In the summer of 2019, I was hired onto the Ohio State recruiting beat at Eleven Warriors and rolled into town in mid-September with the Buckeyes in the midst of rattling off what was probably the most impressive, dominant regular season they’ve had in the past decade.
No game was even close until the Penn State win in November, and even that wasn’t as close as the scoreboard indicated. Ohio State wasn’t challenged until Wisconsin came knocking in the Big Ten Championship Game.
Simultaneously, the Buckeyes were hardly challenged on the recruiting trail during my first several months here, and the past year-and-a-half has been, well, kind of a cake walk in terms of recruiting coverage in this sense…
Every week, it seemed like I was writing about how Ohio State was killing it in recruiting, and it started to become a bit of a challenge to come up with new ways to say Ohio State is killing it in recruiting.