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2007 OSU Recruiting

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Success alone won't sell Ohio State to recruits

Ohio State still has to work hard to convince some players to commit.


By Doug Harris
Staff Writer

Sunday, December 31, 2006

COLUMBUS ? Ohio State's banner success over the last five football seasons has gotten the attention of high school prospects around the nation, but that hasn't brought any relief to coach Jim Tressel or his staff on the recruiting trail.

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"Exposure is the name of the game," said Bill Conley, who was OSU's recruiting coordinator for 13 years before going into private business in 2004. "When you're a team that's on national TV as much as the Buckeyes have been, and when you're playing for the national championship, that press is really crucial — especially out of state.
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Our boy Bill!
 
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Toledo Blade

1/21

OSU plays catch-up; loss of 3 top picks hampers Buckeyes


Top commitments for Ohio State include Central Catholic?s Dan Sanzenbacher and Piqua?s Brandon Saine. Sanzenbacher led the Irish to a state championship a season ago and Saine is the state record holder in the 100-meter dash

By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

COLUMBUS - The adage goes that at places like Ohio State, they don?t rebuild following another ultra successful football season ? they just reload.

A critical element of that reloading process involves recruiting, and with just over two weeks left before national signing day, when high school players announce which college they intend to play for, the Buckeyes look to be a few rounds short of a full magazine.

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OSU football recruiting class is not rated elite


By Doug Harris
Staff Writer

Sunday, January 21, 2007

COLUMBUS ? Ohio State was No. 1 in the college football ratings every week from the preseason poll until losing in the national championship game. But that impressive run hasn't made much of an impact in the recruiting realm this year.

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National Signing Day in Two Weeks

Toledo Blade Article

COLUMBUS - The adage goes that at places like Ohio State, they don't rebuild following another ultra successful football season - they just reload.

A critical element of that reloading process involves recruiting, and with just over two weeks left before national signing day, when high school players announce which college they intend to play for, the Buckeyes look to be a few rounds short of a full magazine.

Ohio State does have firm commitments from premium talent such as Ohio high school player of the year Brandon Saine (6-1, 205), the state record holder in the 100-meter dash who rushed for more than 2,000 yards last season, and the versatile, all-purpose athlete Dane Sanzenbacher (6-0, 185) from Toledo Central Catholic. But a recruiting strategy that had Ohio State zero in on certain other elite players and focus a lot of energy on landing them has not yet paid the expected dividends...
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As the Barksdale thread is closed, I thought it worth mentioning here that I have rarely seen more specious reasoning put into print than that in the Markowski article. Joe's father espouses that the superior academic ranking of LSU's undergraduate engineering program drove Joe to Tiger Country. Of the four choices they had in front of them LSU was the lowest ranked and that is easy to prove.
 
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It is dissapointing to see the nature of the articles from some of the Ohio papers relative to the perceived quality of OSU's recruiting class.

It can't have a positive affect on recruits we are still trying to sign and must make the guys we have signed feel real great.

I would like to see them wait to make comments until the class is signed and we see how everything shakes out.
 
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