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- 1:33Speaker 1: Mark and Juck breaking down one of the maybe more
- 1:36Speaker 1: underappreciated commitments this year. A late flip for the Buckeyes,
- 1:41Speaker 1: a really really elite defensive backed prospect, Jay Timmins, a
- 1:46Speaker 1: late flip in the cycle who could have a huge
- 1:48Speaker 1: impact on the field at Ohio State in the coming years.
- 1:51Speaker 1: So here's Mark and Juck talking about him. And if
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- 1:58Speaker 2: Tomorrow morning, Hello everyone, welcome to the Skull Session Recruiting
- 2:04Speaker 2: podcast brought to by bucke Huddle dot Com. I am
- 2:06Speaker 2: Mark Givler. Juck is with me here again today as
- 2:09Speaker 2: we look at a late addition to the Ohio State
- 2:12Speaker 2: twenty twenty six recruiting class. As we continue our signing
- 2:16Speaker 2: twenty twenty six recruiting capsules, not just a late edition,
- 2:20Speaker 2: a really important one and one who may end up
- 2:24Speaker 2: being one of their highest rated guys across the board,
- 2:27Speaker 2: but certainly is on one service four star slash five
- 2:31Speaker 2: star corner. Jay Timmins, the son of Florida State great
- 2:38Speaker 2: Lawrence Timmins out of the Pittsburgh area, and Timmins was
- 2:45Speaker 2: committed to Florida State. Didn't see any reason to ever
- 2:48Speaker 2: think that would happen, you know, with the buck eyes,
- 2:50Speaker 2: you know, the Florida State legacy committed to the seminoles
- 2:54Speaker 2: Hire State flips him late in the process. He's the
- 2:58Speaker 2: number twelve player in the country recording the rivals in
- 3:00Speaker 2: the number one corner. Everyone out you know, two four
- 3:03Speaker 2: sevens moved him into the top fifty. ESPN has got
- 3:06Speaker 2: in the top two hundred. But we kind of know
- 3:08Speaker 2: how ESPN does things. But but you know, very very
- 3:11Speaker 2: highly ranked kid and a huge, huge pickup for the
- 3:16Speaker 2: Buckeyes late in the process. If this could have been
- 3:18Speaker 2: the number twelve player in the country back in April
- 3:21Speaker 2: and had been in the Buckeyes radar for seven months
- 3:24Speaker 2: and ultimately committed to the Buckeyes in November with you know,
- 3:28Speaker 2: how crazy would people have went over this? But it
- 3:31Speaker 2: kind of you know, didn't get maybe the love it
- 3:33Speaker 2: should have.
- 3:35Speaker 3: You know, it's funny we always talk about this marked
- 3:37Speaker 3: the kind of the perception of a recruiting class and
- 3:41Speaker 3: how things are going.
- 3:42Speaker 4: And you're absolutely right.
- 3:44Speaker 3: If this guy was on the board with that ranking
- 3:47Speaker 3: early on in the cycle, when Ohas State was whiffing
- 3:51Speaker 3: on Luke Waffle or getting beat out for Carter Meadows,
- 3:54Speaker 3: if this was, you know, that the twelfth rank player
- 3:57Speaker 3: in the number one corner by rivals, and some people
- 3:59Speaker 3: have disputed that they're they're puffing him up. Okay, well,
- 4:02Speaker 3: he's a number four corner at two four seven. And
- 4:05Speaker 3: if that was a guy, right, if that was a
- 4:09Speaker 3: guy on the board during that period and the Buckeyes
- 4:13Speaker 3: landed him, it would have been a huge deal. As
- 4:16Speaker 3: it stands, it kind of just snuck in at the
- 4:19Speaker 3: end here and didn't really get the uh, the pizazz
- 4:23Speaker 3: that a guy like that usually gets. But it was
- 4:27Speaker 3: really interesting the way it went down, man, And it
- 4:29Speaker 3: was a huge win for Wall, huge win.
- 4:34Speaker 2: Yeah. And like, okay, so listed here at five ten
- 4:38Speaker 2: and a half, I'm told he's a little bit bigger
- 4:40Speaker 2: than that. I don't know that he's quite six foot,
- 4:42Speaker 2: but I think he's a little bit on the on
- 4:45Speaker 2: the higher end of of you know, maybe five eleven
- 4:47Speaker 2: five eleven and a half, but just a tremendous football player.
