Recruiting would drop off they said. There’s no way new Ohio State head coach Ryan Day could keep up the ferocious pace of four and five-star recruits former Buckeye head coach Urban Meyer was on.
So far, it looks like “they” were wrong.
Yeah, the uneducated folks point to last year’s No. 14 recruiting ranking as evidence that things have and will slide without Meyer, but there were never going to be that many spots to fill for the 2019 recruiting cycle. In fact, the per commit rating was still one of the top three in the country.
Since then, we’ve seen big-time recruit after big-time recruit give their verbal to Ryan Day and staff, and it’s not just for the immediate, but out a couple of years.
One of those verbal commitments is five-star Columbus area Pickerington North defensive end commit Jack Sawyer. He gave his verbal to Ohio State back in early February and was already high up all the recruiting services rankings at the time.
And now this.
ESPN has updated its ESPN 100 recruiting rankings and now has the 6-5, 220 pounder as the top overall recruit in the class. If you’re keeping track, that means not only do the Buckeyes have the No. 1 recruit for the 2020 class in wide-receiver Julian Fleming, but now the top prospect for 2021 as well.
Ohio State has back to back No. 1 recruits in the ESPN 300. Julian Fleming in 2020 and Jack Sawyer in 2021 pic.twitter.com/QNhschmKLZ
— The Buckeye Nut (@TheBuckeyeNut) November 21, 2019
And they said Day couldn’t pull all of this off. Eat your heart out Michigan and Penn State.