February 6th, 2013 at 11:38 AM ^
Off topic, but more bad publicity for ND. Hockey player arrested for assaulting a women.
http://www.wsbt.com/sports/wsbt-irish-hockey-player-arrested-for-allege…
February 6th, 2013 at 11:43 AM ^
If Brady Hoke had Urban Meyer's on-field resumé, everybody here at MGoBlog would be slobbering all over him and you'd be one of them.
Your very obvious dislike of Meyer might be well-founded on personal terms, but your dismissal of his proven coaching abilities througout his career is whistling past the graveyard. There is nothing in his record that indicates he won't be a success at OSU, with the single exception of the circumstances surrounding his departure from Florida.
What is it specifically about Meyer that leads you to think he's going to "implode?"
February 6th, 2013 at 11:45 AM ^
If Brady Hoke had Urban's off-the-field resume, I'd become an MSU fan.
February 6th, 2013 at 12:02 PM ^
Well, that wasn't my point, was it? That's why I specifically said you had well-founded reasons to dislike Meyer for personal reasons. And we both know that Meyer's going to have to get caught banging Gene Smith's wife in order to be fired for off-the-field reasons, because the entire OSU administration from Gee on down couldn't care less how much the head football coach cheats.
You still haven't given a reason why you think Meyer is going to implode. Will it be for personal reasons, or will it be for lack of success on the field? And if it's the latter, why do you think he won't be successful? Is it because his coaching competition in the conference is better now than what Tressel had to face?
February 6th, 2013 at 12:17 PM ^
I think Urban will have a few years of success at OSU. I see it being a very short tenure ending badly. First, you have absurd expectations that are higher than anywhere else in the country, a coach who clearly has enormous problems handling stress, a coach whose former players testified that he ran the locker room so poorly there were players who refused to participate in conditioning, players faking injuries at the request of coaches, and at one point a star player physically assaulting another coach ( "The program...was out of control"). You cannot sustain success with that going on, which is probably why he's never been at one place for very long. I've just seen this story play out too many times. Big name, huge ego, tons of hype, tons of talk, but never meeting expectations.
I predict that OSU will lose two games this year mainly due to a weak front seven, and three the following year with what is shaping up to be a craptastic O-line. That's when shit will start to hit the fan.
February 6th, 2013 at 12:44 PM ^
Believe me, I hope you're right. Losing to OSU is always painful, but it's doubly worse when their coach is a cheating, sanctimonious liar.
February 6th, 2013 at 12:50 PM ^
It is a bit odd that with their great class, tOSU has very little in the way of O-linemen. Two recruits, both three stars. Given that this was an area of present weakness, I'm surprised that Urban did go all in after this position. Or is he just obsessed with skill players?
February 6th, 2013 at 5:12 PM ^
February 6th, 2013 at 11:43 AM ^
February 6th, 2013 at 11:43 AM ^
Dawson is in. The gang's all here.
February 6th, 2013 at 11:47 AM ^
Do I leave my text alerts on in case of Norfleet 2.0?
February 6th, 2013 at 11:46 AM ^
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February 6th, 2013 at 11:49 AM ^
Continuing further:
As of right now, according to Rivals, the Big Ten has four 5-star players and 51 4-star players.
The SEC has 13 5-star players and 112 4-star players.
35 of the 55 Big Ten recruits who are ranked as either 4 or 5-star players are committed to Michigan or Ohio State.
BTW, considering that our only real recruiting rival in the Big Ten is Ohio State, with the occasional threat from Penn State, its somewhat sad we haven't won a Big Ten title since 2004.
February 6th, 2013 at 11:51 AM ^
No Kate Upton in this thread yet? I am disgusted with all of you!
February 6th, 2013 at 12:00 PM ^
yet you provide no Kate Upton, I am more disgusted with that.
February 6th, 2013 at 12:44 PM ^
Now this thread is complete! Heh.
February 6th, 2013 at 11:53 AM ^
Great class, great day. No drama. And a QB for the 2014 class to boot.
Hoke uber alles.
February 6th, 2013 at 12:12 PM ^
February 6th, 2013 at 12:24 PM ^
Urban Meyer is a great recruiter and Ohio had an undefeated season. It would be weirder if they didn't pull in a great class. Ohio will always recruit well and as long as Michigan does the same, what's the problem?
That said I will agree that seeing better offensive gameplans next year will be important.
February 6th, 2013 at 12:24 PM ^
February 6th, 2013 at 12:43 PM ^
So some recruit's mother STOLE the official signing papers from her son and fled the area. No one has been able to find her or contact her. Weird.
February 6th, 2013 at 12:56 PM ^
Alex Collins is the recruit. I can't help but wonder if his mother is related to Landon Collins' mother.
February 6th, 2013 at 12:45 PM ^
Link? Source?
February 6th, 2013 at 12:54 PM ^
It's all over ESPN and ESPNU. It's one of Bielema's recruits.
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ed: Alex Collins is the recruit in question. Nothing has been confirmed, but the story is blowing up.
February 6th, 2013 at 3:12 PM ^
Wasn't he the one that went to Alabama with his girlfriend and his mom wanted LSU?
...I know this kid's mom wants him to go to Miami (YTM) and he wants to go play for Arkansas.
February 6th, 2013 at 1:12 PM ^
I wanna know what's going on down at Ole Miss
February 6th, 2013 at 3:05 PM ^
February 6th, 2013 at 1:47 PM ^
TWOS put up an amusing take on Nebraska's Signing Day... I guess it helps to know that Taylor Martinez' little brother is joining the team.
February 6th, 2013 at 2:23 PM ^
Is from columbus. Do i see a Trey Burke type situation here. Lets make them pay!!!
February 6th, 2013 at 3:10 PM ^
Anyone want to give a recap?
...or is it basically "Michigan signed all of their players committed, Ole Miss is cheating but we don't care because it's hurting the other SEC teams, Ohio passed us on Scout.com...we're cancelling our membership"?
February 6th, 2013 at 3:25 PM ^
Hey guys, Ohio is no longer number 1 recruiting class; Bama passed them. We can now all take this as emperical evidence that they will suck for the coming years.
February 6th, 2013 at 3:26 PM ^
"Best/worst experience, why did you/didn't you sign with X" article is at the Detroit News.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130206/SPORTS05/302060301/Where-De…
February 6th, 2013 at 3:42 PM ^
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February 6th, 2013 at 5:48 PM ^
February 6th, 2013 at 3:43 PM ^
...is coming up on BTN (3:45p)
February 6th, 2013 at 7:18 PM ^
Just throwing this out there but Maryland would be ranked fourth in the big ten team recruit rankings, not really going to be a drag of quality people make it out to be