- 4:53Speaker 2: We're gonna pop in some of his some of his
- 4:56Speaker 2: film here and kind of let you guys look, but
- 4:59Speaker 2: this is a guy who just makes plays. I'm just
- 5:02Speaker 2: an absolute machine. Look at I mean physical. I'll tell
- 5:07Speaker 2: you who he reminds me of in terms of his
- 5:09Speaker 2: build and the way he played reminds me a ton
- 5:11Speaker 2: of Denzel Ward. Reminds me a ton of Denzel Ward.
- 5:15Speaker 2: And not like the Denzel Ward that got thirty seconds
- 5:18Speaker 2: to decide if he wanted to take his Ohio State
- 5:19Speaker 2: offer or not where they were moving on the Denzel
- 5:21Speaker 2: Ward became an absolute star in Columbus and is a
- 5:25Speaker 2: Pro Bowl calibal corner in the NFL that Denzel Ward.
- 5:28Speaker 4: So.
- 5:29Speaker 2: I love the way he hits, I love the way
- 5:32Speaker 2: that he closes on ball carriers. I love the way
- 5:35Speaker 2: he breaks on the football. I just think that tremendous, physical,
- 5:40Speaker 2: instinctual corner.
- 5:43Speaker 4: Mark.
- 5:43Speaker 3: This guy could play wide receiver at a high level program.
- 5:46Speaker 3: I mean, he is legit. And we're talking about a
- 5:49Speaker 3: dude who was a corner and in his senior year.
- 5:54Speaker 3: They don't have very good corners on his team at
- 5:57Speaker 3: Pine Ridge Pine Hills, they don't have very good or
- 6:00Speaker 3: they don't have very good safeties, but they got some
- 6:02Speaker 3: decent corners coming up behind him. Coach has him, how
- 6:05Speaker 3: do you feel about playing safety this year? It could
- 6:07Speaker 3: really help us out, No problem, coach.
- 6:10Speaker 4: And he goes and.
- 6:10Speaker 3: Plays safety for a majority of the year. And he's
- 6:14Speaker 3: a stud safety, so corner, safety, wide receiver that could
- 6:19Speaker 3: play high level P four wide receiver anywhere he wants.
- 6:23Speaker 3: Just a ridiculously versatile athlete.
- 6:27Speaker 4: Which that's again.
- 6:28Speaker 2: No, he's gonturn upon two, isn't he?
- 6:32Speaker 4: He does it all. He does it all.
- 6:34Speaker 3: And you know, as look, you love the sons of
- 6:38Speaker 3: these football players, right like Timmins was a.
- 6:40Speaker 4: Dog and uh he's got that. He's got that about him.
- 6:44Speaker 3: Man Timmins was a was a nasty dude out there,
- 6:48Speaker 3: and uh and and Jay is certainly liked that as well.
- 6:51Speaker 4: Loves to play football, loves to hit.
- 6:53Speaker 3: As you see, that is a physical, physical corner And
- 6:57Speaker 3: I know that, you know, obviously we know Tim Walton
- 7:01Speaker 3: loves a six foot one cornerback and that's his ideal frame.
- 7:07Speaker 3: But this dude, there is nothing that like. He makes
- 7:12Speaker 3: up for it in so like so many different ways
- 7:15Speaker 3: that he doesn't have that length. And you could just
- 7:18Speaker 3: see with the athleticism he puts the clamps on everybody.
- 7:21Speaker 3: And that's good football that they play in that in
- 7:24Speaker 3: that region right there. So he's been tested and he
- 7:29Speaker 3: is certainly a huge win for the Bucks pulling away
- 7:32Speaker 3: from Florida State, his mom and dad's alma mater. And
- 7:37Speaker 3: thanks to them for having such a such a fantastic
- 7:42Speaker 3: year with Mike Dourvel down there that the Bucks were
- 7:45Speaker 3: able to get in on that and just a massive
- 7:48Speaker 3: win here at the end of the cycle.
- 7:51Speaker 2: Yeah, if I told you the day after the Alabama
- 7:54Speaker 2: game that you know, right it's gonna flip Jay Timmins
- 7:59Speaker 2: in this class he's gonna They're gonna flip the legacy kid.
- 8:01Speaker 2: Who who's you know, Father's all my mother's alma mater.
- 8:06Speaker 2: Just put the clamps on Alabama. I would have needed
- 8:09Speaker 2: my probably needed my head examined, and and here we are.
