Chad Lindsay To OSU
A much-needed boost to Michigan's offensive line is apparently headed to the worst possible place:
Alabama transfer Chad Lindsay is expected to sign with Ohio State, per source. Buckeyes get new center for Braxton Miller
— Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerCBS) April 22, 2014
Well played, Urban.
Running around in a circle is a little over the top, but only a little. That Lindsay rejected his former OC and an almost certain starting spot is alarming, and now Michigan enters next year with zero senior scholarship OL.
April 23rd, 2014 at 11:08 AM ^
Get with the times, Gladstone. Ohio State raised its undergrad admissions standards, including for athletes, over a decade ago. The Buckeyes are much closer in that regard than you think. In fact, they miss out on potential recruits every year because the OSU Admissions Dept won't allow the coaches to offer a scholarship. Potential recruits who end up at other B1G schools or BCS schools because they could not meet OSU's standards. Javon Ringer is a perfect example. Yes, there was a time when Ohio State would accept anyone with a high school diploma and a pulse. Getting out with a degree was the trick...that has never been easy. But those days of low incomming standards are long gone.
As for Ohio, I don't think the Bobcats' standards are quite so high.
If he's playing for OSU he sucks, and we never wanted him in the first place. What a loser.
April 23rd, 2014 at 11:15 AM ^
Crash, you're saying that UM went after this guy, with Nussmeier knowing him personally after having coached him for the past two years, because he sucks? That UM offered him because they don't want him? Man, those are some sour ass grapes.
If we collectively can survive the RR years, next year will be glorious by comparison. At least we should be competitive in every game and win more than we lose. NOTHING could be worse than watching Michigan getting thumped in the Big House like we saw back then. So, I plan to be optimistic at least.
April 23rd, 2014 at 10:25 AM ^
...getting pounded by Penn State at home in the FREEZING rain ('09) tested my "never leave a game early" maxim. Fortunately, the then under-construction Big Haus made it completely impossible to depart because of the bottlenecking nature of the exits so I stayed. Whew!
April 23rd, 2014 at 11:21 AM ^
You put a Block M on the hat of a USC Trojan?
#ThoseWhoStay or actually #ThoseWhoShowUpinTheFirstPlace...gotta make the OL the best we can with who we have. I, for one, think they are going to pleasantly surprise many folks here
I am shocked!!!
You're absolutely right! Our idiot coaches should have held him down against his will and forced him to watch the dozen of hours worth of video recapping our success on the gridiron since Y2K until he verbally commit to play for Michigan, rather than letting him actually choose who he wants to play for! The fools! The damned fools!
Is OL recruiting really a problem for this coaching staff? Doesn't seem like it.
it's not a problem, but if you're talking about evaluations, hard to tell. They may not be good in evaluations but it's their 3rd year in the program so time will tell.
Most of the OL we've recruited had offers from other major programs. If we're evaluating them badly, so are lots of other schools.
April 22nd, 2014 at 10:15 PM ^
What is this 'persuasion' you speak of? Could that be why I obey every single command that anyone ever gives to me? It all sounds so easy...
you guyz.
Well, Ok it got better today with Lindsay, but still they're going to need to grow up fast with Ed Warinner:
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2014/02/anticipating_the_ohio_st…
than our OL.
I posted on this late and read from the bottom up and FINALLY came across someone thinking as I am. Maybe you're being sarcastic, and I sound dumb right now. I do think there definitely could be something to it, however.
Who is our Bagman?
That guy needs to step it up.
April 23rd, 2014 at 11:48 AM ^
"Who is our Bagman?"
I have a theory about Bagmen. The stronger the local economy, the more succesful that school's bagmen are. Quite simply, the bagmen are more flush during strong economic times, and there may be more of them. For example, when oil was booming in Texas, the Horns were killing it. It only follows that when the local economy sucks like it does Michigan, there are fewer, less well endowed bagmen.
BTW, cool picture.
It's so toxic that nearly none of our players have jumped ship and we've landed top recruiting classes each year (though the quantity last year earned a lower rank despite high per recruit averages...of course, that's due to lack of ship jumping).
So what you're saying is that the new coach in 2015 is gonna have a loaded roster to work with?
Yay!
I hope you are right, and our stupid AD gets off his crack pipe and hires the most deserving candidate and not the one with the most michigan ties.
You know, LIONSfan, I'm going to have to discount your insight based on your screen name alone.
#JimSchwartzforMichigan
(touché)
People should calm down a little. We're talking about a guy with one year of eligibility, who already missed spring ball. Yeah, he may have been a decent stopgap measure but we'd be replacing him in a year's time anyway.
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But by 2015 most of the lineman recruited by Hoke will be upperclassmen. Lindsay could have helped serve as a bridge between now and then.
I'm not sure how easy it is to come as a lineman in the fall and take over a starting spot just like that. If he had transferred in January and had the benefit of spring ball at his new school, he'd be a stronger position. As it is, he's going to have to learn the playbook and develop chemistry with his fellow linemen in a matter of weeks.
Pretty much just needs to not get blown three yards into the backfield on run plays.
He needs to know all of the line calls from day one. That's probably his most important job, then not getting blown off the line...
But he would also have to learn the new OC's offense...oh wait, never mind.
Though not what I was responding to.
considering he played under Nuss at Bama. Chemistry, I agree with you.
Its way more than that - it speaks to the state of the program. I don't think anyone looked at the guy as a savior but I think people assumed he'd want to play with his old coach. If there's anything attracting a recruit to a school its got to be a coach he played for (or family member/friend there, etc.). Optically, its embarassing to the program for him to choose Ohio State instead. There's probably more to it - maybe he simply didn't like his old coach - but it sure seems to reaffirms what most people already believe: OSU is miles ahead of Michigan at this point and there's no end in sight.
/downvotes self
It's one guy. No one guy "speaks to the state of the program" - especially in a sport with 85 scholarship players.
We should at this point be able to field a halfway competent interior OL given the players we've recruited the last three years. The 2012 recruits are in their third year - it should be time for them to step up. If we can't count on them, our issues run too deep to be covered up by one rent-a-senior.
Speaking of scholarship players...didn't OSU get dinged with scholarship losses for their NCAA violations? Given that, how in the world do they have any to give? We've given out 88 scholarships over the last 4 years. OSU? 96.
Uncle urb got some that recruiting practice from the SEC
Yes. Urban Meyer will inform that player that he really really wants to leave the program just as soon as Meyer decides who it is.
I think it's important to acknowledge that he will only be playing college football for one more year. It's hard to look at Michigan and OSU and not think that OSU will have a better 2014 than Michigan. If we saw large numbers of high school recruits picking OSU over Michigan that would be a different story.
maybe the guy just likes the way he looks in red?
people were trying to say he was the number 1 juco player in the nation. . . Ignoring the programs troubles which inevitably surfaced. Getting this kid is merely putting different lipstick on this pig. . . .
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