OSU signing day whiffs
OSU singed 9 top-100 composite players and currently has the second highest rated class in the nation. It is an amazing class, but it was a strange signing day for the Buckeyes.
Jackson Carman, the highest rated OT in the nation, signed with Clemson instead of the hometown team. Dabo employing negative recruiting may have played a hand.
Emory Jones follows Dan Mullen to Florida after slow playing the Bucks for months. He is a top 50 recruit and the 4th ranked dual-threat QB.
Jaiden Woodbey flipped to FSU earlier this hour after an extremely strange announcement. He is a top 30 recruit and the 2nd ranked safety in the class.
Brenton Cox, the 2nd ranked strongside defensive end, decommited two weeks back and has since signed with Georgia.
Micah Parson the top ranked defensive end was trending towards the Bucks throughout the summer recommitted to PSU. He took some pictures with Eddie George and the NCAA doesn't approve, apparently.
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December 20th, 2017 at 11:09 PM ^
If you want to see some salty OSU fans acting like pieces of shit go check out Jaiden Woodbeys FSU committment tweet
December 20th, 2017 at 11:17 PM ^
Holy poop coolers are they salty.
And they are absolutely tearing into Emory Jones over on eleven warriors.
Stay classy, nut jobs.
December 21st, 2017 at 6:46 AM ^
They're the most successful team of the last 20 or so years and somehow the saltiest fanbase.
December 21st, 2017 at 8:46 AM ^
they'll drive Urban out just like they did Herbie.
December 21st, 2017 at 8:48 AM ^
Uh... OSU has been really good, but there's this program down in Tuscaloosa that might have something to say about "most successful team of the last 20 years".
December 21st, 2017 at 9:50 AM ^
I'm sure the reference to 20 years was intentional, I know it's hard to fathom but Alabama was perfectly mediocre with some really awful seasons mixed in in the late 90s to mid 2000s.
December 21st, 2017 at 10:01 AM ^
Bingo. Aside from one 6-6 season with an interim head coach and half their starters suspended, they've been consistently good more than anyone else in that timespan.
December 21st, 2017 at 11:11 AM ^
Used "history math" to say OSU has the most wins in college football since ___ !! I forgot the year, but it was still within the time where we had color TV's.
December 21st, 2017 at 1:49 PM ^
with a loss to Louisiana Monroe IIRC.
December 21st, 2017 at 4:25 PM ^
1998-2007 Alabama: 70-54 (.565) (includes 21 vacated wins)
2008-2017 Michigan: 74-52 (.587)
In a lot of respects, their 10-year relative 'nightmare' (actually 11 if including a 4-7 record in 1997) was worse than ours has been. Amazing how that period in Alabama history has been wiped clean from the casual football fan's memory. It wasn't really that long ago. But following it with 10 years of dominance fixes everything.
December 21st, 2017 at 10:10 PM ^
He said 20, not 10
December 21st, 2017 at 10:27 AM ^
something wrong with that fanbase. That school attracts the worst in America
December 21st, 2017 at 11:42 AM ^
They've got it coming one way or the other. Can you imagine what that fanbase will do when they experience their inexorable downturn the way we did? They're the most spoiled fanbase in college football. Not that that's a bad thing necessarily but it's going to really suck for them when they have their own dark ages. And I'm going to enjoy every second of it.
December 21st, 2017 at 5:05 PM ^
Maybe 11w will shutdown the ability to comment for a couple of days after michigan beats them next year?
December 21st, 2017 at 11:44 AM ^
That happens when you live in rural Ohio, and your whole existence revolves around OSU football and hating Michigan.
December 21st, 2017 at 2:03 PM ^
Logged in to +1 "Holy poop coolers."
December 20th, 2017 at 11:22 PM ^
Seems like a good way to convince someone they made a mistake by not signing to play school.
December 21st, 2017 at 12:28 AM ^
What's funny is that there has been smoke all season long that he would flip to Oklahoma, so him signing with someone else shouldn't have been a huge surprise.
December 21st, 2017 at 10:58 AM ^
Both are some of the pissier fanbases around, so it's fun to see them go at it.
December 20th, 2017 at 11:12 PM ^
Forget OSU. Kirby and UGA are racking up recruits at absurd levels too now.
That could've been Michigan in year 2 if we had a QB. Sigh...
December 20th, 2017 at 11:19 PM ^
I think we have 3 QBs now, and another top 5ish defense, so let's see what happens.
December 20th, 2017 at 11:24 PM ^
Keeping Otis Reese and signing Tyler Friday and Petit-Frere could land us in the top 10. Is that far fetched?
December 20th, 2017 at 11:38 PM ^
Plus Shaw Patterson is like adding another 5-star QB to the class.
December 20th, 2017 at 11:44 PM ^
His brother Shea is pretty good too.
December 20th, 2017 at 11:54 PM ^
That’s what she said!
December 21st, 2017 at 9:24 AM ^
as a five-star how high it would propel M's class.
December 20th, 2017 at 11:43 PM ^
Not far fetched at all, and considering what Brown, Mattison and company are accomplishing with the defensive talent, I fully expect us to keep reloading.
December 21st, 2017 at 12:55 AM ^
None of your positivity on a potential top ten class with such signings.
I have read the blog. I understand this to be the worst class in the history of NCAA football.
Stay in your lane.
December 21st, 2017 at 9:45 AM ^
I want all of the stars we can get, and it is disappointing that we aren't getting a top five recruit this year (though Patterson...), but I'm encouraged by Devin Bush, Khaleke Hudson and McKeon (whose name mystifies me why it is pronounced McQue-en). Guys that were not high four stars and/or three stars who are ripping it up. While it is great to have a ready-made player like Mason Cole (I'll take three please), I think our coaches can spot talent.