- 8:13Speaker 2: This was a tremendous pick up the way he different
- 8:19Speaker 2: positions than his dad, but one thing his dad did.
- 8:21Speaker 2: His dad, his dad was not like a huge linebacker
- 8:26Speaker 2: like he was not like a six four and forty
- 8:28Speaker 2: five like his dad played a lot bigger than he was.
- 8:32Speaker 2: And that's the way Jay is. Again, different positions, but
- 8:35Speaker 2: they play, they play bigger than what they are and
- 8:38Speaker 2: you'd love to see that. But I just love the
- 8:41Speaker 2: competitiveness and the versatility. Again, I I just they have
- 8:46Speaker 2: filled this room with so many hitters and so many
- 8:51Speaker 2: high energy, high you know character but also high like
- 9:00Speaker 2: heat level type guys that it's hard to believe it's
- 9:04Speaker 2: the same room it was, you know, like five years ago,
- 9:06Speaker 2: when you know Tulsa's just you know, crushing them. It's
- 9:10Speaker 2: just hard, it's hard to believe it's the same room.
- 9:14Speaker 2: The turnaround has been incredible under this this group, this
- 9:19Speaker 2: group of coaches, you know, and you know got a
- 9:23Speaker 2: few other guys who were here before, but like the
- 9:26Speaker 2: Tim Waltons Macerre's of the world, certainly you know Gyminals,
- 9:30Speaker 2: Matt Patricia and Ryan Day as the head coach overseeing
- 9:35Speaker 2: all this to turn this mess that it was when
- 9:39Speaker 2: David zig Minosen transferred in into what it is when
- 9:42Speaker 2: David davisnos is now leaving the program. Just incredible. I
- 9:47Speaker 2: can't say enough about it.
- 9:49Speaker 4: That's an incredibly interesting point mark when we look at.
- 9:53Speaker 3: Obviously I G B in Germaine and what they bring, right, physicality,
- 9:59Speaker 3: uh brash, right, and they got it all, they know it.
- 10:02Speaker 4: They're confident, but they're good teammates.
- 10:05Speaker 3: And on down the line to Aaron Scott, who you know,
- 10:08Speaker 3: for those who didn't know that, that's a that's another big
- 10:11Speaker 3: time talker. Bryce West a little more reserve, but a confident,
- 10:16Speaker 3: great teammate. And then you bring in Devin Sanchez, who's
- 10:20Speaker 3: you know, maybe not so Look, the competitiveness is through
- 10:23Speaker 3: the roof, right, he doesn't yap as much, but uh, Jay,
- 10:28Speaker 3: this is a this is a big time talker. This
- 10:30Speaker 3: is a dude who is confident and uh obviously physical
- 10:34Speaker 3: as heck as is his classmate Jordan Thomas at corner another.
- 10:40Speaker 3: These two are both of them could you know, play safety,
- 10:44Speaker 3: Like both of them could play safety. They are really
- 10:47Speaker 3: physical dudes, and this room is full of guys who
- 10:52Speaker 3: will knock your block off. We've seen Aaron Scott on
- 10:54Speaker 3: special teams this year making some making some hard hits,
- 10:59Speaker 3: which which you the physicality out of this room now.
- 11:02Speaker 3: And boy, you're right, it is totally different now when
- 11:05Speaker 3: we look at this class at twenty six mark with
- 11:07Speaker 3: Jordan Thomas and with Jay Timmins. You know, last year
- 11:11Speaker 3: you had Devin Sanchez and Jordan Woods. You end up
- 11:14Speaker 3: with Jordan Woods as a project kind of guy, developmental
- 11:18Speaker 3: guy in the end and a guy with you know,
- 11:21Speaker 3: probably a low ceiling, right, but we're really high upside
- 11:24Speaker 3: at six foot four. But years down the road maybe
- 11:28Speaker 3: we see something at him. But even with Devin Sanchez
- 11:32Speaker 3: the number one corner in the class in twenty twenty five,
- 11:35Speaker 3: this class, it's better with Jay Timmins and Jordan Thomas.
- 11:38Speaker 3: So even trump that which I think is pretty damn impressive.
- 11:43Speaker 2: Yeah, and this was an area of concern. Look, they've
- 11:45Speaker 2: lost some guys from Ohio. They had Jacob Weathersman, d commit.
- 11:50Speaker 4: It just.
