Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome to the buck Eye Weekly Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: Tony Gerdaman here as always with Tom or Tom. How's
Speaker 1: it going?
Speaker 2: But power pause wasn't very long? Right off the top,
Speaker 2: the words are coming flying out. I'm sure everyone already
Speaker 2: knows what that means. It is a breaking news episode
Speaker 2: of the Buckeye Weekly Podcast. And not just a breaking
Speaker 2: news episode, Tony, it is a five star breaking news episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not just fire star. The number one quarterback in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty eight class, Christopher Vargas has announced his
Speaker 1: commitment to Ohio State. Six four sixty five hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety five pounds long and lean right now, but we'll
Speaker 1: obviously bulk up for the buck Eyes. But commits to
Speaker 1: Ohio State over schools like Oregon and Alabama and and
Speaker 1: all of those others. The rare Massachusetts top prospect from
Speaker 1: Saint John's Prepp and Danvers Massachusetts. Perhaps the Ryan Day
Speaker 1: connection to Don Brown has finally paid off in a
Speaker 1: positive way for the Buckeyes. But we saw Christopher Vargas
Speaker 1: at the Ohio State camp at seven on seven and
Speaker 1: he surely looked the part there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, he just you know, big, strong, I mean tall,
Speaker 2: he has the you know, the big frame that you're
Speaker 2: looking for out of a quarterback, but strong arm, very accurate.
Speaker 1: He was.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you're watching and there's fifteen quarterbacks there, and sometimes
Speaker 2: you can you can kind of look and go which
Speaker 2: one is the one who's and you know, who's supposed
Speaker 2: to be the really good one? And this one was like, yep,
Speaker 2: I see him, got a no problem. I see which
Speaker 2: one I'm supposed to shooting pictures of yep, and just
Speaker 2: very very just everything looks the way it's supposed to look.
Speaker 2: And I think with quarterbacks, I'm sure everyone's immediate reaction
Speaker 2: is yes, but can he run? And I think, you know,
Speaker 2: we didn't see him. You know that he wasn't out
Speaker 2: there running the option or anything like that, but looked
Speaker 2: mobile enough. I think I think that's kind of where
Speaker 2: I would fall with him, where he's not going to
Speaker 2: be a run first quarterback by any means. I don't
Speaker 2: know that they would even categorize him as like a
Speaker 2: real dual threat kind of quarterback, but I think he's
Speaker 2: probably gonna be plenty mobile enough for what they would
Speaker 2: need from him.
Speaker 1: Certainly, there's no concern as there may have been with
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks where it's like, well, you don't want a statue,
Speaker 1: you don't want somebody that's just purely a drop back
Speaker 1: guy and has to get rid of it because he
Speaker 1: can he can move around the pocket as needed, and
Speaker 1: then he can even get loose as well. And I
Speaker 1: don't think any lack of mobility is a concern because
Speaker 1: there is none. And it's like like you said, he's
Speaker 1: past first, past second, and then if I need to,
Speaker 1: it's just playing where he has. He hasn't really needed
Speaker 1: to playing where he will eventually he's going to have
Speaker 1: to at some point, and I don't think that's really
Speaker 1: a concern for the buck eyes. And you know he
Speaker 1: was he's just smooth, smooth quarterback with an easy arm
Speaker 1: and that of course these are seven on seven judgments
Speaker 1: when we got to see him live, but you're right,
Speaker 1: like he's he stands out. And then what also stood
Speaker 1: out is so you're there on the first day for
Speaker 1: seven on seven. Then he came back the next day
Speaker 1: for one of the one day camp things and he
Speaker 1: he maybe worked out for about thirty minutes and then
Speaker 1: just hung out with Ohio State players with future teammates
Speaker 1: at that point, with you like Jet Harrison. I think
Speaker 1: maybe Jimmy Brown. Him and Jimor Brown we're on the
Speaker 1: same seven on seventeen, so they've got a connection. And
Speaker 1: it just looked like he was very, very comfortable at
Speaker 1: that time and clearly boom, hey look he was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is one of those things where you just
