Rivals Michigan-OSU Recruiting Article
I know some people were upset Florida got an article earlier and we didn't.
Either Rivals heard your complaints or yous guys were too quick to complain - they recently put out a great free article recapping our weekend and talking about how M-Ohio recruiting is warming up.
February 20th, 2012 at 2:54 PM ^
The media should have gone crazy considering it was the best recruiting weekend of all time!
February 20th, 2012 at 3:27 PM ^
Have never commented to tell someone how awesome their post is, but dude, this is great. I couldn't stop laughing. Well done.
February 20th, 2012 at 4:17 PM ^
Someone should photoshop a picture of Florida on top of Taylor Swift... they're pretty much shaped the same way... tall, skinny and hot.
February 20th, 2012 at 3:01 PM ^
are gonna love that article as fans they have a few good kids but nothing that can touch the Wolverines or Akron State Golden Bobcats.
February 20th, 2012 at 3:03 PM ^
Its to bad Michigan can't get a class of like 30 this year. there are so many good recruits in the area that are high on Michigan
February 20th, 2012 at 3:06 PM ^
the SEC will just have to deal with these smaller but just as great classes. Hoke is the man end of story.
February 20th, 2012 at 8:15 PM ^
that I keep hearing this meme about Hoke not being flashy he just gets the job done or he's old school. Like they don't know what it's all about so they label it as simple, basic or rudimentary. A throwback that lacks sophistication. What I think is a more accurate assesment is that when people talk to Hoke they see a genuine person. Someone who cares about them, about the University, about winning the right way and putting others first. It's simple in the sense of being pure not in the sense of being easy. There's nothing easy about having integrity. He's a man who's a leader of men. Someone that can be entrusted for mentoring. That's not something that requires the veneer of flashy sophistication.
February 20th, 2012 at 10:17 PM ^
its the Michigan way and A.K.A. the Bo way. You nailed it right on the head Yost Ghost right on the head.
February 20th, 2012 at 3:13 PM ^
And finding that LTT had committed . . . SWEEEEEEEEEEEET Caroline! Good Times never seemed so good!
February 20th, 2012 at 3:27 PM ^
I still can't figure out why people like that song, especially during football games.
February 20th, 2012 at 4:16 PM ^
It's no "Build Me Up, Buttercup" that's for sure.
February 20th, 2012 at 4:28 PM ^
Or "Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers....
February 20th, 2012 at 3:18 PM ^
He's got a 40 time it seems
Reminds me of Percy...
February 20th, 2012 at 3:51 PM ^
From the article: "Urban Meyer's the Axl Rose of recruiting"
I actually kinda-sorta like the analogy being made there. Certainly at the present time Urban Meyer is being portrayed as a kind of "rock star" of coaches. Whether Axl Rose is the right rock star to use as an example is open to debate. But the idea of a stark constrast in styles -- Meyer vs. Hoke -- is spot on.
February 20th, 2012 at 4:36 PM ^
I also like the Urban/Axl analogy. Especially for the reason that Axl is pretty much a recluse these days.
February 20th, 2012 at 4:26 PM ^
...washed up Axl Rose with cornrows? Yeah, I'd take that.
February 20th, 2012 at 11:44 PM ^
Does that make Hoke Slash? Since Slash is what made GNR great.
February 21st, 2012 at 11:35 PM ^
I think that makes Mattison Slash.
February 20th, 2012 at 3:20 PM ^
Seriously though, bring on Treadwell
February 20th, 2012 at 3:50 PM ^
I spoke with an Ohio fan who explained (a) Michigan's O-Line haul in 2012 and thus far in 2013 is irrelevant because Ohio garnered the top D-Line class in 2012. And (b) the commits with offers from both schools chose MIchigan because they didn't have "Commitable" offers from Ohio State. He can't seem to accept that Hoke and the UM staff have beat Meyer to the punch on several recruits (getting in early). Discussing football and recruiting with Ohio fans sometimes reminds of of talking to my 9 year old nephew.
February 20th, 2012 at 4:06 PM ^
February 20th, 2012 at 4:29 PM ^
Or your girlfriends dad. I remember him saying "ohio state got the worse punishment of all time" I just looked at him and said "oh, yah?" Just gotta live with it. The knowledge that most ohio fans have about Michigan, hell even ohio is just embarrising. Clueless.
February 20th, 2012 at 6:20 PM ^
February 20th, 2012 at 11:08 PM ^
needs to do a little more research. Here's a list of all the guys that committed to OSU after Urban Meyer's hire that had offers to Michigan as well.
2012
- Taylor Decker
- Kyle Dodson
- Joey O'Connor
- David Perkins
- Armani Reeves
- Tommy Schutt
- Noah Spence
- Se'Von Pittman
- Adolphus Washington
- Camren Williams
2013
1. Cameron Burrows
2. Billy Price
3. Eli Woodard
I left off Bri’onte Dunn since he only re-affirmed his commitment to OSU. Tommy Schutt I feel like can be discounted too since Michigan seemed to have cooled off on his recruitment after they got Ondre Pipkins. Of the three Ohio commitments that Hoke has grabbed so far for 2013, only Dymonte Thomas has a scholarship offer. I don’t know if that means Urban was not interested in Jake Butt and Taco Charlton, or he simply wanted to re-evaluate them during their senior season. In either case this list is definitely from the perspective of a Ohio resident so I would be interested in seeing a counter-list from a Michigan set of eyes.
I think the overall point I’m trying to make is that Urban is not a recruiting slouch either. I’m extremely interested in seeing his first full recruiting class, especially since they’ll only have room for 15-18 commits.
February 21st, 2012 at 10:19 AM ^
February 21st, 2012 at 7:13 PM ^
it was iffy to include Schutt since Michigan cooled off on him once they got Pipkins. However, Pittman is included because I do not know of an argument against it. A friend of mine argued that Michigan did not want him because of his academics, so we looked up his scores. Pittman graduated with a 2.8 and scored a 20 on the ACT. Granted his scores were not great, but they were better than some of the recruits in Hoke’s 2012 class… Willie Henry had a 2.6 GPA and a 19 on the ACT.
As for the 2013 class, I am only familiar with the recruits that OSU has expressed a lot of interest in, which so far is only Dymonte Thomas. This is why I asked for a Michigan perspective on the matter, but I went ahead and looked anyways. According to Rivals the ONLY other player in Michigan’s 2013 class that had an OSU offer was Logan Tuley-Tillman.
February 20th, 2012 at 4:06 PM ^
i love when Ohio fans dog our commits.it just makes it that much more fun laughing at them with players "they didnt want" . Buckeyes,the dumbest specie on earth.
February 20th, 2012 at 4:24 PM ^
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Finally happened to me, dammit!
February 20th, 2012 at 4:22 PM ^
How come Florida's got put up first?
February 20th, 2012 at 9:22 PM ^
to add greatest ever to the moderation button. I mean funny worked but it doesnt really do this justice. Not like greatest thing ever would have.
February 20th, 2012 at 8:04 PM ^
It will make their teeth-gnashing consternation at losing to us all that more enjoyable.
February 20th, 2012 at 10:22 PM ^
I see two problems with this: 1) your average Buckeye fan doesn't have enough teeth to gnash, and 2) your average Buckeye fan thinks you take a laxative for consternation.