Jaxbuck;2067079; said:
They are of course operating under the assumption Hoke can sustain this kind of recruiting success with Meyer in place and no annual occurrence of Tatgate.
I mean the prize of their class is Kalis right? They of course believe Bobby Bacala will catch lightning in a bottle every year and one good recruiting class makes the almost complete whiff on the past 3 just magically go away.
I always compare our recruiting class with theirs in the following way: Who do they have that we would want over our commitments?
They have Kalis, who is an obvious upgrade over our OL recruits; if we get a Dodson or a Diamond, then we can call this one a draw, although I would still find room for Kalis.
At MLB, their guy (Ross) is a better prospect than our guy (Roberts).
At OLB, it is a toss-up between their guy (Bolden) and our guy (Perry).
All of their other prize recruits (Wormley, Strobel, Pipkins) are easily trumped by our guys (Washington, Spence, Schutt).
So, they have two guys whom I would want in our class.
On the other hand, who do we have that they would want over their recruits?
We have Dunn, Washington, Pittman, Spence, Schutt, and Ball ... and I think that we'll get two or three more to add to that list. And Michigan has no reasonable chance to get guys who will be equal to or better than those six players.
So we have at least six guys whom they would want.
No contest - Ohio State is winning the 2012 recruiting war.