After last year, I think I'll wait to be excited until signing day. Anyway , he sounds like a good one , lets hope he signs.

http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1500513

The more I read about his injury last year and him waiting for a BCS offer, I'm not encouraged that we will get him if he has a good year. Like I said before, we shouldn't get our hopes up on this guy.

I'm not going to let that affect things. How many guys have given Ohio a verbal, and then switched?  A few, but not many. Certainly less than one a year. If happens, it happens, but until it does, I'm going to say that this is a great get, and a great start to another recruiting class.

The way I look at it is this. First of all, there are students with grade issues, and those without. For the ones with grade issues or ACT test issues, even signing doesn't matter, as even then many will not be eligible. I would agree with you that  these numbers are high, more than one a year. QB's rarely have grade issues, though, so I don't expect that will be an issue.

Moving on to the players without grade issues, Ohio issues about 6x as many offers as they have positions. If you assume even odds, then someone who gets an offer is about a 16% chance to end up at Ohio. Among those that verbal,  there seems to be about a 95-98% chance they end up at Ohio. It's never a done deal until they sign, but the odds improve substantially when they verbal.

Even when they sign, is it a done deal? Some who are eligible won't show (Spencer Farley). Even among those that show up, some will get homesick, and leave (Brian Mellot, Matt Donahue, James Davis). Others will get hurt, and their career will end. Still others will turn out as a disappointment. Where do you draw the line? In the end there really isn't anything to "celebrate" until the games are played and won. The main point of the recruiting discussion, in my opinion, is to give us something to talk about in the off-season, and something to look forward to in years ahead.

Doc, explain why we should consider this a "super" get when his only other offers are from other MAC schools?  I thought Ohio was trying to separate itself from the pack in this conference. 

again, he was apparently injured last year. The major conferences would probably rather not mess with guys who have been injured, all things considered . Hence he drops to MAC schools. Just guessing.

So long as they are still a MAC team, Ohio can only get so much "distance". If they continue to get upper end MAC-Quality players, with a few better ones mixed in, and they can coach them up, Ohio will consistently be one of the best teams in the MAC, and be competitive with mid-level BCS teams. Thus a "super" get is a player that is an upper-end MAC player, or anything better.

Each year Ohio is getting better and better recruits, and getting them earlier and earlier. The 2010 class was kind of an exception to that trend, but by 2015 Ohio should be a better team than it is today.

As a FWIW, comparing the ratings of Walsh to Duckworth:
247 Sports - Walsh was rated 82 by 237Sports. Duckworth is rated 84.
Rivals -Walsh was 5.6, and Duckworth is 5.6.
ESPN - Walsh was 72, Duckworth has not yet been rated
Scout - Walsh was 2 star, QB#96, Duckworth is 3-star, QB#50

By the way, this will be an ideal year for QB recruiting. With TT in his Senior year, competition will be wide open to replace him, Vick has the inside track, but he be challenged for the job.

Yes, normally I'd agree, but remember that last year EMU landed the only 4-star recruit in the MAC, a QB.

Duckworth looks like a great recruit, and he's certainly highly regarded. Yes, he could de-commit, but being honest, Ohio is a great opportunity for a freshman QB to come in and try to earn the spot:
1. Ohio runs a modern offense that will allow a QB to excel, as TT has
2. Ohio is on TV enough that if a QB plays well, he will get national exposure
3. Ohio has a Senior QB, and the job will be wide open next year
4. Ohio is extremely thin at backup QB, with only Vick and Windham at the position.

Louisville (pronounced LEWIS-ville, not LOUEY-ville or LOU-ville if you've never been and opposed to the Kentucky friends who get upset when you say it wrong) is a heck of a program up in NE Ohio. They regulary go anywhere from 8-2 to 10-0 year in and year out. They seem to rarely make noise in the OHSAA playoffs though because they are almost a big fish in a small pond. I think they are a D2 school but plays in a conference (NBC) that consists of mostly D3 or some D4 schools. They've had some great players come out of there recently.

Frankfort

I used to ask how to pronounce the capital of Kansas, Wich-a-ta or Wich-ee-ta?

Topeka