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Originally Posted by B-town Buckeye
one look at OSU's commit list on the espn.com recruiting pages says it all (IMO)...
there are roughly 500 players still under consideration for the espn top 150...as there are roughly 500 players on their top 150 watch list...
at this point...11 Buckeyes are on their top 150 watch list:
Dorian Bell, Jack Mewhort, Jamie Wood, CJ Barnett, Corey Linsley, John Simon, Melvin Fellows, James Jackson, Adam Bellamy, Jordan Hall and Adam Homan.
OSU commits NOT on the top 150 watch list...and therefore one could assume that espn/scouts inc do not see these guys as top 500 in the nation....
Jordan Whiting
Storm Klein
Chris Fields
Dominic Clarke
Reid Fragel
Zach Boren
IMO...I can see that in the cases of Fragel and Boren...and mayyyyybe Clarke since he has been kind of under the radar. Fields?? well, scout.com thinks so too I guess...but Whiting and Klein not top 500 nationally??? puh-lease.
IF (and I stress IF) they don't see Whiting and Klein (and Fields IMO) as top 500 guys in the nation (and I think we're all expecting them to rate Bellamy, Homan, Hall and maybe some others close to the 500-line as well) well, then I don't like the odds of the Bucks getting many guys in their top 150 either. Kind of like last year when they rated something like 20 Florida kids ahead of the first Ohio kid in their top 150...and had Adams in the 80s...
Therefore ESPN/Scouts Inc. will question the 'quality' of OSU's recruits basically all year long....
...just my $.02 |
I agree completely...Fields, Klein, and Whiting are all top 100 guys...not having them on that list is ridiculous. ESPin has their own agenda and will always rank our guys low, and they are idiots. For once, Luginbill made a couple semi-valid poitns, but he is still a tool. Nobody from the
OSU fanbase goes to ESPin for their recruiting anymore, and rightfully so, so there is no money in ranking us high. Also, on Boren, let me rephrase that...I'm nearly positive he got the offer for Justin and have good reason to believe that. Check you inbox Muck. I don't mean to flare any tempers, as I think Zach will contribute, but that is just the way it happened and we get 2 good players for the price of 1.