The Response

I can do it too…

OSU’s QBs suck (their upside is a poor man’s John Stocco or a poor man’s Quincy Carter). Henton is delusional and was like the 40th ranked player in Georgia and is currently referred to as a “turnover waiting to happen”.

Beenie Wells is Kevin Grady II. M. Wells is what like a poor man’s Pittman maybe? Torrence is a whiny kid so inferior to the real RBs in this class that it doesn’t warrant review.

There is an unproven soft short skinny fast kid at WR and two slow backup types and more of the same coming in. This year they are getting one kid from OH who has a crappie offer list, another kid from OH who basically doesn’t have an offer list but is from Glenville so OSU must take him, and then there is the tall white kid who is the next Samardzija (whatever, you think Warren and Boo Boo are worried?)

There TEs will get them 150 yrds and 2 TDs and for that I congratulate them. I don’t even know if they have an HB or care and ditto with FB.

Their tackles are in counseling post-Fla and Jamison and Graham are licking their chops. Their interior linemen are recruiting busts or guys I’ve never heard anything good about. Then there is about a two year gap where apparently OSU will not be using an O line because the block O guys are considered raw and in Shugarts case for example have essentially never pass blocked before in their life (which would make them as good as Barton and Boone right now). In Block O they have what they have (four years from now) always dreamt of but never before obtained…recruits that we all think are good and not just Jim Bob from central OH who thinks the world of his in bread three-star (if that) son. So for that I say welcome to the club OSU (finally). BTW- its one position and one recruiting season so let’s not blow our loads quite yet. But your progress in becoming more Michigan-like is noted (I always knew OSU would become UM-like at their first available opportunity).

The DTs are terrible. I mean really bad. But don’t worry because the future is bright with the angry white kid from Indiana and the athletic kid from Georgia. But OSU…you might want to carry more than a couple DTs. That advice is free. What’s not free is everything else in life (OSU pays thousands not millions to its players) so Gholston is bolting for the pros after his 7-5 junior season. That leaves a couple of guys (Wilson and Rose) who I actually like (there’s a complement for you) but I’m not sure if the DE recruit last year or the DE recruit this year are any good…my initial impression is nope.

The son of a wrestler kid is a pussy who we will run over again this year. There’s Grant who is supposed to be good now and the one 5-star guy who has been a bust thus far. Then there are some guys who do one thing well and everything else not well. Then there are guys like Homan and Johnson and Gibson who are all top 250 guys that you can find at any top 20 program. They may add one more of that variety this year. OSU is alright at LB but an “embarrassment of riches” is funny. I don’t blame the poster for the foggy glasses however because he is fed info from some of the worst recruiting cites in the country. This comes from the fact that OSU historically just takes the kids who are at the various football banquets at the end of the year throughout Ohio and the national scene is new to them. BTW- OH fans used to brag about the in-state pride on the football team now they reject OH kids for a slightly higher rated national guy to which I say that OSU is finally getting it yeah! Isn’t it weird how recruiting based on talent seems to work? Anyways, the UM recruiting cite guys for the most part don’t even live in MI. The best of them, Tom Beaver, was raised in and lives in Texas (football mecca). They are spread out throughout the country and their contacts are everywhere. So they bring a much more national viewpoint and have a much greater understanding of recruits in every state. This is because Michigan recruits every state and has for a long time. OSU is the OH university (since OH decided against a large counterpart with a greater focus on academics) while UM has wolverine nation.

OSU has a good corner who is leaving after his junior season. They got some guys this year that are the classic better than everyone in the big 10 but Michigan types. Get the second team big 10 plaques ready. I hear Coleman is good at safety (more props) but I don’t know who the other safety is going to be (Lord I hope its not Grant). I actually won’t pick on OSUs secondary too much I will let Manningham, Arrington, and Matthews do that for me.

Then there are special teams without Ginn.

The coach has been great against UM so far but so was Lllllllllllloyd (so funny and clever and original) at the same point in his career. See above as to why the future ain’t so bright. OSU sure is proud of an athletic program that is like the Dallas Mavericks of college sports. Ooops I mentioned a team that isn’t OSU or UM so I guess that was wrong of me. I just keep forgetting that OH is only a college sports state by default because their pro sports teams suck so bad and for so long.

I will defend and explain the Michigan recruits (easy) and every part of the list in the near future as well as the direction of the current Michigan football team. There is so much more I could say here but what little I have said was meant to show 2 things:

1. Bye Bye Glory Days.

2. Throwing attack after attack out at UM, the UM blogger, and whatever else is driving the anger of the writer at the moment (temper temper) is not educational, does not prove you are a bigger fan, is offensive, and takes away from my time to learn more about UM and OSU football so I and others can enjoy the rivalry and college football season in a greater way. This isn’t a fantasy football message board. I figured there would be trial and error on this project. I love the OSU blogger. His passion is one of the things I like best about him. I am sure the hate speech is cool at Columbus bars at closing time but this blog is the road to Toledo not the road to Columbus.