!! Just ask his fans here on the blog!
October 26th, 2019 at 5:30 PM ^
Don Brown is irrelevant. U-M doesn’t have the horses to compete at OSU’s level. I don’t care if it was Buddy Ryan, Bill Belichick, Bill Parcells, Bud Carson, Monte Kiffin, Marvin Lewis, or Wade Phillips. Nobody is stopping OSU with the talent discrepancy that exists between these two schools.
October 26th, 2019 at 5:54 PM ^
Guy just likes to bitch about Don Brown. He doesn’t put any thought into what he’s saying.
October 26th, 2019 at 9:46 PM ^
No way it’s worse. We scored like 3 TDs in trash time to print it from being a 45 point loss
October 26th, 2019 at 4:04 PM ^
OSU players don't come to play school... Chris Evans would never have been suspended for academics at OSU.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:07 PM ^
Chris Evans would hardly have seen the field at OSU.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:37 PM ^
He would have had season tickets.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:10 PM ^
Very true since OSU never bothered to recruit Evans and he would have been buried on their roster and transferred out long ago.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:11 PM ^
They recruited him as a DB.
October 26th, 2019 at 5:25 PM ^
Who’s a higher ranked institution, Syracuse or TOSU? OSU is #54 in the US, that’s bad? Lol,whatever if that makes you feel better. I never hear y’all bringing up academics with other teams?
October 26th, 2019 at 5:48 PM ^
It comes up all the time in regards to 10,000th ranked MSU.
OSU is a good regional school, MSU is a regional school, and Michigan is very nearly elite (Harvard/Stanford/Cal Tech).
October 26th, 2019 at 7:06 PM ^
A Michigan man is at a cocktail party bragging about being from Michigan, the Harvard of public universities.
A Harvard man chuckles and says, funny I never tell anyone I went to the Michigan of private universities.
Michigan is a fine university but it’s not really all that close to Harvard or Stanford.
October 27th, 2019 at 11:15 AM ^
Michigan is about twice as selective as Ohio State (by a quick-and-dirty conversion between median ACT score and percentile), while Caltech is five times as selective as Michigan.
The gap that exists between a good public institution (Ohio State) and a great one (Michigan) is trivial compared to the distance to the real elite schools.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:09 PM ^
I read the headline as salary the first 2 times.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:16 PM ^
Well, yeah, they pay better than Wisconsin does also.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:09 PM ^
OSU is better.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:14 PM ^
A lot better.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:12 PM ^
It also has a lot to do with missing on high ranked players. Mich has had a lot of high ranked guys that had been no where near the ranking they came with out of high school. Think back also to how many 5 stars we were #2 for and missed. What was Chase ranked out of H.S.? I think he was our best guy last couple years on D.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:14 PM ^
Be prepared for the star gazer, stars don’t matter speech. We hear this every time we get a lower ranked player, but everyone goes nuts when we land a highly ranked guy. This new OSU staff is getting the best out of its players. I think as Meyer got older, he started hiring his buddies and friends that couldn’t make it anywhere else, but OSU got lucky, crap went down they basically forced Urban out and now they have a young, hungry staff that is developing the talent and playing to their strengths. I was concerned that Harbaugh might do the same, but it’s good to see that he went out and got some younger coaches. You can see the team improving. They are not the same team that got whacked by Wisconsin. Hopefully tonight they can take another step forward and win on the scoreboard.
October 26th, 2019 at 5:54 PM ^
Higher star average star rankings are better. But it is possible for an individual player to be underrated or to develop into something much better than their star rating. The standard deviation for an individual player is greater than the standard deviation for a group of players. So it is simultaneously possible to think that average class stars are important, but still be excited about a lower rated individual. Being excited about a lower rated player does not equate to average class ratings dont matter.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:18 PM ^
It was sickening watching OSU today, the talent level is insane.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:57 PM ^
Not as sickening as some of the defeatist cucks in this thread.
October 26th, 2019 at 4:21 PM ^
it is becoming increasingly apparent you need that talent if you want to compete at a championship level in college football
You don't say. Let me take a shot at some equivalent statements:
"It is becoming increasingly apparent some schools may violate NCAA guidelines on recruiting from time to time."
"It is becoming increasingly apparent that money sometimes corrupts the political process."
"It is becoming increasingly apparent that the tilt of Earth's axis is somehow correlated to winter and summer falling during different periods of the calendar in the northern vs. southern hemisphere."
October 26th, 2019 at 5:15 PM ^
That took a lot of work. You could have just called him Captain Obvious and called it a day.
October 26th, 2019 at 5:18 PM ^
That took a lot of work. You could have just called him Captain Obvious and called it a day.