Meyer flips ND commit Decker
January 15th, 2012 at 6:00 PM ^
so far he has flipped 3 recruits and only had 1 uncommitted player declare. He isn't going to to be making any friends any time soon.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:09 PM ^
There are no friends in recruiting. Every team for themselves.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:01 PM ^
ND's class is slowly falling apart. If Greenberry flips to USC that will be another crushing loss. On the other hand, OSU is assembling a very very good class.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:05 PM ^
I hate Notre Dame with a passion.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:53 PM ^
More than Ohio State?
January 15th, 2012 at 7:11 PM ^
I hate Notre Dame much more than Ohio State. At least Ohio State was good (I know they cheated and such, but bear with me). I cannot believe the amazing amount of attention and hype Notre Dame gets every year from ESPN and the like. I also cannot believe how good their recruiting is despite not being truly nationally relevant in the last 15 years or so (other than Reggie Bush push year). It bothers me how, despite all logic, everyone still loves to talk about them all the fucking time.
January 15th, 2012 at 7:21 PM ^
Whoa, whoa, whoa..hold on. Hey can we get a ruling on this one because I don't think it's allowed for a UM fan to hate anyone more than OSU?
/s
January 15th, 2012 at 7:24 PM ^
Ha, also my best friend growing up was a Notre Dame fan (he was a part Irish ginger) so that helps explain on utterly irrational hatred of that institution.
January 15th, 2012 at 8:53 PM ^
why is it that when someone has some Irish blood, people are surprised when that person is not an ND fan. i had this happen to me at the Meechigan vs. ND game during Henne, Hart and Long's senior year. the ND fan asked why i was not an ND fan, being Irish and all... well i told him that i am Irish protestant, not Irish catholic.
also redheaded men are not gingers, we are Otis's.
January 15th, 2012 at 10:29 PM ^
I mean, ginger is the conventional term so I use it (not in an offensive way, just to mess around). I clearly don't have a problem with Irish or red-headed people being that my best friend is both, but it's still fun to make fun of him especially since he is a ND fan.
January 15th, 2012 at 11:09 PM ^
As my Irish dad (born in County Tipperary) always said, "Notre Dame is French, not Irish".
January 15th, 2012 at 10:03 PM ^
Only USC.
January 16th, 2012 at 12:32 AM ^
No, you can hate NOTHING more than tOSU as an M fan. NOTHING. I love Satan and AIDS more than I love tOSU.
January 16th, 2012 at 10:43 AM ^
January 15th, 2012 at 7:23 PM ^
Ohio quite literally lied and cheated away the better part of a decade of the rivalry. Believe me, I don't like Notre Dame and their self-righteous arrogance at all but I respect their academics. There is no evidence at ND of the sort of lying/cheating/total NCAA disregard in the last decade.
Ohio owes me ten years.
January 15th, 2012 at 8:30 PM ^
ND cheated their talented recruits of coaching
January 16th, 2012 at 12:56 AM ^
Funniest and truest thing I've read all day.
January 15th, 2012 at 7:45 PM ^
January 16th, 2012 at 12:55 AM ^
I lived in Toledo when I was a small boy. Gotta agree, it sucked, although we were very poor back then.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:08 PM ^
It sounds like Greenbury is just messing btw.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:01 PM ^
Wow. On the bright side, that can't hurt our chances with Diamond. Diamond has expressed concern before about depth charts, and it seems like most of our top "OT" recruits are actually destined for OG. Plus, not that this is necessarily an obstacle, but isn't Meyer working with like zero scholarships at this point?
January 15th, 2012 at 6:32 PM ^
Not anymore, Meyer is already getting rid of deadweight. Hes had 3 guys relesed from scholarship this weekend, none are starters
January 15th, 2012 at 8:26 PM ^
January 15th, 2012 at 8:38 PM ^
One guy was Dominic Clark who had a lot of issues off the field. He was firing a BB gun off the roof of a campus building and just got a DUI last week. Not sure about the other kid though.
January 15th, 2012 at 8:59 PM ^
Beat his girlfriend. Can't blame Urban for kicking them out.
January 16th, 2012 at 10:47 AM ^
January 15th, 2012 at 6:01 PM ^
As long as he doesnt get one of ours, I am happy. He can do whatever he wants with ND and MSU commits. Did we recruit Decker?
