Then go elsewhere. Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and Pennsylvania are close too. Not that Kentucky and West Virginia are rich in talent, but go out and find players. Don't just hope kids from Ohio to pick you over six other schools.
Oh, I don't disagree. We have made a point the past several recruiting classes to target Ohio more than Florida/California/JUCO/etc. There are advantages to that, and disadvantages to that.
We can (and do, and will continue to, I'm sure) bicker on here about we need to recruit this state or that state; or no, Ohio is fine, look at the recruiting rating numbers; no, look at the results on the field; the results are improving; no, they're not; yes, they are; no, they're not; yes, they are.....
I'm just sort of "meh" about it at this point. We have shown the ability to beat the teams we are supposed to beat, and lose to the teams we aren't supposed to beat. That's definitely true this year, and I think is generally true of the past couple years.
Where we go from here, I don't know. I'll keep buying season tickets, and I'll keep going to games and watching on TV and checking BA 30 times a day, because I'll keep hoping that maybe eventually we'll win one we probably shouldn't and my needle will move from "meh" to "excited".
But it's looking like that won't be until next year, and that's a bummer right now.
Muck Fiami.