Recruiting in-state talent has always been a priority for Ohio State.
On Thursday, Ryan Day called landing Ohio’s top in-state talents the “foundation” of the Buckeyes’ recruiting and said it’s great to have players as talented as the ones that have been coming out of the state in recent years.
“We’ve said from the beginning that we always wanna recruit Ohio really strong, and we try to identify them early on in the process and be aggressive,” Day told reporters Thursday. “That is our foundation. It is our foundation now in the program, and it’s also our foundation in recruiting.