January 15th, 2012 at 6:05 PM ^
Meyer has been able to flip recruits from PSU (Schutt), ND (Decker), & MSU (Pittman), but he has not been able to touch a recruit from Michigan's class even though Michigan's class is higher ranked than the other three. Hoke has stood tall and managed the excitement from OSU in the Urban Liar honeymoon period.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:06 PM ^
Not just that... Our class is also stocked with top talent from Ohio.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:28 PM ^
Let's be clear here because Urban Meyer doesn't deserve credit for "flipping" these guys. How these 'flips' actually happened:
- Pittman committed to MSU to save a spot in their class in the event OSU hired a shitty coach or had severe sanctions. As soon as sanctions and Urban Meyer were announced, goodbye Sparty.
- Schutt's commitment was denied by ND after getting Sheldon Day, denied by Michigan because we either had Pipkins or don't need a DT in Schutt's style, and committed to PSU. PSU had their whole crazy scandal and fired Joe Pa. He switched to OSU.
- OSU hired ND's OC and OL coach, who happen to be Decker's main recruiting contacts. Poof, OSU commit.
I'm not taking anything away from these guys' talent, but let's not annoint Urban Meyer as some grand master of flipping recruits, kind of like keeping Dunn, a lifelong Buckeye fan and already an OSU commit, isn't confirmation that Meyer will destroy Hoke in recruiting.
Ultimately, this is a kid that grew up in Ohio that was committed to ND and followed his position coach to OSU.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:33 PM ^
IIRC Decker was also a Buckeye fan growing up, but Bollman & Tressel slow played him. Same strategy they took with Kyle Dodson.
January 15th, 2012 at 7:31 PM ^
thanks for the post
January 15th, 2012 at 7:32 PM ^
I'm not surprised Meyer is snagging other teams recruits in his first go at ohio recruiting. There's a bit a of a buzz and he's capitalizing on it. I doubt this will be the case as much going forward. Once he's established things may be very different. Especially if the Meyer that took the ohio job is the same Meyer that struggled in his last year at Florida (post Charlie Strong). Then he's going to have a tough time stealing the bacon.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:04 PM ^
Not too surprising. His position coach and primary recruiter, Ed Warinner and Tim Hinton, from Notre Dame were recently announced as the last members of Meyer's offensive staff. Apparently those two were huge reasons that he liked Notre Dame so much. So them going to OSU made this decommitment pretty easy I'm sure.
January 15th, 2012 at 7:54 PM ^
So Meyer is actually snake-oiling other programs COACHES?! Wow what a Douchey McF@(&bag...
January 16th, 2012 at 2:01 AM ^
What do you want him to do, hire coaches off the street?
January 15th, 2012 at 6:09 PM ^
For all of the success Meyer has had thus far, they desperately needed (and continue to need) more depth on the OL.
This takes their offensive line depth from "Hold me, OSU-equivalent-of-TomVH" to merely "shit, shit, shit..."
January 15th, 2012 at 6:14 PM ^
January 15th, 2012 at 7:03 PM ^
I don't know about you but when a recruit is already a verbal to Ohio (before The Liar was even hired), I don't consider that a "flip" or a "recruiting battle" won. He simply held serve and retained an existing recruit.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:15 PM ^
January 15th, 2012 at 6:16 PM ^
Fvck N.Dame... Fvck ohio.......... now they are equal..........
January 15th, 2012 at 7:29 PM ^
Fuck>Fvck
January 15th, 2012 at 6:20 PM ^
The NCAA was less concerned about the shenanigans at OSU as they were about ten minutes of stretching in Ann Arbor.
January 15th, 2012 at 8:01 PM ^
I guess I missed our bowl ban and scholarship reductions.
January 15th, 2012 at 7:05 PM ^
Meyers knew what he was doing when he hired them Notre Dame coaches. Because of the recruiting success that Columbus Community College is having, my stomach understands how an inflamed case of crohns disease must feel but with an ulcer, ugh!
How is this off topic??? I spoke to the topic and how it makes me feel Meyers is having some recruiting success. You cannot be serious!
January 15th, 2012 at 6:25 PM ^
Urban Meyer is great at recruiting and banging co-eds, what are you going to do?
January 15th, 2012 at 6:33 PM ^
for starters you can ask where was urban in 1982 and was he in Dallas hanging out with craig james. i would hate to blame CRAIG JAMES FOR HAVING KILLED FIVE HOOKERS if it was really URBAN MEYER WHO KILLED FIVE HOOKERS
January 15th, 2012 at 6:48 PM ^