- 11:53Speaker 2: There were some angst here and to end up with
- 11:56Speaker 2: the Tan, and they ended up with Again. I think
- 11:58Speaker 2: we're gonna look back in three years. I think they've
- 11:59Speaker 2: got two orders here, I really do. I think they've
- 12:01Speaker 2: got two starting corners in this group, and they've done
- 12:06Speaker 2: such a good job evaluating and identifying and it drives fans,
- 12:10Speaker 2: I think nuts sometimes And it's understandable because you're not
- 12:14Speaker 2: in the meetings, you're not in the facility every day
- 12:16Speaker 2: kind of seeing what the coaches are actually doing. But
- 12:20Speaker 2: they show incredible patience. Like when they you know, they
- 12:24Speaker 2: lose what and everyone's like, oh, they gotta find a corner.
- 12:26Speaker 2: Why they haven't found a corner, It's just like relax,
- 12:29Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna go through our evaluation process and
- 12:32Speaker 2: we're gonna find guys who can play here physically, who
- 12:35Speaker 2: fit here culturally, and then we're gonna try and be
- 12:37Speaker 2: opportunistic in terms of maybe some guys who are committed
- 12:40Speaker 2: elsewhere are who may not be thrilled with their situations there.
- 12:44Speaker 2: So like again it's the old Like as a Philly fan,
- 12:48Speaker 2: this is kind of like a little bit of bit
- 12:51Speaker 2: or sweet, but like it's kind of a trust the
- 12:52Speaker 2: process type of thing. You just have to like let
- 12:58Speaker 2: things play out sometimes. And as I always say, this
- 13:02Speaker 2: is a results oriented business. So whatever it says on
- 13:08Speaker 2: signing day in December is that's all that matters. How
- 13:11Speaker 2: you got there really doesn't matter. No one's going to
- 13:14Speaker 2: care in two or three years how this class arrived
- 13:19Speaker 2: to Columbus. They're going to care if they've continued the
- 13:24Speaker 2: tradition at Ohio State of winning football games. And so
- 13:28Speaker 2: I just like this again is another example of just
- 13:31Speaker 2: letting the coaches find the right pieces.
- 13:35Speaker 4: That is no fun, Mark, that's no.
- 13:37Speaker 2: Fun to get the five stars right away, and there
- 13:42Speaker 2: can be no diverging from the initial plan and.
- 13:45Speaker 3: Right the way they arrived at this in the end,
- 13:50Speaker 3: and you know, we've we've kind of talked about the
- 13:51Speaker 3: story of this class and how it went the way
- 13:53Speaker 3: it did, and it's so exciting. It was so like
- 13:57Speaker 3: Jay is one of these ones at the end here,
- 14:00Speaker 3: which is just like man over the top excitement and
- 14:04Speaker 3: it was so much fun for those of us who
- 14:07Speaker 3: follow recruiting closely. Jay obviously kind of the feather in
- 14:11Speaker 3: the cap here of these guys at the end. Certainly
- 14:14Speaker 3: you know when we look at five star guys and
- 14:17Speaker 3: I think kind of how how this has always gone
- 14:21Speaker 3: for most people is if you are a five star
- 14:23Speaker 3: by one of the major services you carry that label,
- 14:25Speaker 3: you're a five star, and he is a five star
- 14:28Speaker 3: via Rivals, which makes three five stars in this class
- 14:32Speaker 3: of twenty twenty six. There were technically five or four
- 14:37Speaker 3: last year that had the five star label by one
- 14:42Speaker 3: service at least, And when we look at this year,
- 14:45Speaker 3: Sam Greer literally rated number thirty three by Rivals, one
- 14:50Speaker 3: spot out of five star range. When it's all said
- 14:53Speaker 3: and done, they'll do one more update and we'll see
- 14:56Speaker 3: if they make good on it.
- 14:57Speaker 4: Maybe they do, maybe they don't.
- 14:59Speaker 3: But literally, that's how close you are to matching that
- 15:02Speaker 3: high level talent in twenty twenty five. And if they
- 15:06Speaker 3: do that mark, I think these two classes are pretty
- 15:08Speaker 3: much mirror images of each other.