Speaker 2: kind of have to just check the boxes at that point,
Speaker 2: because if you're a top quarterback, you look at going
Speaker 2: to play or Ryan Day, where he has put plenty
Speaker 2: of quarterbacks in the first round of the NFL Draft. Okay,
Speaker 2: check that box for Ohio State, where you are coming
Speaker 2: in and you know you are you know, the standard
Speaker 2: is win the Big Ten, win the national Championship. You
Speaker 2: know you know you're going to be playing in the
Speaker 2: college football Playoff most if not every year. So okay,
Speaker 2: you want to compete at the high level. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: check that box. Comfort looking comfortable there, looking like you're
Speaker 2: enjoying your time there. Yeah, that was certainly a box
Speaker 2: week sort of checked off at that point. The intriguing
Speaker 2: part of this is he's coming in and you've had
Speaker 2: guys come in and it's like, well, you're coming in
Speaker 2: and you're the third straight five star quarterback that Ohio
Speaker 2: State is brought in. That's not really where he's coming
Speaker 2: in right now, where you've got. Twenty twenty five, they
Speaker 2: brought in Tavian Saint Clair. Twenty twenty six, they brought
Speaker 2: in Luke Fayhee, and Tavan Saint Clair was a five star.
Speaker 2: Luke Fayhee I think it was a three star. I
Speaker 2: think in the final rankings. Twenty twenty seven, they bring
Speaker 2: in Brady Edmunds, and we just did a show on
Speaker 2: Brady Edmonds, and Brady Edmonds was another guy who looked
Speaker 2: really good at those seven on seven camps over the summer,
Speaker 2: four star prospect, but there's not someone ahead of him where,
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of years ago, we talked about
Speaker 2: guys coming in twenty twenty six, guys coming in and
Speaker 2: seeing Tavian Saint Clair and then committing elsewhere relatively soon
Speaker 2: after that, and it was like, yeah, okay, that guy
Speaker 2: looks like he's going to be starting at Ohio State.
Speaker 2: I don't know that there's anyone that jumps out at
Speaker 2: you as like that's someone who's going to be like
Speaker 2: scaring someone else away. And that's sort of unusual for
Speaker 2: Ohio State to not have, you know, to not have
Speaker 2: that guy who's like, well, obviously, you know, Julian Sane
Speaker 2: comes in and Julian saying very early, kind of look,
Speaker 2: Julian saying, why, yep, that guy's gonna be starting get
Speaker 2: Ohio State very soon. So Vargas has an opportunity to
Speaker 2: come in and he's got more than a year to
Speaker 2: sort of help lead this twenty twenty eight class, and
Speaker 2: you know, by the time he's on campus twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 2: you figure he's not a true freshman starter. But twenty
Speaker 2: twenty nine, I think, is that the year they go
Speaker 2: to Alabama twenty twenty nine something like that. I know
Speaker 2: they've got those those trips coming up, so could have
Speaker 2: he could be starting, you know, at some point in
Speaker 2: some pretty consequential interconference games which will or will not
Speaker 2: determine which conference is the best conference in the history
Speaker 2: of the world, depending on who wins.
Speaker 1: If he is the starting quarterback in twenty twenty nine,
Speaker 1: which would mean David Saint Clair leaves a year early,
Speaker 1: which you would expect a five star quarterback to do.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty nine non conference schedule Navy, so he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to really worry about that. Charlotte not so much
Speaker 1: Youngstown State. Nice easy way to ease things in. That's
Speaker 1: the one year where there is no good Marquis, No
Speaker 1: Marquis Power four. But they could say, but we've got Navy,
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, you're gonna speak against the midshipman,
Speaker 1: you're gonna speak against our troops. No, you can go
Speaker 1: ahead and get away with that one. But you're also
Speaker 1: talking about he's the part of the twenty twenty eight class,
Speaker 1: and why wouldn't you want to go play for Ryan Day? Also,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you want to throw the ball to Jet Harrison,
Speaker 1: five star wide receiver, the number one overall player in
Speaker 1: the Rivals rankings.
