For Ohio State it's CHAMPIONSHIP or BUST | 5-Star Flex

this year in college football the team with the most to lose and the most to prove isn't a team that doesn't have a lot of wins we're talking about one of the most winning recent programs in college football the Ohio State Buckey right now it's championship orust and to be honest that's a very very fair narrative because these guys have the best roster in college football in my opinion when you look at the depth not only the top end talent but when you look at the depth of the roster it's it's it's incredible it's insane and the way that I look at a roster when I want to talk about how deep it is is I'm from SEC country and I'm thinking how many of these guys could come and make an impact in the SEC today and it's not just Ohio State starters it's their second string they've got some third string guys and you're going to see in a transfer portal every year Ohio state is going to be one of those programs that provide starters to other power for programs yeah Ohio state is loaded I mean all right let's just start at the top let's go to the quarterback room first and foremost you've got will Howard comes over for Kansas State he's got really really a huge amount of big game experience coming out of the Big 12 last year he's a guy with a lot of poise a lot of intangibles and he does have a lot of arm Talent he's a guy that's going to really be pulling the streams for Ohio State this year and I think that if he does what he's supposed to do with that cast of talent that He has around him is going to be a really good season in Columbus but you don't stop there you've got another guy who's been around for a while and had some experience in Devin Brown then after you go there you gotta go Julian S who last year was the number one overall recruit in the country when it came to quarterbacks now after you get there right then you say man you're at the fourth string you got a guy like Lincoln King Holz who's just a lot of teams are just waiting for him to put his name in the portal because he can make another roster better immediately and oh yeah your red shirt candidate was the number four overall quarterback in the country last year eron Nolan who had teams licking their chops just in case that he was the type of guy who was going to leave instead of staying to compete which he did which I'll get to later that's just your quarterback room okay let's talk about wide receivers you bring in arguably the most physically imposing receiver in recent history when you talk about a guy like Jeremiah Smith who on top of that physicality that he brings the speed that he brings he brings insane inair ball catch abilities the way that he attacks the ball is something that we haven't seen in recent years and he's just one he's a guy that you can't afford to double cover well you want to double cover him you probably should but you can't afford to because at that time then you leave a guy like Carell Tate one onone not even to mention a makea abuka who then he's going to eat you up if you have a your third corner on him that that's dinner time a bucket of chicken we gotta eat now baby those are your wide receivers and then you got guys on the bench that are four and five stars just lined up Talent after Talent after Talent okay then let's go tight end you got a guy who's been around for a while like G Scott and what I like about the tight end room is You' got a six six month some people think he may be closer to 67 and gelani tank Thurman out of Alston Hughes in Atlanta which I'm very familiar with that school he is a freak of nature and a heck of a ball player he came in last year he got his uh black strike removed fairly early didn't have the season that he wanted to have and then you cons you just saw him consistently stacking days and stacking days and you hear the reports out of Columbus saying this guy is going to be a player well that's your third string guy depending on what formation you're in that's just kind of speaks to the depth that Ohio state has then you go into a veteran offensive line you bring in a guy like Seth mlin from uh from Alabama tons of starting experience then you got a guy like Josh fryer who's been there for a while you got Donovan Jackson who could have left and went to the League last year so you have a really solid offensive line and who are these guys blocking for probably the best backfield in the country when you consider trayon Henderson who's already proven that he can do it alone but now you don't just bring in a third down back you just don't bring in a g Gat back you bring in Quin shine jins who led the SEC and rush in the past two years they are absolutely loaded and that's just the offense we're not even going to defense hold up start the defense with Jack Sawyer who could have left last year probably would have been at least a day two pick possibly day one depending on how the draft rolled and how they performed but you you start out with a guy like Jack Sawyer then you got to Hamilton you get a guy like Tek Williams who has who really has Sunday potential and I think he's another guy who probably could have left last year and been at least a day two pick then you come back with JT too excuse me if I butchered it I promise you let let's just call him JT just to make sure I'm okay then you got a guy like JT that's your defensive line that you're just rolling out any team in the country I guarantee you that these guys could start that like you don't every guy on