- 15:09Speaker 2: Really, yeah, they're very similar. Now we say that on paper,
- 15:17Speaker 2: we've watched the twenty twenty five classes one of the
- 15:20Speaker 2: most productive true freshman classes that we can remember, certainly
- 15:25Speaker 2: in the last five or six or seven years. But
- 15:27Speaker 2: even going I think further back, I mean, this has
- 15:29Speaker 2: been a highly impactful and productive true freshman class. So
- 15:35Speaker 2: there is going to be it's going to be a
- 15:38Speaker 2: high bar for twenty six to have the same level
- 15:41Speaker 2: of impact, especially coming in behind that group where a
- 15:44Speaker 2: lot of those guys next year are going to be
- 15:46Speaker 2: projected starters now in trying to kind of push that
- 15:50Speaker 2: class as well. But this ended up in a great class,
- 15:54Speaker 2: and it got there in a much different way than
- 15:57Speaker 2: a lot of a high State previous classes have, where
- 16:00Speaker 2: they've kind of got everything they were going to get
- 16:02Speaker 2: by the end of the summer and then it was
- 16:03Speaker 2: just kind of hold on to what you have and
- 16:04Speaker 2: maybe add one or two guys down the stretch. And
- 16:07Speaker 2: this was more of they were able to be a hunt.
- 16:09Speaker 2: They were able to be hunters a little bit down
- 16:12Speaker 2: the stretch with some spots available and some needs to fill,
- 16:15Speaker 2: and they were able to flip some really good guys
- 16:18Speaker 2: and able to pick up some some really good late
- 16:20Speaker 2: editions more so than maybe they have in years past.
- 16:23Speaker 2: So it arrived at a It arrived at the same stop,
- 16:27Speaker 2: but it took a different route to get there. And
- 16:31Speaker 2: that's kind of what I'll probably remember most about this
- 16:33Speaker 2: class is is kind of the strange or different way
- 16:37Speaker 2: it came about versus kind of what we've been used
- 16:39Speaker 2: to seeing with Ohio State over the.
- 16:42Speaker 3: Years, without a doubt, and I think it was so
- 16:46Speaker 3: successful that we'll see it again next year. Maybe not
- 16:51Speaker 3: quite to this degree where it's you know, ten eleven
- 16:54Speaker 3: guys after the summer official visit period, but certainly more
- 16:59Speaker 3: than we're used to which is two or three guys
- 17:01Speaker 3: after the summer official visit period. But one final thought
- 17:06Speaker 3: on Jay Timmins. For for those who love Jermaine Matthews
- 17:10Speaker 3: big personality, you're gonna love this dude. Another corner with
- 17:15Speaker 3: with that kind of that kind of brash, funny personality,
- 17:19Speaker 3: an awestoin pickup for the Bucks, and a.
- 17:21Speaker 4: Big feather in the cap for O. G.
- 17:23Speaker 3: Walt as he once again pulls a number one corner,
- 17:28Speaker 3: which is look, doesn't get better than number one.
- 17:31Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this is This was a tremendous recruiting job
- 17:35Speaker 2: by Ohio State. And again I think I think Jay
- 17:38Speaker 2: Timmins is again one of the best players in this
- 17:41Speaker 2: class for Ohio State. I think he's a guy who,
- 17:44Speaker 2: you know, we'll see what the opportunities look like next year.
- 17:47Speaker 2: How the depth chart kind of settles in, how the
- 17:49Speaker 2: what what happens in the portal, in and out. You know,
- 17:52Speaker 2: we'll kind of see how this all settles. But this
- 17:55Speaker 2: is someone I think will have the kind of competitive edge.
- 17:59Speaker 2: Obviously being a player's kid, he'll have the intelligence and
- 18:03Speaker 2: the just the knowledge of the game and the understanding
- 18:06Speaker 2: of concepts and schemes. I think he is a guy
- 18:09Speaker 2: who could see the field next year for them, I
- 18:12Speaker 2: really do so. We'll see, we'll see how things go,
- 18:15Speaker 2: but very high on this one and thought this was
- 18:18Speaker 2: a great late pickup for the Buckeyes. Thanks everyone again.
- 18:21Speaker 2: We are again getting close to the Cotton Bowl. Check
- 18:25Speaker 2: out Bucky Huddle dot com for all your Cotton Bowl coverage.
- 18:28Speaker 2: Tom Tony and Kevin working that and we'll be down
- 18:32Speaker 2: in Dallas for that matchup with the Miami Hurricanes. We
- 18:36Speaker 2: are also going to continue to roll out these capsules,
- 18:38Speaker 2: get these all done, hopefully right around the time the
- 18:40Speaker 2: Cotton Bolls ready to kick. But thanks everyone again for
- 18:44Speaker 2: watching and opening and we will be back here soon
- 18:46Speaker 2: with another one.