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

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I'm still wondering if this is really true. If it is, I'm sure the coaching staff has good reason and at least they did it before he committed (if true that is).

If this is true, I hope it's for a reason such as opening up a a CB spot for someone like Justin King with the assumption that Jamario goes to safety. It seems that our depth at DB has been the biggest obstacle for King.
 
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There are a number of factors that could have lead to this.

1. maybe the coaches felt his interest in osu was diminishing and so they yanked it to open the door for someone else.

2. o'neal struggled mightily at corner to start the year, got moved to safety, and has been playing very well there.

3. AMW had a less than stellar camp, and even though injured, has been mediocre this season. Maybe the coaches see his stock is falling.


The bottom line is that the staff knows what they are doing. This wouldnt have happened without a concensus of the staff. I'm sure if Mel Tucker was strongly opposed, this wouldnt have happened. It was basically Tucker's insistance that got Malcolm Jenkins an offer, so its a pretty safe bet that he is in agreement with this.
 
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I like your list of possible reasons steele, but I really question if they are plausible such as:

1. I would be shocked if the coaches would take the offer away just because his interest is going down. If they want a player, there is never any harm in having an offer on the table.

3. This is more possible in my mind, but AMW was offered VERY EARLY in the process. It seemed as if he was a no-brainer for an offer. Even if his stock has fallen, could it really be enough to revoke the offer? I don't know, just questioning.

Your #2 reason seems more plausible. Especially if there a silent verbal from a pure corner out there. I'm still hoping to hear that there have been some huge underground developments in the Justin King recruitment. I remember hearing that he and Jamario were friends. Not to mention Lyons.

I'm hoping HH will drop by and give us his best guess as to what might be going on behind the scenes.
 
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I would like to think it is because Justin King suddenly saw the light, but I seriously doubt it. If the coaches believed AMW was as good as advertised, they would find room for him as well. You don't turn down one of the country's top safeties just because you have a certain quota for DBs.

I suspect it has more to do with either their assessment of his performance, or because of grades. Let me add the disclaimer that I have no idea what his grades are like. I am just throwing that out there as a possibility after what happened last year. Since the coaches took a beating for pulling offers at the last minute, I would guess they are ultra-sensitive to that this year. They would want to do that as soon as possible to avoid the abuse they took from all their "fans".
 
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All of this sounds very plausable, and I admitantly haven't followed AMW as much as some as I thought he was in the bag. Just most of what I had heard from others was that he was extremely good, in an elite class.

If this means we get a better player, then great... Ultimately Tressel and Co. get paid the big bucks to do this, and there is an obvious reason for that... so I gotta trust them.
 
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i think this may just be simply a matter of the staff having limited schollies to use, and more pressing needs rather than DB's. The staff isnt going to sit around and wait for him to take 5 visits and mull it over when they can go out and fill this class with positions that are of more pressing need.
 
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osugrad21 said:
Duane has speculated on BN that the staff was simply tired of games with AMW...his recent Lemming interview may have been the final straw
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His family wanted him to go to osu. it was even rumored that they wanted him to verbal after he hurt his ankle. When this is the case with a kid's family, and the kid wants to take all 5 visits and has no leader at all, it can spell trouble (Davis). OSU probably didnt want to get into another mess like that.
 
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Very perplexing. Don't give your rivals too much ammo to recruit negatively against you. I think it could likely be that Tress&Co didn't think AMW was being honest with them, because it doesn't seem to fit character that they would pull a scholarship offer to chase a better prospect. The whole point of offering is that you've decided you want them on your team.
 
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A Bucknuts poster states that this has been known for a little while. Performance (or lack of) is the issue. Didn't show well in camp and this season.

Add in the fact that he didn't act on the offer and EdgewoodBuck's comments and it looks like OSU lost interest.
 
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When you consider:

1. the publicity games he was playing, doing interviews where he claimed tOSU was just another program, effectively dissing his home state school and his parents' clear favorite,
2. the fact that his senior year has been pedestrian, (pun intended)
3. the fact that he has a bad wheel
4. the fact that tOSU/JT already attracts the best DBs in the nation anyway,

Why would tOSU wait any longer, prolonging the egotistical, disdainful process that Adam has decided to pursue?

Enjoy Purdue, or NC State, or Marshall or wherever you're now headed, Adam. Your future was in your hands ...until you blew it.
 
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I think for whatever the reason, yanking scholarships on people who haven't commited would be a much better trend to start than yanking scholarships on kids who have already committed. Also, this is a much better time to be yanking scholarships than later, as the bucks have done in the past.

If the OSU staff no longer considered him worthy of a scholarship, then this was a much classier way to do things.
 
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