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(Don't JT and Geiger have some agreement about taking no more than two 'at risk' kids per class?)
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I don't quite recall all of the circumstances from that class, but just b/c a kid isn't considered "at risk" in HS doesn't mean he can't get to college and royally screw up. I still trust that Tressel was doing the right things with that class. When they won the NC in 2002, the team was led by a relatively small group of seniors. You never know, but that class could end up doing similar things.
Besides, I don't want players in S&G who don't want to be there. That means Burgess and Crable, Quinn, Fred Davis, whomever. Even if JT could sell ice to an eskimo and get guys like that to come in, is that really helping things?
It is a shame that
OSU is missing out on guys like Wheelwright, Russell, et al. b/c of grades. It's too easy for us recruiting geeks to look back like this and say the staff should've grabbed those two and not Irizarry and Guilford. It's probably best for all involved that it works out this way anyway, especially with the local boys. I would think that guys like Wheelwright who don't get a chance at
OSU go to places like Minnesota with something to prove, and thus the get their academic house in order in college where they may not have if they had stayed home and "had it made" with a prestigious program like Ohio State. In the end that may be what is best all-around for guys like that. At the same time,
OSU has to take some risks with players, but they can't afford to just throw everything against the wall and see what sticks.