I don't believe that any of you are very informed about these issues as they pertain to Division 1 baseball. This isn't football and there are not 85 scholarships available to scatter around the country to intice these "southerners" to come play in the snow. There are 11.7 scholarships total for the entire roster, and now there is a 35 player limit on all rosters that took effect this year. Most of these kids, from Ohio or PA, are all-state and just as talented as many of the "southerners", but have to battle the weather etc. and do not play year round. Todd has to take these kids with the same ability, and get them ready INDOORS, to play a national schedule starting in February. So how many of you would send your kids to
OSU from Florida or Texas with just that in mind, just so they could get an Ohio State degree?
Todd has done a tremendous job, based on everything involved, gotten a national start date in place, not what he wanted, but better. Won championships and made Ohio State baseball recognized nationally in several different ways, including having these "local" players drafted into the pros. Yes there are "local" players on the roster, many who would have come to Ohio State becasue they grew up wanting nothing more than to be a Buckeye, and many have had tremendous success. Or do all of you forget the kids that were just drafted in the past couple years. Fryer - local, DeLucia - local, Angle - local, Shuck (marion)- local. I could go on and on. All local kids, and do you think they were drafted by professional baseball team because they were anything other than GOOD ENOUGH?????
There is a lot of talent in Ohio and Todd tradionally gets the best available, then molds it, albeit his way, and gets a final product that is attractive to professional baseball teams. Seems like all of you have so much to complain about.
Why do all of you plop in the video tape of the
OSU - Southern Cal football game and gripe about something tangible. Other than that, come out to Bill Davis and watch some trerrific college baseball and cheer for these "local" kids.