Love the OSU shadenfruende. I always want them to be the best they can possibly be so long as we beat them. I miss the 90's and Cooper.
December 21st, 2017 at 7:29 AM ^
at All
December 20th, 2017 at 11:21 PM ^
Last I checked, there was pretty thick black smoke around UGA now that a Saban guy is running the show.
December 21st, 2017 at 1:31 AM ^
Facts? Uga does care about its rep unlike many others in sec. has uga ever had a fab5 problem?
December 21st, 2017 at 1:37 AM ^
Recruiting is on a level playing field? In the SEC, you believe that the NCAA really gives a flying $&)( about education? Hell they even admitted giving out impermissible benefits from boosters at BAMA and they didn’t do SHIT!
December 21st, 2017 at 1:43 AM ^
Fab 5? Hell they look like field workers compared to the cars and jewelry some of the kids are gifted in some programs! I️ cannot believe people in the 21st century still believe that FAB5 were some greedy little kids benefiting illegally and we deserved it! Bullshit! We got caught. Others admit to giving kids cars, money, women, and they still own a championship in basketball, that they won against Michigan.
December 21st, 2017 at 8:16 AM ^
The Fab5 were not paid to go to Michigan. They were given money and so were many other Detroit players that went to other schools. The reason Michigan got burned is that Ed Martin was categorized as a Michigan booster. He did not guide players to Michigan, he was not a bag man. He gave or loaned money to players that went to other big ten schools. Against the rules? Absolutely. Should Michigan have been punished? Absolutely. Should other teams have been punished? Yes.
Did Ed Martin direct players to Michigan? No.
December 21st, 2017 at 6:47 AM ^
Hoss, why don't you read this and get back to us:
https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/4/10/5594348/college-foo…
December 21st, 2017 at 10:14 AM ^
For helping!
December 21st, 2017 at 11:03 AM ^
Oh yeah, Georgia's basketball program absolutely never broke any rules.
That literally took 1 minute of Googling. If you are going to be indignant, at least do your homework.
December 21st, 2017 at 5:46 AM ^
And if we employed bagmen.
December 21st, 2017 at 6:49 AM ^
I listen to podcasts for a few of the SEC schools around signing day every year and more than one school is openly talking about Georgia outpaying other schools for dudes since Smart got there.
They also said to watch for Texas A&M to ramp up the bagmen with Jimbo heading over there.
December 21st, 2017 at 1:20 PM ^
There is little doubt about the UGa bagmen.
The state changed its laws about FOIA requests for Kirby (at his request), and the Lt Governor came right out and said "I hope it helps us land a national championship."
And shortly thereafter UGa goes into its old recruiting stomping grounds (cough, cough) of NYC and Philadelphia to swipe five stars Isaiah Wilson (long considered by everyone under the sun a lock to us, no less) and DeAndre Swift. And now this avalanche of 5* talent.
Athens is fine and all (I have family there), but come on....
They land two five stars (Anderson and Cox) in the early signing period at a position where UGa doesn't even currently have a position coach on their staff?
By the way, they already have three of the top ten juniors in the country committed.
December 21st, 2017 at 8:48 AM ^
Not true. Michigan doesn't have a top 5 recruiting area to pick recruits from. Georgia has always recruited well and it is much easier to recruit to Georgia over Michigan.
December 21st, 2017 at 9:33 AM ^
UGA had a great class. They will be a great team in 2018. So will we. We have 3 solid QBs and a top 10 defense and NFL calibre WR and TEs.
December 21st, 2017 at 10:16 PM ^
But do we have the offensive playcalling to beat top teams
December 20th, 2017 at 11:26 PM ^
They still have the #2 class in the nation. I hate those guys, but damn. Their recruiting game is pretty damn impressive. Credit where credit is due (but fuck Ohio State, of course).
December 20th, 2017 at 11:49 PM ^
A lot gets cast on RR and BH but looking a little different into both programs will reflect, for those who can be objective, that it wasn't necessarily all those two and it wasn't all Urban in Columbus.
i recall how Michigan fans were giddy as hell when OSU hired Tressell. i thought, why in the hell are they so happy?. This guy will take whoever he wants in that state if Carr isn't careful. Well, guess what? He did the one thing we couldn't allow. He beat us his first two seasons with sub par teams and the third was damn close, but during that period he had closed the damn gap and was inside Carr's mind. And for good reason. That man has no more reason to bend the rules than does Urban - and i have no indications that he is. He was a damn fine coach.
When Urb took over, both the games and the recruiting were a habit,with us on the wrong end of both. This is what is so perplexing about M fans in regard to Harbaugh. For the first time in over a decade he finishes in the top ten in recruiting, and he does it back-to-back with top 5 classes. He beats MSU and although that hasn't happened with OSU, it could have happened twice and in both cases, one more time than it did if not for simply unbelievable events that bore no relection on the coaching.
We're coming into the year i was looking at, and although i would have preferred a bit more experienced quarterback, I'm happy with the overall state of the progam. i feel we're in good position to go forward with a solid ten to fifteen years of great Michigan football. Harbaugh doens't just talk. He sees something and based on what he said after the final regular season Saturday,he gave his opinion of what he thought was wrong and he addressed it. He's not afraid, extremely confident and will not stop unless thrown out of town. Hand on because 2018 dictates maybe not so much where we're going but just how damn fast we'll get there.
December 20th, 2017 at 11:58 PM ^
Why dont you be quiet until the football team actually accomplishes something. Nobody cares about your feelings after another mediocre outting.
December 21st, 2017 at 6:50 AM ^
You should read the second paragraph of the post you're referencing. There's some good there.