As we wait to find out the status of the 4 previously signed players, I was curious about any success Ohio has had with the late signing period in recent history.  I ignored transfers, just because they seem to come and go at any time, but I tried to grab all the JUCO and HS guys.  Maybe this is skewed because Ohio was successful in the early signing period, but it doesn't make me feel comfortable if we have 2-6 scholarships on our hands.

2014-TBD
2013-Harley
2012- Wilkins (JC)  <------------Christian's first year
2011- None
2010-None
2009-Baltic
2008- Waters, Dobbs  <-----------Groce's first year
2007- Hester (JC), BW IV (JC), Allen (JC)
2006-KVK
2005-Tillman, Ottrix (JC)
2004- Green (JC)
2003- Gladney (JC), Harbut (JC)
2002- Barrett (JC)
2001- Kiekow, Bridgewater  <----------O'Shea's first year

The signees in Groce's first year were not his, but the 2012 and 2001 guys belonged to Chrisitan and O'Shea respectively.  In fact, using the news feed on Ohio Bobcats, the spring of 2008 was interesting.
4-7-2008 Schaus named Athletic Director
4-18-2008 O'Shea signs Frankie Dobbs
5-23-2008 O'Shea signs Stacey Waters
6-23-2008 O'Shea resigns to take Bryant position
6-27-2008 John Groce named head coach.

Thanks, Sept of 2013 so yes.  Missed at least that one.

This kind of confirms my fears that there is not really much out there at this point in the process. Most of the talent is likely either signed early or locked in with other schools already.  I understand we have to field a roster, but unless he can find a gem out there, I'd almost rather see Saul eat a couple scholarships next year and take our chances with what we got.  Then use the scholarships on more quality players after a full year of recruiting.

I guess you can always get lucky, but there's probably a reason why most guys aren't signed at this point. If you can get another Tillman sure go for it, but most likely you end up with a juco.  With the number of scholarships we might have left once the dust settles, I'd still prefer to hold a couple scholarships back for next year instead of signing 4-5 guys in the late signing period.

I'm still baffled by the Harley signing. Why rush to fill the scholarship left open by a shooting guard with another undersized, underdeveloped forward that had no other D1 offers, wasn't even on Ohio's radar and wasn't capable of playing right away? According to Harley his first contact from Ohio was just a few days before he signed and it sounds like it was all done over the phone. If he's going to sit out a year anyways why not recruit him like normal and keep your options open? With only 13 scholarships to give it seemed rather careless. I'm not saying don't give him one, I'm just saying why rush to give him one when he can't play right away and nobody else is recruiting him.

The list doesn't look that bad when you consider most of our scholarships are not open to this point.  I'd say the hit/miss ratio is pretty comparable to if you did the same exercise for the early commits.

I'd agree on the hit/miss ratio.  My concern is the "hits" are more dramatic on the early guys in my opinion, and the volume of late guys we may need.  I'm interested to see SP's strategy, which may be just a one time thing to stablize a roster (perhaps more JUCO's than he'd like).   Here's the early signees that I could pin down:

2014-Crute, Morillo-Lajara, Owens, Wiggington
2013-Campbell, Mompremier, Ndour, Wingfield
2012-Levert
2011-Taylor, Mitchell, Goard
2010-Hall, Jacobs, Keely, Kellogg 
2009-Cooper, Horne, Keely, Kinney
2008-Coleman
2007-Freeman, Nagtzaam, Pearson, Washington
2006-Sayles
2005-Chatman
2004- Fears, Williams
2003-Annen, Troutman, Davis, Clemons
2002- Guzman, Halbert, King, Kregers
2001- Shorter (I think, I couldn't find much...not sure if Frank Richards and/or Serge Babo were in this class).