Noah Spence in no hurry, but looks like Penn St. is the team to beat

Another average DE, but I'm sure the coaches would make room for a stud like him.

I've certainly been following his recruitment closely, and may have thrown a response or two onto one of Tom's posts about him, but this is certainly the first topic I've created about Spence.

I'm not sure I've ever created a topic about a recruit before, to be honest.  Usually they're about t-shirts or the burgeoning wedding logo industry.

if Wilson and Spence are a wash...and Bri'onte commits to Michigan...the whole thing is...Zetteled and Dunn?

I'm just checking.

as the trade for Zettel.  #10 CB for the #6 DE (accoding to Rivals)

I thought we took Cullen Christian from them as well, but according to Rivals and Scout, he never had a PSU offer.  Interesting that he did have one from tSIO though

But yeah, it's not a position of emphasis anymore, obviously.

Spence can pretty much name his school, and he does sound like an intelligent kid, but its interesting that he frequently mentions academics, yet is going to choose (assuming it's PSU) based on proximity to home, relationships, comfort, etc.  A lot of kids seem to pay lip service to academics, but ultimately make choices for other reasons.

For this reason, one of my favorite recruits is Eric Olson.  He said he valued academics, only looked a high level academic schools, and ultimately chose Northwestern over better football schools like UM.  For a guy who rejected Michigan, he's up there with Kyle Dodson on the likability index for me.

It's called denial.  Have your brother seek some therapy.

Yeah it was posted here awhile back but everyone pretty much just brushed it aside.

See: Se'von Pittman

How dare you suggest anyone is a "TomVH equivalent"?! Such things just don't exist.

All kidding aside, even if there are recruits doing that, I feel pretty confident it won't matter anyways because the penalties are going to be enough to keep those kids elsewhere.

The only real guy we currently have taken away from TSIO is Strobel who seems to love UofM, so I doubt that part about Michigan. He also had mainly top tier academic places (ND and Stanford) as his finalists besides UofM (and excepting TSIO), so he seems to value the academics which he will find at UofM. Most of the other Ohio commits we have are either guys Ohio wasn't recruiting (Brown because there are a half dozen elite DEs in Ohio) or guys they were going to offer a scholarship to if they missed their first targets (Ringer, Bolden). They all seem to love UofM, so unless Kalis or someone else is committed to UofM (I don't think Wormley would qualify since most TSIO analysts I have seen thought he was a Michigan lean before the infractions) we don't know about and this guy does, I doubt the entire credibility of his story. Pittman is the main one I could see who could change back to TSIO if the punnishment is not bad. Depending on what Washington and Stanford do, they could be kids doing likewise, but currently both are uncommitted.

The only ones I'd be semi-worried about would be Kalis and Dunn if they ended up committing. 

I am not sure who he was refering to since the only UM commits with OSU offers are Ross, Richardson and  Strobel.

Ross and Strobel are solid and although TRich has made some interesting comments lately, nothing to indicate he ever favored OSU.

I know I've seen interviews with Dwayne Stanford that have indicated that he would be willing to commit earlier than the under armor game if he was confident with his decision