PHONE'S RINGING -- IT'S URBAN ON THE LINE
•Football Schedule•Basketball Schedule•Forum•About•ContactIt now looks like Ohio State is now going after 4 star WR James Clark out of Florida. Not sure if this means Shelton Gibson will not be in this class due to grades or if Urban is reaching out to another WR just to cover his basis.
http://247sports.com/Player/James-Clark-21593?pi=34301
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I was kind of wondering if we didn't get Bell, if Urban would go after an extra wide reciever?
Looks like he's already taken 5 OVs. Maybe UFM has something up his sleeve but is this really the best fallback without Gibson? Are we still on on Corn?
The guy's highlight reel is "borderline ridiculous", as Urban would say. Has amazing speed; he is Mr.YAC. I wish we could have joined the race for Mr. Clark earlier.
I love the highlight tape as well. If that's the only judgement, then I wish we would have offered him long ago. At this point, I assume he's just a backup option though.
http://youtu.be/5pVxgxMuCTU
For those interested in his highlight video ... saying he is "fast" is an understatement... wow!
He doesn't have a listed offer as of yet...if so...link please? We have Smith and Gibson on campus at the moment....not sure why they'd go public with interest for another wide out now???
*Edit: I saw it on 247....it looks like Hinton called him...no visit or offer yet. Probably depends on what's going on with Gibson. I just wish Smith would flip....he's pretty good and has experience to contribute right away.
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."
"I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose."
Woody Hayes 1913 - 1987
Agree on Smith. he dominated in community college, and you can be sure that the competition there was quite a bit better than what he played in APS.
I'll echo the above sentiments when I say I think Clark's tape is better than Gibson's. That said, Gibson has gotten a lot of praise and recognition from experts over the past year.
I SERIOUSLY like Clark's stride! Man the way that kid runs is nice!
Ditto, he has that Ted Ginn stride.
According to 247sports, he has OV to Norwestern and Nebraska so far with planned visits to Clemson and Florida. So those plans could easily be changed. Don't see the 5th OV though anyone know where that one was/is?
Edit: 5th OV was to Purdue. SO Purdue, Northwester, Nebraska. With Clemson/Florida planned in the next few weeks.
http://247sports.com/Player/James-Clark-21593/TimelineEvents
On a side note, I see that Mr. Clark is from an infamous place... New Smyrna Beach, FL, home of the most recorded shark attacks on U.S. soil.
Shark attacks on U.S. soil can only mean one thing.
Land Sharks!!
"Sherman ran an option play right through the south" - Greatest.Civil.War.Analogy.Ever
My wife and I go there every year in April. Beautiful beach
Now I am one that hates the comp level argument. But this tape is proof not all Fla schools are any better than Ky schools. One indicator I look for in tapes for speed is the referees. Look at this tape again and you will see old referees out running the defense in 3/4s of the game film. A few of them are hilariously bad.
Clark does look good though.
That's true his competition level isn't very good like Timmons, but unlike Timmons who's best offer is what... Kentucky, Arkansas or Purdue... Clark has offers from Aub, Clem, Fla, Neb, GTech, Miami (fl), Notre Dame, PSU, Tenn, WVU and so on. And this dude is fastttt. Sign him up... Although, it may be too late in his recruiting process??
Kareem Im just saying the referees are out running the defense and several refs are running with a limp. Look at the film Ky football is better than the teams in this film.
Yeah I wasn't really impressed with either competition level, and I don't really like the highlights of Timmons, the camera angles just don't do it for me. But I'm not saying Timmons isn't a good football player or anything, but looking at their offer lists it seems a lot more teams and coaches prefer Clark even though he isn't rated as high in the recruiting databases... plus, given the Buckeyes history with them Florida boys coming up North... I'll take a FLA HS player any day regardless of competition level!
Love your posting & spirit Crack, but ref speed is not a benchmark or litmus test. I think the offers list is more reliable, and will take FL football recruits any day.
This could be used by the coaching staff as a way to let guys know to either get on the bus or it's leaving the station as well. Gibson dragging his feet for awhile now may be sending mixed signals.
somone had tweeted this kid has a 3.9 gpa so that should speak what kind of student he is
Yea, I would say this info becoming public right now is probably to let the WRs who have committable offers to at least tell the staff what they are doing even if they want to wait until signing day to have their big moment on TV or whatever...OSU cannot afford to wait on these WR's until signing day due to the fact that they cannot miss on getting at least 1 more playmaker type player to fill up a class that is already reaching a scholorship crunch. Essentially Crap or get off the pot. They may not be able to give Smith, Elder, or Clark the go ahead to commit until they get a definitive answer from Gibson (if he is their primary target).
