'05 OH Safety Adam Myers-White (Tennessee signee)

[BuckNutty]

MegaWoody and Brutus2002, how either one of you can call the kid egotistical is beyond me. Where a recruit decides to attend college is probably the biggest decision in their lives to this point. Myers-White has decided he wants to look around so he can make the best decision for him. Believe it or not Ohio State isn't always the best fit for some kids and they want to look around to see if they fit in better somewhere else. Is Donte Whitner any less of a Buckeye because he took all 5 visits before deciding to attend Ohio State? Hardly.

That said, let's leave the bashing of recruits and the decisions they make to other sites.

[BuckNutty]

Originally Posted by brutus2002

when a kid implies that OSU is ok and basically says OSU is a mediocre school that kid can kiss my ass!!!!!!

Show me where he said Ohio State was mediocre. I never saw that. Show me.

[TallIndian]

I think it is a combination of all of the above.

And while I think it is wrong to bash recruits, there is a fine line in discussing why the offer was pulled and bashing.

I think this will make a few recruits realize that tOSU is filling up its class.

There is a list of positions / needs / recruits that clearly shows that JT
has his ducks in a row, and is filling up this class in a thoughtful directed manner. This class has filled with some big time players, and now it is time
to concentrate on definite needs ... such as running back.

So we narrow our focus ... and avoid the pulling of offers at the last minute.
Great move on tOSU's part. Plus its lets the recruits out their start thinking ..... pull the trigger or look elsewhere.

IMHO

[osugrad21]

I'm with Nutty here...no matter what he said, he has already reaped his reward by losing his offer. If he was playing games...he got burnt. However, there is no need to bash a kid just because he doesn't feel as strongly about the Buckeyes as we do.

[MegaWoody]

BuckNutty:

First, I agree with you about bashing recruits on the board. I have been an offender, primarilly where Alex Daniels is concerned, and I will desist. 90% of my posts are encouraging, cheerleader stuff, but I will bump that up to 100% in the future.

Second, taking visits is not egotistical at all and I never said it was. It is exactly what a truly undecided kid should do. But I believe that the way AMW has handled himself publicly, in the recruiting media, has been egotistical. I suspect that had much to do with his losing tOSU opportunity. If what he said to OSU recruiting staff didn't jibe with what he said to the press, the coaches had good reason to doubt he was dealing in good faith.

[BuckNutty]

Originally Posted by brutus2002

I guess we are gonna have to agree to disagree. I think it's an excellent move by the coaching staff. We have bigger fish to fry with people who actually might want to be a Buckeye!!!

What exactly do we disagree on? Have I said the staff made a bad decision by pulling the scholarship? I think you'll find I haven't commented on it one way or the other. If AMW was not a player the staff was interested in anymore than they did the right thing by letting him know now while there is plenty of time to focus his attention elsewhere.

I'm not going to split hairs about what constitutes bashing a recruit but calling a kid egotistical and some of the other things that have been said about AMW on here are just wrong. No one should act like they know a player and what they're about because they read a few articles about them on the internet.