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All recruits are open until NSD...that is a simple fact.

Yeah, trying to get kids to come to florida is a lot easier than getting these warm weather kids to want to brace the winter. I'm an ohio state fan, but a lot of fans have been in denial over this recruiting season. Can't tell you how many times I've heard the phrase trust urban or trust in urban after recruit after recruit goes somewhere else.

I'll just sit back and watch these experts, iowabuckeye, talk down on recruits--Zaire and pump this board full of sunshine.

What are you doing on our board little boy blue? How bout them Bobcats? You guys should really start trying to beat teams in your own state before your allowed to cross borders. Michigan State owns you guys. They have beat you guys down in bball and football. You are their little brother in state of michigan.

pretty much this sums it all up to the people freaking out over recruiting in march.

Interestingly, SI has ranked Urban's 2006 class as the 6th best college football recruiting class ALL-TIME. That's going back over 60 years. And it's because Tebow, Spikes, Harvin & Company became the cornerstone that won 2 NCs.

It's not where you start but where you finish.

Because your disrespecting your local talent. Fine with me will take the feeder schools. But im warning you, when you lose the midwest, you will become mediocre at best. Oh and how many games has Urban won at Ohio State? Zero, so its not like their is a bunch to "TRUST" in. Also Spence and most of your last minute steals were from the midwest, not the south, like the recruits Meyer is after

Getting back to Malik ....

Interesting inisght here: http://irish.nbcsports.com/2012/03/25/quarterback-malik-zaire-commits-to-the-irish/

His quote ...
"When Coach Meyer got there we had a good one-on-one relationship too. I don’t want to say I shied away, but I lost interest when they offered like seven or eight other quarterbacks in a one or two week span. That turned me off a little.”

sounds like if we would've signed him and another qb in this class ....he wouldnt want to COMPETE.

or maybe he just wanted alotta love .....lol ....i dunno.

Ohio kids feel disrespected when the staff is asking them to come to camp to prove themselves, but not asking the same of OOS recruits. Dont blame Zaire one bit.

5* Stephon Diggs.

You said, "Name one kid outside B1G country that we've offered who's signed with a school outside B1G country. Answer: None. Not one."

I named one.

"The perceived "panic" is over the current "smallness" of 2013's class, not 2012's, which is full."

Nobody from the 2013 class has signed anywhere. Straw man argument.

Next!

To be fair, you judge each player on a case to case basis. These ohio players that were told to come to camp are players, just like from everywhere else, that Urban wants to see camp. They shouldn't feel a sense of entitlement just because they are from Ohio. Too bad Malik chose Notre Dame, but Ohio State seems to be in good runnign with J.T Barrett.

This will be Hoke's and Kelly's 3rd classes but both of them are moving a lot more aggressively than they did their first two years. I think Urban has become a red hot poker shoved up their asses. He gave Kelly notice by stealing two ND coaches and flipping Taylor Decker. He finished so strongly that he took a class that was maybe 15th when he was hired to 4th, surpassing scUM along the way. He closed with a flourish. I think the only way they think they can keep up with us is to get ahead of us. That's their race strategy but as many have stated but few seem to have grasped, recruiting is a marathon, not a sprint. There are battles and there are wars; as history's proven time and again, you can lose a few battles and still win the war.

So it ain't over. Not by a long shot. As Tommy Bowden once said when he was asked why SEC and ACC coaches don't back off kids once they commit, "No means go." Urban's said he won't stop recruiting a kid until the kid tells him to stop.

All is well...