In the NIL era, you really need to persuade in-state kids to take a discount to stay home. The Ohio State Buckeyes couldn’t get the job done with 3-star Glenville linebacker Kaylon Bailey because of an aggressive monetary push from Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes.
As Bucknuts’ Garrett Hodge pointed out, the NIL offer from Coach Prime and Co. was stronger than that of the Ohio State University’s, mainly because the Buckeyes were looking for depth, while the Buffs had more opportunities to offer more immediately.
“Traditionally, the Glenville to Ohio State pipeline is about as reliable as throwing a pass to Jeremiah Smith when in need of a crucial third-down conversion. But sometimes, modern recruiting leaves no prisoners,” Hodge wrote. “Ohio 2027 linebacker Kaylon Bailey committed to Colorado on Thursday, spurning the Buckeyes for the Buffs, a sentence that would have been unthinkable five years ago…