"...they're midgits!"-Coach Kerry Coombs
Anyone know offhand (too lazy myself to do the research) what scouts had Percy Harvin/Rainey/Urbz other playmakers ranked at coming out of HS? Interested to see if they were just prime recruits or if Urbz just took advantage of putting them in his system. It seems OSU has had some "solid" WR over the past couple years, but since Ginn OSU really hasn't had a world beater at WR.
Either way, I'm really excited to see this team in a few years. Especially if they finish out this class with a few more studs.
Don't give up... Don't ever give up.
Harvin was very high and a HORSE'S ASS, suspended by the VSHL in second half of his senior year (track) for inciting fights/ riots, etc. His coach in HS ended up leaving after the school started being investigated for recruiting, etc.
"Don't put syrup on shit, and tell me it's pancakes"
No matter how sh*tty the tour is, it's always tough to leave.
And Harvin had offers from us, FLA and scUM if I remember correctly. Hell of a player though.
"Don't put syrup on shit, and tell me it's pancakes"
No matter how sh*tty the tour is, it's always tough to leave.
Clark? Wot's all this then?
What is ironic Fla is not so much interested in Clark at this time and Joker is very interested in Timmons now. OSU drops Timmons but now interested in Clark? Amazing.
Maybe they just want a pure WR, instead of another H back type. It's not incredibly difficult to figure out.
Who is Timmons?
Cousin to Lawrence
Honestly, are you Timmons? You can tell us.
Brutus's nut. Timmons doesnt get in to any of this crap. For his sake I am glad he doesnt even care about looking at this If he was like some of our recruits that starve for attention, I would not have posted the first post about him.
Yep and Fla needs an H
Maybe you could convince Florida to flip Jacobs and then you could get Timmons?
The only thing more tired than Way showing support for Timmons is people attacking Way over Timmons, especially when he isn't advocating for Timmons coming to tOSU.
This is the cure for my Von Bell blues.
"There is a force that makes us all brothers, no one goes his way alone, all that we send into the life of others comes back into our own." -WWH
Offer Timmons already!
Incredible you would get downvotes for that! It is what it is though. You would be better off choosing a 6'2" kid borderline character and grades with less speed and vertical.
Do you see why you get downvoted when you talk about Timmons? Re-read your post. Don't be a dick.
Say what you really mean. I raise a valid point and this is your best response? I do not think anyone deserves to be disrespected and I myself have crossed that line a few times. I could never imagine being as rude as I have been a few times in here in person nor would I tolerate but also would not expect to be talked to as rude in person as I have been talked to in here.
In real life you have choices. The lessons I have learned in real life seems to not apply in social media. In the future what will that mean for our culture? What a great essay topic for some of you in college.
You can play it off all you want @Way. Every WR or RB/slot prospect doesn't even compare with Timmons in your eyes. We all understand you want Timmons but its not gonna happen! Get over it. If you were a true Buckeye fan, you would not talk about UK all day long on this site. Now that the Timmons recruitment is over, are you going back to the blue and white?
in the active in the forum, there is ray lewis thread and a bollman thread. does that make anyone responding to either thread, a ravens and purdue fan and a non osu fan? just curious?
I love how you constantly act all high and mighty, but then attack those you disagree with backhanded insults and snarky remarks. Seriously man, Timmons isn't coming here. You can stop being a jerk now. All of us will enjoy watching his college career, but it's time to move on.
Why offer a kid who wants to be a buckeye, a kid with speed and good hands, and good grades and good character? Doesnt make sense to me to offer him.
I like all the back and forth and I think backing Timmons by Waycraken and others has been fun, but if you are seriously asking why we wouldn't offer the kid, I'd tell you that it's because we don't have a need for him and we are up against a numbers crunch. By all accounts Jacobs plays the same position + we have Marshall and Elliott.
The other posters are not the folks who made the decision not to offer Timmins, it was the coaching staff. I'm sure that the kid is great, but at this point, I am hoping that the staff was right and that Jacobs and Marshall blow up.
i was being sarcastic, guessed you missed it, or i wasnt quite good at being sarcastic.
Got it Stu, and figured my response would hurt less feelings if I put it after yours, rather than after one of the guys who are more heated by the issue
After today I will get over the fact that my Buckeyes are going a different direction but it is tough to watch the direction. Fortunately for us very few freshmen get an opportunity and I am sure that trend will continue. Corn Elder in my opinion is the 2nd best prospect we have (next to Marshall) that could contribute next year (talking about RBs and WRs).
lmao at the downvoting.
Say something along the lines "Tim Tebow has good morals" or "Ray Lewis got away without serving time in a murder trial" and you will get downvoted as well. Its the world we live in. I laugh about downvotes as well. Im sure they are not used as intended.
