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Even if he does commit to Pitt, I haave to think Urban stays on him for a possible flip later when the season starts and he see 100,000 in the shoe...

Don't think it is going to happen...but, he is a MUST get! Pull all of our coaches off recruiting LBs and D-linemen and get this guy :-)

It seems a kid like this, relationships are a major factor. A longer term stronger relationship might overcome the desire to play for the home school. In these cases, our staff has not had enough time to build those relationships. We get kids where relationship building is not that important. We are missing on kids where it is.

There will be enough time to work these type of kids in the 2014 class. We all knew this would probably be a 2-3 year deal. Sit back and enjoy the ride.

This, 110% true.
Kids like Knox, Mustipher, Jones and Brown all have 2014 OSU offers and are camping at OSU this summer and building relations. Knox just had an article, he is a die hard life long Buckeye, he cannot wait to get up here and cannot wait to see what OSU does with Meyer. Damian Prince is another big OT with an OSU offer OOS and he will visit OSU this summer.
Byrne has an OSU offer, and we are in good shape there, he is camping this weekend. Richardson from Westerville probably gets his OSU offer in time and is a Buckeye.
We will land a heck of an OL class in 2014.

Several camping recruits last week said OSU would like to bring in 3 more OL besides Lisle, they will be selective and get those right, considering the heck of the haul of OL we landed with Boren (getting raves from Meyer and staff), Decker, Dodson, O'Connor and Elflein (got to love a multple wresting champ). All of these early 2013 OL commits, a few will decommit, it always happen. A kid like Marcel Lazard, still think OSU could steal him back if WVU looks like cannon fodder in the Big 12.
One Ohio kid I think that will get an offer, OT/OG Miller from Toledo, at 6'5" and 270, he is athletic and can run just like Meyer wants. Just fill out 2013 with the best OL you can get, the foundations being laid for 2014 OL is big time.
For 2013 it is early, I would still not rule out 1/2 JUCO/PREP OL, teams like Bama, USC, FSU, Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon and others took those type OL last year, and Bama landed one last week for 2013.

Hope I am wrong but it seems to me this kids mind is basically made up to stay home at PITT. I have said this before but staying close to home is major factor for alot of kids and for those type of kids this supercedes any comparison you make between two schools. You can't always just say well you can win championships in Columbus and it is better program because for some kids the comforts of home are a bigger selling point and this does not mean they are afraid to compete either, it's just personal preference.

I feel ya man, thinking the same thang. Maybe it's the spread scheme scaring OLmen away > not popular for moving on to the NFL.

All Pitt. Move along.

So we shouldn't even try to get an elite top OT because you know he's going to Pitt for a fact? That's a defeatist attitude, Meyer and Warinner will go after who ever they want. You never know what can happen if you try!

Pitt isn’t on the same level as the Bucks, on that everyone can agree, however, Pitt has a long and storied past as well.

NFL rosters are populated by many former Pitt players, to include some of the very best the NFL has to offer.

Hopefully the young man comes to the motherland to play in the shoe, but Pitt isn’t chopped liver.