Speaker 2: He's the.
Speaker 1: Arguably the number one receiver by by all accounts. Elijah
Speaker 1: Newman Hall one of the top five running backs in
Speaker 1: the nation, top top one hundred player. And that's just
Speaker 1: those are your first three offensive commits in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight class. They join Jimy or Wise, five star
Speaker 1: defensive lineman from Trotwood Madison, and boy, not a bad start,
Speaker 1: tom As you say, if these trends continue with that
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Class, Yeah, not bad at all, because you got Yeah, Jet,
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the two four to seven composite right now,
Speaker 2: Jet Harrison number four overall player, Christopher Vargus number six
Speaker 2: overall player, and there are only currently two of the
Speaker 2: top six players in the nation, two of the top
Speaker 2: eight players in the nation committed, and they're both committed
Speaker 2: to Ohio State. So very early, but you know, I
Speaker 2: think probably Ohio State has probably pushed off the doom
Speaker 2: of the program for at least one more year. That's
Speaker 2: that's probably probably reasonably safe at this point. But it's yeah,
Speaker 2: everyone has been a little jittery about Ohio State recruiting
Speaker 2: at various times over the last couple of cycles, and
Speaker 2: it always kind of keeps working out. You know, they
Speaker 2: have ended up with pretty good classes and then I
Speaker 2: mean twenty twenty seven class that the lines have been
Speaker 2: are just incredible. Twenty twenty eight feels like, okay, well
Speaker 2: there might be a little strategy going on here, because
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven you've got the lines, which typically take
Speaker 2: about a year longer to develop. Twenty eight, boy, the
Speaker 2: skill position is looking pretty darn good in twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 2: So you know, lookout, Charlotte and Youngstown State. The twenty
Speaker 2: twenty on the Ohio State Buckeyes might not be bad well.
Speaker 1: And this is also now an opportunity for Christopher Vargas
Speaker 1: to become one of your lead recruiters. And they've already
Speaker 1: got as I said, Jet Harrison committed at receiver Braylan Clark,
Speaker 1: who has Rivals number six overall player wide receiver from Charlotte,
Speaker 1: heavily favoring Ohio State at this point. And then you
Speaker 1: also have Lorenza McMullen from Cincinnati Princeton, another five star
Speaker 1: wide receiver who is an in state guy. And it
Speaker 1: seems like the twenty twenty eight classes where they're going
Speaker 1: to spend some more money on receiver and they spend
Speaker 1: it on the lines. In twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 1: we'll see maybe you go to the outside to the
Speaker 1: skill guys, if you will. But as we say every
Speaker 1: year when it's very very early, boy, this could be
Speaker 1: a really really good recruiting class, and sometimes it just
Speaker 1: turns into a really good recruiting class. And really that's
Speaker 1: the most disappointing thing for Ohio State fans. But the
Speaker 1: good news here, you've got your five star quarterback, you've
Speaker 1: got the Ohio States number one target at quarterback and
Speaker 1: anytime you can do that, whether it's you know this
Speaker 1: early or not, you'll go ahead and take it. And
Speaker 1: really this is what is this two months earlier or
Speaker 1: is it fourteen months earlier than Tavi in Saint Clair
Speaker 1: when he was when he did it, because I'm getting
Speaker 1: my years a little little congealed here, but.
Speaker 2: The same time about this same time out because I
Speaker 2: think he committed.
Speaker 1: Before his he was he was a june camp commit, yes,
Speaker 1: but anyway, he's locked in a lot. He's committed now
Speaker 1: and now can start to build be part of the
Speaker 1: building of the class. So we'll see how things go
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