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I came up with 82 differently. I looked at scUM's current roster. Then I cross-referenced it against each of their recruiting classes from 2007-2012 and checked off the guys they gave scholarships to, which left their walk-ons (although I assume Jordan Kovacs is on scholarship). So unless other non-senior walk-ons have been given scholarships, the total added up to 82 out of a maximum of 85, including 17 seniors. So that's 20 (17 seniors + 3 open slots). I'm guessing OT Taylor Lewan, who will be a RS JR and was second team B1G and is projected as a 1st round draft choice, goes NFL. That makes 21. (Fitzgerald Toussaint may go hardship, too, with a good year ala Antonio Pittman who knew that with Beanie hot behind him, he wasn't likely to have the same kind of year sharing the ball.) If only 4 more kids transfer, quit, get kicked off or flunk out, Hoke can easily get this class to 25.

Meanwhile, we have 81, which is 1 under our max, plus 15 seniors, which makes 16 our current ceiling for scholarships in 2013. We'd need 9 kids to go hardship (Hankins, Roby), transfer, quit, get kicked off or flunk out to get the 2013 class up to 25. I can see 3-5 but not 9 although it's not impossible. As upperclassmen get buried in the depth chart behind underclassmen or don't bring the kind of competitiveness Urban demands, it's entirely plausible we could see that kind of roster attrition.

For the class of 2012, nine of the 12 B1G schools awarded 4-year scholarships. The three that didn't were Indiana, Purdue and Minnesota.

"Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith told The Plain Dealer that players could still lose their scholarships if they don't fulfill academic or off-the-field requirements. But the multiyear scholarship prevents coaches from running off players if better talent has been recruited at their positions or who no longer fit the team's style of play."

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Nice analogy. Still, that doesn't mean I'm not hungry...just not starving and ready to devour anything in my path.

Funny how people say this, but the players with 4-5 stars usually have offers from top schools like USC, Alabama, Texas, LSU, Notre Dame, Florida State, Florida, Penn State and Nebraska -- and vice versa; whereas 2-3 star players typically get offers from MAC, Conference USA, and Mountain West conference schools.

Generally, BOTH star-level and offers are indicative of a player's past performance and future prospects.

UFM had zero 2012 recruits as late as last November. How did he do in just two months? How many months does he have left until NSD? Relax.

Screw the No Fun League. We're not talking how he's done with the Ravens and Patriots.

We're talking OSU v. Michig@n and his record against OSU was 1-3 with the only W his freshman year, but otherwise, yeah, you're right--it's not quite as bad as 0-4 Mike Hart and John Henne.

who did they lose, I am too lazy to try to fugure it out

Rumor has it that there was speculation that Taco may have been eaten by Coach Brady Hoke. Happy to hear that that was just a rumor.

In any event OSU is now up to 7 commits. Look for OSU to pick up several more after the Spring Game, and several more after the regular season. With a class that will likely number in the 18-20 range it is better to be slow and steady to avoid making any errors.

The fact is the only reason OSU did so good last year was because PSU was dead and they stool every one of our recruits. And that's all right it's way the game goes, but don't go thinking OSU is all high in mighty because they stool candy from a little 5 year old. And Myer is going after the same recruits Hoke is. A matter of fact is that Hoke is beating Urban. Deveon Smith, dymonte thomas, Wyatt Shallman, Shane Morriss, Adam Breneman, and a little more. I'm not saying Urban is not a great recruiter and I know OSU is a great program and better than PSU ( not by much). But don't make excuses for Urban, he won the battle but Hoke is winning the war. The ratting is extremley close on 247, i think about .3 somthing. Hoke is taking away some of Urban's prospects. I know that OSU will end up doing well ( not as good as Michigan though). I don't understand why were getting mad that other BIG 10 programs are doing well. Were going to see some damn good football in the future with UM, OSU, PSU, UN and MSU all doing well!

Not only is it 16-7 now but the Buckeyes have like 5 of there top recruits getting ready to bust a move right after the spring game in 2 weeks then the last 5 will be the best of the best. We only have 17 from what I'm hearing maybe 18!!!! Were ok young man no panic in Columbus

Its funny that everyone is comitting to Michigan, Notre Dame, Penn State, and Florida right now. NOT Ohio

Not entirely true. Just within the past couple of weeks, we got a commitment from Ezekiel Elliott, a player Notre Dame was recruiting hard and thought they had. I appreciate the concern from scUM fans about our 2013 class but we're going to be just fine.