The Ohio State football team got a recruiting win when they were able to flip Jamir Perez from Florida. Perez is a three-star defensive lineman from Cleveland, so they should have been able to land him in the first place. After paying more attention to him, they flipped him.
The Buckeyes were able to flip a recruit at a key spot. They don't have a history of flipping recruits often, simply because that his not their strategy. Ohio State usually tries to build relationships early and not try to jup onto recruits late and entice them to flip.
Even though they have some positions that are more dire than others in this recruiting class, fans of the Ohio State Buckeyes shouldn't expect them to flip many more recruits. Quite frankly, flipping recruits will be even harder for Ohio State than it was in the past.
NIL makes it much harder for Ohio State football team to flip recruits
Now that recruits are getting large NIL contracts, it's much harder for the Buckeyes to flip recruits. They refuse to pay recruits enormous amounts of money to commit. Other programs have no such mandate. They will drop the biggest bag possible in order to land top guys.
Texas Tech has been a prime example of that his year. They just stole Felix Ojo thanks to an enormous NIL deal that they gave him. That stuff will start to become the rule instead of the exception. That means that the Buckeyes aren't going to be flipping more recruits.
That might be an issue for them at the defensive end position this year. They don't have enough defensive ends, and that is going to have future implications. Still, it would be shocking if Day were able to get another recruit to flip to Ohio State in this class.