No offense, but every time you guys have these discussions about how large the downvote problem is, you're making it worse. Most posts get downvoted but still have more up than down, which basically works out to deal with the inherency of the trolls. By making it an issue that you gripe about constantly, you're just giving said trolls the upper hand, because that's their intent.
If you ignore it, they will go away. By bringing it up constantly, you deviate/go off on a tangent from the topic and thus non-trolls will downvote you due to content. It's just a compounding problem. The first rule of downvotes is not to complain about downvotes.
Yeah that's basically the gist of what I said
Downvoting is like Fight Club. You just dont talk about it.
Nothing like dancing on the field in 02...
HOLY SHITE! How does a player like Clark fly so far under the radar? That kid is better than Quick. And I don't care what the competition level is.
That's pretty close to Ted Ginn speed and acceleration. He's got that ability to stop on a dime, jump back a few yards and be off at full speed in a step or two.
I think this may be a matter of the staff just now getting wind of him and checking out his tapes. With any luck, maybe he wanted to be recruited by OSU and made contact or had a coach make contact.
Faster than Quick, but I wouldn't say better. Quick has dominated some of the best competition out there. I would, however, still love to get this kid if Gibson is not part of this class. He looks better, to me, than Elder and Timmons. He looks similar to Gibson, but slightly faster.
“I’m still at the point where I’m not ready to pick a favorite yet,” said Clark, who has also visited Purdue and Northwestern and has already crossed Purdue off his list. “I still have two visits left and anything can happen in next couple weeks.”
That was the case Sunday morning. Clark (5-foot-11, 170 pounds) received a surprising phone call from Ohio State assistant coach Tim Hinton, who then handed the phone to Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer.
“He said they wanted to know if I was interested or if they’d be wasting their time recruiting me,” Clark said of his conversation with Hinton and Meyer. “I told them, ‘Yes, I’m definitely interested.’
“It went well. It’s definitely something to think about over the next couple of days.”
So Clark has a decision to make this week and it sounded like he’s probably going to end up in Columbus, Ohio, on official visit No. 4 on Friday instead of Clemson.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/blogs/recruiting/os-james-clark-ne...
Wow!! This kid is nasty! Definitely wish we would have been recruiting him earlier, but I think we still have a chance! Then again, with Urban, we ALWAYS have a chance!
If we can go get another speed guy out of SEC country, I'm all for it... Smith and Gibson are going to need to make a decision very soon. Otherwise, they could get left out of this class.
Just watched this kids highlight video. Why did we not ofer him sooner? I love his attitude and the way he plays out there! Go do some work Urbz and bring this kid home! I have a great feeling about what he would do in S&G
Saw this and did not know if anyone had heard about it. Thought this might mean he will not pursue the OSU offer or would that assumption be wrong?
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Here's a link to what that tweet is referring to: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/blogs/recruiting/os-james-clark-de...
Maybe Clark takes an unofficial, but my guess is this really reduces the chances of landing him.
Read on Buckeyeplanet that he MIGHT change his Florida visit to an unofficial so he can take an official to us. That would be HUGE.
http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/football-recruiting/630487-13-fl-wr-j...
Bill Greene saying that Gibson is out.
So there's that
Was there a reason why he is out? Apparently there is an issue. Interesting to know which side cut it off.
This kid is impressive, but I'm just as impressed with his QB. The kid can sling it, and has good accuracy. He also has good velocity from what I can tell in the films. Anyone know anything on him?
His name is Taylor Jones. He is a sophomore. He is small (probably 5'10), so he will need to grow a few inches in the next couple years. We will see how good he is next year, when he doesn't have Gibson and Laster to throw to. It was hard to judge him this past year because Gibson and Laster were so good and almost always getting open or drawing most of the defense to them, which gave Jones a lot of time and space. I don't see him as a B1G QB unless he grows a couple inches and shows a lot of development, but we will see.
Is the offer to Clark because Jacobs may visit Maryland?
No, probably b/c Gibson is likely out and even if Corey Smith signs, they want to take another good one.
Gibson said at the AA game that his academics are fine but something is def fishy here because you just don't offer a kid only a month prior to NSD unless something is up with the alternative. I do love Clark's stide and his explosiveness.
There's two options with Gibson. One is grades/test scores, which I don't buy. It seems to have shifted to Gibson is weighing tOSU and WV, and even though he loves tOSU, he sees potential to play early and, possibly, in a better system for WR at WV. Whatever he chooses (or has chosen), the staff at least needs to have backup options, which seem to be at WR rather than H/slot.
Gibson's recruitment seemed off to me since the beginning, and I don't think this is a clear case of test scores or academic issues. I don't know him and will not make personal judgements about him, but there seemed to be something he wanted out of this experience, maybe a point he was trying to make, that never seemed to add up for the Buckeyes.
Gibson is becoming our new Anzalone - bout to wish the staff would tell him sayonara.