Because Ohio turns good football players into great ones instead of always chasing a star player that never even hits the field

Go for it. I mean, if you want to find an excuse for this staff not to be bringing in better players, hey any excuse in a storm.

I espec like the thought that because we can do more with less, well, then we should be happy with less.


I get regarded as a pessimistic darksider? It's not that. It's that I have reasonable standards, hold us to them, and am reasonably objective and seeing.

Look, I very rarely comment on recruiting. But if you're going to evaluate recruiting with the same illogical, ignore-reality approach which most bring to our game performances ...then I'm going to keep pointing out the silliness of the logic.

This class can be seen as a foundational class. We will win the line of scrimmage in the future, we do need add some star power to our skill positions in the future and we do need to get better at recruiting. Some of us make up crazy stuff, like the coaches saying Quinton Maxwell is the next Ben Roethlisberger, or Strobel is the biggest D-line recruit that we have ever recruited. We as fans have to be realistic, we cannot let our imaginations run wild at the same time the sky is not falling either. The coaches seem to know that they have to get better at recruiting. They did a good job this year of reinforcing the line of scrimmage, they will now need to improve the offensive and defensive schemes. Some recruits like Odom went under the radar, he had multiple injuries and a marginal QB, so he was unable to run up the numbers, but he could be a good one. Conrad played running back and looked tough on tape, he should be a pretty good open field tight end.