that defensive line could probably go start or make an impact on 85 to 90% of the rosters in the country then you talk about a guy like Sunny Styles the freak of nature the guy who has safety speed but hits like a linebacker then after you go there you got a guy like Cody Simon the like he's old enough he's he's a guy that when we talk about guys you want in the locker room you want a guy with a mustache you want somebody who's a little old a little longer than to to kind of bring that funk when it comes down to those 30 short or those fourth and short situations that's the Ty the type of guy that you're sending out there at the inside linebacker spot then Denzel bur I mean and on top of after you go Denzel Burke at corner then you go Ransom at the other safety then you go arguably the best college football player in the country depending on who you ask and Caleb Downs that should be enough that roster right there should be enough for people to say man that's a team that I would not want to play then from there you don't stop there because your roster is loaded and you're in a win Now situation you got to go recruit and nobody in the country is recruiting better than Ohio State Ohio state has four five stars right now 16 four stars right now that's incredible 21 blue chippers let's take a look at that class your already loaded at quarterback and on top of that you're going to bring in five star tavien St CL St Clair excuse me who is a very physically imposing quarterback when you look at it when you 63 goes around 225 230 he's a guy that can do a little bit of everything if you want him to run some quarterback power he's going to be a threat in the RPO he has a cannon for a arm you got him that's willing to come in and wait his turn then you think about the cornerbacks that you're bringing in the top cornerback class in the country two of the top 10 two two of the top 10 players in the country at corner at the same position when you talk about a guy like Devin Sanchez who stands 62 175 pounds track speed really great in coverage and on the other side you got that physically imposing corner and Naim offer who may be a tad shorter but man I haven't seen anybody in the country that has the short area burst that Naim offer has so now you've got bookends at cornerback where you can play whatever you want to do you know what sending zero Blitz will'll be okay in the back zero Blitz we ain't tripping all right but then you go to the linebacker room then you got two you got two more cornerstones when you talk about a guy like TJ Alford out of Florida and then you pair him with a guy like Riley pedon two running hit linebackers that you can that you don't have to take off the field on third down because both of these guys can run really really well and on the back end you go with fahem delaye I mean Carter low on offensive line you miss on a guy like David Sanders but we all forget about they already have Carter low who's a top 30 player in the country who who who really when you look at the body size when you look at the the the the the frame that he has he could play inside or out and it let he's a nightmare if you wanted to run right behind him if you put him at right tackle nightmare but he has the footwork to play left tackle so it doesn't really matter where you go with cardal low he's still a festar type guy not even to talk like like not even talking about the receivers because you still got high fourstar Quincy Porter on the way in Zahir Mattis is somebody that I think nobody is talking about but zir Mattis at the edge is somebody that I think can really have an opportunity to make an early impact and you don't just have him at the edge you also bring in a guy like Zion Grady and when you talk about Zahir matths he's a guy I mean I think he's probably about six six you got the length that you want in order to play however you want to play if he wants to stand somebody up and go long arm he can but he also has the ability to bend to he has the lower Bend IN in order for him to get around the edge I mean this class is loaded not even to talk about the running backs Bo Jackson I mean I mean with a name like that do we even have to talk about it so I'm not just going to go all the way into the recruiting class it's just a high level pitch but when you look at the current roster and you look at the recruiting class there is not another team in the country that is more prepared to make a run at the type of Dynasty type uh teams that we've seen like the Alabama of the world this type of roster is the type of team that you can continuously see that there a pipeline of players that you're always going to be in every game really based off athleticism now it's up to coach Ryan day and Company too get those guys where they need to be but how is all this happening why is everybody kind of just coming to Columbus they're recruiting with a national imprint you got guys from I I mean you when you look even to the 26 class you go as far west is Cali you bring it all the way back to New Jersey you go far south to Florida you're in Georgia in bama you're in the midwest I call Columbus the Magical Kingdom why do you call Dukes why do you call it the the Magical Kingdom because how do you lose the Michigan three times in a row and then get more serious about your roster I mean a lot of times people and we hear people calling for jobs but how often do guys take those type of losses or teams have those type of losses and get better and I mean not even just