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Written by Duane Long   
Wednesday, 17 February 2010 14:51

We are seeing new offers every day. The Buckeyes have made two more offers in the last 48 hours.

Center Brian Bobek was offered after visiting this past weekend. He is a rising star after leading the national junior combine in bench press reps and in vertical jump. That shows a strong explosive player. His family has connections to Iowa, both parents being grads, but I have some real insight into this one. I have reason to believe the Buckeyes are going to be hard to beat on this one. I think we see a verbal sooner rather than later. He is an impressive drive blocker on film. Stays low, fires out and keeps his feet. Plays to the whistle. His offer list is going to cause some questions to arise. I don't know if there is anyone who has been more critical of Bollman than me but I have to give him credit for being really good at finding and developing centers.

The other offer caught me off guard. Athlete Derjuan Gambrell from Toledo Rogers is a relative unknown. I had never heard of him until I learned of the offer. I like what I see on film. He is a classic free safety. He has a safety body. He is long and lean at 6-2 and 180 with very long arms. I call him an athlete but the offer is as a safety. He is so impressive on the ball and after the catch that I could see him being given a shot at receiver. I do not have him in my top five defensive backs right now but this is not a reach. He is a nice player. I don't expect him to wait too long to verbal either.

I am surprised to see that Nick Vannett is more open than I thought he was on first blush. He is talking about other schools. I have been trying to tell fans that we would not use one of the elite tight ends in a way that is going to draw one of them here. It is not what we do in our offense anymore than Dave is part of the Florida offense. It is not what they do. We don't feature the tight end. Losing a player like Vannett would be very disturbing. He is not just another tight end that would be a lineman in another system, but he would not fall into the elite athletic tight end category. We need to nail down kids like this. It is not a matter of not getting an elite tight end prospect. It is a bigger deal than that. The talent level at tight end is really falling off, and I don't know what can be done about it. You can say we could throw to the tight end more. It is not that simple. Our passing offense is designed to go down the field to the wide receivers. Throwing to the tight end more changes the offense. We are going to give the tight end 25 catches or so every year. When you say throw to the tight end more that means making the tight end the primary on some plays. You need to keep in mind that means not throwing the ball to one of our wide outs. The staff needs to find a way to get this one done.


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Vannett...
written by dbuckeye44, February 17, 2010
I too was shocked to read his comments today about keeping it wide open. Here is a prospect right in our back yard who should have been brought up to bleed scarlet and gray and he wants to take his time. Not a good sign. While I am shocked I am equally disappointed. I still think he becomes a Buckeye but he has taken himself out of the group that really want to be a Buckeye.
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written by edbuck51, February 17, 2010
Bobek kinda looks like a Johnnie Simon kind of guy. Strong as all get out, and explosive as all get out. Me likey!
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written by O-State, February 17, 2010
Watched Gambrell's scoutingohio film. Tackling looks weak but there's not a whole lot to go off of. Still, pretty disappointing highlight film.
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written by razrback16, February 18, 2010
I don't really blame the guy for wanting to look around. We don't throw to the TE. That's going to be a deterrent for TE prospects that want to have the ball thrown to them. If we start running a more modern offense we'll likely get more of these types of prospects looking at us.
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written by SFBuck, February 18, 2010
Is the talent really dropping off?
We have Fragel, DeLillo and Stoneburner.
JT doesn't believe in making the TE a feature position for the offense.
Why? Because it is easier to have a difference maker at AR than at TE. So, it doesn't make much sense to try and teach a scheme that features the TE. Yes - if you get a Kellen Winslow, you are in great shape, but they are hard to find.
Gambrell
written by csmittybuck, February 18, 2010
People keep saying Gambrell's film is disappointing. It says PREVIEW on the scouting OH film. The kid isn't a weak tackler either, he just has bad form. He is willing to stick his head in there and that is all you need, the rest can be taught.
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written by Fifty, February 19, 2010
Mr. Bucknuts said Fragel moved to OT. My problem is even when we have a TE with good hands, like this year, we don't use him any more than wehen we have a TE with bad hands!

I have no issue with requiring your TE to be able to block, just like a RB must pick up a blitz, but send him out on pass plays, as an option, don't alway max protect!
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written by Duane Long, February 22, 2010
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written by SFBuck, February 18, 2010
Is the talent really dropping off?
We have Fragel, DeLillo and Stoneburner.
JT doesn't believe in making the TE a feature position for the offense.
Why? Because it is easier to have a difference maker at AR than at TE. So, it doesn't make much sense to try and teach a scheme that features the TE. Yes - if you get a Kellen Winslow, you are in great shape, but they are hard to find.


The talent level is dropping off. The only player you list that is a natural tight end is Dilillo. Stoneburner came here as a wide receiver. He was recruited as a wide receiver. He lined up when he came here as a wide receiver. I know for a fact that Fragel was in the offensive line meetings when he first came here. That was the worst kept secret in the football program.

I agree that we will never be a tight end focused offense. We still need to try to get Big Ten caliber tight end talent in here. We are not going to get the elite receivers. That is fine. We don't need them. We will never do more with the tight end than we are doing right now. We need to have a Big Ten caliber kid though. We need to find a formula.
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written by Backmann, July 23, 2010
NCAA Football 11 is out now. I get my rosters from NCAA Football 11 Rosters. Where are you getting yours?

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