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Explorations in what grinds OhioState001's gears

Well they have played 20 of 24 of their freshman so far. So it could be beckman's recruiting really really sucked...
Their recruiting has been bottom of the B1G since about 2008. Outside of a nice little run by the Zooker from 2005-08 (with a HUGE assist to Mike Locksley), they've recruited like shit. It's no coincidence they stopped landing 4 and the occasional.5 star kids when Locksley left. Recruiting is their single biggest issue. They bleed the top IL kids to.the other Midwestern powers, and rely on FL kids that the SEC/FSU/Cryami pass on and the detritus left over in the Midwest. They've been reeling in MAC recruiting classes since 2009.

Yeah but he might be able to recruit based on his NFL cred and get them back to being mediocre which would be an improvement
Look at this year's commits. Either Lovie just can't be bothered to try to recruit them, or top kids ain't buying what he's selling.

Their recruiting is so pathetic, that their boards are full of posters drooling over this kid's arrival next year...a low 3 star qb, the #1145 player in the 247 composite...the #27 player, in Illinois.

https://247sports.com/Player/Coran-Taylor-46035449

Illinois needs to accept what they are and roll the dice on a bright young FCS coach or an innovative coordinator. They can't win by trying to slug it out with the rest of the B1G when they've been a dead program for a decade.
 
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I've said a couple of times, I don't think there's any great, or maybe even extremely good teams this year. Reminds me of the field in 2007. Even bammer has some very real flaws. Even so, USC is incredibly overrated.
 
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