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Two of the players he listed were QBs, who I don't think are better than the one OSU got from Texas.

With a small class (18-20) it's hard to take 2 QBs.

OSU took Barrett, and the Ohio QBs ended up elsewhere. Fortunately neither went to Michigan.

So, OSU needs to recruit nationally to beat the SEC, but OSU needs to recruit Ohio to beat Michigan. Got it.

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Film doesn't lie. Look at the film. He's electric. Amazing.

Ok guys, can I officially issue a formal apology for what I've said. This class is very talented but I'm getting pissed off that we are settling for 3 star softies when we need to be focusing on landing 4 and 5 star players. I trust Coach Meyer and the staff in what they're doing but I think they've made a couple mistakes.

I think with the limited schollies it hurt Urban in Ohio and Hoke took advantage of it as much as I hate to say it. It seems that most of the players Hoke did get verbals from Urban did not seem that interested in so time will tell.

OL--hardest position to project. They have to do so much growing, and not just physically but intellectually--there's a reason why so few true freshmen start on the OL. They come in as a big, fat 6-5/315 HS all-staters who just had to fall on someone 2/3's his size to rack up a stack of pancakes. Now they've got John Simon and Big Hank in their grill. How is he going to handle 21-23 year old MEN his own size who are older or smarter/wilier or bigger or faster or stronger or meaner or all of the above? Probably not 1-on-1. So he needs to toughen up, maybe bulk up or even lose some weight on top of learning the position. That takes time. He actually needs to learn how to block, how to get leverage, how communicate with his linemates, understand and recognize defensive alignments, know how to handle stunts and blitzes, and all while not forgetting the snap count in the process (see Shugarts--fail). In 7-on-7's, QBs are given 4 seconds to release the football. In OL/DL combine drills, the whistle's blown after 4 seconds. Why? Because unlike HS, blocking in college and the NFL isn't about pancaking a guy. That happens very rarely. It's about keeping the DL occupied for 4-5 seconds so that he's not a factor in the outcome of the play.

So let's not discount the intellectual side of being a good OL. The days of being a big, fat, dumbass as characterized in James Thurber's recollection from his days as a student at OSU when a classmate who was on the football team was so stupid that when called on by the professor to name a mode of transportation sat there stone-faced until everyone in the class began chanting "choo choo" are long gone. For OLs, football's less a game of talent and instinct than it is about intelligence, discipline and teamwork. Kirk Ferentz regularly puts guys in the NFL and his OLs have been consistently rated lower than the guys we've recruited.