re: Caleb Downs to Ohio State

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Sad that this confirms it's purely a cash play. He doesn't really know anybody at Ohio State. He's not about to win a national title with Ryan Day's soft team, BoB having receivers run into each other, and McLaughlin going bowling with every other snap.

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The past 3-4 yrs in there biggest games you have seen multiple teams exposed OSU's vulnerability on the back end. So I can see why it's believable that they would start over paying for a kid like Downs.
When you look back to our trouncing of Osu in the Natty there Lb'er and safeties were abused.
Then combined the Natty loss to UGa and Mich's now 3 straight win's with a National title on top.
Its natty or bust for Ryan Day.
Ryan's Day/OSU team is now faced with a do or die season.
Even though This coach has been to like 2 natty's in the past 4 yrs? This combined with having possible 11-1, 12-0 type seasons.
Under that kind of pressure I can see there NIL player value is going to be much higher and border line desperate this yr.
It's all leading to more open bidding wars of NIL money combined with unrestricted free agency windows causing kids like Downs value to balloon up. So there is noway these kids parents are going to not take those type of bags!.
College football is surly headed toward needing NFL typ GM's and NLI cap specialist in the very near future.