incrementally better they are getting better and better and better the classes are now number one I mean it is insane but you got to start with the staff and I think the staff that's been put together in Columbus is a very special one you talk about Ryan day and I think um one thing about Ryan day he has a certain Synergy with his coaches and I uh I I like to point to his relationship with uh offensive line coach Justin fry guys who worked together previously I mean they I think they go all the way back to Boston College or uh I I can't remember the exact school but I think it's uh BC but they have years and years of experience together so the Run game coordinator knows what the offensive guy what the what the Juggernaut what the what what the head coach is already thinking you take a guy like that and then you mix him with the the receiving uh the receiving coach and the co- offensive coordinator Brian Hartline who is that the top Brom in the country year after year after year the NFL is littered with Brian Harline recruits and then even if you want to flip over and you go to the defensive side of the ball I think the the the the same energy that Brian Harline brings with the name recognition and the type of RS that he puts out and the NFL Talent you get that same thing with Larry Johnson Larry Johnson is putting up Edge rushers and defensive lineman in the league almost every year and now you're seeing him recruit at that level where he's bringing in multiple Edge guys in the same class and man OG Tim Walton I interviewed Naim alred really familiar with his family and the way they talk about OG Walt that's what they call him OG Walt as you guys know OG Walt I was at on three um nil the the on3 nil Summit and one of the families that uh that I was stationed with for dinner was the offers now purely coincidence and I don't think that the people are on three knew that I had a prior relationship with those guys because there are a lot of guys from Atlanta that I felt like they probably would have put me with but they put me with this family I'm just looking that Naim just going through his phone and we're talking and he's showing me stuff and I just see the amount of stuff that he has sent he's like oh I'm G tell coach about this oh I gotta tell coach about this I'm thinking he's talking to his high school coach I'm looking in his phone it's Tim Walter the relationships that he's building with these guys and and guess who else was at the table d s and Devon Sanchez and pop Sanchez so when you're hearing one guy talk about Walt now they're sharing stories Walt told me this and Walt told me that you got to give a shout out to the job recruiting that OG T walson is doing now I want to go back to why I call it the Magical Kingdom because I think that the magic created after those losses in order to to band together and say we're going to take this chip on our shoulder we're going to break it up and we are in the new AG I I lose his name but the new ad comes in he has the meeting with Ryan day and they and Ryan Day lays out his plan and they say you know now it's time to go execute because the roster didn't get that way just because of the recruiting that they did out of the high school level they went to the transfer portal and got the who's who I mean you literally go get Seth mlin from Alabama you get Caleb DS from Alabama you get Julian sa from Alabama quinine jins from Old Miss he say come up here do you know how hard that is to get guys like that in one place that is an incredible Hall and you're for a team that didn't have a lot of talent they those just those players alone would raise the level of play for a middling team it's almost how Dion said I'm bringing my Louis luggage when he was speaking on Travis Hunter and shadur and the guys that he was bringing from Jackson State to Colorado well I guess Ohio State went shopping for Gucci because that's what they did they came South I guess they went to Rodeo Drive not not Rodeo they went to uh Ocean Drive and they said you know we're going south and we want the best luggage they got here we want all designer and that's what they brought because there aren't I think the two best players of college football I will probably have to give it to Travis Hunter and Caleb DS Travis Hunter probably has the edge because he's played more offense but as you'll hear in the conversation that I'll have with Coach Gary DS you may see Caleb DS get that rock this year and if he does what I know he's capable of doing with the ball in his hands he could take that mental from Caleb uh excuse me from Travis Hunter but right now I got these guys neck and neck I think they're both phenomenal players but yeah I just wanted to start off and just say look if you're an Ohio State fan you've got every reason in the world to be excited because of what's on the field and when I talked about coaches excuse me I'd be remiss if I didn't mention not just the cooc but you bring in Chip Kelly the head coach from UCLA as a offensive coordinator what who does that who goes and gets an off who goes and gets a head coach who's happy with this job who has a top quarterback and says n you know what screw it I'm going to Ohio State as a offensive coordinator what Ohio State that's why I call it a Magical Kingdom so and as long as they continue to stack these classes I think that name is going to continue to fit so it's going to be a really interesting year in Columbus and I think that it is national championship orust for the buck