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Since this will be such a small class, it's filling up pretty fast. Re-posting this table
               By June   Jul       Aug     Sept      Oct       Nov       Dec       Jan       Feb
2005           0           0          0          0           0          0           0         20         6
2006           0           0          0          0           0          3           1           9         6
2007           0           0          0          1           1          1           4           5         9
2008           0           0          0          0           0          0           9           2         9
2009           0           0          0          2           0          3           2           3        11
2010           0           2          1          2           1          0           0           3         7
2011           2           2          3          0           0          0           0           4         5
2012           0           0          0          4           1          1           4           5         4  
2013           1         10
2014           5 .         8         3
2015           6           6         1
 
It looks like the class could be mostly full by the end of July since the total class size will only be 12-14 players, most likely. That would be a first.

Edit - As of the end of July there are 12 recruits, of whom 11 are known. I would say that the class is mostly full at this point. No doubt the class will be slightly bigger than we can foresee because some players will leave the program, and because it's possible that some of these 12 will be non-qualifiers, but it's difficult to imagine this class being as big as 20. Therefore I'm not expecting a lot of additional recruits between now and February.

Scholarships for the transfers will take a few, then, there will be some walk-ons who will earn a few. Still it seems the class should have a few yet to give. Roll them all up; recruits, transfers and walk-ons and there should be a lot for which  to be thankful.

Ah, I didn't realize that the no shows weren't on the roster. That's 3 spots, you are probably more right, my bad

Whatever happened to the commitment from the DB Maxwell Howell? Is he no longer committed to the football program? He was technically the first commit to this class.

Given the lack of new tweets related to #DreamGreen15 or from @CoachBurrow I am pretty sure that Hagan is not a new commit, and that he was one of the two from July that we weren't able to identify.

Edit - at this point we have 12 known recruits. There may or may not be more. I think that the last tweet above had 12 faces, so at this point I am thinking that Hagan and Maxwelll were both verbals from July that were only later identified by us.

With the addition of Bubba Williams, there are 13 Seniors on scholarship, so the class will be at least 13. My current guess is that it will end up with about 15-16 in this class.

OK, thanks. That tweet was 8/3, the date that Quinton Maxwell was announced, so there must still be one from July that is undiscovered. With 13 verbals, and only 13 Seniors on scholarship, this board may be quiet until after the season, at which point they will have a better idea of who might be leaving the program.

Casper, when the year is over, Ohio will finish very close to last in FBS in recruiting on all the rankings. We knew that going in. That's because this team has very few Seniors, so it will be a very small recruiting class, probably 13-17 players. Quantity is as important as quality.

The key goal for this year was to make sure that the quality of the individual players in this year's class was high. At this point, of the 12 known recruits, 6 of them have been rated 3-star by at least one service, and more could be when they finally get rated. I don't think the quality is any lower than in past years, but it remains to be seen if it is higher.

As regards 247Recruiting, last year they were really on top of things, and evaluated all the Ohio recruits almost as soon as they came in. This year they are asleep at the switch when it comes to Ohio, and to most of the MAC.

Ohio actually has 13 recruits (we think), though we only know who 12 of them are. Of the 12, 247Sports has only rated 4 of them, plus picked up ratings from other services on Hagen. They are doing better on a few MAC teams, but on most they either have not identified their recruits, or haven't rated them.

Number Rated, Number Listed
WMU 20/23
NIU 18/20
Toledo 14/20
CMU 12/16
Miami 7/15
Ball State 12/14
BG 9/12
EMU 7/15
Ohio 4/11
Buffalo 3/7
UMass 2/7
Kent 2/5
Akron 0/3

I suppose maybe they had some budget cuts this year. Either that or with the whole P5/G5 split, they no longer care at all about the MAC, but they are doing a poor job of ranking MAC recruits compared to how they did last year. For the MAC they have rated only 110 of the 168 people they have identified, and I doubt they are even close to identifying all the recruits. I suspect their recruiting rankings will change a lot before the year is over.

Interestingly, while 247Sports is paying much less attention to the MAC this year than last year, ESPN seems to be paying more. In prior years they only rated 1-4 Bobcat recruits, and just listed the rest as unrated. This year they have rated 7 of them (5 of them they rated 3 stars).

Scout.com seems to be leading at "rating" everyone, but I think it's an illusion. It seems that as soon as they list someone they put a 2-star rating on them, so when you see a 2-star rating, you can't tell if they even looked at the film and did an actual rating, so it's impossible to know how many they have actually rated. Rivals is doing the worst of the lot. They have only identified 5 Bobcat recruits so far, though they have rated all 5.

Here are links to the various ratings services:
ESPN (11 identified, 7 rated, 5 Three-star)
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/sch...

Scout.com (12 identified, 12 "rated", 3 Three-star)
http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=9&c=8&toinid=713&y...

247Sports (11 identified, 4 rated, 1 three star, plus an imputed 3-star from ratings by other services)
http://ohio.247sports.com/Season/2015-Football/Commits

Rivals (5 identified, 5 rated, no three-star)
https://rivals.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recr...

L.C.--The class that is this year's freshmen appears to be terrific--about eight guys have played, I think.

We all thought that the incoming last year (2013) were pretty good but not many of them had effect in that year (though some are this year) if I recall correctly. What's your eval of the 2013 and 2012 classes at this point?

Thanks, L.C. What's the scale..what do the numbers mean?

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE D-LINE.

Some defensive secondary guys of size and talent is also allowed.

This is for the most part a pretty solid group.